BNB Chain Tops NFT Sales as Weekly Volume Jumps 56% to $75M
By Darren Smith
September 10, 2026
The non-fungible token market on Thursday, September 10, 2026, is best read through the most complete public dataset available today: a CryptoSlam seven-day snapshot captured on September 5 and covering activity into the first days of this month. Those figures show global NFT sales rising 55.6 percent to about $75.54 million, up from roughly $48.55 million in the prior week. The rebound arrived with a twist. Transaction count fell even as dollar volume rose, which means the week was carried by higher-value trades, not a flood of new low-ticket flips.
Bitcoin did not supply that lift. On September 10 the largest cryptocurrency opened near $78,300 and later traded in a band from the high $77,000s to the high $78,000s, according to Yahoo Finance and other daily prints. An early-morning wrap from CoinStats had Bitcoin near $78,415; later session readings clustered closer to $77,100–$77,400. Digital collectibles, in other words, printed their latest weekly rebound on a different clock from spot crypto.
The chain ranking is the week’s real headline. BNB Chain overtook Ethereum in this CryptoSlam weekly set, posting $32.75 million in organic NFT sales, a 1,042 percent jump from the previous seven days. Buyer addresses on BNB Chain rose 30.84 percent to 22,132. Wash trading on the network was recorded at about $8, a rounding error against the headline total, as reported by Coinotag and crypto.news. Coverage of the same dashboard noted that the BNB surge was spread across the ecosystem rather than pinned to one dominant collection.
Ethereum slipped to second place with $18.94 million, down 14.23 percent. Buyer addresses on Ethereum still rose 21.13 percent to 40,098. More wallets showed up; they spent less on average. Polygon followed with $7.29 million. Bitcoin-native NFT sales came in at $5.87 million, down 34.20 percent. Base recorded $4.23 million and Solana $1.91 million. The mix fits a market that has spent years moving away from a single-chain Ethereum boom and toward gaming items, branded physical-digital hybrids, and opportunistic liquidity on cheaper networks.
Participation widened even as trade counts contracted. Across the tracked market, buyer addresses rose 20.38 percent to 273,655 and seller addresses rose 18.09 percent to 291,266. Total transactions dropped 14.77 percent to 650,332. Average value per transaction was about $116, versus roughly $64 the week before. That arithmetic is straightforward: $75.54 million divided by 650,332 trades. It is a healthier signature than the wash-heavy weeks that used to inflate NFT headlines.
Courtyard, a Polygon project that vaults and tokenizes physical collectibles, remained the top collection by sales. It generated $6.32 million, about 8.4 percent of global weekly volume, on 97,050 transactions. Buyer addresses on the collection fell 7.63 percent to 17,766 even as sales rose 7.50 percent. The week’s largest single trade was not an Ethereum profile picture. It was a Bitcoin-based $REWD BRC-20 NFT that sold for 10 BTC, reported at about $796,863 using prices from that sale window, when bitcoin was nearer $79,000–$80,000. That dollar figure should not be recalculated off Thursday’s lower spot print.
Marketplace plumbing kept shifting in the days around this snapshot. OpenSea restored full Solana NFT trading on OS2 on August 31, more than four years after an earlier beta faded. Collections including Mad Lads, Claynosaurz, Collector Crypt, and Phygitals went live beside assets from more than 25 other chains. OpenSea co-founder and CEO Devin Finzer put the strategy in one place:
“OpenSea should be the home for everything you collect, no matter which chain it lives on. Solana NFTs are now available right alongside its tokens on OpenSea. No switching wallets, no hunting across marketplaces, the whole ecosystem in one place.”
The line comes from OpenSea’s announcement and was widely repeated, including by The Block. It puts the longtime volume leader back against Solana-native venues such as Magic Eden and Tensor. Cumulative marketplace history still concentrates: compilations used throughout 2026 place OpenSea near $23.14 billion all-time, ahead of Blur and Magic Eden.
