# NFT Market Report: Monthly Sales, Buyers and Chains > Monthly NFT market report: NFT sales this month against last, buyers and sellers, chains and top collections, wash trades excluded, each figure cited on-chain. Markdown copy of https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/nft-market-report-monthly **Question:** How did the NFT market do last month? - Kind: Report in Voltfin Folio - Topic: [NFTs and gaming](https://voltfincrypto.com/topics/nft-gaming) - Chains: Multi-chain, Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin - Status: Planned. The data is not published yet, so this page states no figure; each figure will open its receipt when it is. Each edition of this report reviews one month of NFT trading: sales value and count, buyers and sellers, how the chains and marketplaces split the activity and which collections led. It is dated and pinned, so its figures can be compared month to month and re-checked against the trades they came from. Wash trades are removed before anything is added up, and each figure cites the marketplace fills it was summed from, valued at the block of each sale. The report describes what changed and where; it makes no forecasts. ## Blueprint ### The NFT month at a glance Sales value, sale count and buyers for the month, against the month before and the same month a year earlier. Cites: Sales value this month; Sales this month; Unique buyers; Change from the previous month. ### Chains and marketplaces How the month's sales split across chains and marketplaces, and where that split moved. Cites: Sales value by chain; Sales value by marketplace. ### Collections that led The collections with the most sales value and the most buyers, with collections new this month marked. Cites: Top collections by sales value; Top collections by buyers. ### Buyers and sellers How many wallets bought and sold, how concentrated the buying was and how many buyers were new to NFTs. Cites: Unique sellers; Share of value from the top buyers; First-time buyers. ### What was left out Wash trades removed from the totals, by chain and marketplace, and the patterns that flagged them. Cites: Wash trade value excluded; Wash trades by marketplace. ## How it will be measured - Sales are the month's marketplace fills on Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin, Base and Polygon, decoded from fill events and from NFT transfers paired with payment legs. - Wash trades are excluded before totals: sales between the same wallet, between wallets that funded each other or in circular patterns within a small group. - Values are in the payment token and in USD at oracle prices at each sale block, so a month's total does not move with later price changes. - Each edition is pinned to the last block of the month on each chain, and a sale settled after it belongs to the next edition. ## Data it needs - `nft_sales_daily` (to build): NFT sales per collection, marketplace and chain per day: sales, buyers, sellers and volume in the payment token. - `native_prices_daily` (to build): Reference prices of major assets read from on-chain oracle feeds (Chainlink latestRoundData) at each day's last block, with each round's update time. - Source: Seaport OrderFulfilled and Blur execution events for the month - Source: ERC-721 and ERC-1155 Transfer logs with their payment legs - Source: Solana marketplace program instructions and Bitcoin inscription sale transactions - Source: Oracle prices at each sale block ## Questions ### What does the monthly NFT market report cover? Each edition covers one calendar month of NFT sales across covered chains: total value and count, buyers and sellers, the split by chain and marketplace, the leading collections and how all of it compares with the month before. ### Why do NFT sales numbers differ between sources? Sources differ in which chains and marketplaces they cover, whether they remove wash trades and how they value sales paid in other tokens. This report states each of those choices and cites the fills, so its totals can be checked. ### Are NFT sales declining? The report compares each month with the one before and with the same month a year earlier, for value, sale count and buyers. Value can fall while buyers rise, or the reverse, so each is shown on its own. ### What counts as a wash trade in this report? A sale between wallets with the same owner: the same address on both sides, a buyer funded by the seller shortly before or an NFT that circles among a small group of wallets. These sales are excluded from every total and reported on their own line. ## Glossary - **Wash trade**: A sale between wallets controlled by the same person, which adds volume without a real change of owner. - **Unique buyer**: A distinct address that bought at least one NFT in the month; one person with several wallets counts several times. ## Related apps - [NFT Sales Volume by Chain and Marketplace](https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/nft-sales-volume) - [Telegram Gifts NFT Market: Sales and Top Collections](https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/telegram-gifts-nft-market) - [Bitcoin Ordinals, Runes and BRC-20 Activity](https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/bitcoin-ordinals-runes-activity) - [Blockchain Games Ranked by Daily Active Wallets](https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/blockchain-games-ranking) - [OpenSea Volume, Fees and Sales by Chain](https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/opensea-volume-fees-by-chain) - [CryptoPunks Floor, Sales and Holders: On-Chain Market Tracker](https://voltfincrypto.com/apps/cryptopunks-floor-sales-holders) Build it in Voltfin Studio: https://app.voltfincrypto.com/signup?next=%2F