Welcome to the weekly summary of hot NFT ecosystem events produced by NFT infrastructure NFTScan.

Period: 2024.12.09~2024.12.15

NFT Hot News

01/ Lumoz OG NFT surged by more than 500% in a short period of time

On December 9, influenced by the news of the launch of Lumoz mainnet, Lumoz OG NFT rose by more than 500% in the short term, among which the highest-level Claw NFT's historical highest transaction price exceeded 130 USDT. Lumoz officially launched the mainnet yesterday, and opened functions such as token airdrop and node claim. Users can now use three levels of NFT, Sly, Puff and Claw, to exchange esMOZ for MOZ at a 1:1 ratio, without a lock-up period.

02/ Magic Eden airdrop claims will be open at 22:00 and will support Solana NFT traders to trade using ME

On December 10, Magic Eden Wallet announced that the ME airdrop claim will be open at 22:00 Beijing time on December 10. In addition, Magic Eden announced that starting tomorrow, it will support Solana NFT traders to use ME tokens for transactions, and sellers who place orders for NFTs with ME will receive token rewards after selling with ME.

03/Pudgy Penguins floor price exceeded 24 ETH, Lil Pudgys floor price exceeded 2.8 ETH

On December 10, according to data, the floor price of the Pudgy Penguins series NFT exceeded 24 ETH (about 80,000 US dollars), a single-day increase of 9.3%. The floor price of the Pudgy Penguins sub-series Lil Pudgys rose to 2.849 ETH (about 14,500 US dollars), a single-day increase of 25.1%.

04/ Mint Blockchain plans to conduct community airdrop and TGE in Q1 2025

On December 11, according to the official announcement, Ethereum's native Layer2 network Mint plans to conduct community airdrops and TGE in Q1 2025, airdropping 12% of the total economic volume $MINT to Mint community and NFT community users. The Mint team plans to launch a decentralized distribution mechanism for the Mint mainnet sorter revenue in Q2 2025, distributing network revenue to the community and consensus makers. As one of the core members of OP Superchain, Mint received a strategic investment of US$2 million and 1 million $OP delegated voting rights from the Optimism Foundation in October this year, becoming the first superchain member to participate in Superchain ecological governance.

At the same time, Mint Blockchain revealed its development strategy for 2025, which will be committed to building the largest multi-chain and multi-market NFT order routing network in the entire network. Through Superchain Interop and SuperchainERC20 protocol standards, Mint chain will take the lead in realizing multi-chain liquidity aggregation and cross-chain interoperability; and on this basis, multi-chain NFT orders will be registered to the Mint network, building a unified and open NFT liquidity network for the entire network, and promoting the development of the multi-chain NFT ecosystem. So far, the Mint ecosystem has 100+ applications and 5 million+ wallet address users.

05/ Azuki: Stephen Fung has become his new creative partner

On December 13, NFT series Azuki tweeted that Hong Kong actor Stephen Fung has become its new creative partner. Stephen Fung will join the team as a consultant to help it reimagine anime fans and storytelling.

06/ Bitlayer announced the official NFT Lucky Helmet exclusive BTR reward plan. During the event, each NFT can receive 1,200 BTR

On December 13, Bitlayer, a Bitcoin-native L2 project based on Bitcoin Finality, announced an exclusive reward plan for users of the official NFT lucky helmet. From now on, during the BTCFi Carnival jointly launched by Bitlayer and Binance Wallet, users of the Bitlayer lucky helmet NFT can log in to the Bitlayer official website Racer Center or the Bitlayer BTCFi Carnival page every week to receive the corresponding BTR rewards. Each NFT can receive 200 BTR tokens per week, which can be received for 6 consecutive weeks, and a total of 1,200 BTR can be received.

07/ The floor price of Vana-powered NFT series V-On-Vana rose to 1.424 ETH, up 94% in the past hour

On December 13, according to OpenSea data, the floor price of V-On-Vana, an NFT series powered by Vana, rose to 1.424 ETH (about 5,530 US dollars), up 94% in the past hour. In addition, V-On-Vana's trading volume in the past hour reached 278 ETH (about 1.08 million US dollars), up 27,800%.

08/ Arbitrum Ecosystem NFT Nethers will be migrated to Over Protocol mainnet on December 16

On December 13, the L1 blockchain lightweight node protocol Over Protocol announced that the Arbitrum ecosystem NFT Nethers will be migrated to the Over Protocol mainnet. The migration will start at 08:00 on December 16. Users have 3 months to access the Nethers NFT cross-chain and receive airdrops.

