Here’s why blue-chip NFT prices continue to soar nearly a week after the Othe...

Here’s why blue-chip NFT prices continue to soar nearly a week after the Othe...

Most of the NFT market is in a downtrend, but data shows funds continuing to flow into blue-chip tier projects. In May 2021 OpenSea closed out nearly $140 million in total volume. Fast forward a year and the most dominant NFT marketplace closed over $880 million in less than a week partially because of the Yuga Labs’ The Otherside mint.  As a result of this mint, a fresh surge of liquidity was injected into the NFT ecosystem and as it stands the current NFT total market capitalization is over $19.4 billion. NFT market capitalization and volume. Source: NFTgoFor the past two weeks most of....


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