Okay Bears, a Solana-powered NFT, managed to high OpenSea’s 24-hour gross sales tracker for the primary time earlier at present, beating out all different Ethereum (ETH) tasks on provide.

It’s the primary time a Solana (SOL) NFT challenge has reached the highest spot in fashionable NFT market OpenSea’s 24-hour gross sales tracker.

.@okaybears No.1 on the OpenSea 24h rankings

A @solana challenge has topped OpenSea’s market-wide 24h gross sales tracker for the primary time!

Try the most recent featured Solana collections on our devoted SOL web page: https://t.co/gteXeNRocn pic.twitter.com/1duEDQyxyn

— OpenSea (@opensea) April 27, 2022

The Solana-based NFT, which includes a assortment of 10,000 numerous photographs of bears, instructed its Twitter followers it had bought out its assortment solely a day after its launch, bringing in 231,000 SOL, equal to $23.1 million in whole gross sales thus far on the time of writing, in keeping with NFT tracker Cryptoslam.

Offered out. We ARE Okay pic.twitter.com/QxuLpeY1Jt

— Okay Bears (@okaybears) April 26, 2022

The Solana community has been gaining traction as a contender within the Ethereum-dominated NFT market. At this time, it’s the second most energetic blockchain by NFT gross sales quantity over the past 24 hours.

Wonderful wine NFTs auctioned in South African wine business first

In a primary for South Africa’s fantastic wine business, 5 of the nation’s most interesting and historic wine collections have been auctioned off as NFTs, elevating almost 3 million RAND (US$186,800).

The public sale was undertaken by way of Strauss & Co, a fantastic artwork auctioneer and guide, with a number of wine estates together with Klein Constantia, Meerlust, Mullineux, Kanonkop and Vilafonté placing their collections underneath the gavel. Two of the tons had been paid with Bitcoin (BTC) instantly after the sale.

“It exhibits that collectors worth the power to personal and commerce fantastic wines by way of these new possession certificates,” mentioned Web3 firm Fanfire’s CEO Gert-Jan Van Rooyen, the tech associate behind the public sale.

“We envision a future the place collectors can maintain a whole portfolio of wines from internationally of their crypto wallets.”

Virtually R2.4m already bid on Africa’s 1st 5 wine NFTs! So enthusiastic about this challenge. @FanfireWeb3 created a brand new kind of “vault” NFT to carry particular person bottles. One vault holds 288 bottles that may be traded as assortment, or redeemed & traded individuallyhttps://t.co/FJcN37jpvp

— G-J van Rooyen (@gvrooyen) April 25, 2022

5 NFT collections are outpacing the remaining

Bored Ape Yacht Membership, Azuki, Clone X, Doodles and Moonbirds NFTs proceed to hover as the highest performers when it comes to features out there, in keeping with Twitter person NFTstatistics.eth, who operates underneath the Twitter deal with @punk9059.

This development continues: BAYC, Azuki, CloneX, Doodles & now Moonbirds separating themselves from everybody else.

I’ve talked about large-caps outperforming, but it surely’s actually the top-5 tasks driving all of the features. pic.twitter.com/UsUlwHMJ9M

— NFTstatistics.eth (@punk9059) April 26, 2022

The Twitter person describes themselves as a keeper of NFT information, charts and ideas, with 17,000 followers.

The 5 NFTs are at the moment ranked inside the high 12 NFT collections ranked when it comes to gross sales, in keeping with CryptoSlam.

Different Nifty Information

ApeCoin (APE) underwent a modest selloff earlier this week after it was reported Bored Ape Yacht Membership (BAYC), a well-liked nonfungible token (NFT) model, reported dropping $2.4 million price of digital collectibles in a theft.

A Chinese language courtroom has issued a one-of-a-kind judgment in opposition to an NFT market for permitting a person to mint NFTs of stolen art work. A person of NFTCN allegedly stole the copyrighted art work of Ma Qianli, a Chinese language painter and artist.