Polygon Flips ETH In Weekly NFT Sales – Heated Debate Erupts

Polygon, an Ethereum scaling solution network, has received recognition this week for flipping the Ethereum L1 blockchain network in terms of non-fungible token sales volume for the first time in 2025. The historic NFT market shake-up appears amid brutal bear season in the crypto market, which has held the Ethereum (ETH) price below $2,000 and Bitcoin (BTC) below $90,000.

NFTs Weekly Sales Fall 9.37% To $93M

Data compiled by cryptoslam.io, an on-chain crypto market data aggregator and multi-chain non-fungible token collection explorer, shows that the NFT market has recorded negative gains again this week. In the past seven days, the global NFT market has attracted a trading sales volume of $93 million, down 10 % from the past week. Last week, the NFT market recorded a trading sales volume of $95 million, down 2% from the previous week.

Despite the negative market growth, the number of traders buying non-fungible token collections has increased this week. In the past seven days, the global NFT market has seen over 250,000 traders purchasing non-fungible token collections. Over 150,000 traders sold their NFTs during this time, pushing the total transactions to over 1.5 million. Below, we have listed the five top-selling NFT collections this week:

Five Top Selling NFTs This Week

Courtyard, a non-fungible token collection featuring a limited edition of 80,461 unique digital items living on the Polygon blockchain network, is the most-selling non-fungible token series this week in the NFT market. In the past seven days, the Courtyard NFT collection has recorded a trading sales volume of $20 million. The Courtyard NFT trading sales volume has surged by 20.81% from the past week.

DMarket, a non-fungible token series representing in-game virtual items from popular online games like Counter-Strike, Rust and Dota 2, is this week’s second most-selling NFT collection in the NFT market. In the past seven days, the DMarket NFT collection has raised a sales volume of $9.5 million. During this time, the DMarket NFT trading sales volume has surged 2.21% from the past week.

Guild of Guardians Heroes, a non-fungible token series from Guild of Guardians, a multi-player, action and mobile fantasy role-playing game allowing players to role-play as heroes and go through dungeons to gather redeemable resources, is this week’s third most-selling NFT collection in the NFT market. In the past seven days, the Guild of Guardians Heroes NFT collection has amassed a trading sale volume of $3.7 million. During this time, the Guild of Guardians NFT sales surged by 2.57% from the past week.

$??, a non-fungible token collection created on the Bitcoin blockchain network using the BRC-20 protocol, is this week’s fourth most-selling non-fungible token collection in the global NFT market. In the past seven days, the $?? BRC-20 NFT collection has raised a trading sales volume of $3.7 million. During this period, the $?? BRC-20 NFT trading sales volume has increased by 36.36% from the past week.

Lastly, CryptoPunks, a non-fungible token collection featuring a fixed supply of 10,000 pixilated NFTs previously created by the digital asset incubation studio ‘Larva Labs’ but now managed by the Bored Ape and Mutant Ape NFTs creator ‘Yuga Labs,’ is this week’s fifth most-selling NFT collection in the NFT market. In the past seven days, the Punk NFT collection has raised a sales volume of $1.7 million, closing our five top-selling NFT collections this week.

Polygon Tops The NFT Market Chart

Polygon, one of the leading Ethereum scaling solution blockchain networks, is this week’s most-traded NFT blockchain network in the NFT market. In the past seven days, the Polygon-based non-fungible token collections have amassed a trading sales volume of $21 million. During this period, the Polygon NFT trading sales volume surged 24.88% from the past week. Polygon has overtaken Ethereum in weekly sales volume for the first time in 2025.

Ethereum, the blockchain network renowned in the NFT market for powering the majority of NFTs, is this week’s second most-traded blockchain network in the NFT market. In the past seven days, the Ethereum-based NFT collections have amassed a trading sales volume of $20 million. The Ethereum NFT trading sales volume plunged 43% from the past week.

Bitcoin, the blockchain network renowned in the NFT market for powering the popular Ordinals and BRC-20 NFT collections, is this week’s third most-traded blockchain in the NFT market. In the past seven days, the Bitcoin-based NFT collections have raised a trading sales volume of $16 million. The Bitcoin NFT trading sales volume surged 15% from the past week.

Mythos Chain, the blockchain network ensuring secure and efficient transactions in the Mythos gaming ecosystem, is this week’s fourth most-traded blockchain network in the NFT market. In the past seven days, the Mythos Chain-based NFT collections have raised a trading sales volume of $14 million. The Mythos Chain NFT sales volume has plunged 1.8% from the past week.

Solana, an open-source blockchain network that supports smart contracts, including non-fungible tokens and a collection of decentralized applications (Dapps,) is this week’s fifth most-traded blockchain network in the NFT market. In the past seven days, the Solana-based NFT collection has amassed a trading sales volume of $7 million. During this time, the Solana NFT trading sales volume surged 8.68% from the past week.

Ethereum Stirs Up A Heated Debate On X

Ethereum’s recent price plunge and performance in the NFT market have attracted a heated debate on X. The crypto X blamed Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and his team for abandoning Ethereum. While expressing his disgruntlement, Bovorik, a crypto investor and influencer, said that “I’m still bullish on Ethereum (ETH), but if they actually scaled L1 and stopped focusing on L2, the price would be at least $3,000 right now.”

Ethereum is late to the party

for years, the community said we didn’t want the focus being on L2s and to instead focus on scaling L1

I’m still bullish on ETH, but if they actually scaled L1 and stopped focusing on L2, the price would be at least $3,000 right now

FIX ETHEREUM

— borovik (@3orovik) April 20, 2025

The crypto X community is unhappy because of Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain ecosystem, for prioritising the Layer Two blockchain network and shifting focus from the Ethereum mainnet development. Buterin is currently backing the development of MegaETH, an upcoming Ethereum Layer-2 solution network designed to achieve unprecedented scalability and performance.

The ongoing heated debate on Ethereum L2 scaling has attracted the attention of Hyden Adams, the Chief Executive Officer of Uniswap Labs. While inking his thoughts, Adams said, “I’m all for scaling improvements to L1, the rollup-centric roadmap actually requires it.” The thing I’m against is confused takes where Ethereum is on a “rollup centric roadmap” but all the important things still have to live on L1 mainnet and we need L2s networks to scale but we don’t support them because something alignment,” Adam clarified.

I mean if Ethereum is able to move to a transaction ordering system that returns MEV to apps and users and 0.2s block times, while scaling throughput multiple orders of magnitude to meet massive demand I’d be thrilled

It’s not just about twitter narratives though – it’s literal…

— Hayden Adams 🦄 (@haydenzadams) April 19, 2025

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