People Are Rushing to Pay $50,000 for Digital Owls
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People Are Rushing to Pay $50,000 for Digital Owls

THELOGICALINDIAN - Moonbirds is currently the mosttraded NFT accumulating on OpenSea with over 73000 ETH account of aggregate

The accepted attic amount for a Moonbird is about 16 ETH. 

Moonbirds NFTs Soar Following Launch 

There’s consistently at atomic one activity causing a fizz in the NFT space. 

The latest one that has Web3 enthusiasts talking is Moonbirds, a accumulating of 10,000 pixelated agenda owls active on the Ethereum blockchain. Moonbirds went alive Saturday with a highly-anticipated excellent event, with the majority of the tokens affairs for 2.5 ETH. The aggregation abaft the activity took in about $66 million on the antecedent sale, and it additionally takes a baby cut from every accessory sale.  

Trading volumes for Moonbirds accept skyrocketed on accessory marketplaces like OpenSea in the three canicule back the launch. The accumulating has traded over 73,000 ETH on OpenSea, which is added than collections like CryptoKitties, CrypToadz, and World of Women accept traded in their absolute lifetimes. Azuki, a accepted anime-inspired NFT accumulating that’s exploded in acceptance back it launched in January, has apparent almost 185,000 ETH in trading aggregate on OpenSea, while Bored Ape Yacht Club is abutting 500,000 ETH traded. High trading volumes are about apparent as a absolute indicator for a project’s advance as they appearance area bazaar absorption lies. 

Moonbirds has been styled as the “profile picture” activity for PROOF, addition accepted NFT adventure that took off beforehand this year. PROOF NFT holders were accustomed three canicule to excellent two Moonbirds as allotment of the launch, afore a account of pre-approved Ethereum addresses had a three-hour window to excellent their own tokens. In the canicule afterward the launch, the NFTs jumped to a attic amount aloft 20 ETH. The cheapest NFTs in the accumulating are currently trading at about 16 ETH, or aloof beneath $50,000, while rarer pieces accept awash for upwards of $300,000.

While advertising absolutely may be a agency in the eye-watering prices for the agenda birds, bazaar participants are additionally action on the team’s approaching affairs for the project. The Moonbirds team, led by Kevin Rose, has said that Moonbirds are “more than aloof an avatar” and will action allowances to holders, but so far it’s been tight-lipped on details. Interestingly, to anticipate attic amount manipulation, Moonbirds aggregation affiliate Ryan Carson has said that the aggregation will anon cycle out a affection alleged “nesting” that buys aback any NFTs listed beneath the accepted attic price, responding to issues added projects accept suffered from. 

Though there’s no way of cogent whether Moonbirds will authority their accepted value, the activity has enjoyed one of the arch starts the NFT amplitude has anytime seen. It took Bored Ape Yacht Club four months to hit a attic amount of 20 ETH. Moonbirds aloof did it in a few days, and for now, trading volumes are still soaring. 

Disclosure: At the time of writing, the columnist of this allotment endemic ETH and several added cryptocurrencies.