ERC-721 Token Transfers on Ethereum Surge to Nearly 10 Million as NFT Sales Hits $10.7B in Q3
Whenever it looks like non-fungible tokens (NFT) mania is starting to slow down, the trend gains traction and starts moving towards new highs yet again.
This growing interest in NFT has seen their sales surging to $10.7 billion in Q3, representing an outstanding 704% increase from the previous quarter and a 38,060% increase year-over-year, according to a Dapp Radar report.
In the last two months, the NFT market had an explosion with August’s record-breaking trading volume of $5.2 billion.
While renowned celebrities like Snoop Dogg, Shaquille O’Neal, and Steve Aoki and top fashion brands like Gucci, D&G, and Burberry are the latest members of NFT space, blue-chip NFT projects like CryptoPunks or the Bored Ape Yacht Club continue to propel it into the mainstream.
NFT marketplace OpenSea meanwhile continues to be the economic center of this meteoric rise. 3.8 million NFT purchases on OpenSea in Q3 have beaten Q1 and Q2 by a huge margin which recorded 193k and 357k purchases, respectively.
Its number of unique daily buyers averaged 17.4K in Q3, an 815% increase over the 1.9K unique daily buyers in the previous quarter.
5/ @OpenSea volume hit a local maximum at the end of August. Transaction volume and count started reverting higher over the back half of September.
The daily transaction count on OpenSea hit an all-time high of nearly 90k txs yesterday. pic.twitter.com/UWm14l1nqd
— Delphi Digital (@Delphi_Digital) October 5, 2021
NFT games continued to capture people’s interest and generated $2.3 billion in trading volume, representing 22% of the total NFT volume.
Coming into Q4, Google search interest for “NFT” is slowing down, which could be due to heightened fees on Ethereum “but with Twitter previewing NFT profile verification for its 26 million daily active users, NFTs could see yet another surge in Q4,” states Coin Metrics.
While other blockchains like Solana (SOL) and Tezos (XTZ) are also joining the NFT movement, Ethereum is dominating the space. In Q3, there were a total of 9.88 million transfers of ERC-721 tokens on Ethereum, an increase of 305% over the 2.44 million in Q2. SOL 3.15% Solana / USD SOLUSD $ 156.61
$4.933.15% Volume 2.48 b Change $4.93 Open $156.61 Circulating 299.43 m Market Cap 46.89 b 8 h ERC-721 Token Transfers on Ethereum Surge to Nearly 10 Million as NFT Sales Hits $10.7B in Q3 1 d Shiba Inu (SHIB) Leads the Crypto Market, Currently the Most Traded Asset on Binance, Coinbase, and Huobi 2 d Citadel Founder Says Regulating Crypto Will Make It “A Smaller Market” And “That’ll Be Good” XTZ 1.36% Tezos / USD XTZUSD $ 7.73
$0.111.36% Volume 664.73 m Change $0.11 Open $7.73 Circulating 862.43 m Market Cap 6.67 b 8 h ERC-721 Token Transfers on Ethereum Surge to Nearly 10 Million as NFT Sales Hits $10.7B in Q3 1 d Arab Bank Partners With Tezos (XTZ) for Crypto Custody and Staking 2 d Bitcoin Breaks Above $50,000 Showing Strength Against Weakness in the Stock Market
The success of NFT has been a boon for ETH adoption with the long-anticipated fee burn mechanism implemented to Ethereum amidst the backdrop of JPEG summer. More than 406k ETH worth $1.35 billion were burnt during Q3.
With these ETH burns, daily net ETH issuance has come down, and there have been three such days so far that had negative (deflationary) issuance.
ETH’s annual inflation rate was about 4% in the months just before EIP-1559, with an average of 13.5K issued daily. Since the EIP 1559 launch, the annual inflation halved to about 2%, with daily issuance averaging 6.4K.
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