{"id":313181,"date":"2024-05-30T16:11:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T10:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=313181"},"modified":"2024-05-30T16:11:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T10:41:11","slug":"pepe-is-now-worth-more-than-most-major-nft-projects-combined-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/pepe-is-now-worth-more-than-most-major-nft-projects-combined-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"PEPE Is Now Worth More Than Most Major NFT Projects Combined &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>PEPE\u2019s market cap sits at $6.2 billion, while the top 30 NFT projects are cumulatively valued slightly above $4 billion.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/research-and-opinion\/story-of-pepe-nft-meme\">PEPE<\/a>, the Ethereum-based memecoin that represents the classic green image of a frog, is now worth more than every other major NFT project across all blockchains \u2013 combined.<\/p>\n<p>PEPE commands a $6.2 billion market capitalization, down slightly from its recent all-time high of $6.9 billion on May 27, according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/pepe\">CoinGecko<\/a>. Meanwhile, the majority of top NFT projects haven\u2019t managed to get back on trader\u2019s radars and have been bleeding out over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/punk9059\/status\/1795816501586600260\">Punk9059<\/a>, a group of NFT projects that includes Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/nfts-and-web3\/cryptopunk-sells-for-usd12m-in-4th-highest-trade-ever\">CryptoPunks<\/a>, Pudgy Penguins, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/news\/defi\/nft-loans-collateral-peer-to-peer-ethereum\">Autoglyphs<\/a>, Mocaverse, and MadLads, among others, just manages to scrape past the $4 billion mark.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">NFTs vs PEPE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The top NFT projects are also concentrated in terms of market cap. CryptoPunks, the leading NFT project, showcases a $1.2 billion market cap, followed by Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) with $488 million and Pudgy Penguins with $365 million.<\/p>\n<h2>NFTs On Their Last Legs<\/h2>\n<p>Having PEPE ahead of major collections only strengthens the case that the NFT market is living through its worst days.<\/p>\n<p>CryptoSlam\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cryptoslam.io\/indexes\/cs500\">500 NFT Index<\/a>, which tracks the top 500 collections, is down 40% on the year, and has suffered a 95% drawdown since the platform began recording prices.<\/p>\n<p>Users actively trading NFTs have also been in a significant downtrend, according to a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dune.com\/hildobby\/ethereum-nfts\">Dune dashboard<\/a>. Once the top marketplace, weekly traders on OpenSea are down more than 90%, from 187,000 in June 2022 to just under 10,000 today.<\/p>\n<p>Most other NFT platforms share OpenSea\u2019s fate. Blur, Magic Eden, and LooksRare have also lost traders&#8217; interest, and the total number of weekly traders across all platforms has plummeted from 201,000 in June 2022 to 24,300 today.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Weekly NFT Traders chart\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"522.4587706146926\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"mx-auto\" id='b' style='filter: url(%23b)' src=\"https:\/\/thedefiant.io\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.sanity.io%2Fimages%2F6oftkxoa%2Fproduction%2Fafa12469132a119815d084d92034a357415da378-1334x726.jpg&amp;w=828&amp;q=100\" \/><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">Weekly NFT Traders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, PEPE has soared tenfold over the past year despite an 8% drop today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PEPE\u2019s market cap sits at $6.2 billion, while the top 30 NFT projects are cumulatively valued slightly above $4 billion. PEPE, the Ethereum-based memecoin that represents the classic green image of a frog, is now worth more than every other major NFT project across all blockchains \u2013 combined. PEPE commands a $6.2 billion market capitalization, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-313181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313190,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313181\/revisions\/313190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}