Key Takeaways

• The non-fungible token (NFT) market rebounded last week with a +1.67%  slight increase in total sales on major marketplaces in the transaction volume table below.

• NiftyGateway recorded a +209% increase in transaction counts last week. 

  • New collectible Crystal Pop  with 10,000 editions selling at $149 per piece is trending on NiftyGateway sales. Currently, there remains less than 2,500 editions to be bought based on the project’s website on NiftyGateway.

  • Another Machine Hallucination drops from artist Refik Anadol were sold out last week on NiftyGateway; they recorded a total of $1,137,497 in sales. 

• The NFT conference 2021 was held in New York City last week with popular collectibles such as Bored Ape Yacht Club, Cryptopunks and CoolCats showcasing on the electronic billboards at the Times Square. The conference also featured Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFT drops, and  Bored Ape Yacht Club members only events.

• ‘A Coin for the Ferryman’ by artist XCOPY topped last week's sales table of  DappRadar with an amount of $6 million dollar in resale on SuperRare. 

• On the other hand, ‘Before sunset in Vietnam’ by artist IKKYU_Crayon recorded a $1 million transaction on OpenSea. Other popular collectibles such as Cryptopunk and Solana Monkey Business were also in the top ten list.

Crypto.com NFT in the spotlight

• Artwork ‘Arturo Ripple’ by Ari Hersch topped last week's sales with a total sale of $91,854 on Crypto.com NFT.

• The UFC 268 Collection Sweepstakes by Crypto.com NFT ended on 7 November 2021; participants got chances to win one year UFC fight pass subscriptions and exclusive UFC belts.

• The Philadelphia 76ers’s NFT drops continue with the 76ers Legacy 02 series.

• There will be two more days left before the end of the Pumpkin Sweepstakes.

Highlights

• OpenSea extends NFT dominance with $10B cumulative volume

• Solana secondary NFT sales reach half a billion dollars in three months

• Axie Infinity and Fantom among the top altcoin gainers this year with growth of 13,428% or more: CryptoDiffer

• Surpassing 7 million NFTs in storage, the ‘pace is only accelerating’ for Filecoin

• South Korean regulator confirms that NFTs are not virtual assets

• Tron Foundation, APENFT launch $100M fund for NFT projects

• Sfermion closes $100M raise to make the metaverse mainstream

• Mythical Games announces $150M raise as the company expands into NFTs

• Rarible aims for integration of Tezos, Flow, and Solana blockchains

• Civic launches free tool to combat NFT-hungry bots on Solana

• Red Bull F1 completes limited-edition NFT collection

• FC Barcelona set to launch NFT soccer moments with Ownix

• NFTs linked to Indian film star Amitabh Bachchan receives over $1 million in bids

• ‘Pulp Fiction’ director Quentin Tarantino plans to release several ‘Secret NFTs’

• Bored Ape NFT collector loses million-dollar stash to Discord scammers

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* % change is calculated based on the differences between two subsequent 7-day periods.

* Transaction count refers to the number of traders of the 7-day period.

* OpenSea, NBATopShot, and Rarible data were collected from DappRadar.

* Solana data came from Solanart.io

* Nifty Gateway data from data mining in Cryptoartpulse.com; 

* Rarible data represent data of the Rarible collections instead of the Rarible marketplace.

* Collectibles data came from CryptoSlam.io.

* Parallel Alpha is a Sci-fi card game with NFTs as collectible cards.

Top Artists

The following table shows top artists (by primary sales volume on each platform) and their art samples.

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