{"id":403722,"date":"2025-09-01T17:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/base-overtakes-solana-in-nft-volume-as-zora-drives-minting-frenzy-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T17:19:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:49:02","slug":"base-overtakes-solana-in-nft-volume-as-zora-drives-minting-frenzy-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/base-overtakes-solana-in-nft-volume-as-zora-drives-minting-frenzy-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Base Overtakes Solana in NFT Volume as Zora Drives Minting Frenzy – Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With millions of mints and $122 million in trading volume, Base has quietly emerged as a go-to platform for Web3 creators.<\/p>\n

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Coinbase\u2019s Layer-2 network, Base,<\/a> has become one of the most active blockchain ecosystems by NFT<\/a> trading volume, surpassing Solana and Abstract.<\/p>\n

DappRadar\u2019s blockchain analyst Sara Gherghelas said in a recent research report<\/a> that Base has become a popular place for creators, thanks to cheap mints, creator-friendly tools, and \u201cspeculation around a potential airdrop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Top Blockchains by NFT Volume<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cBase NFTs hit $122M in trading volume and 6.7M sales in 2025, with June marking a breakout moment (+336% MoM volume),\u201d Gherghelas noted.<\/p>\n

The surge has been fueled by top collections such as DX Terminal, Onchain Gaias, Oracle Patron, Based Punks, and Get Based, blending retro-futuristic art, interactive gameplay, and, in the case of Onchain Gaias, the ability for holders to train AI-enabled agents across Web3 ecosystems.<\/p>\n

Behind the Numbers<\/h2>\n

The main driver behind Base\u2019s NFT boom is Zora<\/a>, an open-source NFT protocol that lets creators launch low-cost NFTs and drops on Base for less than one U.S. dollar, while also offering an ERC-20 layer for creator tokens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince July alone, Zora on Base has recorded 1.6 million tokens minted, generating $470 million in trading volume and $3.4 million in creator royalties,\u201d Gherghelas wrote.<\/p>\n

Data from DefiLlama shows that starting in July, Zora\u2019s revenue jumped to $4.7 million, marking a more than 312,000% increase compared to Q4 2024. On the marketplace front, OpenSea<\/a> has emerged as the leader on Base, with Gherghelas attributing this to the fact that the marketplace was an early Base supporter.<\/p>\n

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NFT Volume by Marketplace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Amid the recent uptick in NFT activity, OpenSea has overtaken Blur over the past 90 days, with trading volume of $389 million, compared to Blur\u2019s $312 million, according to Token Terminal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With millions of mints and $122 million in trading volume, Base has quietly emerged as a go-to platform for Web3 creators. Coinbase\u2019s Layer-2 network, Base, has become one of the most active blockchain ecosystems by NFT trading volume, surpassing Solana and Abstract. DappRadar\u2019s blockchain analyst Sara Gherghelas said in a recent research report that Base […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403723,"comment_status":"closed","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-403722","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\/403722","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=403722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403724,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403722\/revisions\/403724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}