Non-fungible token (NFT) assets were extremely popular this year and to date, there’s been more than $20 billion in volume recorded in terms of NFT sales among 100 collections. While many single NFTs sold for millions of dollars a number of NFT projects and collections saw hundreds of millions and even billions in all-time volume. According to defillama.com metrics, the popular NFT collection Cryptopunks captured $2.98 billion in all-time volume.
100 NFT Collections, 6 Channels, 20 billion dollars in volume
Many NFT collections were very present in 2021 and were the subject of various discussions. While Bitcoin.com News posted the top ten most expensive non-fungible token sales this year, a large amount of NFT collections saw significant trading volume and demand. The data from defillama.com tracks 100 NFT collections and so far there have been $ 20.13 billion in all-time sales for these specific NFT series.
The NFTs stem from blockchains such as Ethereum, Solana, Immutablex, Binance Smart Chain, Arbitrum, and Terra. The project with the most volume is the Cryptopunks collection with $2.98 billion in all-time volume and 3,286 owners. Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) holds the second-largest volume with $1.04 billion in all-time volume and 5,961 owners.
Decentraland made just under $ 1 billion with $ 930.98 million and 6,051 owners. Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC) ranks fourth with $ 513.23 million in all-time volume and 10,711 MAYC owners. The Sandbox takes fifth place this year with $ 450.7 million in volume and 17,315 owners. The Cool Cats NFT Collection grossed $ 239.3 million, Superrare traded $ 237.94 million, Cryptoadz made $ 204.29 million, and Parallel Alpha had a volume of approximately $ 202.87 million.
Lastly, the tenth-largest volume belongs to Punks Comic with $181.46 million and 5,912 owners. Following Punks Comic, other notable NFT collections included Clone X ($154.55M), Cyberkongz ($151.26M), Veefriends ($130.47M), Doodles ($121.89M), Creature World ($115.19M), RTFKT ($93.8M), Vox Collectibles ($66.4M), Town Star ($65.7M), Gutter Cat Gang ($61.6M), and Rumble Kong League ($52.6M).
Town Star, Parallel Alpha, The Sandbox Assets, Adidas Originals NFT have the highest number of owners
The NFT project with the most owners listed on the NFT volume measurements page of defillama.com is Town Star with 31,721 owners. Parallel Alpha has 30,250, Sandbox assets have 22,387 owners, Adidas Originals has 18,869 and, as mentioned above, Sandbox Virtual Universe has 17,315 owners.
Adidas Originals, being a fairly new NFT project, sold $38.3 million in a very short period of time. The Adidas Originals NFT collection at the time of writing has a floor price of around $3,523. Bored Ape Yacht Club floor price is the highest at $193K and the floor price is followed by Inft Personality Pod Sale with $79,173. The collection with the lowest floor price at the time of writing is Levana Dragons at $12.00.
