Cryptoverse: Punk apes and a resurrection of NFTs
By Medha Singh
Feb 14 (Reuters) - It's alive! The NFT market is twitching out of its torpor, 反抗するing 報告（する）／憶測s of its demise.
Total NFT sales on the ethereum blockchain - which hosts most 貿易（する）ing - jumped to $780.2 million in January from $546.9 million the month before, によれば market tracker CryptoSlam.
数字表示式の art collectibles were の中で the big 攻撃する，衝突するs. "Bored Ape ヨット Club #5840" - a 風刺漫画 monkey 狙撃 green レーザーs from its 注目する，もくろむs - went for $822,730, for example, while "CryptoPunks #7674" - a pixelated character smoking a 麻薬を吸う - fetched $433,555.
The 普通の／平均（する） NFT sale price was a more modest $372.38, によれば CryptoSlam.
The $780 million of sales seen last month is a fraction of the 概略で $5 billion seen last January and $2.7 billion in May, before the market took a 非，不，無-fungible nosedive along with much of the crypto world.
Nonetheless the market's been インチing 支援する since November after hitting a low of $324 million the month before, によれば CryptoSlam data, with some 仲買人s betting on a 未来 for NFTs in gaming and branding.
"We will see another 2021-style run when we are able to really bring on board the next big wave of 関係者s into the space," said Teng Yan, lead 研究員 at Delphi 数字表示式の, 見積（る）ing that there are between 30,000 to 50,000 people who are 活発に 貿易（する）ing NFTs 権利 now.
MYSTERY AND AIRDROPS
にもかかわらず the nascent bounce, the 未来 of 非，不，無-fungible 記念品s remains shrouded in mystery. Few crypto 専門家s 推定する／予想する a repeat of the 2021 にわか景気 anytime soon. Some 疑問 the long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 控訴，上告 of 支払う／賃金ing to be 記録，記録的な／記録するd on blockchain as the owner of a 数字表示式の とじ込み／提出する that anyone can see online for 解放する／自由な.
Saro McKenna, CEO of an NFT metaverse and blockchain game 会社／堅い 外国人 Worlds, said NFTs had the 可能性のある to help companies and celebrities engage with 顧客s and fans.
"The most 約束ing 面 of this 科学（工学）技術 will be when more and more of the Disneys and Dua Lipas of the world ますます turn to NFTs," McKenna 追加するd.
Some market players said the January rise in NFT sales 容積／容量s was also 燃料d by the 入り口 of a new online marketplace, Blur, which has drawn 投資家 利益／興味 since it 開始する，打ち上げるd late last year and 発表するd a 一連の 解放する／自由な coin "空中投下s" and other rewards.
NFT 貿易（する）ing 容積／容量s on Blur's 壇・綱領・公約 has totaled 101.2 million over the last seven days, わずかに ahead of the $100.4 million seen on 支配的な marketplace OpenSea, によれば data from DappRadar.
Over the past 30 days, though, OpenSea remains 最高の，を越す with 容積／容量s of $443.98 million, versus $366 million for Blur.
BITCOIN JOINS NFT PARTY
In another 非，不，無-fungible 開発, the novel use of the bitcoin blockchain for 造幣局ing an NFT collection has 原因（となる）d a 動かす の中で crypto 熱中している人s.
Bitcoin Punks is a 一連の monkey-主題d NFTs and a derivative of the wildly popular CryptoPunks collection. Some マスコミ 報告（する）／憶測s have 示すd Bitcoin Punk NFT 存在 sold for as much as 9.5 bitcoin, 価値（がある） in the 地域 of $205,000.
"We are going through a little bit of a hype 段階 for this because it's just new, it's novel, and people are 急ぐing to try and be the first few people to 造幣局 NFTs on bitcoin," said Teng Yan at Delphi 数字表示式の, 公式文書，認めるing there was no marketplace for bitcoin NFTs, with all 処理／取引s done over the 反対する.
"The hype will die 負かす／撃墜する over the next couple of weeks."
(報告（する）／憶測ing by Medha Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Pravin Char)
