A July 2021 report identified the volume of non-fungible token (NFT) sales on Ethereum between the first quarter of 2020 and the second quarter of 2021. According to the study, the global NFT sales volume peaked in the first quarter of 2020, with around *** thousand NFTs sold on Ethereum. In contrast, the third quarter of 2020 was the least active period for NFT sales, with only *** thousand tokens being sold. Overall, while secondary sales were predominant in the first half of 2020, primary sales were more popular in the first half of 2021.
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