Today’s primary calendar is busy even if it will not rewrite the weekly tape by itself. NFT Calendar lists 11 collections launching on September 10, among them The Toadz, Hope for Sihoo, on-chain ChainyCats, and Candy Digital’s licensed DC set. New mints remain a constant drip of supply into a market that has already punished most speculative drops.
The longer backdrop is still a contraction with pockets of use. Annual NFT sales across chains were about $5.5 billion in 2025, down from about $8.9 billion in 2024, according to mid-year reviews that rely on CryptoSlam totals. A June 2026 CoinGecko reading cited by BlockReady put tracked NFT market capitalization near $1.42 billion at that time—context from midyear, not a live September print. Separate industry forecasts that fold in gaming, ticketing, and branding have put a 2026 sector figure near $60.82 billion, with gaming often estimated around 38 percent of transaction volume, as summarized by crypto.news. Those larger numbers depend on what an analyst counts. They are not the same thing as weekly trading volume.
Art-collectible speculation remains the part of the story that broke. Blue-chip floors have only partly recovered from the 2023–24 washout. Yuga Labs CEO Michael Figge, speaking to CoinDesk in May, described that earlier dislocation directly:
“It’s clear from the numbers that for some time, as far as blue-chip digital collectibles go, it was oversold.”
That remains a fair description of 2026’s K-shaped tape: a few collections and utility rails find buyers, while most 2021 JPEGs do not.
The latest published weekly chain split is unchanged from the September 5 capture:
| Rank | Blockchain | Weekly NFT sales | Week-over-week change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BNB Chain | $32.75 million | +1,042% |
| 2 | Ethereum | $18.94 million | −14.23% |
| 3 | Polygon | $7.29 million | +6.12% |
| 4 | Bitcoin | $5.87 million | −34.20% |
| 5 | Base | $4.23 million | +36.59% |
| 6 | Solana | $1.91 million | +9.99% |
A few facts sit behind those rows and should be kept distinct from Thursday’s bitcoin tape.
- The 55.6 percent sales rebound is a weekly CryptoSlam reading available on September 10, not a live same-day volume print.
- Buyer and seller counts both rose while transaction count fell, so the week was not a simple wash-trade spike.
- BNB Chain’s jump led this ranking set and was described as distributed, not collection-concentrated.
- Ethereum still had the deeper buyer base among the top dollar chains even as its sales fell.
- Courtyard’s lead came from tens of thousands of relatively small trades, not one whale print.
- The 10 BTC BRC-20 sale is priced off the sale week, when bitcoin was higher than Thursday’s later session.
Regulation and security still sit off the leaderboard. Post-MiCA European scrutiny of DeFi and NFTs continues, and marketplace-founder enforcement cases have not disappeared in 2026. Those pressures help explain why centralized exchange NFT desks have been shutting even as on-chain venues keep trading.
None of this restores the 2021 claim that every tokenized image would compound. It does show a market that can still produce a $75 million week, rotate weekly leadership to BNB Chain, and clear a high-ticket Bitcoin-native sale while broader crypto chops lower on September 10. The honest headline for today is modest: the latest complete weekly dashboard shows rising dollar volume, fewer trades, more participating addresses, and a chain ranking that is no longer automatic for Ethereum.
Collectors should treat that as a snapshot with a date stamp. Weekly NFT volume can fade as quickly as it arrived. The useful signal in the numbers now public is the split—participation up, trade count down, value per trade up, BNB Chain first in this window—and the reminder that Thursday’s bitcoin price is not the same dataset as last week’s collectible tape.
Disclaimer: This article is provided for informational and educational purposes only. It does not constitute financial, investment, legal, or trading advice. The NFT market is highly volatile, and past performance is not indicative of future results. Readers should conduct their own research and consult qualified professionals before making any decisions related to digital assets. The cover image for this article may have been created using artificial intelligence (AI).
