# NFT sales fall 23% to $40.9 million despite more buyers Author: KriptoMeta Editorial Team Language: English Published: 2026-10-04T11:38:56+03:00 Updated: 2026-10-04T11:38:56+03:00 ![Conceptual NFT collectible scene with a protected sports card and its luminous digital counterpart](https://kriptometa.com/uploads/nft-de-alici-artti-satislar-dustu-milyon-dolar-b882e4538bd4_article.webp) ## Key takeaways - Seven-day sales fell 23.48% to $40.88 million. - Buyer addresses rose 28.79%, while transactions increased 8.44%. - Courtyard led with $7.31 million; Panini America sales rose 557.53%. More addresses traded NFTs, but dollar spending declined. The weekly figures show a sharp divergence between collectible cards and CryptoPunks. More addresses traded NFTs, but they generated less dollar volume. [The CryptoSlam snapshot published by crypto.news on October 3](https://crypto.news/nft-sales-fall-23-to-40-9m-as-panini-jumps-557/) put sales for the seven-day period ending on that date at $40.88 million, down 23.48%. Buyer addresses moved the other way, rising 28.79% to 206,788. Transactions also increased, climbing 8.44% to 863,295. Dividing reported sales by the transaction count gives an average of roughly $47.35. That figure reflects the mix of NFTs traded; it does not measure how much the price of any individual collection changed. **Addresses are not individual people.** One person can use several wallets. Sales volume is not net new money entering the market either, because an asset can change hands more than once. Our [NFT market analysis](https://kriptometa.com/en/nft-market-analysis) explains why buyer distribution and trading activity need to be examined together. ## Collectible cards buck the decline Courtyard, on Polygon, grew sales by 15.11% to $7.31 million despite the broader decline. It represented about 18% of the global total. Panini America rose 557.53% to $1.87 million, although its much faster percentage growth still left its dollar volume at roughly a quarter of Courtyard’s. Top collections by sales in the week ending October 3, 2026 | Collection | 7-day sales | Weekly change | |---|---|---| | Courtyard | $7.31 million | +15.11% | | Credits | $2.22 million | −56.92% | | CryptoPunks | $1.97 million | −76.09% | | Panini America | $1.87 million | +557.53% | Source: CryptoSlam’s seven-day collection rankings dated October 3, reproduced by crypto.news. Dollar amounts are rounded. Courtyard links its digital collectibles to physical cards held in storage. Under the company’s [redemption terms](https://docs.courtyard.io/courtyard/logistics-and-legal/asset-redemption-and-shipping), users requesting a physical card complete identity checks and pay shipping charges and taxes; the corresponding digital token is burned. Delivery has legal and logistical restrictions, so worldwide redemption is not an unconditional promise to ship everywhere. [Checking the rights an NFT provides](https://kriptometa.com/en/nft-buying-checklist) matters alongside its trading figures. CryptoPunks offered a contrast. Its volume fell 76.09%, with just 21 transactions generating $1.97 million. Courtyard recorded 125,802 transactions. The gap illustrates how very different trading patterns can sit behind the same sales-volume measure. ## Ethereum leads, while Polygon tells a different story Ethereum remained the leading blockchain with $17.08 million in sales, despite a 42.01% weekly fall. Polygon ranked second at $8.21 million, up 12.89%. Bitcoin-based NFT sales declined 25.56% to $3.83 million. Polygon’s figures also require a distinction between columns: CryptoSlam separately classified $22.98 million as [wash trading](https://kriptometa.com/en/glossary/wash-trading). Adding that amount to the $8.21 million sales figure and presenting the result as genuine demand would blur the distinction the dataset makes. Ethereum’s separate wash-trading figure was approximately $909,000. The weekly picture does not support a uniform NFT recovery. Card collections expanded while some established collections lost volume, and a rise in buyer addresses did not offset that divergence. We track collection and marketplace developments in our [NFT news](https://kriptometa.com/en/news/nft) coverage.