NFT market size declined further during 2023, as the market was ********* from what it was in March 2022. Investments and trading in these digital assets hit its lowest level in weeks. This may be due to growing regulatory pressure in 2023 on digital assets and a declining sentiment after the fall of crypto exchanges in late 2022. The annual market cap of NFTs grew sizably between 2020 and 2021, revealing a volatile market.

As of May 2025, the market cap of Art Blocks NFT projects available on the Ethereum blockchain and listed on OpenSea was worth roughly ***** million U.S. dollars. Art Blocks is an online art platform that focuses on generative art. It allows users to pick a style and randomly generate on the Ethereum blockchain different combinations of NFT-based digital artworks via an algorithm.

About NFT's

NFT stands for "non-fungible token." They are unique, digital assets that are non-interchangeable and bought and sold online. According to Forbes:

An NFT is a digital asset that represents real-world objects like art, music, in-game items and videos. They are bought and sold online, frequently with cryptocurrency, and they are generally encoded with the same underlying software as many cryptos. Although they’ve been around since 2014, NFTs are gaining notoriety now because they are becoming an increasingly popular way to buy and sell digital artwork. A staggering $174 million has been spent on NFTs since November 2017.

Dataset Information

This dataset was created via Python using the requests, json, and pandas libraries. The information was pulled on January 16, 2022, and represents all time information for the top NFT collections. As an example, the Sales column represents all sales under a specified NFT collection from its creation up until January 16, 2022.

The dataset consists of the following information:

• Index: The index of the file.
• Name: The name of the NFT collection.
• Volume: The volume of sales from the NFT collection in Solana (SOL).
• Volume_USD: The volume of sales from the NFT collection in United States Dollar (USD).
• Market_Cap: The market capitalization—total value of the collection's items in circulation—in Solana (SOL).
• Market_Cap_USD: The market capitalization—total value of the collection's items in circulation—in United States Dollar (USD).
• Sales: The number of sales from the NFT collection.
• Floor_Price: The lowest price of any NFT in the collection in Solana (SOL).
• Floor_Price_USD: The lowest price of any NFT in the collection in United States Dollar (USD).
• Average_Price: The average price of an NFT in the collection in Solana (SOL).
• Average_Price_USD: The average price of an NFT in the collection in United States Dollar (USD).
• Owners: The number of owners of NFT's in the collection.
• Assets: The number of items in the collection.
• Owner_Asset_Ratio: The ownership percentage of all items in the collection.
• Category: The category of the NFT collection.
• Website: The associated website of the NFT collection.
• Logo: The associated image of the NFT collection.

Sources

This data was scraped from https://coinmarketcap.com/nft/collections/ The cover image was downloaded from https://unsplash.com/@tezos

Transactions in NFTs were significantly lower in 2024 than during the summer of 2021 when several tokens gained popularity. Most of these transactions were likely related to play-to-earn Vietnamese video game Axie Infinity, which became the world's most valuable NFT collection in August 2021 - although its sales volume did decline since. The gaming segment reported the highest sales volume of the non-fungible token (NFT) market in 2020, with over *** times the sales in sports projects. The overall market cap of NFTs in 2024, however, was noticeably smaller. NFT in 2024: Searching for legitimacy While cryptocurrency and Bitcoin saw their interest surge in early 2024 after the acceptance of Bitcoin ETFs in the United States, the NFT market has been struggling. For the larger audience, non-fungible tokens still seemed to be confusing what they are supposed to do, whereas crypto increasingly found legitimacy. The slowdown in the NFT market led one of the world's largest NFT marketplaces, OpenSea, to lay off large parts of its staff in October 2023. Solana to pave the way for NFTs? One of the blockchain networks that is closely affiliated with NFTs in 2024 is that of Solana. The monthly sales volume of this blockchain outperformed that of Ethereum in ************, causing Solana's market share in the overall crypto market to reach its highest value ever. Solana's position comes from relatively low costs but especially high transaction speeds and the sizable airdrops from multiple projects. This attracted significant amounts of capital, further fuelling the network. Solana's growth may provide the framework for the NFT market as a whole, as it slowly seeks to take over Ethereum's position in this part of the decentralized digital asset world.

The Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Market size is expected to reach USD 94.2 billion in 2034 registering a CAGR of 18.7%. This Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Market research report highlights market share, competitive analysis, demand dynamics, and future growth.

Most of the largest NFTs in September 2023 are those that received lots of media attention in 2022. Examples include art collections CryptoPunks - the only NFT with a market cap of over *********** U.S. dollars - and Bored Ape Yacht Club - which revolve around randomly generated pictures of digital avatars and virtual monkeys, respectively. Metaverse related NFTs - The Sandbox and Decentraland, which represent virtual land and real estate inside those two worlds - also ranked relatively high. Talin, by comparison, is a more unknown NFT in this ranking. The 3D art piece collection focuses on spiritual talismans.

The value investments made into NFT gaming was ***** times larger than before, although this was not the fastest-growing segment. This was according to a comparison of the ** biggest investments made in NFT projects between September 2020 and September 2021, versus the top 50 from September 2021 to September 2022. On the one hand, these numbers suggest a sizable increase across various segments - especially for NFT marketplaces such as OpenSea - which would be in line with prior research on the growing market size of NFTs worldwide. On the other hand, one should note that most investments were likely to have happened early in the "September 2021 to September 2022" time frame, as is exemplified by the declining number of NFT users over the course of 2022.

Out of the big soccer clubs worldwide that offer fan tokens, Paris Saint-Germain's market cap was over ** million U.S. dollars higher than that of FC Barcelona. Fan tokens from the Catalan club became especially popular in April 2021 after they were listed on crypto trading platform Binance - explaining the sudden growth in market cap around that time. The market cap increase for PSG is less clear, although there have been reports that Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi received "a large amount of" cryptocurrency fan tokens as a signing on fee at the French club. Regardless, fan tokens - or NFTs issued by sports clubs that grant owners special perks or give them (limited) ownership over their favorite team, and can be bought and traded like cryptocurrencies - became increasingly popular in 2021. This development originally started in Italy to spread to Spain and Turkey, with AS Roma and Manchester City becoming the latest clubs to join in this trend.

This dataset contains NFT sale transactions on OpenSea, the largest NFT marketplace. When a sale is about an NFT's initial sale, the sale type is classified as 'initial'. Otherwise, the sale type is labelled as 'subsequent'. This initial vs subsequent sale distinction is motivated by the fact that the subsequent sales market is more accessible by an ordinary person as a seller compared to the initial sales market. The data collection for the classification requires complicated data collection steps which are described in the research paper. The dataset also contains a subsequent sale's previous sale information, previous price and previous sale timestamp. The dataset covers January and June 2022, the most extreme boom and crash periods. We hope that insights from this dataset can contribute into improving confidence in the NFT market even in an extreme period.

The NFT Analytics Tools Market is estimated to be valued at USD 205.5 million in 2025 and is projected to reach USD 742.0 million by 2035, registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.7% over the forecast period.

Global NFT Art Market Report 2022 comes with the extensive industry analysis of development components, patterns, flows and sizes. The report also calculates present and past market values to forecast potential market management through the forecast period between 2022-2028. The report may be the best of what is a geographic area which expands the competitive landscape and industry perspective of the market.

