Welcome to the weekly summary of hot NFT ecosystem events produced by NFT infrastructure NFTScan.
Period: 2024.08.26~2024.09.02
NFT Hot News
01/ A group of new wallets with similar transaction behaviors have purchased a total of 800 ETH worth of Pudgy Penguins NFTs in recent months
On August 27, according to monitoring by X platform user @CirrusNFT, I have noticed an interesting trend in wallets that purchased Pudgy Penguins NFTs in the past few months. There are about 12 new wallets whose first transaction is a deposit of 60-300 ETH from Binance, and the only other transaction followed is the purchase of Pudgy Penguins NFTs. During this period, the value of Pudgy Penguins NFTs purchased in this way is about 800 ETH.
02/ Nexon’s NFT game project MapleStory Universe launches NXPC token
On August 27, MapleStory Universe, an NFT game project under South Korean gaming giant Nexon, announced the launch of the NXPC token, which aims to enhance the user's in-game experience by allowing community contributors to participate in the creation of in-game items and support the entire MapleStory Universe ecosystem. NXPC allows game items to be integrated into the ecosystem, enhancing user engagement and supporting the development of the ecosystem.
03/ Trump releases his fourth batch of NFT trading card series
On August 27, CoinDesk reported that former President Trump released the fourth batch of NFT trading card series. This new series will provide buyers with a fragment of the suit worn by Trump during the debate with Biden. The high-end card, priced at $24,750, also comes with Trump sneakers, cocktails, and the opportunity to have dinner at Trump National Golf Club. Although this series of NFTs has brought considerable benefits to Trump, it has nothing to do with his political campaign funds, but has entered his personal account.
04/ Magic Eden launches NFT casting aggregation terminal
On August 28, Magic Eden announced the launch of the NFT minting aggregation terminal "Mint Terminal", allowing users to mint NFTs on Ethereum, Polygon and Base chains with one click on Mint Terminal.
05/ OpenSea received a Wells notice from the US SEC
On August 28, OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer said that OpenSea received a Wells notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The U.S. SEC threatened to sue OpenSea because they believed that NFTs on the OpenSea platform were securities. NFTs are essentially creative commodities, such as artworks, collectibles, video game items, domain names, event tickets, and more.
06/ NFL Players Association sues DraftKings over abandoned NFT fantasy game Reignmakers
On August 29, Decrypt reported that the union representing National Football League (NFL) players sued DraftKings on Monday, accusing the sports entertainment giant of refusing to pay relevant payments after failing in the NFT field. The lawsuit was filed by the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) in the New York federal court, accusing DraftKings of violating the terms of the licensing agreement that authorized DraftKings to use the images of NFL players in its Reignmakers NFT products.
07/ Sales of Trump’s fourth batch of NFT trading card series exceeded $2 million, but only 5.8% of the total supply was sold
On August 29, Decrypt reported that the fourth batch of NFT trading cards released by Trump, "The America First Collection", has sold more than $2 million since its debut on Tuesday amid a weak NFT market. However, this series contains a total of 360,000 digital trading cards, and currently only less than 21,000 have been sold, accounting for 5.8% of the total supply.
08/ Mint Blockchain native application MintRich released the testnet version, focusing on the launch of Meme NFT assets
On August 29, according to official news, Mint Blockchain native application MintRich recently released a testnet version of the product, focusing on the launch of Meme NFT assets, supporting the one-click issuance of Meme NFTs in the ERC721 and ERC404 protocol standards. At the same time, MintRich has a strategic partnership with MintSwap Finance to conduct price discovery and liquidity management for NFTs and Tokens through MintSwap. In addition, the MintRich protocol has its own original Bounding Curve price curve in design, making the asset launch in the primary market more game-like and social.
09/IP Market Color has been launched on Story Protocol testnet Iliad
On August 30, IP marketplace Color tweeted that it has launched the Story Protocol testnet Iliad, where users can buy, sell and discover IP assets and licenses, and mint colorful commemorative NFTs for free.
10/ Sony blockchain Soneium cooperates with Transak to provide global fiat currency deposit services
On August 30, The Block reported that Sony's blockchain project Soneium has partnered with Transak to provide global fiat currency deposit services, providing users with the option to join the ecosystem using traditional payment methods. Gamers can use traditional payment methods supported by Transak to purchase, transfer and trade in-game assets and NFTs.
NFT on-chain data
01\ NFT multi-chain data overview
As of September 2, 2024, NFTScan currently supports 25 mainstream blockchain networks including Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNBChain, Polygon, Solana, Mint, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Optimism, zkSync, Sei, Starknet, Aptos, Mantle, Linea, Base, TON, Blast, Gravity, Scroll, Viction, Fantom, Moonbeam, PlatON, and Cronos, generating a total of:
Number of NFT contracts: 4,646,192
Number of NFT assets: 2,086,921,233
Number of NFT on-chain records: 6,925,046,919
Total NFT asset market value: $27,009,973,769
NFT historical total transaction volume: $105,969,002,187
02\NFT Trading Market Trends
This week: OpenSea dominated the market, with the overall transaction volume reaching its highest on August 30. At 0:00, the Blur market reached a maximum of $4.591 million. NFTScan recorded 233 trading markets with a total transaction volume of $82.4m in 7 days. This week, OpenSea ranked first in transaction volume, and the market transaction volume distribution was relatively stable. The top six trading markets and their distribution ratios are as follows:
OpenSea: $26,874,978 (32.52%)
Blur: $17,520,054 (21.22%)
Element: $10,404,348 (12.63%)
MagicEden: $7,876,403 (9.55%)
CoralCube: $5,158,819 (6.25%)
CryptoPunks: $4,081,852 (4.95%)
03\Top NFT Blue Chip Trends
The current total market value of the 19 blue-chip contracts is 428,948 ETH, accounting for 13.57% of the total NFT market value.
This week: The total transaction volume of blue-chip NFTs was 5.88k ETH, and the total market transaction volume was 13.18k ETH. The proportion of blue-chip NFT transactions in the market decreased. As of 00:00 on August 26, the transaction volume reached a maximum of about 1052 ETH.
04\TOP 10 Wallets
NFTScan analyzed the top 1,000 NFT holding value wallet addresses, and the current top 10 holding value are shown in the figure below:
Top1 Wallet:
0xab14624691d0d1b62f9797368104ef1f8c20df83
This wallet address holds 4,815 NFTs (including 3 NFT Collections), currently holds 64,785 ETH ($158,204,327), and has 7,459 interactions.
05\NFT Project Ranking List
The top 10 most popular and traded NFT projects on the Ethereum network are shown below:
This week, Pudgy Penguins ranked first, with the floor price stable at around 10.9e last week, and a 7d transaction volume of 1,595e; BoredApeYachtClub ranked second with a transaction volume of 1,419e, and the current floor price is 12.88e; CryptoPunks ranked third with a transaction volume of 1,399e, and the current floor price is 26.95e; the overall market transaction volume and floor price of most blue-chip NFTs are on an upward trend.
06\Popular NFT Express
This week’s popular NFTs are the Pudgy Penguins series:
Data shows that the current floor price is stable at 10.9 ETH, the highest transaction price is 420 ETH, and the total transaction volume on Ethereum has exceeded 410.2k ETH. The transaction distribution in the past 7 days was mainly Blur: 1.49K (97.08%) OpenSea: 23.08 (1.51%) MagicEden: 21.6 (1.41%) units of ETH, and the number of transactions in 7d reached 160 times.
