The OpenSea NFT market hits record $3.5 billion in monthly ETH volume, maintaining its leadership role as we are taking a closer look at today’s latest crypto news. The OpenSea NFT market recorded a new high in monthly Ethereum trading volumes and soared past the $3.5 billion mark according to the data from Dune Analytics. […]

Leading NFT marketplace OpenSea has seen its monthly trading volume in Ethereum hit a new all-time high above $3.5 billion.

A new non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace LooksRare launched with a bang last week, transacting over $1 billion in sales after debuting only on January 10. Total sales figures are now more than 40 percent of leading NFT platform OpenSea’s entire sales volume for the past week, according to DappRadar. Interestingly, the latest NFT platform LooksRare achieved such a large sales volume with only a fraction of the users of OpenSea. For instance, on January 13, LooksRare’s sales volumes were more than five times higher than OpenSea, yet it did so with less than 3,000 users, compared to OpenSea’s 70,000. The platform’s incentive structure reveals how this has been possible. As part of the launch, LooksRare offered a free airdrop of LOOKS tokens to OpenSea users who transacted at least 3 ETH worth about $9,630 on the marketplace between June 16 and December 16, 2021. This tactic is known as a ‘vampire attack’ when one platform uses incentives to lure their top customers. LooksRare is the second platform to have utilized this tactic against OpenSea, the first being Infinity in October last year. The latest NFT platform arrives at a time of OpenSea’s continual success, but also frustration across the NFT community. For instance, OpenSea has been facing technical issues lately, including a period of extended downtime which CEO Devin Finzer described as ‘unacceptable.’ He further assured that the NFT platform will ramp up the hiring of engineers and customer service employees. I know how impactful outages are to the creators and communities who rely on OpenSea, and this morning’s extended outage was unacceptable. Here’s what happened, and what we’re doing to improve – fast: https://t.co/zo2eCLEBrU — Devin Finzer (dfinzer.eth) (@dfinzer) January 10, 2022 Despite this, OpenSea is currently on track for its best month to date in Ethereum trading volume. Currently, the platform’s ETH trading volume sits at $2.27 billion already, only one-third of the way into the month. Meanwhile, the best month to date was August 2021 with nearly $3.43 billion in ETH trading volume. The NFT market overall surged to more than $22 billion worth of trading volume in 2021, according to data from DappRadar. OpenSea led the market share with more than $15 billion of trading volume in 2021, according to data from Dune Analytics.

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While the crypto market mayhem might not be over, the OG non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea has been recording impressive volumes. However, OpenSea’s competitor LooksRare, which launched on 10 January, has been breaking its records with regards to sales. Dune Analytics recorded that since the launch, OpenSea has clocked total volumes of over $965 million. […]

NFTs existed prior to 2021, but it was last year that digital art exploded in the blockchain space, and digital artists shone in the NFT spotlight. While the crypto world became an exciting place to be, a new generation of NFT artists entered the world’s largest artistic movement to date. Crypto investors are having a difficult time in January 2022, as the price of Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies continues to fluctuate wildly. Some have blamed the drop on the Federal Reserve’s recent announcement of additional rate hikes, as well as political unrest in Kazakhstan, which drastically reduced Bitcoin’s hash rate. The price of Bitcoin fell below $42,000 on January 14 as traders hoped for bullish signals. It appears that while the crypto market continues to struggle, the NFT space  is witnessing incredible surge in trading volumes and interest. NFT & GameFi In Sweet Month A new report has shown that NFT and GameFi transactions continued to rise despite falling crypto prices. The report by Dappradar noted that “the number of UAW connected to Ethereum NFT DApps has grown by 43% since Q3 2021,” according to the research. The money generated by NFT trading increased from $10.7 billion in Q3 2021 to $11.9 billion in the first ten days of 2022, according to the research. This rise could also be attributed to recent advancements in the NFT arena, such as the establishment of the LooksRare marketplace. “Blockchain games continue to be widely used,” according to the report, noting that they “represent 52% of the industry’s usage.” The case for blockchain games to continue developing during 2022 has been enhanced by expanding metaverse technologies and the growing success of the play-to-earn model. Data from Dune Analytics revealed OpenSea, the leading NFT marketplace, generated approximately $2.7 billion in volume in the first half of January, on track to beat the $3.4 billion high it set in August. OpenSea had its highest single-day volume of $261 million dollars on January 9. So far in January, OpenSea has surpassed $150 million in trade volume on a daily basis. OpenSea daily volume on Ethereum. Source: Dune Analytics   Related article | OpenSea Transaction Volume Shows That NFTs Are Not Slowing Mason Nystrom, a senior research analyst at Messari, believes the NFT market is in a better position than recent cryptocurrency price moves suggest. Nystrom noted that: “The cryptomarkets are fairly correlated – the market tends to rise and fall with Bitcoin. This has made it surprisingly interesting over the recent downturn as the NFT market has continued to increase in volumes. OpenSea has recorded $2.3 billion in NFT volume in January so far, on pace to break its monthly volume record if volumes continue.” Market Reflects Growing Interest During this market downturn, Chinese consumers have shown a growing interest in NFTs and blockchain gaming, which aligns with recent Chinese announcements that the government will begin building its own non-crypto NFT. “China is now the country with the most extensive user base…increasing 166 percent from the numbers registered in November,” according to DappRadar’s research. Crypto Market Cap Stands at $2 trillion. Source: TradingView Despite the near-term volatility that NFTs may experience as a result of current market conditions, the nature of these digital assets may lead to a decoupling of prices within crypto marketplaces. Despite the fact that the United States is currently ranked second in terms of overall traffic, the country added 175,000 new members to the NFT ecosystem, representing a 38 percent increase. This is due in part to a rise in interest among younger audiences, as Millennials and Generation Z begin to account for a larger share of traffic. Related article | a16z, Mark Cuban invest $23 million in NFT platform OpenSea Featured Image from Unsplash | Charts by Dune Analytics, and TradingView

A new entrant into the non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace sector has seen its price and market cap explode this week. The OpenSea rival LooksRare launched on January 10th, and the project’s native asset LOOKS has already surged in price by nearly 55%. The token, which was listed by the exchange OKEx on Wednesday, is currently […]

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Opensea now boasts over 1 million active user wallets on the platform as we can see further in our latest cryptocurrency news. The non-fungible token marketplace platform OpenSea now boasts over 1 million active user wallets and continues to grow and impress during the new year with the adoption and trading metrics are also increasing […]

2021 was a great year for NFTs. It was one of the most talked-about topics in crypto that seeped into mainstream society and netted mentions in general entertainment programs such as SNL and Jimmy Fallon. In the NFT space, what catches the most number of eyeballs is usually the launch of a new NFT art […]

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The number of NFT sales that utilise Polygon’s layer 2 solution has steadily increased, stopping just a tad short of two million in December 2021. OpenSea enabled gasless NFT trading in 2021 The popular NFT marketplace OpenSea was integrated with Polygon in June 2021. This made it possible to mint and trade non-fungible tokens at […]

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