NFT sales hit $512 million over the past week. These were the 5 best-selling digital collections.
Rokas Tenys
The cryptocurrency boom over the past few years has helped propel a newer market to record heights: digital collectibles known as NFTs.
In fact, 2021 was a breakthrough year for NFTs, with total sales volume topping $14 billion as artists, investors, and entrepreneurs descend upon the nascent Web3 space.
NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are unique, irreplaceable, mostly digital items that users buy and sell online.
NFTs use blockchain technology to keep a digital record of ownership, similar to cryptocurrencies. They were first launched on ethereum, the same blockchain that supports the cryptocurrency ether, and most NFTs can still only be purchased using ether.
In the past week alone, sales of NFTs hit $512 million, according to data from NonFungible.com.
With NFT sales soaring, these are the five best-selling NFT collections over the past week, according to NonFungible.
5. Art Blocks
7-Day Sales Volume: $14.9 million Number of Sales: 3,504 Highest Sale Price: $783,432
Artblocks
Explainer: «A storefront for genuinely programmable and on-demand generative artwork that is stored directly on the Ethereum blockchain.»
4. The Sandbox
7-Day Sales Volume: $17.9 million Number of Sales: 1,229 Highest Sale Price: $56,401
The Sandbox
Explainer: «The Sandbox is a community-driven UGC-voxel platform where users own their LAND and host their creative magic.»
3. Doodles
7-Day Sales Volume: $26.0 million Number of Sales: 934 Highest Sale Price: $572,245
OpenSea
Explainer: «Doodles come in a joyful range of colors, traits, and sizes with a collection size of 10,000. Doodles are a funky bunch that like to role play or transmogrify themselves into delicious treats. Holding a Doodle allows you to participate in coordinating the Doodles
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