NFT Seven-Day Sales Fall 35% to $42.13M as Ethereum Retakes Chain Lead
By Darren Smith
October 31, 2026
Halloween morning opens on a thinner global NFT week, not a recycled overnight venue tick alone. A crypto.news wrap of CryptoSlam tape dated October 31 puts seven-day NFT sales near $42.13 million, down about 35.37 percent, even as buyers, sellers, and transactions all rose. Buyer addresses climbed about 44.10 percent to 216,012, sellers jumped about 46.59 percent to 192,788, and transactions rose about 30.54 percent to 935,198 — a busier board printing smaller average tickets near about $45.05. That week-over-week dollar fade, with Ethereum reclaiming first among chains, is the unused Brief lead for Orange County collectors after a night that also filed hardware-wallet, RWA, and mint-calendar chapters.
Keep the meters separate. The Crypto Data API tracker, updated about 13:01 UTC Saturday, shows roughly $647,850 in twenty-four-hour NFT volume (+about 0.7 percent), about $5.89 million over seven days (−about 90.7 percent week over week), and about $133.2 million over thirty days (−about 0.3 percent). Do not mash that twelve-marketplace table into CryptoSlam’s wash-adjusted global weekly sheet, and do not treat either print as marketplace “revenue.” Secondary sales, vaulted-card pack churn, Robinhood Chain free-mint secondaries, and exchange-incident outflows remain different boards. Yesterday’s Brief already priced a softer Crypto Data API week near $13.90 million; today’s ~$5.89 million seven-day roll is a further unused fade after last week’s elevated window rolled off — still not proof the global CryptoSlam week “healed.”
Inside CryptoSlam’s chain ranking for the same seven-day window, Ethereum led with about $13.17 million (−about 17.53 percent) and roughly 31.3 percent of global sales, while buyer addresses on the network rose about 37.06 percent to 35,285. Polygon followed with about $9.40 million (+about 12.43 percent) and buyers near 49,052. Bitcoin slipped to third with about $6.27 million after an about 79.89 percent sales drop — reversing the prior weekly snapshot that had Bitcoin ahead of Ethereum — even as Bitcoin buyer addresses rose about 57.79 percent to 13,540. CryptoSlam’s live dashboard remains the primary spine for those chain dollars; marketplace fees still vary by chain and collection.
Collection color on the same CryptoSlam week put Courtyard first near $8.58 million (+about 13.50 percent), roughly 20.4 percent of the global total, with about 138,227 transactions. A single $8888 BRC-20 transfer near $2.82 million (about 34.845 BTC) ranked second among collections and topped individual sales — almost 45 percent of Bitcoin’s weekly NFT sales on that wrap. Panini America printed about $2.50 million (+about 878.60 percent), CryptoPunks about $2.01 million (+about 22.83 percent), and Bored Ape Yacht Club about $1.35 million (−about 62.29 percent). Treat the BRC-20 headline sale as one high-ticket Ordinals print, not as proof Ordinals volume “returned” after Bitcoin’s chain-total collapse.
Macro weather beside the NFT week is a soft Halloween session, not another liquidation reprint. Business Upturn’s morning wrap put bitcoin near about $77,474 (+about 0.35 percent) and ether near about $2,247 (+about 0.26 percent), with Solana near about $95.74 (−about 0.50 percent). Separate CoinGecko-style morning reads cited in the CryptoSlam wrap had bitcoin near about $77,206 and ether near about $2,242 with total crypto market cap around $2.69 trillion. Useful bid weather for ETH blue-chip floors; not proof Punks or Apes must climb because Ethereum retook the CryptoSlam chain lead.
| Meter | Change | Desk note | |
|---|---|---|---|
| CryptoSlam 7d sales | $42.13M | −35.37% | crypto.news / CryptoSlam |
| Ethereum 7d NFT sales | $13.17M | −17.53% | Chain lead ~31.3% share |
| Crypto Data API 7d | $5.89M | −90.7% | 12-marketplace board — separate |
| BTC / ETH morning | ~$77.5K / ~$2.25K | Soft green | Halloween session weather |
“Please avoid buying wIRON on Base or using the bridge until further notice. Full 1:1 backing cannot be assured.”
— Iron Fish, October 28, 2026
Overnight Latest News already filed the Orange County spine collectors should not rediscover as Brief color. Trezor warned CryptoBilis buyers after a suspected Safe 5 hardware-implant report — custody hygiene for anyone settling NFT bids through seed-phrase devices. Solana’s distributed RWA book printed about $5.19 billion on an October 29 reading with about $11.82 billion in thirty-day transfers, a settlement-weather chapter now live on the Story Trackers hub. BitMine added 10,452 ETH toward a ~6.05 million treasury with staked stack near 5.227 million and buybacks near $400 million. Those are developing or unused overnight facts — not a second CryptoSlam reprint.
Mint and venue chapters from the same OC night stay on the calendar board. OpenSea added Jeff Davis’s Construction Token to Flagship as an Art Blocks Day Zero listing. Minehood opened a Miners NFT utility page ahead of a November 1 Robinhood Chain mint. Curve’s first native non-EVM StableSwap on Stellar is settlement plumbing for cash legs, not an NFT floor print. NFT Calendar’s October 31 page lists verified launches including a QQL Mint Pass window and other generative drops — treat submitter-verified mint pages as leads, not guaranteed sellouts. Watchlist clocks still running into the weekend include Pupkins Gen 0 raffle toward a November 2 close, Soneium IP Vault settlement November 2, Initia’s November 2 restart target, and Binance’s November 1 withdrawal / November 2 Proof of Reserves aims.
Inside the Crypto Data API marketplace table on the same Saturday update, OpenSea still held about 73.22 percent of seven-day dollars (~$4.99 million) with about $406,760 in twenty-four-hour volume and roughly 13,060 overnight trades, while Blur sat near 20.41 percent seven-day share (~$1.21 million) after another week-over-week fade near 38 percent. Separate DefiLlama-fed collection tape on that tracker put Normies, Pudgy Penguins, and Bored Ape Yacht Club near the top of a thin overnight board in the mid-tens of thousands of dollars each — useful venue color, not a substitute for CryptoSlam’s Courtyard-led weekly collection ranking. Refuse any wrap that flattens those dashboards into one “NFT market healed” dollar because bitcoin held $77,000.
- Lead with CryptoSlam’s seven-day sales near $42.13M (−~35%) and Ethereum’s reclaim of chain lead — not a soft ~$648K overnight venue tick alone.
- Price rising buyers/sellers/transactions against a falling average ticket (~$45) so “more activity” is not misread as a healthier dollar tape.
- Keep Crypto Data API’s ~$5.89M seven-day marketplace fade (−~91%) on a separate board from CryptoSlam’s global week.
- Treat Trezor’s hardware-implant warning and Solana’s $5.19B RWA print as overnight custody / settlement weather for NFT desks.
- Watch Binance’s November 1 withdrawal and November 2 PoR clocks, Pupkins November 2 raffle close, and Minehood’s November 1 mint — ignore phishing “refund” DMs.
- Refuse any Halloween wrap that turns one $2.82M BRC-20 sale into proof Ordinals volume returned after Bitcoin’s ~80% weekly chain fade.
Bottom line: CryptoSlam’s seven-day NFT sales slipped about 35 percent to roughly $42.13 million even as participation rose, Ethereum retook the chain lead near $13.17 million, and a separate Crypto Data API marketplace week near $5.89 million kept fading — a Halloween open where thinner dollars, not busier wallets, set the bid weather beside overnight Trezor, Solana RWA, and mint-calendar chapters.
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