NFT Market Roars Back: Weekly Sales Surge 14.39% to $134.3M

Digital collectibles stage a comeback as bored apes and pixelated punks defy crypto winter rumors.

The Pump No One Predicted

Just when Wall Street analysts wrote them off as dead, NFTs flipped the script—racking up $134.3 million in sales this week alone. That’s a 14.39% jump from last week’s totals, proving JPEGs still move markets faster than most hedge funds.

Who’s Buying?

Blue-chip collections led the charge while new entrants rode the hype wave. (Cue the usual suspects: institutional degens laundering money through cartoon penguins.)

The Bottom Line

NFTs remain the casino chips of crypto—volatile, divisive, and somehow still printing. Meanwhile, traditional finance bros are stuck explaining why their ‘stable’ bonds just tanked 5%.

In terms of sales by blockchain, Immutable extended its dominance by recording $46,148,821 in sales, an increase of 81.73% over the last seven days. 

Ethereum moved up into the second spot with $26.9 million in sales, a 42.96% rise, and its wash trading volume climbed 11.87% to $1,789,274. Polygon slipped to third spot, with sales totaling $16.9 million, down 24.73%, while its wash trading volume plunged 96.86% to $33,869.

Mythos Chain remained in fourth place, with weekly sales of $14.2 million, up 1.57% from the previous week. In fifth place, BNB posted $9.87 million in sales, reflecting a 25.14% gain. Bitcoin ranked sixth with $7.91 million in sales, a decrease of 2.47% from the previous week.

Buyer activity increased across most major blockchains. Arbitrum led the gains with a 110.87% rise in buyer count. Polygon followed with 35.63% growth, and Solana saw its buyer numbers grow by 27.41%.

Guild of Guardians Heroes remains the top collection by sales

Among individual collections, Guild of Guardians Heroes remained in the top place, generating $28,330,447 in sales, up 86.33%. This gaming-focused collection seems to have benefited from Immutable’s growing strength. 

Courtyard on Polygon dropped to the second spot with $16,024,701 in sales, down 3.31%. Its buyer count fell by 75.19% and sellers by 88.89%.

Once considered the holy grail of NFTs, CryptoPunks on ethereum made $2 million in sales, down 2.32% from the previous week. However, what’s interesting is that the number of buyers has decreased by 30% while the number of sellers increased by 15.38% for this collection.

Bored APE Yacht Club, in comparison, seems to be performing well, with all metrics in the green. Its sales increased by 22.72%, and the number of transactions increased by 44.12% in the last seven days. At the same time, both buyers and sellers increased by almost the same percentage — 44.83% and 42.32%, respectively. 

Among notable collections, the most significant jump in sales volume was seen for Gods Unchained Cards, rising 102.88% to $7,791,214 over a week. During this period, its buyer activity also increased by 49.80% with 1,531 transactions in total.

Overall, OpenSea accounts for roughly 88.9% of all Ethereum NFT trades over the past week, according to Dune data. Blur marketplace remained in second place with a 10.1% share of total trades.

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