Welcome to the weekly summary of hot events in the NFT ecosystem, brought to you by the NFT infrastructure platform NFTScan.
Period: 2024.12.09~ 2024.12.15
NFT Hot News
01/ Lumoz OG NFT surges over 500% in the short term
On December 9, affected by the news of the Lumoz mainnet launch, the Lumoz OG NFT surged over 500% in the short term, with the highest-level Claw NFT reaching a historical high transaction price of over 130 USDT. Lumoz officially launched its mainnet yesterday and opened functions such as token airdrop application and node application. Users can now use the three levels of NFTs, Sly, Puff and Claw, to exchange esMOZ 1:1 for MOZ without a lock-up period.
02/ Magic Eden airdrop application will open at 22:00, supporting Solana NFT traders to use ME for transactions
On December 10, Magic Eden Wallet announced that the ME airdrop application will open at 22:00 Beijing time on December 10. In addition, Magic Eden announced that starting from tomorrow, it will support Solana NFT traders to use ME tokens for transactions, and sellers who list NFTs with ME will receive token rewards after selling with ME.
03/Pudgy Penguins floor price breaks 24 ETH, Lil Pudgys floor price breaks 2.8 ETH
On December 10, according to data, the floor price of the Pudgy Penguins NFT series has broken through 24 ETH (about $80,000), with a daily increase of 9.3%. The floor price of the Pudgy Penguins sub-series Lil Pudgys has risen to 2.849 ETH (about $14,500), with a daily increase of 25.1%.
04/ Mint Blockchain plans to conduct community airdrop and TGE in Q1 2025
On December 11, according to the official announcement, the Ethereum-native Layer2 network Mint plans to conduct community airdrop and TGE in Q1 2025, and will airdrop 12% of the total economic volume of $MINT to the Mint community and NFT community users. The Mint team plans to launch the decentralized distribution mechanism of Mint mainnet sequencer rewards in Q2 2025, distributing network rewards to the community and consensus participants. As one of the core members of the OP Superchain, Mint received a strategic investment of $2 million and 1 million $OP delegated voting rights from the Optimism Foundation this October, becoming the first Superchain member to participate in the ecosystem governance.
At the same time, Mint Blockchain revealed its 2025 development strategy, which will focus on building the largest multi-chain and multi-market NFT order routing network. Through Superchain Interop and SuperchainERC20 protocol standards, the Mint chain will be the first to realize multi-chain liquidity aggregation and cross-chain interoperability; on this basis, it will register multi-chain NFT orders to the Mint network, building a unified and open NFT liquidity network across the entire network to promote the development of the multi-chain NFT ecosystem. As of now, the Mint ecosystem has over 100+ applications and 5 million+ wallet address users.
05/ Azuki: Stephen Fung has become its new creative partner
On December 13, the NFT series Azuki tweeted that Hong Kong actor Stephen Fung has become its new creative partner. Fung will join the team as a consultant to help them reimagine anime fandom and storytelling.
06/ Bitlayer announces exclusive BTR reward plan for official NFT lucky helmet users, with 1200 BTR per NFT during the event
On December 13, the Bitcoin-native L2 project Bitlayer based on Bitcoin Finality announced an exclusive reward plan for official NFT lucky helmet users. Starting from now, Bitlayer lucky helmet NFT users can log in to the Bitlayer official website Racer Center or Bitlayer BTCFi Carnival page during the BTCFi carnival co-launched by Bitlayer and Binance Wallet to claim the corresponding BTR rewards. Each NFT can claim 200 BTR tokens per week for 6 consecutive weeks, for a total of 1200 BTR.
07/ The floor price of the NFT series V-On-Vana driven by Vana has risen to 1.424 ETH, up 94% in the past 1 hour
On December 13, according to OpenSea data, the floor price of the NFT series V-On-Vana driven by Vana has risen to 1.424 ETH (about $5,530), up 94% in the past 1 hour. In addition, the trading volume of V-On-Vana in the past 1 hour reached 278 ETH (about $1.08 million), up 27800%.