The Blockchain in Sports market is booming, with a 9% CAGR projected to reach $3 Billion+ by 2033. Explore key drivers, trends, and challenges shaping this exciting industry, including NFT adoption, fan engagement, and revenue generation via blockchain technology. Learn about leading companies and regional market shares. Recent developments include: September 2022 - FIFA is glad to announce the FIFA+ Collect introduction, allowing football fans worldwide to acquire unique digital collectibles inexpensively; Algorand powers FIFA+ Collect. FIFA+ Collect is a new platform allowing fans to own and collect FIFA World Cup and FIFA Women's World Cup moments., May 2022 - FIFA collaborated with blockchain technology company Algorand to agree on a sponsorship and technical partnership deal. According to the agreement, Algorand will be a FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Regional Supporter in North America and Europe and an Official Sponsor of the FIFA Women's World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023. Blockchains enable non-editable data to be permanently stored and disseminated over digital networks while promoting innovation and assuring secure, untampered exchange of value and assets such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and through blockchain-enabled wallets holding digital assets.. Key drivers for this market are: Aggressive Spending by Venture Capitalists. Potential restraints include: Aggressive Spending by Venture Capitalists. Notable trends are: Managing fans engagment platfroms using blockchain is expected to dive growth for the market.

This dataset provides NFT ownership traces and detection of potential wash trading activities across several prominent NFT collections on the Ethereum blockchain. The dataset is derived from the methodology presented in the paper "Beyond the Surface: Advanced Wash Trading Detection in Decentralized NFT Markets".

The approach proposed in the paper is not based on machine learning, but rather on the structural analysis of transaction patterns. It integrates NFT ownership traces with a novel structure called the Linkability Network, which links Ethereum accounts based on their transaction history to identify potentially collusive behavior.

The dataset contains: - NFT Ownership Traces: transfers of NFT ownership from EOAs, including the value in ETH and USD of trades finalized on NFT marketplaces: Blur, OpenSea, Looks Rare, X2Y2 ... data collected from collection creatio to: 1.5.2022 - Flagged NFTs: Each token ID is associated with the number of flagged trades detected by our algorithm.

We analyzed the following Ethereum NFT collections: - Bored Ape Yacht Club - Mutant Ape Yacht Club - Azuki - Clonex - Meebits - Bored Ape Kennel Club - Beanz Official - Moonbirds - Hape Prime - Pudgy Penguins - VeeFriends

We are releasing this dataset to fill the gap caused by the absence of a ground truth dataset for validation purposes. Our goal is to facilitate the validation of future studies on NFT wash trading. Additionally, we encourage the machine learning community to leverage this dataset for training models aimed at detecting wash trading in NFTs.

For further details on the methodology, and our interpretation of results, please refer to the original publication: Beyond the Surface: Advanced Wash Trading Detection in Decentralized NFT Markets

We gratefully acknowledge OpenCloset.ai for providing auxiliary data used to enrich the NFT ownership traces.

Find this dataset helpful? Please consider citing our paper. 👇👇👇

@misc{tošić2023surfaceadvancedwashtrading, title={Beyond the Surface: Advanced Wash Trading Detection in Decentralized NFT Markets}, author={Aleksandar Tošić and Niki Hrovatin and Jernej Vičič}, year={2023}, eprint={2312.16603}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.CE}, url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.16603}, }

On October 14, 2021, auction house Sotheby's launched the so-called Sotheby's Metaverse, a digital art platform focusing on non-fungible token (NFT) sales of digital art and collectibles. A few days after the launch, the platform announced its first NFT sale - "Natively Digital 1.2" - based on ** works from a selection of well-known NFT collectors. As of April 2022, an NFT included in the platform's inaugural sale - "Pepenopoulos" from the Rare Pepe series - was the most expensive lot sold on Sotheby's Metaverse, fetching **** million U.S. dollars. "Bored Ape Yacht Club #8817", from the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection by the Yuga Labs, recorded the second-highest figure to date, being purchased for over *** million U.S. dollars.

Global VC funding invested billions of dollars in NFT startups in 2021, a value nearly ** times higher than in 2020. On top of that, the early months for 2022 reveal both a deal count as well as an investment value that was already higher than the annual figures for 2017 through 2020 combined. The NFT market grew significantly in 2021, with both collectibles - like Bored Ape Yacht Club, virtual pictures of randomly generated monkeys - and games - such as "play to earn" game Axie Infinity, which allowed players to earn and trade cryptocurrencies in-game.

