About 88% of the trading volume in the non-fungible token market was provided by the OpenSea marketplace ($ 12.5 billion)
In 2021, non-fungible token (NFT) trading volume exceeded $ 13 billion, according to The Block Research .
The indicator has grown almost 400 times compared to 2020 ($ 33 million). 88% of the NFT trading volume (more than $ 12.5 billion) this year was provided by the OpenSea marketplace.
OpenSea is one of the largest NFT marketplaces that allows you to create your own non-fungible tokens and sell them. The trading platform was founded in 2017.
One of the largest and oldest auction houses in the world, Sotheby’s, which was founded in 1744, raised $ 100 million from the sale of NFT tokens in 2021.
At the same time, about 78% of bidders on NFT used Sotheby’s for the first time, and more than half of the participants in such auctions not yet 40 years old,
In 2021, the cryptocurrency industry attracted $ 30 billion in venture capital investments, which is more than has been invested in all the years of the sector’s existence. Previously, 2018 was considered a record year, for which the cryptocurrency industry received about $ 8 billion in investments.