Global NFT sales rose 66.58% to $76.56 million in the seven days leading to October 24, 2026, according to data from CryptoSlam. This weekly surge propelled Bitcoin to first place in blockchain volume at $31,071,305, soaring 268.06% from the prior week. That figure accounted for roughly 40.6% of total NFT sales worldwide.
This development marks a reversal compared to the previous week. In the October 17 market summary, Ethereum still led the market while Bitcoin sat in third place with $8.25 million. Ethereum has now slid to second place with a volume of $24,641,611 after gaining 32.59%. Combined, Bitcoin and Ethereum accounted for nearly 73% of total weekly NFT market volume. However, Bitcoin’s surge masks a heavily concentrated transaction structure.
Where Bitcoin’s Volume Came From
Most of Bitcoin’s liquidity did not come from broad market participation, but was instead concentrated in a single asset. The $X@AGI BRC-20 NFTs collection on Bitcoin topped the leaderboard with a volume of $25,091,343. This value represented roughly 32.8% of global NFT sales while accounting for 80.8% of all weekly volume on the Bitcoin blockchain.
Over $25 million in sales for the collection materialized through just three transactions involving three buyer and seller addresses. The two largest individual transactions were valued at $14.63 million and $9.57 million, both recorded from the BRC-20 collection. These three multi-million-dollar transactions alone propelled Bitcoin past other blockchains on the weekly leaderboard.
Polygon Relies on Courtyard Amid Wash Trading Concerns
In third place, Polygon posted a sales volume of $8,532,290, up a modest 2.82% from the prior period. The network’s sales were driven by Courtyard, which took second place among global collections with a transaction value of $7,772,464. Unlike the transaction profile on Bitcoin, Courtyard logged 141,478 transactions, accounting for roughly 18.5% of all global NFT transactions over the past seven days.
Nonetheless, Polygon recorded an anomaly in its activity: wash trading volume on the network reached $19,395,535, a figure surpassing its actual organic sales volume.
Ethereum’s Bored Ape Yacht Club collection ranked fourth overall with a volume of $3,558,183, up 192.02% across 94 transactions from 43 buyers. Across the broader market, user participation trended upward: the number of NFT seller addresses climbed 53.09% to 135,930, with a total of 764,169 transactions compared to 565,849 transactions the previous week.
This weekly landscape highlights two dynamics: low-value transactions remained vibrant on Polygon and Ethereum, but the shift at the top was driven by a handful of massive transactions on Bitcoin. For market watchers, distinguishing broad-based surges from activity reliant on just three addresses is crucial before drawing conclusions about the trajectory of NFT liquidity.
Via crypto.news.
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