In the last 30 days, eight of the 10 highest NFT sales have been four Bored Apes and four CryptoPunks, according to NonFungible.com. The two NFTs sold were a plot of land in Decentraland and a digital art piece by XCOPYART called A Coin for the Ferryman for 1,330 ETH $6 million. The highest Bored Ape 544 was sold for 675.01 ETH $2.81 million on November 22 and the highest CryptoPunks sold for 500 ETH $2.38 million on November 11.
According to OpenSea, the Bored Ape Yacht Club was the highest-selling NFT collection based on the monthly volume traded on their platform with a total volume of 44.8 thousand ETH approximately $193 million as referenced below.
The most popular NFT collections — CryptoPunks and Bored Ape Yacht Club.
In 2017 the collection of CryptoPunks NFT was created by Larva Labs as 10,000 uniquely generated pixelated characters on the EthereumBlockchain. Anyone with an Ethereum wallet can use it for free. One of the earliest NFT projects is the CryptoPunks. Celebrities such as Jay Z and Snoop Dog have acquired punks, and two months ago, Larva Labs announced a deal with one of the top Hollywood talent agencies.
Four years later, the Bored Ape Yacht Club appeared - with each one a unique Bored Ape. The collection was launched in late April 2021 by a team of pseudonymous developers, and each ape sold for approximately 190 -- 200 0.08 Ether Within 12 hours of launch, the collection was sold out, according to CNET. There are a lot of celebrities who are entering the club.
Is the Bored Aped Yacht Club a new club for celebrities?
The Bored Ape Yacht Club has recently been in the eyes of many celebrities - American rapper Future is joining the club and shared his Bored Ape on his profile picture on Twitter on November 28 with the caption gm. In November, late night TV host Jimmy Fallon joined the club, and American rapper Post Malone revealed one of his Apes in his new music video One Right Now with The Weekend.
Other celebrity members include NBA player Stephen Curry, ex-NBA player Shaquille O Neal, world DJs producers such as Steve Aoki, The Chainsmokers and Marshmello, and owner of Dallas Mavericks Mark Cuban.
There is no shortage of celebrities entering the world of NFT projects and it may bring relevant support to the projects.