The NFT market registered another significant increase in the trading volume on June 26, 2025, with Courtyard leading the trend in the amount of daily sales, reaching the value of $751.81K with 7.09K sales. This incredible spike ranked Courtyard at the leading position in the 24-hour volume leaderboard.
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Right behind it was Guild of Guardians, which had a trading volume of $550.76K and 680 transactions, signifying that investors and users are active with this coin. CryptoPunks continued with a more concentrated, higher value trading activity of 427.07K with only 4 sales, which further highlights CryptoPunks as a blue-chip NFT market collection.
Established Collections Maintain Relevance Amid New Entrants
The rankings of Pudgy Penguins and Azuki remained among the best collections. Pudgy Penguins made up to $392.39K across 17 sales, whereas Azuki produced a volume of $238.66K across 13 sales.
Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) continued to perform well but was less dominant than before, but this still resulted in $209.04K in 7 high-value transactions.
One of the more actively traded collections in terms of number of transactions was Gods Unchained, a blockchain-based card game, during which the volume reached 199.22K and 2.43K separate sales. Lil Pudgys ($181.38K, 65 trades ), Milady Maker ($124.33K, 24 trades ) and TTK Hero ( $102.02K, 317 trades ) were other key performers, ending the top ten ranking.
Top NFT Market Sales Highlight High-End Activity in Punks and Azuki
NFT market also had some high-value individual sales, which confirmed that premium digital assets have to be trusted. The top seller was Azuki #558, which sold in $170.28K: the largest single NFT sale within the past 24h.
Four of the top five sales featured CryptoPunks: CryptoPunk #3251 sold for $139.74K, CryptoPunk #6496 sold for $96.95K, CryptoPunk #1444 made a sale of $95.79K, and CryptoPunk #8855 sold at the price of $94.58K. This grouping of costly Punk sales is an indication of ongoing faith in the historical and cultural value of the collection, even though new projects join the NFT market.
OpenSea Retains Market Dominance by Volume and Traders
Between markets, OpenSea reassesses its grip with an enormous 111.51K active traders, including an overall volume of $6.29M among the remaining competitors running not even close. The next up was Blur at 660 traders and a volume of 1.13M, filling a large gap between the more professional trader and collector niche.
The listed CryptoPunks marketplace has aggregated a whopping $427K in trading volume, between 6 users, which explains how high-value transactions are.
Element processed 335K against 1.07K traders, and Magic Eden completed the top five with 162K volume and 883 traders. This evidence indicates that OpenSea is a large market leader; nevertheless, smaller, more niche markets, such as Blur and the CryptoPunks marketplace, influence niche user bases.
NFT Activity Grows Across Both Art and Gaming Ecosystems
The collections distribution based on volume and number of transactions shows a mature market that cuts across both collectible art and game assets. As popular art collections, such as CryptoPunks, Azuki, and BAYC, continue to cause high-value sales, gaming systems, like Gods Unchained and Guild of Guardians, are demonstrating high transaction volumes with further affordable and purposeful NFTs.
With users moving to further diversify their portfolios on both digital collectibles and useful assets, the NFT market has been maturing out of a speculative bubble and into a more realistic and multi-faceted environment.
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