- Courtyard and Darket became the two most popular weekly NFT sales, while cryptopunks rose 43.99% in value.
- A rare cryptopunk sold for a loss of $ 10 million due to the current low ETH prices.
- Top collections such as bored AAP and Pudgy Penguins fell while other smaller projects such as Lilpudgys picked up.
Courtyard led this week on the NFT market with a total NFT turnover of $ 18.36 million, an increase of $ 15.874 million in the previous week, an increase of 16.18%. There were 141,945 transactions registered in the collection, with 8,712 buyers, making it the most presale feeling for all others.
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#Courtyard #dmarket #Cryptopunks #guildofguardians #pudgypenguins #boredapeyachtclub #tapgrootwizard– Phoenix – Crypto News & Analytics (@pnxgrp) April 17, 2025
Darket was immediately behind it with $ 9.95 million turnover and an increase of 17.56%. Although the average transaction amount is much lower, the high transaction frequency of 268,895 means that many of the consumers of the company are active during the week, with 20,562 buyers thereby.
Cryptopunks explode despite the number of low buyers
Cryptopunks experienced a stunning growth in weekly turnover with 143.99% to $ 8.01 million. Or rather, the collection only had 13 buyers and 24 transactions, but it showed that specific players had done enormous high -quality transactions. That is why the increase in volume can be attributed to the return of Hoognet-worthy individuals or institutional buyers on the market.
This news comes to the fore when another cryptopunk NFT entitled #3100 was recently sold with a loss of $ 10 million. The Alien Punk is one of the ten copies of the work currently exists and was sold on 10 April for 4,000 ETH (about $ 6.07 million) in a private deal Negotiated by Fountain, an artificial brokerage company.
Arkham said that the seller bought the NFT for 4,500 ETH in March last year, which was currently appreciated at around $ 16 million, and that ETH was around $ 3,500. The 500 ETH was further reduced by a fall of 56% in the value of Ethereum, which led to the total loss.
Guild of Guardians also registered increased sales records to $ 1,728,357, which was 21.35% higher compared to compared earlier. The company attracted 2,437 buyers for 4,255 transactions, which points to the importance of people in the community and the activity in the ecosystem.
Legacy Collections are confronted with downward pressure
NFT collection Pudgy Penguins, which previously belonged to one of the most popular collections, experienced a decrease from 18.83% to $ 1 460,000 in weekly sales. It also reached only 66 customers, which points to the fall of the importance of the final consumers. The bored monkey hunting club fell sharper and fell by 28.41%, with fifty -six transactions and unique buyers of thirty -eight buyers who realized $ 1.37 million in volumes.
Taproot Wizard was one of the worst artists, with his volume shrinking by 12.58%. There were 113 transactions and 61 buyers, but the turnover was huge, with only $ 1.19 million. Mutant APE Yacht Club performed much better and it rose by 9.13% to $ 1.12 million by 123 buyers.
Emerging projects get Momentum
Lilpudgyys showed the most impressive growth rate except for cryptopunks, which reached at 27.09% and reached $ 639.97K with 328 transactions. The relatively low volume still shows an increase in people who become interested in certain micro-cap NFT collections while looking for other opportunities.
Other collections, such as Sorare and Panini, were relatively down and fell by 7.20% and 14.26% respectively. Sorare had a high participation rate, with 81.138 transactions and 13,587 unique buyers, which suggests that it has an active user base. DogEzuki -Handelsvolume fell by 5.77% to $ 648.01, although it was active with 11,800+ buyers and transactions of 13,582.
