Weekly NFT Sales Slip 2.56% to $33.63M as Buyer Count Collapses

Weekly NFT sales fell 2.56% to $33.63 million in the seven-day window captured on Nov. 14, according to on-chain data tracker CryptoSlam, while Bitcoin-based trading defied the broader slowdown with a 7.57% rise. Ethereum retained its lead among blockchains at $10.98 million, and transaction counts fell far faster than sales value — a divergence that points to thinning participation rather than collapsing prices.

Transactions dropped 15.06% to 640,844 across the market. Buyer addresses plunged 74.78% to 67,937, and seller addresses fell 79.33% to 51,093. CryptoSlam cautions that these figures count addresses, which do not necessarily correspond to separate individuals.

The average recorded sale rose to roughly $52.48 per transaction, up from an estimated $45.74 in the prior period — an increase of approximately 14.7% based on the dashboard's rounded percentage changes. Fewer participants were therefore settling larger individual trades, not abandoning the market uniformly.

How did individual blockchains perform?

Ethereum posted $10,983,125 in NFT sales, down 4.65%, which accounted for approximately 32.7% of the weekly market total. Its buyer addresses fell 84.29% to 6,263, and separately tracked wash-trading volume dropped 58.20% to $76,067.

• Polygon: $8,259,758, down 6.45%. Buyers fell 65.20% to 20,321. Wash trading, listed separately from sales, reached $17.56 million.
• Bitcoin: $4,866,900, up 7.57%. Buyer addresses dropped 79.32% to 3,467, while wash volume fell 30.26% to $40,445.
• BNB Chain: $2,391,692, down 28.76%, with buyers down 66.72% to 17,198.
• Immutable: $2,298,908, a 16.67% decline.
• Base: $1,929,455, up 31.11%, though buyer addresses fell 75.65% to 755. Its separately recorded wash volume reached $4.80 million.
• Solana: $1,322,477, up 25.92%, with buyers down 80.04% to 14,235.

Ethereum, Polygon and Bitcoin together accounted for around 71.7% of global NFT sales for the week.

The weekly total continues a downward drift visible in earlier snapshots. Sales reached $32.05 million on Nov. 7, following $42.13 million on Oct. 31 and $47.14 million on Oct. 17 — a period when Bitcoin volume more than doubled, as crypto.news previously reported.

Which collections led the week?

Courtyard retained first place with $7,075,354 in sales, down 11.69%. The Polygon-based collection recorded 135,660 transactions, a 5.95% decline, with 18,273 buyers and 14,291 sellers. Its volume represented approximately 21% of the global total and 85.7% of Polygon's weekly sales. Courtyard's digital collectibles are backed by physical cards, which the company says remain redeemable from its US vault.

Bitcoin's $X@AI BRC-20 NFTs ranked second with $2,066,481, up 245.71% — a total generated by just four transactions involving four buyer and four seller addresses.

Bored Ape Yacht Club followed with $1,747,742, a 54.49% gain. Transactions rose 57.14% to 132, and buyers climbed 23.44% to 79. Guild of Guardians Heroes took fourth with $1,218,407 on Immutable-zk, down 18.71%, across 914 transactions from 546 buyers.

CryptoPunks ranked fifth at $841,533, down 17.63%, from only 13 transactions. Gods Unchained Cards followed with $657,117, down 12.90%, and Base-based Anome OG NFT recorded $593,117, up 13.69%. Pudgy Penguins finished eighth with $588,280, a 71.07% gain, as transactions rose 93.15% to 141 and buyers climbed 40% to 70.

What were the largest single sales?

Two $X@AI BRC-20 inscriptions on Bitcoin occupied the top positions and together accounted for nearly all of that collection's weekly volume.

The largest, an inscription beginning #39ceeef1, fetched $1,581,109.67 in 23.0105 BTC roughly one day before capture. That single transaction represented about 76.5% of the collection's weekly sales. A second inscription, beginning #8c2c2583, sold for $485,335.87 in 6.4753 BTC around five days before capture.

Ethereum's Alchemix V3 Transmuter #233 ranked third at $133,459.73, settled in 133,459.7344 USDC roughly five days before capture. Uniswap V3 Positions NFT-V1 #713 followed at $125,687.06, paid in 125,687.0625 USDC on Ethereum approximately four days before capture. CryptoPunks #4314 completed the top five with a $112,699.13 sale, settled in 55 ETH roughly three days before capture.

Where does the wider market stand?

CoinGecko listed Bitcoin near $67,318 and Ethereum around $1,902 during checks on Nov. 14. Total cryptocurrency market capitalization stood at approximately $2.36 trillion, down 1.11% over 24 hours.

The pattern of falling participation and rising average ticket size suggests the NFT market is consolidating around high-value collectors and utility-backed projects such as Courtyard, whose physically redeemable model now anchors a fifth of global weekly volume. Whether next week's snapshot shows buyer counts stabilizing above the 67,937-address floor will signal whether the market has found its base or continues to thin.