What caused soaring Solana sales volume?

When looking at the increasing number of unique buyers from October 2021, the surge in sales led to the blockchain’s ascending total transaction counts totaling 83,697 unique buyers and 374,618 transactions. By the end of October, Solana’s sales volume was in the region of $286.4 million.

An 83% spike in the number of unique buyers from October led to a new all-time high in the number of new buyers of NFT on Solana in January 2022. In January 2022, unique buyers were 153,602 which corresponded to 1,014,963 transactions. Coincidentally, this month also proved to be Solana’s all-time high in monthly sales volume with around $298.69 million.

Popular NFTs on Solana that contributed to this volume include but are not limited to Chainers, Thug Birdz, Meerkat Millionaire Country Club, Frakt, Portals, Solsteads, Cosmic Condos, SolPunks, Blockstars, Akuma no Neko, Infinity Labs, and Solarians.

Other months that made noteworthy contributions to Solana sales were September 2021 ($263.34 million), February 2022 ($206.3 million), April 2022 ($294.8 million), and May 2022 ($256.1 million).

SOL price reaction 

SOL opened on Jan. 1, 2022, with a trading price of $170.31, reached a yearly high of $179.43 on Jan. 2, and tested a new local low of $38.36 on June 2. SOL was trading at $40 at the time of press.

Overall, this equates to a 77% decrease in the price of SOL throughout 2022.