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02 February 2023 07:54, UTC
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The non-fungible token (NFT) venture by former U.S. President Donald Trump has helped its host community, Polygon, outsell Ethereum on the main NFT market OpenSea for the second straight month, in keeping with transaction knowledge.
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Quick information
- Based on blockchain knowledge aggregator Dune Analytics, there have been 1.3 million Polygon NFTs bought in December and 1.5 million in January, whereas Ethereum’s numbers for those self same months had been 995,000 and 1.1 million.
- “Trump Digital Buying and selling Playing cards” was Polygon’s high venture by gross sales worth, if not in particular person gross sales, on OpenSea in January with 5,517 gross sales totaling 1,760 Eth (US$9.2 million).
- Trump’s assortment was ridiculed by the suitable and left alike when it was launched in mid-December for each its perceived poor timing in lacking the peak of the NFT market nearly a 12 months earlier than, and for being out of contact together with his voter base. The venture shortly bought out regardless.
- Anndy Lian, creator of the brand new guide “NFT: From Zero to Hero,” advised Forkast in an emailed assertion that Polygon’s progress isn’t actually about Trump. The principle cause for Polygon’s achieve is it has an unlimited assist system with fuel charges (prices for transacting on the community) which can be a lot decrease than on Ethereum.
- “The precise spike in reputation was with [collaboration with social media platform] Reddit in August 2022,” Lian stated. “The collaboration with high manufacturers akin to Meta, Starbucks and Nike are additionally key indicators that they’re heading in the right direction and properly accepted by mainstream audiences.”
- Lian added that Polygon can be host to a big share of tasks with better utility, akin to Sandbox and PlanetIX, which had been each high 10 ranked collections throughout all NFT marketplaces in January.
- “When there’s demand, there’s provide,” Lian stated. “That is what we see within the case of Polygon.”
- OpenSea is the most important NFT market within the business, and had 40% of the whole NFT gross sales quantity in January, in keeping with DappRadar.
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