09/ OpenSea registers the OpenSea Foundation in the Cayman Islands

On December 14, Mike Dudas, former founder of The Block, posted a picture on X revealing that the NFT market OpenSea registered the OpenSea Foundation in the Cayman Islands.

10/ Abstract Chain, a subsidiary of the parent company of NFT project Pudgy Penguins, will be launched on the mainnet in January next year

On December 15, official news came out that the Layer 2 network Abstract Chain, designed specifically for on-chain culture and community, will be launched on the mainnet in January next year. Previously, Igloo Inc., the parent company of the NFT project Pudgy Penguins, acquired the on-chain creator economy platform Frame in June this year, aiming to develop a Layer 2 network Abstract Chain designed specifically for on-chain culture and community.

11/ Pudgy Penguins' market value exceeds $1 billion

On December 15, according to Coingecko data, the floor price of the blue-chip NFT project "Fat Penguin" Pudgy Penguins rose to 29.13 ETH, with a 10.6% increase in the past 24 hours. As the floor price rises, the current market value of Pudgy Penguins has also exceeded the $1 billion mark, reaching 258,907 ETH, equivalent to approximately $1,006,727,499.

NFT on-chain data

01\ NFT multi-chain data overview

As of December 16, 2024, NFTScan currently supports 25 mainstream blockchain networks including Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNBChain, Polygon, Solana, Mint, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Optimism, zkSync, Sei, Starknet, Aptos, Mantle, Linea, Base, TON, Blast, Gravity, Scroll, Viction, Fantom, Moonbeam, PlatON, and Cronos, generating a total of:

Number of NFT contracts: 5,274,521

Number of NFT assets: 2,361,443,684

Number of NFT on-chain records: 7,981,828,070

Total NFT asset market value: $37,508,674,837

NFT historical total transaction volume: $107,927,613,457

NFTScan | Summary of NFT market hot spots from 12.09 to 12.15

02\NFT Trading Market Trends

This week: Blur dominated the market, with the overall transaction volume reaching its highest point on December 12, with the Blur market reaching $21.324 million at 0:00. NFTScan recorded 233 trading markets with a total transaction volume of $191.8M in 7 days. This week, Blur's transaction volume ranked first, and the market transaction volume distribution was relatively stable. The top six trading markets and their share distribution are as follows:

Blur: $102,015,627 (53.19%)

OpenSea: $46,343,420 (24.16%)

CryptoPunks: $11,994,021 (6.25%)

Element: $8,808,740 (4.59%)

Tensor: $8,684,796 (4.53%)

MagicEden: $3,647,129 (1.90%)

NFTScan | Summary of NFT market hot spots from 12.09 to 12.15

03\Top NFT Blue Chip Trends

The current total market value of the 19 blue-chip contracts is 1,176,844 ETH, accounting for 22.85% of the total NFT market value.

This week: The total transaction volume of blue-chip NFTs was 29.13k ETH, and the total market transaction volume was 56.44k ETH. As of 00:00 on December 12, the transaction volume reached a maximum of about 6.9k ETH.

NFTScan | Summary of NFT market hot spots from 12.09 to 12.15

04\TOP 10 Wallets

NFTScan analyzed the top 1,000 NFT holding value wallet addresses, and the current top 10 holding value are shown in the figure below:

Top1 Wallet:

0xab14624691d0d1b62f9797368104ef1f8c20df83

This wallet address holds 4,815 NFTs (including 3 NFT Collections), currently holds 64,785 ETH ($257,274,201.93), and has 7,459 interactions.

NFTScan | Summary of NFT market hot spots from 12.09 to 12.15

05\NFT Project Ranking List

The top 10 NFT projects with the highest transaction volume on the Ethereum network are shown in the figure below:

This week, Pudgy Penguins ranked first, with the floor price stable at around 34.65e last week, and a 7d transaction volume of 19,210e; Lil Pudgys ranked second with a transaction volume of 8,488e, and the current floor price is 4.15e; Azuki ranked third with a transaction volume of 4,225e, and the current floor price is 10.34e; the overall market transaction volume and floor price of most blue-chip NFTs showed an upward trend.

NFTScan | Summary of NFT market hot spots from 12.09 to 12.15

06\Popular NFT Express

This week’s popular NFT is the Pudgy Penguins series:

Data shows that the current floor price has exceeded 30 ETH and stabilized at 32.4 ETH, with the highest transaction price being 420 ETH. The total transaction volume on Ethereum has exceeded 459k ETH. The transaction distribution in the past 7 days was mainly Blur: 14.04K (73.29%); OpenSea: 4.99K (26.05%) X2Y2: 125 (0.65%) units of ETH, and the number of transactions in 7d reached 755 times.

NFTScan | Summary of NFT market hot spots from 12.09 to 12.15