Okay Bears, a Solana-powered NFT, managed to prime OpenSea’s 24-hour gross sales tracker for the primary time earlier at this time, beating out all different Ethereum (ETH) initiatives on provide. 

It’s the primary time a Solana (SOL) NFT mission has reached the highest spot in well-liked NFT market OpenSea’s 24-hour gross sales tracker.

The Solana-based NFT, which includes a assortment of 10,000 numerous pictures of bears, advised its Twitter followers it had offered out its assortment solely a day after its launch, bringing in 231,000 SOL, equal to $23.1 million in complete gross sales up to now on the time of writing, in response to NFT tracker Cryptoslam. 

The Solana community has been gaining traction as a contender within the Ethereum-dominated NFT market. Right now, it’s the second most energetic blockchain by NFT gross sales quantity over the past 24 hours.

Supply: Cryptoslam

Advantageous wine NFTs auctioned in South African wine business first

In a primary for South Africa’s effective wine business, 5 of the nation’s best and historic wine collections have been auctioned off as NFTs, elevating practically 3 million RAND (US$186,800).

The public sale was undertaken by means of Strauss & Co, a effective artwork auctioneer and guide, with a number of wine estates together with Klein Constantia, Meerlust, Mullineux, Kanonkop and Vilafonté placing their collections below the gavel. Two of the heaps had been paid with Bitcoin (BTC) instantly after the sale.

“It exhibits that collectors worth the flexibility to personal and commerce effective wines by means of these new possession certificates,” mentioned Web3 firm Fanfire’s CEO Gert-Jan Van Rooyen, the tech accomplice behind the public sale.

“We envision a future the place collectors can maintain a complete portfolio of wines from internationally of their crypto wallets.”

5 NFT collections are outpacing the remainder 

Bored Ape Yacht Membership, Azuki, Clone X, Doodles and Moonbirds NFTs proceed to hover as the highest performers by way of positive aspects out there, in response to Twitter person NFTstatistics.eth, who operates below the Twitter deal with @punk9059.

The Twitter person describes themselves as a keeper of NFT knowledge, charts and ideas, with 17,000 followers.

The 5 NFTs are presently ranked throughout the prime 12 NFT collections ranked by way of gross sales, in response to CryptoSlam.

Different Nifty Information

ApeCoin (APE) underwent a modest selloff earlier this week after it was reported Bored Ape Yacht Membership (BAYC), a preferred nonfungible token (NFT) model, reported shedding $2.4 million price of digital collectibles in a theft.

A Chinese language courtroom has issued a one-of-a-kind judgment in opposition to an NFT market for permitting a person to mint NFTs of stolen paintings. A person of NFTCN allegedly stole the copyrighted paintings of Ma Qianli, a Chinese language painter and artist.