{"id":19125,"date":"2026-01-03T08:40:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/nft-sales-skyrocket-37-to-88-2m-bitcoin-sales-jump-144\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T08:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T08:40:18","slug":"nft-sales-skyrocket-37-to-88-2m-bitcoin-sales-jump-144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/nft-sales-skyrocket-37-to-88-2m-bitcoin-sales-jump-144\/","title":{"rendered":"NFT sales skyrocket 37% to $88.2M, Bitcoin sales jump 144%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-detail__content blocks\">\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">According to CryptoSlam data, NFT sales volume has skyrocketed by 37.41% to $88.29 million, up from last week\u2019s $65.58 million.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cn-block-summary-block_1bd2e4410586508ecc4ba24a526e995d\" 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>NFT sales jumped 37% to $88.3M with buyers and sellers rising sharply.<\/li>\n<li>$X@AI BRC-20 NFTs led the market with a $17.1M record-breaking sale.<\/li>\n<li>Bitcoin overtook Ethereum as the top NFT chain by weekly sales volume.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .cn-block-summary --><\/p>\n<p>Market participation has continued its strong expansion, with NFT buyers climbing by 22.90% to 342,044 and sellers rising by 24.17% to 242,004. NFT transactions jumped by 10.54% to 937,495.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">$X@AI BRC-20 NFTs jump with record-breaking sales<\/h2>\n<p>$X@AI BRC-20 NFTs on Bitcoin have surged into first place with $23.14 million in sales, posting a 1,099.81% surge.<\/p>\n<p>The collection processed just 12 transactions with 12 buyers and 12 sellers showing extremely high-value concentrated trading driven by a single massive sale.<\/p>\n<p>DMarket on the Mythos blockchain dropped to second with $6.04 million, up 14.37% from last week\u2019s $5.32 million. The collection recorded 166,295 transactions with 14,191 buyers and 11,431 sellers.<\/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 climbed to third at $2.72 million, up 24.76% from last week\u2019s $2.15 million. The collection had 2,221 transactions with 1,872 buyers and just 2 sellers.<\/p>\n<p>CryptoPunks secured fourth position with $2.69 million, up 6.93% from last week\u2019s $2.51 million. The Ethereum collection processed 31 transactions with 23 buyers and 26 sellers.<\/p>\n<p>Pudgy Penguins surged to fifth at $2.39 million, jumping 52.12%. The collection saw 191 transactions with 109 buyers and 107 sellers.<\/p>\n<p>Courtyard on Polygon tumbled to sixth with $2.19 million, plunging 56.09% from last week\u2019s $4.99 million. The collection recorded 35,920 transactions.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bitcoin overtakes Ethereum in sales<\/h2>\n<p>Bitcoin (BTC) has claimed the top blockchain position with $29.95 million in sales, jumping 144.41% from last week\u2019s $12.12 million.<\/p>\n<p>The network recorded $44,381 in wash trading, bringing its total to $29.99 million. Buyers increased by 25.29% to 11,948.<\/p>\n<p>Ethereum (ETH) dropped to second place with $27.57 million, up 39.08% from last week\u2019s $20.88 million. The blockchain recorded $3.24 million in wash trading, with buyers rising 22.13% to 23,570.<\/p>\n<p>BNB Chain (BNB) held third position at $7.00 million, down 10.70% from last week\u2019s $7.77 million. The blockchain had $4,090 in wash trading, with buyers climbing 19.95% to 49,296.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1614\" height=\"1040\" src=\"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767429602_824_NFT-sales-skyrocket-37-to-882M-Bitcoin-sales-jump-144.webp.webp\" alt=\"NFT sales skyrocket 37% to $88.2M, Bitcoin sales jump 144% - 1\" class=\"wp-image-14443021\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Blockchains by NFT Sales Volume (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cryptoslam.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoSlam<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mythos Chain secured fourth at $6.17 million, up 15.31% from last week\u2019s $5.46 million. The blockchain attracted 34,085 buyers, up 43.58%.<\/p>\n<p>Immutable (IMX) placed fifth with $3.26 million, posting minimal growth at 0.73% from last week\u2019s $3.20 million. Buyers jumped 24.09% to 6,037.<\/p>\n<p>Base surged to sixth at $3.11 million, exploding 111.10%. The blockchain recorded $4.87 million in wash trading, with buyers rising 12.61% to 86,317.<\/p>\n<p>Polygon (POL) dropped to seventh with $3.09 million, plummeting 49.42% from last week\u2019s $6.06 million. The blockchain had 73,483 buyers, up 34.89%.<\/p>\n<p>Solana (SOL) placed eighth at $2.89 million, up 2.83% from last week\u2019s $2.93 million. Buyers increased 15.14% to 38,162.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Top NFT sales<\/h2>\n<p>A $X@AI BRC-20 NFT shattered records with a $17.13 million sale (195.0081 BTC), transacted four days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Two additional $X@AI BRC-20 NFTs followed:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Second sale at $4.70 million (53.1894 BTC) three days ago<\/li>\n<li>Third sale at $1.32 million (15.0071 BTC) two days ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two CryptoPunks completed the top five:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>CryptoPunks #8739 sold for $137,628.00 (47 ETH) four days ago<\/li>\n<li>CryptoPunks #5192 sold for $120,509.34 (38.5 ETH)<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CryptoSlam data, NFT sales volume has skyrocketed by 37.41% to $88.29 million, up from last week\u2019s $65.58 million. Summary NFT sales jumped 37% to $88.3M with buyers and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19125","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\/19125","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=19125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19126,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19125\/revisions\/19126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}