PANews reported on December 31 that according to Cointelegraph, NFT ended the year with strong momentum, and the sales record of digital collections in 2023 was surpassed, with an increase of more than 100 million US dollars. On December 31, CryptoSlam, an NFT data tracking platform, showed that the sales of blockchain-based digital collections in 2024 reached 8.83 billion US dollars. This record is more than 100 million US dollars higher than the NFT sales in 2023, and the sales of NFTs last year were about 8.7 billion US dollars. This marks a year-on-year increase of 1.1% in NFT sales.
Ethereum remains the blockchain with the highest NFT sales in history, at $44.9 billion. Solana follows closely behind with $6.1 billion in sales, while total Bitcoin-based NFT sales totaled $4.9 billion.
NFT sales in December totaled $877 million, the fifth-best month in 2024. December’s sales growth was driven by an increase in Ethereum-based NFT sales, which totaled $482 million in monthly NFT sales. Bitcoin-based NFT sales totaled $172 million, while Solana-based NFT sales totaled $100 million in December.
Despite the increase in NFT sales, this year’s numbers are still well below sales from 2021 to 2022. In 2021, NFTs ended the year with $15.7 billion in sales, 43.9% higher than the record set in 2024. In 2022, NFT sales were $23.7 billion, 62.8% higher than this year’s record.
