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NFT Market Surpassed $40 Billion in 2021, New Estimate Shows
NFT Meebit #1637 by Larva Labs near to a physical representation of the Meebit series arranged, during the press preview of the Portrait of an Era exhibition, at the House of Fine Art Gallery in London.
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Nearly $41 billion worth of cryptocurrency was sent to two types of Ethereum smart contracts associated with NFT marketplaces and collections from the beginning of 2021 through mid-December, according to a new estimate from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis Inc.
The metric revises an estimate the firm included in a December report on NFTs that was based on data through mid-October, said Maddie Kennedy, a spokeswoman for Chainalysis.
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NFT Market Surpassed $40 Billion in 2021, New Estimate Shows