{"id":49533,"date":"2021-09-15T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T15:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=49533"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:06:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:06:53","slug":"weekly-nft-trading-volume-falls-to-a-third-of-augusts-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/weekly-nft-trading-volume-falls-to-a-third-of-augusts-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly NFT trading volume falls to a third of August&#8217;s levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the week of September 5\u201312, NFT trading volume stood at $312 million, more than three times below August&#8217;s record figure of $1.05 billion. Data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblockcrypto.com\/data\/nft-non-fungible-tokens\/nft-overview\/weekly-trade-volume-of-nfts\">The Block<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-09-15-v-18.14.16-1024x395.png\" alt=\"Weekly NFT trading volume fell to a third of August levels\" class=\"wp-image-149427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-09-15-v-18.14.16-1024x395.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-09-15-v-18.14.16-1024x395.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-09-15-v-18.14.16-768x296.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-09-15-v-18.14.16-1536x593.png 1536w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-09-15-v-18.14.16-2048x790.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Weekly NFT trading volume. Data: The Block.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to CryptoSlam, in the last 30 days five of the ten most valuable NFTs were CryptoPunks tokens. Among the others were the collections from Fidenza, Ringers and Bored Ape.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"893\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-09-15-v-17.19.26-893x1024.png\" alt=\"Weekly NFT trading volume fell to a third of August levels\" class=\"wp-image-149428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-09-15-v-17.19.26-893x1024.png 893w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-09-15-v-17.19.26-262x300.png 262w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-09-15-v-17.19.26-768x881.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2021-09-15-v-17.19.26.png 1324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 893px) 100vw, 893px\" \/><figcaption>Most expensive NFTs sold in the last 30 days. Data: CryptoSlam.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In August, the NFT marketplace OpenSea <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/opensea-nft-marketplace-trading-volume-tops-3-billion-since-early-august\">surpassed $3 billion<\/a>, while in the first half of 2021 the overall NFT market stood at <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nft-sales-hit-2-5-billion-in-first-half-of-2021\">$2.5 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in September, artist Monica Ricciolli <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/art-blocks-nft-collection-sells-out-in-an-hour-earning-its-creator-1623-eth\">earned 1623 ETH<\/a> (about $5.4 million at the time of the deal) for the sale of the NFT series &#8220;Fragments of the Infinite Field&#8221; on the Art Blocks marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>Moonrock Capital <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/investment-firm-buys-solana-issued-nft-for-1-1-million\">acquired<\/a> a Solana-based NFT from the Degenerate Ape Academy collection for 5980 SOL ($1.1 million at the time of the deal).<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, state media in China <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/state-media-in-china-warn-of-nft-sector-bubble\">warned<\/a> of a bubble in the NFT sector.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the week of September 5\u201312, NFT trading volume totalled $312 million, more than three times below August&#8217;s record of $1.05 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1213],"class_list":["post-49533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"21","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49535,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49533\/revisions\/49535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}