NFTs
SND Genesis Battle Pass Leads NFT Market as VanEck Uses Pudgy Penguins in ETF Announcement
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The SND Genesis Battle Pass collection dominated the non-fungible token (NFT) market with a sales volume of $1.39 million on Tuesday, July 23, according to data from CryptoSlam.
The Ethereum-based collection is tied to Sword & Dungeons, an RPG backed by OKX Ventures.
The industry-leading secondary sales volume came after the game minted 4,000 Genesis Battle Pass NFTs, which were subsequently sold.
The SND Genesis Battle Pass had 2,460 unique buyers from just 96 sellers.
This helped Ethereum maintain its top spot, with a total of $6.27 million in sales on the day, up from $4.16 million recorded the previous day.
The second highest-ranking collection of the day was Pudgy Penguins, also on Ethereum, which saw a total of $655,675 in sales.
The Pudgy Penguins failed to take first place, despite asset manager VanEck using the collection’s mascot in its new Ether Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) Announcement.
Spot Ether ETFs began trading on U.S. markets for the first time on Tuesday, debuting with $1 billion in inflows.
Pudgy Penguins ranks 18th in all-time sales volume with $393.5 million, about $7 million behind Cool Cats at 17th place.
In third place on Tuesday, the DMarket collection on the Mythos blockchain generated $617,108 in sales from 3,226 unique buyers and 2,855 sellers.
DMarket, which represents virtual in-game items, had an average price of $25.92 per NFT.
In fourth place, Immutable’s Gods Unchained Cards had $563,292 in sales, while CryptoPunks on Ethereum recorded $545,917 in fifth.
Solana Monkey Business, on the Solana blockchain, came next with $460,267 in sales, falling from Monday’s top spot.