{"id":17899,"date":"2025-12-13T06:48:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T06:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/nft-sales-plunge-15-to-64-9m-solana-sales-jump-44\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T06:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T06:49:11","slug":"nft-sales-plunge-15-to-64-9m-solana-sales-jump-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/nft-sales-plunge-15-to-64-9m-solana-sales-jump-44\/","title":{"rendered":"NFT sales plunge 15% to $64.9m, Solana sales jump 44%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">According to CryptoSlam data, NFT sales volume has plunged by 15.72% to $64.95 million, down from last week\u2019s $77.10 million.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cn-block-summary-block_2ad41d0c48e2d8001994741a8681ede3\" class=\"cn-block-summary\">\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__nav tabs\">\n        <span class=\"tabs__item is-selected\">Summary<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bitcoin recovered to $90K and ETH held $3K, but NFTs continued to underperform.<\/li>\n<li>NFT sales plunged 16% to $64.95M as buyer and seller participation collapsed.<\/li>\n<li>NFT buyers fell 68% and sellers dropped 71%.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .cn-block-summary --><\/p>\n<p>Market participation has crashed, with NFT buyers plummeting by 68.41% to 154,955 and sellers dropping by 71.48% to 115,051. NFT transactions fell by 13.25% to 940,713.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Bitcoin\u2019s (BTC) price has recovered to the $90,000 level following recent volatility. Ethereum (ETH) has maintained the $3,000 level, holding steady above this key threshold.<\/p>\n<p>The global crypto market cap now stands at $3.07 trillion, up from last week\u2019s $3.05 trillion. However, the NFT sector has experienced a sharp downturn with collapsing market participation.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DMarket retains lead as major collections decline<\/h3>\n<p>DMarket on the Mythos blockchain maintained first place with $4.50 million in sales, down 40.45% from last week\u2019s $6.73 million. The collection processed 118,034 transactions with 10,282 buyers and 8,792 sellers.<\/p>\n<p>Algebra Positions NFT-V2 on Ethereum held second position at $2.39 million, plummeting 49.36% from last week\u2019s $4.47 million. The collection saw 305 transactions with 55 buyers and 144 sellers.<\/p>\n<p>Courtyard on Polygon secured third place with $2.18 million, down 36.18% from last week\u2019s $3.42 million. The collection processed 41,269 transactions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Top collections by NFT Sales Volume (CryptoSlam)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>YES BOND on BNB posted the most resilience at fourth with $2.04 million, down just 3.02% from last week\u2019s $2.09 million. The collection had 1,907 transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Guild of Guardians Heroes on Immutable-Zk dropped to fifth at $1.78 million, collapsing 67.62% from last week\u2019s $5.46 million. The collection recorded 1,675 transactions.<\/p>\n<p>CryptoPunks placed sixth with $1.77 million, down 13.87% from last week\u2019s $2.06 million. The Ethereum collection had 18 transactions with 16 buyers and 15 sellers.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solana surges as Ethereum and Immutable decline<\/h3>\n<p>Ethereum maintained first position with $23.93 million in sales, down 10.88% from last week\u2019s $27.30 million.<\/p>\n<p>The network recorded $4.43 million in wash trading, bringing its total to $28.36 million. Buyers collapsed by 70.47% to 12,141.<\/p>\n<p>BNB Chain (BNB) climbed to second place with $9.44 million, up 21.18% from last week\u2019s $7.73 million.<\/p>\n<p>The blockchain recorded $118,899 in wash trading, with buyers dropping 76.66% to 14,599.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin held third position at $6.10 million, down 21.20% from last week\u2019s $7.19 million. The network saw 3,552 buyers, down 79.51%.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1662\" height=\"944\" src=\"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765608536_40_NFT-sales-plunge-15-to-649m-Solana-sales-jump-44.webp.webp\" alt=\"NFT sales by blockchain\" class=\"wp-image-14440073\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Blockchains by NFT Sales Volume (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cryptoslam.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">CryptoSlam<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Solana (SOL) secured fourth place with $5.54 million, surging 44.54% from last week\u2019s $4.03 million.<\/p>\n<p>The blockchain recorded $5.36 million in wash trading, bringing its total to $10.90 million. Buyers fell 80.07% to 14,891 despite the sales increase.<\/p>\n<p>Mythos Chain dropped to fifth at $4.64 million, down 39.26% from last week\u2019s $6.88 million. The blockchain attracted 13,721 buyers, down 73.74%.<\/p>\n<p>Immutable (IMX) tumbled to sixth with $3.15 million, plunging 63.32% from last week\u2019s $8.51 million. The blockchain had 1,845 buyers, down 74.95%.<\/p>\n<p>Polygon (POL) landed in seventh at $3.12 million, down 29.38% from last week\u2019s $4.38 million. The blockchain recorded $5.99 million in wash trading, with buyers falling 70.74% to 27,758.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bitcoin BRC-20 NFT maintains top position<\/h3>\n<p>The $X@AI BRC-20 NFT held the top individual sales spot at $809,337.16 (8.7195 BTC), sold nine days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Four CryptoPunks rounded out the top five:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>CryptoPunks #6615 sold for $153,356.75 (47.99 ETH) nine days ago<\/li>\n<li>CryptoPunks #309 sold for $134,530.52 (42 ETH) nine days ago<\/li>\n<li>CryptoPunks #4566 sold for $123,808.45 (39.9 ETH) four days ago<\/li>\n<li>CryptoPunks #4172 sold for $111,232.08 (33 ETH) three days ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CryptoSlam data, NFT sales volume has plunged by 15.72% to $64.95 million, down from last week\u2019s $77.10 million. Summary Bitcoin recovered to $90K and ETH held $3K, but&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17900,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17899\/revisions\/17900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}