NFT Sales Up 17% in a Week to $130.7 Million
Date: 2025-05-19 Author: Oliver Abernathy Categories: CRYPTO PAYMENTS
The NFT market showed significant growth last week, with total sales reaching $130.7 million, up 17% year-on-year. According to CryptoSlam analytics, interest in NFTs has skyrocketed, with buyers up 138.96% to 259,264, and sellers up 98.69% to 137,347. At the same time, the total number of transactions has slightly decreased by 1.14% to 1,498,668.
Ethereum continues to confidently hold its leading position among blockchains in the NFT space. Sales on this network reached $41.3 million in a week, up 21.47% from last week. Bitcoin moved up to second place in the rankings, with $22.6 million in NFT sales on the blockchain platform, an impressive 53.53% increase. Polygon came in third with $14.5 million, although it lost 22.85% over the week.
Mythos Chain followed, selling $13.3 million in tokens, down 19.62% from its previous results. Solana rounded out the top five with $8.9 million, up 17.31%.
As for popular collections, Polygon-powered Courtyard remained in first place despite a noticeable decline in activity, with sales down 31.02% to $11.7 million. The number of transactions (-29.87%), buyers (-17.67%), and sellers (-39.82%) also decreased.
DMarket still holds second place with sales of $8.2 million, down 28.01%. The third position was taken by the BRC-20 collection on the Bitcoin blockchain, showing a significant increase of 107.81% to $7.1 million. CryptoPunks follows with sales of $7 million. In fifth place is a new player on the market, XSY Deposit based on Avalanche, which debuted with a volume of $6.8 million. Its growth was record-breaking - plus 469.59% in a week.
The NFT market is once again coming to life, demonstrating interest from both large blockchains and in the collection segment, where new notable players are emerging.
