In this webinar, we will present several advanced analytics and insights that can help you make better decisions while trading NFTs. This analytical approach can aid to value NFTs in a more deterministic way. We will analyze the implied risks and propose some ideas for strategies.
9. Why trade NFTs?
● Beyond profit:
○ Social: communities
○ Emotional attachment
○ Fun
○ Artistic value
10. Why trade NFTs?
● Profitable?
○ High risks -> Illiquid markets
■ Small altcoins can be sold
anytime
■ NFTs without buyers can
not be sold
○ High profits (few)
13. NFT activity today
● Due to increasing fees?
Source: https://app.intotheblock.com/coin/ETH/deep-dive?group=network&chart=feesStats
14. NFT activity today
● Not only on Ethereum, other chains as well
○ Solana
Source: https://dappradar.com/rankings/protocol/solana/category/marketplaces
15. Unexpected findings
● We analyzed:
Number of NFT collections 102
Filtering criteria: demand indicator
>5000 followers on Discord and Twitter
Only on Ethereum.
Marketplaces: OpenSea, Artblocks.
Time Frame of analysis 1 month (October 1 to October 27)
16. Unexpected findings
● Few collections mint completely -> offer failing to meet demand
○ Might be impossible to sell a bought NFT from a collection not fully
minted
○ Cause: High prices or high supply
17. Unexpected findings
● Even fewer collections are profitable in the short term
○ Analyzing price 2 days after mint
18. Unexpected findings
● Fees play an important role. Evenmore on Ethereum
OpenSea
Selling fees (per piece): 2.5%
Owner Royalties (per collection): Variable
Minting/listing/initialization fees (per
account): Ethereum TX fee
Ethereum
Gas fee of minting (per piece):
Two cases:
1. Minimum $80
2. Maximum $200
19. Unexpected findings
● Each marketplace has a different fee structure
Source: https://nftartexhibition.net/blog/2021/11/02/the-latest-comparison-of-major-nft-marketplaces/
20. Unexpected findings
● Rarity: no standard methodology of calculating it
○ Generally, each web has its own.
● Rankings can vary greatly from one methodology to other.
Source: https://rarity.tools/
21. Unexpected findings
● Measuring demand before minting is hard
○ Social media followers don’t work:
■ Is common for accounts to fake # followers
● Red Flags
● Better cue: organic activity
○ Twitter interactions
○ Discord engagement
27. Advanced analytics: secondary market
● Measuring demand in a collection
○ Using volume traded as proxy of demand could be misleading
■ Increased prices -> less affordable -> less volume
● Bored Apes collection Volume vs Price
28. Advanced analytics: secondary market
● Measuring interest in certain collection
○ Number of offers is:
■ A good indicator of demand -> A leading indicator of floor price
29. Advanced analytics: secondary market
● Quantifying momentum with tx size
○ Loot collection: Reduction of TXs + lack of high size Txs = fading interest
30. Advanced analytics: secondary market
● Spotting mispriced rare pieces:
○ Spotting mispriced listed NFTs according to its rarity rank
■ Rank 1-50 prices increase exponentially
Source: https://solanafloor.com/
31. Advanced analytics: secondary market
● Dutch auctions (Artblocks)
○ Being greedy can end up being more
expensive (gas)
○ Keeping in mind gas prices to avoid
overpaying
32. Thinking strategies
● Understanding risk:
○ Higher risk-Higher return:
recently minted collections
○ Lower risk-Lower return:
renowned collections.
■ Price has been
sustained over time.
Source: https://cryptoslam.io/
33. Thinking strategies
● Primary market
○ Short term = speculation.
○ Higher risks
● Secondary market
○ Long term = appreciation
○ Lower risks
34. Thinking strategies
● Primary market
○ Project discovery
○ Connections
○ Being early and fast
○ Time demanding
○ Taking risks
■ Calculating the approximate rarity
rank before release
35. Thinking strategies
● Secondary market
○ Project roadmap and
deliverables
○ Community growth
○ Social recognition
○ Healthy indicators
38. Looking to the future
● Exchanges launching NFT marketplaces -> Ease the entry barrier of retail to DeFi
○ FTX US -> Recently launched. Soon supporting Ethereum.
○ Coinbase -> Yet to launch, >2M whitelist registrations.
● On-chain gaming
○ NFT + Gaming funds arising
● Digital Art
○ Sotheby’s auctions
○ More digital artists entering the space
● Metaverse
○ Facebook rebranding + Microsoft
○ Decentraland rise
39.
40. Thank You! Questions?
Juan Pellicer
Research Analyst at IntoTheBlock
Email: jpellicer@intotheblock.io
Twitter: @juanmpellicer
Editor's Notes
Hi everyone, thank you for attending to this intotheblock webinar
My name is Juan Pellicer and we will be speak about NFTs.
We are going to speak about NFT. Since we have done several webinars explaining NFTs, for this one we are going to go a bit deeper and suppose that you have already some basic experience buying and selling nfts
The session is being recorded and will be uploaded to our youtube channel tomorrow as usual
If you have any questions feel free to write them in the q&a panel and I will address them at the end
These are the topics that we will cover today:
Why trade NFTs? Is it profitable? Are there other considerations?
