While the crypto market was still down in double digits from its all-time highs, in January, the non-fungible token (NFT) market increased, even omitting synthetic trades, per dapp (decentralized application) info company DappRadar.  Sales in the NFT market leapt around 30%, compared to December, reached USD 5.3bn, and exceeded the USD 5bn mark for the very first time because August 2021, according to information from the company. Together with synthetic trades, it reached USD 16bn, they included in their most current report.

Also, the expert approximated that the flooring (the most affordable rate for collection products) market capitalization for the leading 100 NFT collections reached USD 14.8bn last month. This marks a reduction of 15% from November in spite of the 50% drop in Ethereum (ETH)’s cost over the very same duration, per the report. Also, the worth for particular NFTs, such as BAYC, MAYC, Doodles, World of Women, increased in January, it included. A brand-new gamer, the LooksRare NFT market, got in the market, reached USD 10.7bn in trading volume, and “shadowed the remarkable start of the year NFTs had.”

While “looking just at the trading volumes might suggest that LooksRare is overperforming OpenSea and other peer markets by a broad margin,” an “in-depth analysis in other on-chain metrics suggests otherwise,” DappRadar stated, as “the metric is pumped up by synthetic trading.” Other experts likewise observed wash trading on the brand-new platform. However, OpenSea itself confessed that the big bulk of the NFTs developed for totally free on its own platform are either spam or plagiarized. Per DappRadar information, around 535,000 special traders negotiated at some point at OpenSea in January, practically 1,800% more traders than the 35,000 determined at LooksRare.