Review 2022! The highlight time of NFT on-chain data

Web3 and Metaverse have certainly attracted a lot of attention over the past year. Many well-known brands such as Nike, GUCCI, Pepsi, Starbucks and McDonald's have joined the wave. Try out Web3 mechanisms by launching NFT, digital goods, etc., to create a better consumer experience and engagement. NFT combines identity, function and commodity attributes. Although the overall performance of NFT market is not good at present, brands still show great potential energy in the New Year by using NFT to create topic advantages and carry out various cross-border cooperation.

Over the past year, there have also been several highly innovative NFT debuting, such as Moonbrids, which can unlock passes, and Azuki, a Japanese anime genre. They break the barriers of traditional PFP mode and enrich the digital art market. There are many different types of NFT today and they represent different market strengths, including PFP, games, collectibles, art, music, social media, sports, virtual lands, and metaverse. In short, the explosive power of the NFT is still not to be underestimated.

This paper is based on the basic statistical data of NFT in 2022 to facilitate the understanding of the basic change trend of NFT in the past year, without making any development direction and trend prediction. In addition, you can create your own analytics based on Tokenview explorer data.

1 Total number of NFT trading accounts

Last year, the public chain with the largest number of NFT trading accounts was BSC, with 3.65 million accounts. It was followed by ETH, with 2.27 million accounts participating in NFT transactions. Polygon and Solana ranked third and fourth with 423,000 and 334,000, respectively. Thus, in the past year, NFT transactions on the BSC chain have shown great vitality.

2 The number of new NFT collections

According to statistics, 259,357 new NFT collections have been added to ETH by the end of 2022. 53,000 added to Solana; 40,046 was added to the BSC. In terms of data, the most widely used public chain for NFT is still Ethereum.

3 NFT transaction volume in the past year

The NFT project with the highest transaction volume over the past year was Otherdeed for Otherside with $1,455,891,555 valued at 613,320.13eth. Otherdeed for Otherside is a metaverse land project from Yuga Labs. The Otherdeed will serve as the proof of some sort of virtual land in the Otherside metaverse game.

Second on the list was Bored Ape Yacht Club with $1,384,629,148 worth 647,082.29eth.

The third highest transaction volume was the Mutant Ape Yacht Club NFT project at $1,039,773,114 valued at 455,153.15eth. As the second expansion of Bored Apes ecosystem, MAYC has gained considerable visibility since its creation. MAYC is made up of 20,000 mutated ape themed NFT in order to attract more collectors to join the BAYC ecosystem as low level members.

In fourth place was Azuki with $912,788,198 worth 376,106.48eth . Azuki is an anime style collection of 10,000 NFT used as a membership pass for their community 'The Garden'. The price of the floor once surpassed that of the mutant monkey.

In fifth place was Moonbirds, another blue-chip NFT project with $599,808,969 worth 236,216.37 eth . Like Bored Apes, Moonbirds holders can access a private community called the PROOF Collective in addition to owning intellectual property.

4 The number of ENS active addresses was the largest in the past year

The NFT with the largest number of active addresses participating in transactions over the past year was ENS domain, with 155,693. It was followed by Otherdeed for Otherside, at 74,229; goblintown.wtf is 19,535; Azuki is 17,093.(Note: Active address definition: There have been at least 10 sales of NFT in a year)

In April 2022, ENS began to explode as the 10Kclub community and Web3 social protocol Linkkey announced that they would distribute airdrops for ENS users. It hit a record high on May 2, when the number of transactions rose to 141,000. The number of active addresses rose by 10,500.

5 The Number of NFT transactions in the past year

Over the past year, ENS topped the NFT series with 4,822,252 transactions.As a calling card for Web3, the ENS has enjoyed a significant advantage over the past year in terms of both the number of transactions and the number of active addresses. In the case that the NFT trading market gradually flattens out, ENS still shows strong market activity and liquidity.

6 Ranking by number of NFT holders

As of press date, the largest number of NFT holders is ENS at 629,826. It was followed by Crypto stamp Edition 1 at 148,890, followed by Enjin at 134,785.

7 Number of independent addresses involved in transactions in the past year

Over the past year, the NFT with the largest number of independent addresses involved in transactions remains ENS, totaling 533,438. It was followed by Otherdeed for Otherside, at 86,332; goblintown.wtf, at 49,307; In fourth place was Azuki with 23,903.

8 The oldest NFT

CryptoPunks, launched by Larva Labs in June 2017, was the first project in the NFT, but there was no clear definition at the time. CryptoKitties, launched in November 2017, is an NFT project that proposes and applies the ERC721 protocol standard. By the end of 2022, the CryptoPunks will remain the largest NFT by market capitalization at $1.1B. Yuga Labs acquired CryptoPunks' IP in March 2022.

Summarize

We summarize the statistics of eight NFT project , showing the transaction dynamics of NFT in 2022 in detail from the total number of trading accounts in the past year, number of new NFT collections, transaction ranking, number of active addresses, number of transactions, number of holders, and number of independent addresses involved in transactions.

Data show that the ENS has shown considerable transaction activity in the past year, becoming the NFT with the highest number of transactions, active addresses and holders in 2022.

ENS domain is an important way to show the uniqueness of personal Web3 identity. Without exception, they show personal socialization, wealth and sense of identity.

Ethereum continues to be the most widely used NFT in terms of the number of new NFT data added to each chain over the past year. While most of the blue-chip projects are currently trading on Ethereum, BSCS show a significant advantage in terms of the total number of trading accounts involved.

The past year has also seen some exciting moments in NFT's various cross-border collaborations. As an important link of WEB3 ecosystem, NFT is bound to be injected with new development energy by the creation of NFT.

We believe the NFT will also attract more investment and attention in 2023.