Respondents from the United States, UK, Canada, and Germany were much less likely to have or buy NFTs in 2022 than adults from other countries in the world. Comparing results from several Google Surveys held across the world in September 2022 reveals that non-fungible tokens were especially popular in Southeast Asia and Latin America. Although the source admits the methodology used is not flawless, the position of certain countries in this ranking is noticeable. Take, for instance, the Philippines: The country hit the news as it decided to making earnings from NFT game Axie Infinity - originally from Vietnam - taxable, causing sales made within Axie Infinity to decline. Indeed, the source suspects that the high percentage observed in some countries are "likely" caused by gaming NFTs or metaverses, online games where people can earn money by playing the game or trading the game's in-house cryptocurrency. Another example of such a platform is Argentina's Decentraland, a 3D virtual reality platform where users can - among other things - buy and sell virtual real estate called LAND. The market cap of this particular metaverse jumped to over **** billion U.S. dollars in October 2021, as the platform became increasingly popular.

Welcome to the Aavegotchi Rabbithole

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Aavegotchi NFT general info : https://wiki.aavegotchi.com/

Aavegotchi_sales.csv: Sales from gotchis market:

• $GHST_price: price at which the gotchi was sold in the cryptocurrency $GHST
• ID: ID of the gotchi
• BRS: Base Rarity Score of the gotchi, it is calculated from its traits : if (number < 50):   return 100 - number else:   return number + 1
• HAUNT: Which haunt the gotchi belongs to, Haunt 1(Edition1): 10000, Haunt2: 15000
• Wearables: The wearables gotchis were wearing the moment they sold, comes in a list which represents the body slot of the gotchi as follows : Body/Face/Eyes/Head/LHands/RHands/Pet/Background
• Seller: Seller address
• Buyer: Buyer address
• MBRS: Modified Basic Rarity Score, takes into account the effects from the wearables, which modify the BRS of the gotchis

• Wearables additional data: https://wiki.aavegotchi.com/en/wearables https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F7796991%2Fb32b5cff479b3ebf7e9832d34668fc94%2Fgotchitraits2.png?generation=1670932622836036&alt=media" alt="">

• nrgTrait: Energy trait of the gotchi.

• aggTrait: Aggression trait of the gotchi.

• spkTrait: Spookyness trait of the gotchi.

• brnTrait: Brain trait of the gotchi

• eysTrait: Eyeshape trait of the gotchi

• eyecTrait: Eyecolour trait of the gotchi

• Date: Sell day

• $USD_price: Price of $GHST (daily mean) @ the day of the sell. https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F7796991%2F33ca17b185e8af3e5762561c39521fe8%2Fwearables.png?generation=1670932799509596&alt=media" alt="">

Wearable_sales.csv: Sales from the wearables market - $GHST_price: price at which the wearable was sold in the cryptocurrency $GHST - WearID : Wearable ID, corresponds to a wearable name - Rarity: Rarity level of the wearable: {0:Common,1:Uncommon,2:Rare,3:Legendary,4:Mythical,5:Godlike} - Quantity: Number of the same ID wearable sold - Seller: Seller address - Buyer: Buyer address - Date: Sell day - $USD_price: Price of $GHST (daily mean) @ the day of the sell.

GHST.csv: Daily close price of the $GHST cryptocurrency. https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F7796991%2F3290aca1a8afe80e33cb026686364e90%2Fghstprice.png?generation=1670932938413258&alt=media" alt="">

Source: Coingecko API

📖 Context Cryptocurrency markets have grown from a niche experiment (Bitcoin in 2009) to a $3+ trillion asset class by 2025. Unlike traditional stock markets that operate during fixed hours, crypto trades 24/7/365, producing rich, continuous price data. This dataset captures the daily OHLCV (Open, High, Low, Close, Volume) history for the top 50 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization as of February 2026.

The dataset spans from September 2014 (when Yahoo Finance first started tracking crypto prices) through February 2026, covering multiple complete market cycles — including the 2017 ICO boom, the 2018 crash, the 2020-2021 DeFi/NFT bull run, the 2022 "crypto winter," and the 2024-2025 recovery.

