Canadian-based analytics company NonFungible has released a report predicting that 2021 is poised for “a new Bull Market in the NFT industry.”
Although NFTs have been around since ERC-721 was invented by William Entriken, Dieter Shirley, Jacob Evans, and Nastassia Sachs in January 2018, the sector largely remained an obscurity outside of hardcore crypto circles until the latter part of 2020. The second half of 2020 saw NFT sales increase by 200% to more than $9 million.
However, NFT sales have since risen at an incredible rate with approximately $60 million non-fungible tokens sold in the last 24 hours.
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The value of highly-sought NFTs has similarly skyrocketed, with multiple NFT sales garnering more than $1 million each in February so far. On Feb. 22, one collectible in the Cryptopunk series sold for 550 ETH, worth more than $1 million at the time of sale.
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— DANNY (@seedphrase) February 22, 2021
Three days earlier, another
