Ethereum NFT Trading Volume Falls By 70% in June—But Number of Sales Steady

The state of NFTs isn’t all doom and gloom amid the bear market.

The overall quantity of Ethereum NFT trades has declined by 55% previously month, from 1.3 million ETH to simply 584,000 ETH, based on Nansen knowledge. That’s a drop from slightly below $2.6 billion to about $672 million, which is roughly a 70% lower when valued in USD.

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Ethereum’s worth has fallen about 43% previously month. “Blue chip” NFT costs haven’t risen to compensate, nevertheless, that means much less cash is altering fingers total.

Among the many high 5 ranked NFT collections on OpenSea, common costs in ETH have remained roughly stagnant, with Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT costs nonetheless hovering round 100 ETH. CryptoPunks are an exception, which noticed buy-in flooring costs improve 48% partially attributable to Christie’s head of digital gross sales changing into the Punks’ new brand lead this month.

NFT merchants are nonetheless shopping for and promoting these distinctive blockchain tokens that signify possession over digital artwork—they’re simply shopping for cheaper ones and “apeing” into free mints like Goblintown, which began a wave of free-to-mint NFT collections centered round bodily waste, nihilism, and memes.

Per CryptoSlam data, the common sale worth for an Ethereum NFT went from $2,463 in Could to simply $703, a 71% lower. In order the crypto bear market continues, NFTs are being bought for much less total.

In Could, OpenSea noticed 1.478 million NFTs offered on its platform. In June, 1.476 million have been offered as of Wednesday, that means it’s fairly potential extra NFTs will really be offered this month in comparison with the month of Could. Could’s numbers have been additionally closely propped up by Yuga Labs’ Otherside NFTs, which noticed $561 million traded inside 24 hours.

Bar chart showing number of NFTs sold per month on Ethereum on OpenSea is the same number in June as it was in May. Overall a decline from January 2022 peak, however. — Picture: Dune Analytics.

With regards to the full variety of merchants, OpenSea noticed a modest 6.5% improve in registered customers who’ve made at the very least one transaction on its market, based on Dune data. The variety of lively merchants for Ethereum NFTs has solely declined barely, a 16% lower from about 422,000 to 354,000.

The variety of weekly lively NFT initiatives seeing gross sales hasn’t declined a lot both, based on Nansen knowledge. In comparison with final month, the identical variety of NFT collections—three—are seeing greater than 10,000 gross sales. The variety of collections seeing greater than a thousand gross sales is simply down 30% this month, from 109 to 76. This implies NFT creators, particularly in collections with the best market caps, are nonetheless seeing gross sales.

So whereas total quantity could be down 55% to 70% in ETH and USD, respectively, merchants are nonetheless making strikes. For now, it seems to be like NFT lovers haven’t but misplaced hope, although they’re now shopping for and promoting for much less.