NFT Market Faces Steepest Decline as Sales Plummet to Year’s Low
- Monthly NFT sales plummeted to $320 million in November, down 49% from October’s $629 million.
- Total market capitalization collapsed 66% from $9.2 billion in January to just $3.1 billion currently.
The non-fungible token industry keeps going lower and lower and recorded its worst performance in 2025 as the trading volumes declined across major collections. According to CryptoSlam analytics, monthly sales in November dropped to only $320 million, which is a dramatic 49% decrease from the October figure of $629 million. The cumulative market value of the sector has come down to $3.1 billion, which is a very large 66% fall from the high of $9.2 billion in January.
The first week of December only brought $62 million worth of sales, making it the slowest weekly performance of the whole year and indicating that the weakness is going to continue. Industry insiders say that the momentum seems to have stopped completely and that there are very few signs of a recovery in the near future.
Blue-Chip Collections Experience Widespread Losses
In general, most of the top NFT collections that existed for quite a while had their values significantly eroded throughout November. There were only a handful of exceptions that managed to break away from the negative trend that was prevailing in the marketplace.
CryptoPunks, which continues to be the collection with the highest market value, went down by 12% during the last month. The value of the Bored Ape Yacht Club dropped by 8.5%, whereas that of the Pudgy Penguins decreased by 10.6%; thus, these figures are indicative of the weakness across traditionally stable digital assets.
In November, the art-centric series had a tough time, with Fidenza losing 14.6% of its value and Moonbirds going down 17.9%. Mutant Ape Yacht Club went down by 13.4% and Chromie Squiggle dropped 5.6%, to reflect the selling pressure that was broadly spread in the segment. The most significant drop for the top ten rankings in November was a 48% plunge of Hypurr, which made it the worst-performing collection of the month.
In a very negative market which dominated the month of November, only two collections were able to turn positive returns. Infinex Patrons, which is presently the second-ranked total market cap collection, was up 14.9% over the period, whereas Autoglyphs was the most remarkable single performer. The generative art collection went up by 20.9% which was a very distant second to any other top-tier NFT projects for November in a very tough market environment.
The extended decline is causing people to ask what the short-term prospects of the sector might be as the year 2025 is coming to an end, with less investor interest and fewer investors being engaged.
