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December 2020 marked a new record for the blockchain-based art market, with the total trading volume of non-fungible token-based (NFT) works amounted to $8.21 million, according to analytics platform CryptoArt.io.
If you're not convinced about #NFT #cryptoart already, December was a record month with $8.2M in volume!
Thank you artists and collectors for a great 2020. Excited to see what's in store for 2021.https://t.co/DfDRsnFIsF pic.twitter.com/OKEQVFbOp3
— Richard Chen (@richardchen39) December 31, 2020
CryptoArt tracks various metrics across major NFT art marketplaces such as Nifty Gateway, SuperRare, MakersPlace, Async Art, and KnownOrigin. Among them, Nifty Gateway leads the pack, with roughly $6.67 million worth of crypto artworks sold in December. It is followed by SuperRare, which saw a trading volume of around $1.12 million last month.
Notably, December’s figures represent a sharp surge compared to November—when “only” around $2.6 million worth of artworks were traded. This can be partly explained by the ongoing price rally across all crypto markets. Since NFTs are usually bought with Ethereum, the higher the price of ETH gets, the bigger the dollar value is in total.
Likewise, December saw the highest number of monthly active collectors so far—414 compared to 258 in November.
Unlike “common” crypto tokens, NFTs contain identifying information recorded in their smart contracts. This data makes each NFT different and unique as well as not interchangeable and scarce. Therefore, if an artist “embeds” his work into an NFT, it will remain one-of-a-kind as such.
Crypto art based around non-fungible tokens has exploded in 2020—along with its prices. In July 2020, "Picasso's Bull," a crypto artwork by Trevor Jones, sold for a then-record-breaking $55,555 on crypto art marketplace Nifty Gateway. In December, one investor paid $777,777 for a collection of digital art by Mike "Beeple" Winkelmann—with one second on the clock. In total, Beeple's art sale raised $3.5 million; at one point selling $582,000 worth of art in just five minutes.
THIS SAVAGE JUST BID $777,777 WITH LITERALLY 1 SECOND LEFT
— Nifty Gateway (@niftygateway) December 13, 2020
Other sales in 2020 saw a piece of a virtual F1 race track auctioned off for $223,000 while another collector paid $65,000 for a Kylian Mbappé trading card in a blockchain-based fantasy football game.
“The NFT space has been on a meteoric rise over the last year and we viewed a sale like this as inevitable. It may have been one of the firsts of its kind, but it certainly won't be the last,” Tommy Kimmelman, head of artist relations at Nifty Gateway, told Decrypt at the time.
2020 brought with it many, many things, both bad and good. And while Bitcoin's bull run and the summer of DeFi grabbed the headlines, a quiet revolution was taking place in another corner of crypto: the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). NFTs have been around for a few years now, powering crypto collectibles like CryptoKitties—but they're little more than a proof of concept for the unique, non-replicable cryptocurrency tokens. This summer, NFTs came of age in the wake of the decentralized fin...
As the market matures, new innovations are cropping up; for example, Singapore-based platform NIFTEX enables users to create ERC-20 tokens representing fractions of NFTs, which can then be traded on decentralized exchanges such as Uniswap.
With NFTs booming in 2020, it looks like they have a bright future ahead of them in 2021.
Ethereum gaming metaverse platform The Sandbox will launch its Alpha Season 5 on Monday, March 31, bringing a number of new game experiences tied to major franchises. The six-week gaming event will introduce over 40 new games from an array of brands and franchises, including Jurassic World, Teletubbies, Atari, Attack on Titan, Terminator: Dark Fate, and Hellboy. As Decrypt previously reported, the season's flagship experience, Jurassic World: Dinosaur Preserve, invites players to manage a dinosa...
Two years after they were inscribed on the Bitcoin blockchain, the highly anticipated Taproot Wizards Ordinals collection will go on sale on March 25, the project's creators announced Tuesday. Taproot Wizards will consist of 2,121 Wizard NFTs, modeled after the iconic Bitcoin Wizard meme that surfaced on Reddit in 2013. The collection will be sold in two distinct phases, the first of which will offer Wizard NFTs to those on an allowlist for 0.2 BTC, or $16,340 at today’s prices. An eligibility c...
Tech giant Sony is commemorating 25 years since the launch of Aibo, its companion robot dog, with an officially licensed soulbound NFT collection called "Entertainment Robot Aibo” on the Soneium blockchain. The collection, which cannot be traded or transferred thanks to its soulbound nature, can be minted for free on OpenSea’s NFT marketplace, with users required only to pay a small gas fee to initiate the transaction. In its official Discord community, Soneium’s team wrote that Aibo’s return a...
