Solana's NFT landscape is expanding significantly- what's more to come

Solana’s weekly NFT sales volume hit more than $17.5 million in value, a jump of about 32%.
SOL saw an increase in the number of long positions taken over the past few days.

The Solana [SOL] ecosystem got a reason to celebrate as the daily NFTs minted on the network jumped to a three-month high recently.

As per a tweet by Solscan, the number of NFTs minted on 3 March hit 129, 872, which was nearly three times the average daily figure across the last three months.

Almost tripled the avg. daily figure within a 3 month span pic.twitter.com/4Hartk1wsZ

— Solscan (@solscanofficial) March 6, 2023

Further data from Solscan revealed that Solana was home to 274.36k collections and more than 33 million NFTs, at the time of writing.

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Solana’s NFT landscape suffered a major challenge after it hit a three-month low in the last week of February. This was after Solana’s big network outage which triggered significant FUD among the community.

Source: Crypto Slam

Since then, the NFT activity has rebounded impressively. Data from Crypto Slam showed that the weekly sales volume hit more than $17.5 million in value, a jump of about 32%.

The total number of NFT transactions also grew by more than 9% over the previous week.

The expansion of Solana’s NFT ecosystem holds importance as the chain was hit by high-profile desertions not too long ago. DeGods, one of the most valuable NFT collections on Solana, announced in December last year that it was migrating to Ethereum [ETH] while another collection y00ts shifted towards Polygon [MATIC].

As per CryptoSlam data, Solana was the second-largest destination for NFTs behind market leader Ethereum at the time of writing.

Investors going long on SOL

SOL’s on-chain data gave some reasons to worry. From a monthly peak of 1.79 billion on 20 February, the trading volume went downhill and declined by 84% until press time, as per Santiment.

On the other hand, the funding rates on Binance and dYdX increased, implying that there was a demand for SOL in the derivatives market. This is generally taken as a bullish signal.

Source: Santiment

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The bullish sentiment was reflected in the increasing Longs/Shorts Ratio, according to data from Coinglass. There was a substantial increase in the number of long positions taken over the past few days.

However, at press time, SOL was down 2.48% in the 24-hour period, according to CoinMarketCap.