Give a quick overview of the NFT activity nowadays. If is a fad or something that could stay in the long term
We will show some unexpected facts that we found after analyzing 1 month of data of all the popular NFT projects that were minted
Then we will show some interesting ideas of indicators that are not well known
We will talk about strategies, how to think in terms of risk, what to value in the long and short term
And finally we will share some websites that are useful to be informed about new nft drops, calculate rarity, of check some indicators
Since our last webinar
A lot of people requested us to include new analytics of L1’s, so here we are. These analytics are freely available even for those not registered -> check website/source
Educational and informational purposes only
We advice you to do your own research
We hope that with these resources you will learn more about NFT
COMPONENTS NOT MEASURABLE
DIFFICULT TO BE QUANTIFIED
SENSATION OF BEING PART OF A COMMUNITY
ATTACHMENT AFTER USING A PFP FOR LONG
FUN FROM MINTING TO SPECULATING WITH THEM
ARTISTIC VALUE, HARD TO ESTIMATE PIECE OF A RENOWED ARTIST
But today we are going to focus on profit.
First we are going to quickly assess if interest on NFTs continues or is going down. Since many people think that the interest since summer is way lower, the fact is that is in ATH in google searches, surpassing Dogecoin or even Ethereum.
This chart is the weekly traded volume on OpenSea overtime, the major Ethereum NFT marketplace
This is one of the metrics that most people use to assess if NFT activity is increasing or decreasing.
Many think that this decrease in OpenSea is due to the increasing costs of Ethereum, which partly is true:
The fees since this summer have been in a constant increase, from less than $10 in june to over $40 today due to the high usage of the Ethereum chain
So this definitely has been a factor.
But analyzing the activity of marketplaces of other blockchains...
It has been decreasing as well, for example the daily number of users or volume in these exchanges have decreased consi
Cut your losses short
In the short term
BEFORE THE MINT
Common problem: many collections have more offer than demand: either very high supply or high prices or both.
This shows a way to value collections before they mint, we can get an estimated marketcap (if the collection would mint completely) by multiplying the Minting price times the Supply
Projects that are awaited have high marketcaps but also some project with few interest that try to aim too high. This calculus can help to spot those
AFTER THE MINT:
Best indicator of vision of holders for the long term.
One of the analytics for NFTs that is used more commonly is volume traded.
This is a misleading indicator, because when a collection gets more expensive, less people can afford it and their volumes tend to decrease, while its floor price can perfectly maintain, so is not a good proxy of demand or interest
Another idea is to track the offers are collection is getting on the marketplace
Con: Sending offers costs no gas so some bots send ridiculous offer amounts in renowned collections to try to trick sellers
Makes sense thinking that when the interest in a collection arises, first the potential buyers try to send offers cheaper than listing price, and if they are not accepted then they market buy
This is another idea that can help you assess if a collection is gaining or losing interest
A reduction of txs and a lack of high size txs can mean that the interest is fading
As more expensive gets the collection, is normal that lower transactions come with time, but they should be either maintaining its price or increasing, not decreasing
Here instead of looking at collections on NFTs and its rarity. This is a good idea to spot mispriced NFTs.
This chart shows the prices of listed NFTs versus its rank
Rarity ranks are priced exponentially.
Until rank 500 there is almost no difference in price. Then price rises fast until the rarest prices.
Following the curve that the distribution is following can help to spot rare pieces that are not priced correctly. (under the curve)
Dutch Auction: minting begins with a high set price that decreases over time until the project hits its resting price or is sold out.
Two tips:
Trying to not wait until there is few of the supply left, because people rush to buy and gas prices could increase rapidly and end up overpaying
Taking care of the current gas always. Certain gas spikes could make the minting notoriously more expensive
This is equivalent to altcoins with big or small market capitalization
Generally speaking those projects that have been performing well over a period of time are those that are more likely to maintain its price.
Lindy effect: The more time has passed with a collection maintaining value the more it signs that investors find them valuable in the longterm
Life cycle
Time windows
Unofficial sales - escrow, estimate rarity, verify that the nft is genuine
Mktplace listing - usually rarity attributes are then disclosed but rarity rankings are not published yet
Qualities that get rewarded
fanbase
This is an example of a framework that would be more sort of fundamental analysis.
It evaluates different attributes of each NFT collection that could help an nft project to succeed and consequently increase in price.
The idea is that this can be customized to the preferences of each investor.
Many more attributes could be considered.
Regarding the recommendations about how much to invest I would discard them. It depends on the NFT price and how much each trader is willing to risk.
There are a ton. Here are condensed one of the most populars.
We will leave these links in the description of the video in case you want to check them later
The reason why I’m more excited in the short term is due to the fact that centralized exchanges are launching NFT marketplaces
The volume of people that use centralized exchanges and not DeFi wallets is still big
This is a good entry point for them to start to get interested in DeFi, without gas costs or having to learn self-custody
FTX: we do not have much analytics about how it is performing, might be limited due to being in the US website of NFT
Coinbase: their CEO says that this marketplace could be bigger than their actual crypto market, which makes sense considering that most things traded today are not fungible
On-chain gaming: after massive Axie Infinity success everything is possible. If you are interested on Axie Infinity performance, we have a very interesting deep dive article in our blog
Sothebys auctions: incremental number of NFT auctions
Our next webinar will be held on December fifteen.
We will review how staking works, what are the possibilities in Ethereum and other chains Ethereum. Also we will
So don’t forget to check it out.