27 stats about NFTs in 2022 – who are the big winners?

At the beginning of the year, when the crypto market was red hot, it was extremely tough to understand what was going on in the NFT industry.

The massive influx of collections, new marketplaces, and easy money in the space created the perfect mix of incentives for fraudulent activity. As we know, I published an article in October about NFT wash trading, several “OpenSea killers” were built entirely on fake activity, and not everything was as it seemed when you looked at NFT collection leaderboards. As the market crashed, so did activity across the board (both fake and organic).