Nifty News: 'Blue-chips' halve in value, free-to-mint Goblintown NFT volume surges

cointelegraph.com:

“Blue-chip” nonfungible token (NFT) collections have seen their floor prices and market capitalization slide over the past 30 days, with some of the most well-recognized projects halving in value for these key metrics.

Data collected on key Ethereum (ETH) NFT projects by DappRadar show the floor prices of established collections such as CryptoPunks, Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC), and Moonbirds, are at most down around 55% over 30 days.

The MAYC is the worst off of the four with the floor price diving 55% to 16.7 ETH ($31,300). The more popular BAYC has fallen over 47% to 86.7 ETH ($163,000), and CryptoPunks by almost 49% to 45 ETH ($85,000).

The only collection to gain in the month was Moonbirds up 22% with a 19.6 ETH floor price, roughly $37,000.

Whilst the floor price for Moonbirds may be up, its market cap has fallen 55% to $368 million. The others have also tumbled with the biggest losses being the MAYC, down over 71% to under $610 million, whilst BAYC and CryptoPunks were down 62% and 51% respectively.

Despite the falling metrics the collections still continue to dominate the top NFT sales over the past 30 days the most expensive being a BAYC NFT sold for 410 ETH on May 5, worth about $1.2 million at the time.

A free-to-mint NFT collection called Goblintown launched on May 22 now commands a nearly $50 million market cap and is in the top 30 NFT collections.

Despite the website stating the NFTs have “No roadmap. No Discord. No utility.”, Goblintown is in second place for volume over the last seven days at nearly $23 million according to DappRadar, beating out collections such as Otherdeeds and the Bored Ape Yacht Club.

The collection features 9,999 “goblins” which debuted without any real