The market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) collapsed last month, figures have revealed, falling steeply alongside cryptocurrencies’ recent descent.
Monthly sales volume on the largest NFT marketplace, OpenSea, plunged to $700 million in June, down from $2.6 billion in May and a far cry from January’s peak of nearly $5 billion.
By late June the average NFT sale sunk to $412, from $1,754 at the end of April, according to NonFungible.com, which tracks sales on the Ethereum and Ronin blockchains.
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“The crypto bear market has definitely had an impact on the NFT space,” said Gauthier Zuppinger, co-founder of NonFungible.com.
“We have seen so much speculation, so much hype around this kind of asset,” he added. “Now we see some sort of decrease just because people realise they will not become a millionaire in two days.”
The NFT market has collapsed along with cryptocurrencies, which are typically used to pay for the assets,...
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