Sales Drop Over 39% as Market Stalls
Though April introduced modest good points to the broader crypto financial system, information reveals a continued descent in non-fungible token (NFT) gross sales, which contracted by 39.62% over the previous 30 days. Ethereum retained its standing because the main blockchain by NFT gross sales quantity, but its figures receded by 44.86% in contrast with the earlier month.
NFT Sector Pummeled: Ethereum, Polygon, and Bitcoin Put up Steep Declines
Non-fungible token (NFT) gross sales proceed to erode, with $388.77 million in transactions finalized all through April—a drop of 39.62% in contrast with March. Stats from cryptoslam.io present participation dwindled on each ends: consumers fell by 48.46%, whereas sellers declined by 39.05%.
Even exercise quantity cratered, as the full variety of NFT transactions tumbled 54.12% from the prior month. Ethereum, Polygon, and Bitcoin comprised the highest three blockchains by NFT gross sales. Ethereum-based NFT gross sales totaled $108.19 million, reflecting a 44.86% lower over the earlier 30 days. Polygon adopted with $73.84 million, registering a 42.4% slide from March.
In the meantime, Bitcoin NFTs settled at $62.45 million, falling 27.25% from the prior month. Circulation was the outlier, touchdown in eighth place by quantity with $5.94 million—a rise of 14.9% over the identical 30-day stretch.
The month’s main NFT assortment was Courtyard on Polygon, raking in $66.42 million in gross sales, up 20.9%. Alongside this, Polkadot’s Mythos-backed Dmarket claimed second place with $39.72 million in gross sales. Ethereum’s Cryptopunks NFT assortment secured third in April, bringing in $18.22 million throughout the identical interval.
The priciest NFT sale of the month was Cryptopunk #3100, which fetched $6.04 million. Coming in second place was an Uncategorized Ordinal, bought eight days in the past for $558,755. Rounding out the highest three was a gUSDC locked deposit NFT issued on Arbitrum that modified palms for roughly $500,000 simply over three weeks in the past. The NFT sector seems bruised past recognition—and to date, 2025 presents little reprieve from the blows.