08/ Arbitrum ecosystem NFT Nethers will migrate to the Over Protocol mainnet on December 16
On December 13, the lightweight node protocol L1 blockchain Over Protocol announced that the Arbitrum ecosystem NFT Nethers will migrate to the Over Protocol mainnet, and the migration will start at 08:00 on December 16. Users will have 3 months to access the Nethers NFT for cross-chain and claim the airdrop.
09/ OpenSea registered the OpenSea Foundation in the Cayman Islands
On December 14, former The Block founder Mike Dudas posted on X, revealing that the NFT marketplace OpenSea has registered the OpenSea Foundation in the Cayman Islands.
10/ Abstract Chain, the parent company of the NFT project Pudgy Penguins, will launch its mainnet in January next year
On December 15, according to official news, the Layer 2 network Abstract Chain, designed for on-chain culture and community, will launch its mainnet in January next year. Previously, Igloo Inc., the parent company of the NFT project Pudgy Penguins, acquired the on-chain creator economy platform Frame in June this year, with the aim of developing a Layer 2 network designed for on-chain culture and community, Abstract Chain.
11/ Pudgy Penguins market cap exceeds $1 billion
On December 15, according to Coingecko data, the blue-chip NFT project "Pudgy Penguins" has seen its floor price rise to 29.13 ETH, with a 24-hour increase of 10.6%. With the rise in floor price, the current market cap of Pudgy Penguins has also exceeded the $1 billion mark, reaching 258,907 ETH, or about $1,006,727,499.
NFT on-chain data
01\ Overview of NFT multi-chain data
As of December 16, 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, with the following data:
Number of NFT contracts: 5,274,521
Number of NFT assets: 2,361,443,684
Number of on-chain NFT records: 7,981,828,070
Total market value of NFT assets: $37,508,674,837
Total historical trading volume of NFT: $107,927,613,457
02\NFT Trading Market Trends
This week: Blur dominates the market, with the overall trading volume reaching its peak on December 12, with Blur market reaching a high of $21.32 million at 0:00. NFTScan has recorded 233 trading markets, with a 7-day total trading volume of $191.8M. This week, Blur ranked first in trading volume, with a relatively stable market distribution. The top six trading markets and their market share are:
Blur: $102,015,627 (53.19%)
OpenSea: $46,343,420 (24.16%)
CryptoPunks: $11,994,021 (6.25%)
Element: $8,808,740 (4.59%)
Tensor: $8,684,796 (4.53%)
MagicEden: $3,647,129 (1.90%)
03\Trend of Top NFT Blue Chips
The current total market value of 19 blue-chip contracts is 1,176,844 ETH, accounting for 22.85% of the total NFT market value.
This week: The total trading volume of blue-chip NFTs was 29.13k ETH, and the total market trading volume was 56.44k ETH, reaching a peak of around 6.9k ETH at 00:00 on December 12.
04\TOP 10 Wallets
NFTScan has analyzed the top 1000 NFT holding value wallet addresses, and the current top 10 are as follows:
Top1 wallet:
0xab14624691d0d1b62f9797368104ef1f8c20df83
This wallet address holds 4,815 NFTs (including 3 NFT Collections), with current holdings of 64,785 ETH ($257,274,201.93) and 7,459 interactions.
05\NFT Project Ranking
The top 10 most popular and highest-trading Non-Fungible Token (NFT) projects on the Ethereum mainnet are as follows:
This week, Pudgy Penguins ranked first, with the floor price stabilizing around 34.65e last week, and a 7-day trading volume of 19,210e; Lil Pudgys ranked second with a trading volume of 8,488e, and the current floor price is 4.15e; Azuki ranked third with a trading volume of 4,225e, and the current floor price is 10.34e; the overall market trading volume and floor prices of most blue-chip NFTs are on an upward trend.
06\Hot NFT Express
The hot NFT this week is the Pudgy Penguins series:
Data shows that the current floor price has broken through 30 ETH and stabilized at 32.4 ETH, with the highest transaction price reaching 420 ETH. The total trading volume on Ethereum has already exceeded 459k ETH, and the trading distribution over the past 7 days has been mainly Blur: 14.04K (73.29%); OpenSea: 4.99K (26.05%) X2Y2: 125 (0.65%) in ETH, with a total of 755 transactions in 7 days.
