The NFT market is flourishing, truly. Once once more, the Wall Street Journal makes a idiot of itself by tackling topics past the publication’s comprehension. The creator declares “the NFT market is collapsing,” citing suspicious numbers and two instances of dangerous trades as proof. And then, to high all of it off poses a horrible idea. The “NFT Sales Are Flatlining” article is embarrassing past perception.
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Among different issues, it proposes the worst definition of NFTs ever written:
“NFTs are bitcoin-like digital tokens that act like a certificate of ownership that live on a blockchain.”
No, NFTs should not “bitcoin-like” in any respect. And the WSJ simply forgot concerning the “non-fungible” facet of those distinctive digital belongings. And sure, somebody bought an NFT of Jack Dorsey’s first tweet for $2.9M, one other particular person purchased a Snoop Dogg endorsed one for $32K. Both tried to public sale the digital belongings and solely received embarrassingly low affords. Based on these two instances, the WSJ implies that the entire NFT market is lifeless on the water.
THE DEATH OF NFTs…
One purchaser bought a Snoop Dog curated NFT in early April for about $32,000 value of the cryptocurrency ether. It’s now up for public sale, with an asking worth of $25.5 million.
The highest present bid is for 0.0743 ether—about $210.https://t.co/dg54XYijxh
— Steven Russolillo (@srussolillo) May 3, 2022
The WSJ bogus numbers concerning the NFT Market
Admittedly, the Wall Street Journal in all probability has entry to a wider array of knowledge than NewsBTC. However, the numbers they use to show the NFT market is lifeless are suspicious as hell.
“The sale of nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, fell to a every day common of about 19,000 this week, a 92% decline from a peak of about 225,000 in September, based on the information web site NonFungible.
The variety of energetic wallets within the NFT market fell 88% to about 14,000 final week from a excessive of 119,000 in November.”
Notice that they don’t hyperlink to NonFungible and supply just a few low-resolution graphs that the traditional eye can’t audit. However, everybody can go to NonFungible. The variety of gross sales for May third is 104.465 and that represents $206B. Hardly the indicators of a lifeless NFT market. Granted, the variety of gross sales for April third is roughly 14K, however on May 1st the NFT market moved a whooping $778B in 117K gross sales.
That’s not it. The WSJ additionally presents these stats as in the event that they show its case:
“The imbalance between supply and demand is also hurting the NFT market. There are about five NFTs for every buyer, according to data from analytics firm Chainalysis. As of the end of April, there have been 9.2 million NFTs sold, which were bought by 1.8 million people.”
Have they even been to OpenSea? There are lots of of collections. And NFT aficionados personal dozens of items. Sometimes, lots of. Sometimes, 1000’s. And that’s only one platform that serves one blockchain. Five NFTs for each purchaser is nothing.
ETH worth chart for 05/04/2022 on Coinbase | Source: ETH/USD on TradingView.com
The Wall Street Journal’s Off The Mark Theory
This may be probably the most ridiculous a part of the article. Let’s let the creator bury himself:
“There are signs that collectors may also differentiate between NFTs that catalog a vast set of cartoonlike characters—like the CryptoPunks—and tailored, NFT art projects spurred by major artists who already enjoy museum followings.”
And then he talks about Jeff Koons and Chinese artist Cai Guo Qiang, who offered out NFT collections, and director Kevin Smith, who’s planning to. Meanwhile, Moonbirds set the NFT market on fire and the Bored Ape’s Otherside literally broke Ethereum. We’re speaking billions of {dollars} for the “cartoonlike characters” staff. Not solely that, The Nightly Mint points us in direction of Nansen’s numbers.
6/ Taking a take a look at NFT Paradise, quantity is powerful – the final two weeks are each set to be among the many top-10 in historical past (measured in ETH).
Users per Week and Transactions per Week are likewise trying to reverse downtrends that started firstly of the 12 months. pic.twitter.com/edNKzddMQW
— Nansen???? (@nansen_ai) May 3, 2022
They clearly present that “the last two weeks are both set to be among the top-10 in history (measured in ETH).” And that “the Blue Chips and Social sectors are on a tear, up 81% and 83% YTD.”
So, what recreation is the Wall Street Journal taking part in? Is this a case of poor analysis or proof of malicious intent? That’s so that you can determine, pricey reader.
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