
The NFT market has witnessed an incredible increase with a 37.10% week-on-week jump in volume of sales to $144.8 million—the largest jump in a couple of months, according to CryptoSlam data.
This increase comes with general optimism in the wider markets. Bitcoin reached $105,000, and Ethereum was up 2.5% over the same period. The global crypto market cap also jumped slightly to $3.29 trillion.
Market Activity Soars Across the Board
NFT ecosystem activity surged massively:
- Buyers spiked 50.56% to 1,061,348
- Sellers climbed 8.09% to 38,494
- Transactions rose 7.88% to 1,749,437
This signifies a new enthusiasm by traders and collectors as well as versus aggregate crypto market increases.
Immutable Dominates Ethereum with $41.7M in Sales
In a dramatic upset, Immutable knocked Ethereum off the weekly NFT sales leader for the first time in months. Immutable reported $41.7 million in sales—156.01% higher week-on-week.
Ethereum dropped to $31.5 million, up by 6.69%. Ethereum fell slightly in wash trading to $1.9 million (−2.91%).
Other top performers:
- Bitcoin: $19.4M (+22.55%)
- Polygon (POL): $18.5M (+32.91%)
- Mythos Chain: $14.1M
- BNB Chain: $8.4M (+47.59%)
- Solana: $6.3M (+5.30%)
Polygon led buyer growth at 35.63%, followed by Bitcoin and Solana.
Top NFT Collections: Gaming Projects Reign Supreme
Guild of Guardians Heroes, powered by Immutable, topped collection lists at $24.7 million in sales (+132.53%).
Other top collections:
- Courtyard (Polygon): $17.2M (+36.33%)
- Guild of Guardians Avatars: $10.3M (+108.61%)
- DMarket: $8.9M (+0.15%)
- Uncategorized Ordinals (Bitcoin): $7.6M (+1,556.66%)
Interestingly, CryptoPunks dropped out of the top collections despite a few high-sales.
High-Value NFT Sales of the Week
Some high-end NFTs changed hands this week:
- CryptoPunks #1831 – 150 ETH ($389,846)
- CryptoPunks #9778 – 150 ETH ($377,958)
- CryptoPunks #4868 – 76.5 ETH ($201,933)
- CryptoPunks #5586 – 70.07 ETH ($185,292)
- CryptoPunks #7516 – 60 ETH ($158,378)
Despite falling off the top charts, CryptoPunks still commands top dollars in the collector space.