Weekly NFT sales surge amid marketplace Blur’s new round of token airdrop

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World non-fungible token (NFT) gross sales surged by 159% over the seven days from Feb. 17 to Feb. 23, with rising NFT market Blur’s rewards showing to proceed driving a lot of the motion throughout the sector.

Complete weekly NFT gross sales elevated to US$772 million within the seven days from US$299 million within the earlier week, in line with information from NFT aggregation web site CryptoSlam.

The typical worth of the property offered on Tuesday elevated to US$566.43, greater than 3 times larger than US$175.57 on Feb. 14.

“Blur rewards are nonetheless driving a lot of the motion throughout the NFT area as Season 2 of Blur farming has now opened up,” mentioned Yehudah Petscher, NFT relations strategist of Cryptoslam.

On Feb. 14, Blur launched and airdropped its Blur tokens. On Wednesday, it that it’ll distribute one other 300 million Blur tokens. The cryptocurrency was buying and selling at US$0.94 at 3 p.m. in Hong Kong on Friday, in line with CoinMarketCap information.

Over the previous seven days, the Blur NFT market recorded US$652.28 million in buying and selling quantity, greater than 4 occasions larger than market chief OpenSea’s US$150.66 million, DappRadar information confirmed.

Petscher mentioned that Blur’s reward system has been the discuss of the city, however “it’s actually the mechanics of the location which might be noteworthy.”

“The provide and bid system permits for a gamified tug of struggle that, mixed with excessive buying and selling quantity, can result in worth stability,” Petscher mentioned. “Two days in the past, we noticed a sale of 71 Bored Apes for over 5,500 ETH (US$9 million), and witnessed the ground worth of the gathering stay steady.”

Petscher add that this all hinges on merchants remaining energetic with bids and affords, however “if the mixture of Blur rewards with low or no charges stays, this has the potential to alter how merchants play NFTs.”

Additionally this week, Petscher mentioned that the spikes in Ethereum transactions have been additionally value noting. “Extra important than common gross sales although is the variety of transactions we’re seeing on Ethereum each final month and now this February.”

Between Feb. 1 and Feb. 23, the NFT gross sales quantity on Ethereum exceeded US$1.15 billion, surpassing the whole gross sales quantity of US$780 million for your entire month of January, CryptoSlam information confirmed.

On Wednesday, the single-day sum of NFT gross sales on Ethereum amounted to almost US$122.4 million, logging a brand new excessive since Could 2022.