CryptoSlam data shows global NFT sales reached $46.78 million in the week ending September 12, 2026, up 6.8% from the previous seven-day period. Global transaction counts also surged 48.75% to 917,549 orders.
Unique buyer addresses plunged 84.67%, leaving just 41,959 active wallets worldwide over the same period. The widening gap between high order volumes and falling wallet counts demonstrates that liquidity is being sustained by a small number of high-value transactions rather than broad retail buying.
Trading Activity Shifts to Bitcoin
Ethereum held the top spot with $16.83 million in sales volume, down 6.36% from the prior week. The decline in sales volume coincided with a 79.37% drop in buyers to 8,271 wallets. Reports for the smart contract network also included $794,730 in wash-trading activity.
The most notable buying surge came from the Bitcoin blockchain. BRC-20 NFT collections climbed to second place with $9.44 million in sales, marking a 50.12% week-on-week increase. Capital inflows remained strong even as Bitcoin asset buyers dropped 82.79% to 2,255 addresses. The top five individual sales of the week were entirely swept by Bitcoin BRC-20 collections.
The ‘$X@AI’ collection generated $2.90 million in sales across just nine individual orders, surging 217.88%. A single ‘$X@AI’ transaction accounted for $2.10 million or 26.23 BTC, making up 72% of the collection’s total volume. High-value transactions also spilled into the Bitcoin ‘$X@AGI’ collection, which posted $1.72 million in sales from three buyers, led by a top sale of $1.14 million or 14.38 BTC. That brief buying activity spurred a 7,762.30% spike in value for ‘$X@AGI’ compared to the previous week.
Physical Tokenization Supports Polygon
Polygon secured third place with $7.71 million in sales, up 7.73%, from 13,888 buyer addresses. The chain’s transaction volume was driven by the Courtyard collection, which led the charts with $6.67 million across 104,404 orders. Courtyard offers tokenization services for physical goods, appealing to buyers beyond traditional digital art circles.
In the top collections ranking, Argonauts on Ethereum took second place with $4.36 million in sales, jumping 109.04%. The Argonauts collection drew volume from purchases across 656 wallet addresses during the week.
The departure of tens of thousands of retail buyers highlights a shift in the NFT market’s audience profile. Fresh capital continues to enter the ecosystem, but liquidity is increasingly concentrated among high-net-worth players targeting BRC-20 collections on Bitcoin and physical token certificates on Polygon.
Reported by crypto.news.
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