Weekly NFT Sales Hit $76.56M as Bitcoin Leads CryptoSlam Tape
By Crypto Wire
October 24, 2026
Global NFT sales printed about $76.56 million over the seven days to October 24, up 66.58% from the prior week, according to a crypto.news wrap of CryptoSlam tape published this morning. The fresh beat is chain leadership, not just the headline total: Bitcoin led blockchain NFT volume at about $31.07 million, up 268.06%, edging Ethereum’s roughly $24.64 million (up 32.59%). Together the two chains made nearly 73% of weekly sales, with Bitcoin alone near 41% of the global figure — a flip from the Oct. 17 roundup, when Ethereum led and Bitcoin sat third at about $8.25 million.
Participation widened with the dollar print. CryptoSlam showed buyer addresses up 46.38% to 156,715, sellers up 53.09% to 135,930, and transactions up 35.05% to 764,169 versus about 565,849 in the prior window. Dollar sales still grew faster than trade count — the percentage comparison implies a prior-week base near $45.96 million, or roughly $30.60 million of incremental notional. Desk caution: treat the print as a rolling seven-day CryptoSlam snapshot, not a calendar-month close, and keep wash flags in view — Bitcoin wash sat near $105,237 while Ethereum wash fell about 77.71% to roughly $365,532.
Collection concentration explains much of Bitcoin’s jump. $X@AGI BRC-20 NFTs topped the board with about $25.09 million across only three transactions, three buyers, and three sellers — roughly 32.8% of global sales and about 80.8% of Bitcoin’s weekly NFT volume, more than the next three collections combined. CryptoSlam’s largest single tickets were also $X@AGI-heavy: about $14.63 million (≈175.21 BTC) and $9.57 million (≈113.00 BTC), both listed roughly three days before the capture, with Bored Ape Yacht Club #9500 the lone Ethereum entry among the top five at about $2.40 million (≈1,000 ETH). Culture cut: this is a thin-wallet, fat-ticket Ordinals/BRC-20 tape, not a broad Bitcoin PFP renaissance — three counterparties moved a third of the world’s NFT dollars.
Beneath the Bitcoin spike, the rest of the board still ran on familiar rails. Courtyard held second among collections with about $7.77 million on Polygon across 141,478 transactions — roughly 18.5% of all NFT trades globally — even as buyers and sellers ticked down. Ethereum’s Slipstream V3 Deposit printed about $7.58 million; BAYC weekly sales rose about 192% to roughly $3.56 million; CryptoPunks added about $1.64 million. Chain ranks after Bitcoin and Ethereum: Polygon about $8.53 million (with wash notional listed above sales — a dashboard red flag), BNB Chain about $3.35 million, Immutable about $2.30 million, Arbitrum about $2.00 million, Base about $1.95 million, and Solana about $1.40 million. Keep this distinct from the Oct. 21 wash-share LN (10967) and from earlier weekly wraps at lower totals — today’s unused fact is Bitcoin’s chain lead plus the $X@AGI concentration print.
Spot context from the same Oct. 24 check put Bitcoin near $80,549 and Ether near $2,364 on CoinGecko, with crypto market cap around $2.77 trillion — backdrop only, not a causal claim that the spot tape minted the Ordinals tickets. For On-Chain Culture desks, the story is how a handful of Bitcoin inscription trades can rewrite weekly “NFT market” narratives while Courtyard’s high-frequency Polygon packs still dominate transaction counts. That split matters for lore desks tracking what collectors actually mean by “Bitcoin NFTs” this week: inscription tickets clearing seven and eight figures in BTC, not a sudden flood of new profile-picture communities on ordinal marketplaces. Collectors reading floors should separate pack churn from the three-wallet $X@AGI cluster before calling a broad Bitcoin collectibles revival, and should remember Polygon’s listed wash notional above sales when they quote that chain’s dollar print without the wash column.
Prior 8bitcrypto weekly wraps already covered softer Bitcoin weeks and Courtyard-led Polygon churn; this chapter’s unused fact set is the Oct. 24 CryptoSlam flip — Bitcoin first among chains, $X@AGI as the concentration engine, and BAYC’s roughly $2.40 million single Ape as the Ethereum counterweight in the top-five ticket list. Secondary marketplace exits and Blur’s November frontend deprecation remain separate beats; they do not change the CryptoSlam seven-day arithmetic published this morning.
Lore thread: Watch whether next week’s CryptoSlam board still shows Bitcoin above Ethereum without another three-trade $X@AGI cluster — and whether Courtyard’s Polygon pack tape keeps owning global transaction share while dollar leadership stays on inscriptions.
Bottom line: CryptoSlam’s week to Oct. 24 shows about $76.56 million in NFT sales with Bitcoin leading chains — driven largely by a thin-wallet $X@AGI BRC-20 cluster, not broad PFP breadth.
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