The second and fourth placers are also multi-million dollar NFT Sales.
Cryptopunk nft opensea. The official Visa News Twitter account did not delve further into what it meant by adding Cryptopunk 7610 to its collection It could mean that Visa owns more NFTs than the public is aware of at the moment. Some users on OpenSeas Discord are confused about the auction process. OpenSea one of the leading marketplaces for the NFT space has become the latest crypto unicorn.
ETH a cryptocurrency that often underpins NFT sales slumped 533 over 24 hours to 202603. By the time you read this article it is possible some of the items on this list will have moved around. OpenSea the marketplace of choice for the NFT connoisseur has made the controversial decision to de-list the PolygonPunks from their platform.
Remember there are only 1500 pieces in existence of the Genesis CryptoTrunks a piece going for 05 ETH. To top this off payments giant Visa announced a day later that it was looking into collectibles and had purchased a CryptoPunk for over 150K worth of Ether. In 2020 OpenSea did about 21 million in total transaction volume.
OpenSea is the largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens with over 2 million different NFTs listed for. CryptoPunks 2140 376M 3831 208M and 8472 171M. Thats more than 3x the volume of the 2 project on OpenSeas top NFT list.
Still the token is being auctioned on OpenSea at insanely high prices. In January of 2021 the projects sales volume was 609451947 and 8 days into August the sales volume is at 159390063. While sports can potentially take the technology mainstream the CryptoPunk bought by Visa highlights that its still a niche space.
After almost getting bankrupted by The Institution EllioTrades has devised a plan to take power back for the little. OpenSea is seen as a blockchain-based version of Amazon and eBay that serves the digital content community. As the collection bears an uncanny resemblance to the infamous CryptoPunks it is deemed to be in breach of copyright.