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Are CryptoPunks NFTs Losing Steam? Sales Fall Below $100M for Seventh Consecutive Month


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CryptoPunks stays some of the talked-about NFT collections within the area. Gross sales of the ten,000 pixelated cartoon heads are nonetheless producing tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in month-to-month quantity. 

Sadly, the highs that Larva Labs (builders behind CryptoPunks) was reaching in 2021 haven’t been replicated in 2022. 

On Could 8, CryptoPunk #273 exchanged palms for round $139,000 after promoting for $1.03 million in October 2021. The vendor of the NFT misplaced round 80% of their funding. 

After reaching an all-time excessive (ATH) of roughly $680 million in August 2021, gross sales of CryptoPunks started to stall through the remaining months of that yr. 

Supply: CryptoPunks’ Gross sales Chart for Aug. 2021 by CryptoSlam

CryptoPunks started the yr with a month-to-month gross sales quantity of round $124 million in January. An total decline in all sides of the crypto business led to gross sales sinking to only $25 million in August.

Supply: CryptoPunks’ Gross sales Chart for Aug. 2022 by CryptoSlam

This was the seventh consecutive month that gross sales fell beneath $100 million. Except for that, this was the bottom gross sales since June 2021’s $19 million — a 14-month low. 

Whereas a number of analysts attributed the decline in gross sales to the swap from extremely risky belongings to non-volatile belongings similar to bonds and payments, the constant plunge within the variety of distinctive consumers, and complete transactions confirmed a extreme downward pattern. 

Distinctive consumers reached a 20-month low 

The entire variety of distinctive consumers for CryptoPunks fell to only 103 in August 2022. This was a 92% drop from the height of 1,215 from the identical time in August of final yr. The final time that the variety of distinctive consumers was lower than this was in December 2020 with 96.

Supply: Variety of Distinctive Patrons Statistics by CryptoSlam

Common gross sales marked a four-month excessive 

Regardless of a fall in distinctive consumers and complete transactions, CryptoPunks’ common gross sales worth soared to a four-month excessive to achieve $158,649. This was a 68% and 55% drop from the sale values of the all-time excessive of $493,066 in November 2021 and this yr’s excessive of $353,145 in February respectively.

The common gross sales worth in August was additionally 82% above June’s determine of $86,930. 

Supply: Common Sale Worth Statistics by CryptoSlam

CryptoPunks surpassed a number of NFT tasks in month-to-month gross sales 

Regardless of reaching new lows, CryptoPunks gross sales nonetheless surpassed Axie Infinity ($6 million), Otherdeed for Otherside ($23 million), NBA Prime Shot ($7 million), Azuki ($9 million), CloneX ($12 million), Moonbirds ($19 million), and Artwork Blocks ($10 million).

Then again, the gathering trailed Bored Ape Yacht Membership and Mutant Ape Yacht Membership which generated $58 million and $26 million respectively.  

CryptoPunks nonetheless a high NFT by weekly gross sales 

The digital collectibles stay a top-selling collectible by weekly gross sales. It trailed solely Loot and Bored Ape Yacht Membership and was adopted by Doodles, Ethereum Identify Service, and Otherside within the ranks.  

Supply: Tasks Rating Gross sales Rankings by Non-Fungible.com

Are CryptoPunks lifeless? 

The plunge in gross sales has led to a number of stakeholders of the digital collectibles business asking whether or not CryptoPunks will begin to steadily get surpassed by different NFT collections. 

In August, Bored Ape Yacht Membership flipped CryptoPunks, and this has turn into some extent of reference for a lot of analysts. 

Be[In]Crypto reached out to mainstream specialists to solicit their views on the topic. 

Oliver Mann, the founder and CEO of trustINwine.com, a market for high-end wines bought as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) added his voice on the topic. 

“The concept that a blue-chip NFT assortment is lifeless due to just a few months of decrease than $100 million in month-to-month gross sales must be taken into a bigger context. Typically, gross sales of non-utility NFTs have been in decline, each in ground costs and quantity, aside from just a few exceptions. CryptoPunks Mental Property (IP) was just lately acquired by Yuga Labs, the place nonetheless there is no such thing as a readability round what meaning in sensible use circumstances. In reality, the entire IP of NFTs is one thing that’s up within the air, which suggests there’s a stage of uncertainty round worth,” mentioned Mann. 

He added “In a fair bigger image, with the Merge upon us, a bear market, and basic monetary turmoil in actual life, making any judgments on whether or not a set is over is untimely. We’ve seen revivals of outdated tasks earlier than and as with all issues, these items go in waves. We’re nonetheless within the early levels of NFTs, and people who come to market early, like CryptoPunks, will proceed to have worth.” 

“As some have mentioned, CryptoPunks is like Mona Lisa and can have actual long-term worth. Robust tasks survive, even perhaps thrive, in bear markets,” he concluded.    


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