📊 Sources Source Detail Data Provider Yahoo Finance via the yfinance Python library

The top 50 ranking was determined by CoinMarketCap market cap rankings as of February 2026. All 50 tickers were verified against Yahoo Finance's available symbols.

💡 Inspiration This dataset was inspired by and modeled after a similar NIFTY 50 stock market dataset project. The idea was to apply the same structured approach — individual CSVs + combined file + metadata + EDA notebook — to the crypto space, which has some unique properties:

24/7 trading — no weekends or market holidays, making time-series analysis cleaner Extreme volatility — crypto daily swings can dwarf stock market moves Category diversity — Layer 1s, DeFi, Meme coins, Stablecoins, AI tokens, etc. each behave very differently Short but eventful history — multiple 80%+ drawdowns and 10x+ rallies in under a decade Possible analyses & use cases: Price prediction — LSTM/Transformer models for forecasting Portfolio optimization — Mean-variance, risk-parity across crypto categories Correlation analysis — How tightly do altcoins follow Bitcoin? Volatility modeling — GARCH models, comparing crypto vs traditional markets Bull/bear detection — Moving average crossovers, regime-switching models Category benchmarking — Do Layer 1s outperform DeFi tokens? Are meme coins pure noise? Stablecoin stability — How well do USDT, USDC, DAI maintain their peg?

In September 2022, auction house Christie's launched Christie's ***, an online platform focusing on non-fungible token (NFT) sales of digital art and collectibles. Between the site's launch and April 2023, the company held ***** auctions on the platform. A digital work by zancan titled "Lushtemples - The Gateway" was the NFT recording the highest price realized on Christie's *** as of April 2023, fetching roughly ** thousand U.S. dollars in December 2022.

Ethereum's price history suggests that that crypto was worth more in 2025 than during late 2021, although nowhere near the highest price recorded. Much like Bitcoin (BTC), the price of ETH went up in 2021 but for different reasons altogether: Ethereum, for instance, hit the news when a digital art piece was sold as the world's most expensive NFT for over 38,000 ETH - or 69.3 million U.S. dollars. Unlike Bitcoin, of which the price growth was fueled by the IPO of the U.S.'s biggest crypto trader, Coinbase, the rally on Ethereum came from technological developments that caused much excitement among traders. First, the so-called 'Berlin update' rolled out on the Ethereum network in April 2021, an update that would eventually lead to the Ethereum Merge in 2022 and reduced ETH gas prices - or reduced transaction fees. The collapse of FTX in late 2022, however, changed much for the cryptocurrency. As of February 5, 2026, Ethereum was worth 2,152.09 U.S. dollars - significantly less than the 4,400 U.S. dollars by the end of 2021.Ethereum's future and the DeFi industryPrice developments on Ethereum are difficult to predict but cannot be seen without the world of DeFi, or decentralized finance. This industry used technology to remove intermediaries between parties in a financial transaction. One example includes crypto wallets such as Coinbase Wallet that grew in popularity recently, with other examples including smart contractor Uniswap, Maker (responsible for stablecoin DAI), moneylender Dharma and market protocol Compound. Ethereum's future developments are tied with this industry: Unlike Bitcoin and Ripple, Ethereum is technically not a currency but an open-source software platform for blockchain applications, with Ether being the cryptocurrency that is used inside the Ethereum network. Essentially, Ethereum facilitates DeFi, meaning that if DeFi does well, so does Ethereum.NFTs: the most well-known application of EthereumNFTs or non-fungible tokens, grew nearly tenfold between 2018 and 2020, as can be seen in the market cap of NFTs worldwide. These digital blockchain assets can essentially function as a unique code connected to a digital file, allowing to distinguish the original file from any potential copies. This application is especially prominent in crypto art, although there are other applications: gaming, sports, and collectibles are other segments where NFT sales occur.