According to a recent study by CoinGecko, Magic Eden has emerged as the leading NFT marketplace in 2024, commanding a 36.7% market share with $122.47 million in trading volume in August.
This marks the sixth consecutive month that Magic Eden has held the top spot, a resurgence largely fueled by its integration of Bitcoin Ordinals. This strategic move significantly boosted trading volume, doubling to $734.6 million in March 2024, and secured Magic Eden’s dominant 38.5% market share, pushing it ahead of competitors like Blur.
Blur, which now ranks as the second-largest NFT marketplace, has seen its market share decline from 35.4% at the beginning of 2024 to 25.4% in August. During this period, Blur’s monthly trading volume dropped sharply from $499.95 million to $84.69 million.
OpenSea, once the unchallenged leader in the NFT space, now ranks third with a 19.9% market share and $66.52 million in trading volume in August. Despite doubling its market share from the start of the year, OpenSea remains a distant third, far from its former dominance.
Magic Eden And Others Constitute Over 80% Of Entire NFT Trading Volume
Collectively, Magic Eden, Blur, and OpenSea account for a commanding 82% of the NFT trading volume, underscoring their dominance in the market. Other notable players include the CryptoPunks NFT marketplace, which has increased its market share from 2.4% to 5.6%, and X2Y2, which saw a modest rise from 0.7% to 1.2%.
In stark contrast, the OKX NFT marketplace experienced the largest decline in market share, plummeting from 18.4% to just 2.4% over the same period. This downturn follows OKX’s brief surge in NFT trading volume at the end of 2023, when it briefly overtook Blur with a 38.4% market share in December.
Overall, the NFT marketplace landscape in 2024 is marked by significant shifts in market share, with Magic Eden firmly in the lead, followed by Blur and OpenSea as major players.
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