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Apr 12, 2021 15 tweets 12 min read Read on X
1/ Some crazy data from @nonfungibles Q1 2021 report.

Over $2 BILLION USD has been traded as NFTs on Ethereum ALONE in the first 3 months of this year.

That's 131x more than Q1 2020, and 20x more than than Q4.

Boy did things escalate quickly.

👇

2/ I suspect gaming will be the highest growth sector over the next 5 years.

Maturing infrastructure and growing developer mindshare will drive greater variety and quality of experiences that appeal to the 2.7B strong gamer population.

This will be a primary crypto user funnel.
3/ Unsurprisingly, it's the art and collectibles sectors that have led most of the volume spearheaded by @SuperRare and @larvalabs' CryptoPunks.
4/ This art data ^ actually excludes @niftygateway volumes which have recently been higher than all of the other platforms combined.

This is attributable to their drop model, fiat gateway, and hosted wallet solutions suitable for web3 n00bs.

h/t @richardchen39 for the charts
5/ Liquidity rate = unique asset secondary market volume / total supply of each type of asset.

The sports sector led by @SorareHQ takes the cake here by a surprisingly large margin.

Note again: this does not include @nbatopshot volumes on @flow_blockchain which are even higher.
6/ It's pretty interesting to see that the 3 projects which brought in over $10M of PRIMARY sales over the period each belong to different segments (collectibles, sports, art).

I'd love to see more games up there soon... @AxieInfinity @illuviumio @PlayEmberSword
7/ Do note the ratio of primary to secondary sales for @TheSandboxGame. It's great to see a thriving secondary market before the world has officially launched!

Note that for games such as @AxieInfinity transactions from fresh breeds are also counted as primary market trades.
8/ Asset price evolution over time, it's still pretty crazy how quickly some of these have evolved.

People are up almost 10x in 3 months simply by holding digital collectibles / game assets that they love.

@GodsUnchained @artblocks_io @thecryptopunks @decentraland standing out.
8/ I continue to be infuriated by the use of "metaverse" in this context but let's roll with it.



Virtual real estate heating up.

Who sits on the podium in 5 years?

I personally don't think they exist yet.
9/ @XCOPYART coming in hot on the non-Nifty Gateway art side.

I wonder where @muratpak ends up with his current ongoing shenanigans.

We could see crypto art beginning to take off from late last summer. It's nuts to see just how far it has come.

10/ Unsurprisingly, @beeple demolishes any attempt at competition on price tag.

@ChristiesInc totally crushed it, I'm kind of mindblown they are auctioning off 9 punks next.

Still mad I lost the Beeple auction 🥲

11/ These are pretty much the data points heading into the @ChristiesInc auction which includes a (1/9) Alien Punk.

The last two of which.. well, yeah look for yourself 👀
12/ I'm actually a little surprised by this one.

I would have thought @SorareHQ cards would be in here, but I guess soccer fans aren't trying hard enough.
/fin

What's most crazy is the rate of growth here even from when the markets were ALREADY hot.

For reference, the thread below was written just over two months ago.

Even @NYSE is now dropping NFTs.

Stay safe out there folks.

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More from @pierskicks

Oct 22, 2021
1/ Dawn of the Guilds: Settlers of the Metaverse

Led by @AxieInfinity, 2021 has been a monumental year for blockchain gaming which continues to be a primary driver of global NFT volumes.

delphidigital.io/reports/dawn-o…
2/ The meteoric rise of Axie has prompted many to draw parallels with the explosive growth of games like Candy Crush at the advent of F2P mobile.

Axie appears to be validating the thesis that gaming could be a trojan horse for global blockchain adoption.
3/ To capitalise on this new frontier, we're seeing the emergence of guilds that deploy yield-generating strategies across these economies.

Activity largely manifests across:

• Scholarship provision
• Token & NFT investments
• Guild investments (YGG)
• Other strategies
Read 19 tweets
Jun 16, 2021
1/ Amped for this! 🔥

@YieldGuild comfortably remains the most exciting project in the space to my mind, and I couldn't be happier for us to lead their Series A as @BitkraftVC's first token investment.

More to come.

venturebeat.com/2021/06/16/yie…
2/ The wealth of industry experience and broad network provided by the the wonderful BK team stands firmly behind Yield Guild on this pioneering mission to settle the New World.
3/ Since @Delphi_Digital led YGG's seed round in November, the pace of progress for the project and the play-to-earn games such as @AxieInfinity has been truly astonishing.

Read 10 tweets
May 11, 2021
1/ This year's NFT boom exposed many to crypto's consumer-facing side for the first time—exciting.

Awareness of the massive potential of these technologies has grown, but for many the most important question remains: where should we build?

delphidigital.io/reports/rankin…
Note / The full piece has much more elaborate reasoning and justification for each of our gradings. There are unquantifiable aspects to some of the topic areas covered.

Also shoutout to @mediodelphi and @Alex_Ged for being an absolute pleasure to work on this with.
2/ It's no secret that the massive uptick in activity on Ethereum over the last 12 months has priced out many lower-value activities on the base chain.

I've noted this dynamic in earlier posts, but is has only been further exacerbated in recent months.

Read 28 tweets
Mar 24, 2021
Get them while they're ho... oh.

Literally every single NFT domain other than .faith and .eco (lol) and a handful of others are taken.

Own up guys, who bought nft.clinic and is it intended to ultimately treat victims of this hype cycle?
Read 5 tweets
Feb 16, 2021
1/ NFTs: The Lay of The Land.

The NFT market is undeniably hot right now, the vast majority of record-breaking sales have happened within the last 30 days.

Millions of $ are changing hands daily across projects both old and new.

delphidigital.io/reports/nfts-t…
2/ Record engagement from high-profile figures with big audiences e.g. @mcuban, @MesutOzil1088, and even @lindsaylohan...

Crypto Art pioneer @beeple is back with the 1st ever purely digital art to be sold at the renowned auction house @ChristiesInc.

3/ At the base network level, we're seeing unprecedented dollar volumes. At the very peak of the CryptoKitties mania in late 2017, just over $2M changed hands in a 24 hour period.

On Valentines Day this past weekend, more than $6M was traded as NFTs on layer one alone.
Read 25 tweets
Feb 15, 2021
Some brilliant data in this very comprehensive report.

The @nonfungibles team have done an excellent job over the past few years and it's epic to see them join forces with @latelier.

The tide is quite clearly rising.

Some of my favourite charts/info below. 👇
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