Solana surpassed $2B all-time NFT sales. A $26.5M NY building went up for sale on OpenSea. Kanye West stakes claims for NFT trademarks.
Key Takeaways
Blockchain protocol Solana made the headlines this week after it surpassed $2 billion in all-time NFT sales, ranking it third after Ethereum and Ronin. This milestone was achieved thanks to the trade volume of its top projects – Degenerate Ape Academy, Solana Monkey Business, and Aurory, respectively.
A $26.5M seven-storey building in Manhattan’s Flatiron District went up for sale on NFT marketplace OpenSea. Facilitated by commercial real estate firm Okada & Company, the sale was an attempt to highlight the ‘yawning gap between blockchain and New York’s Automated City Register Information System’, its CEO said.
LooksRare recorded a -17% decrease in sales and a +1% jump in transactions from last week. Meanwhile, OpenSea recorded a +4% increase insales and a -8% drop in transactions.
Crypto.com NFT in the Spotlight
Crypto.com is officially collaborating with Dope Voyage, the first Social-fi to debut on the platform, living 100% on Ethereum. With your DOPE NFT, ‘team up, betray, and sabotage’ others to maximise DOPES profit. Drops 29 June, and with 1,000 unrevealed characters to watch out for.
From Daz 3D, the 3D NFT leader behind Warner Bros. Bat Cowls and Coca-Cola Lootbox collections, comes a new collection of alien adventures from artist Mario V. Entitled ‘Cronos-7 Visitors’, this stunning collection of 7,777 unique PFP NFTs, hyper-realistically rendered, is handcrafted from 200+ traits, without the help of AI. The collection consists of must-have styles and personalities, from geeks to goths and everything in between, while adding elements like meka and sci-fi from different eras.
Notes: 1. Year-to-Date (YTD) volume is calculated from the first day of the current year to the current date. 2. Week-on-Week (WoW) % change is calculated based on the differences between two subsequent seven-day periods. 3. Transaction count and average price refer to the number of traders and average price over the past seven days, respectively. 4. LooksRare was launched on 10 January 2022. 5. X2Y2 was launched on 16 February 2022.