Coin Metrics<\/strong>.<\/p>\nIn their latest report, Coin Metrics noted that it is often thought that NFT trading volumes suffer when prices of ethereum (ETH) are rising, since most NFTs are bought and sold using ETH.<\/p>\n
And while this appears to be the case during \u201csome particularly extreme price swings,\u201d the data still shows that no consistent correlation exists between the ETH price and sales volumes on the dominant NFT marketplace OpenSea<\/strong>, the analysts said.<\/p>\nPlotting ETH prices against OpenSea volumes shows that the two have often moved in opposite directions since the beginning of 2021, with at least three notable divergences occurring in May 2021, November 2021, and January 2022. However, the data also shows that ETH price and NFT volumes have sometimes moved in tandem, contrary to the commonly held belief that higher ETH prices are bad for NFTs.<\/p>\n
\n\u201c[\u2026] at times they are highly correlated, like August 2021, but at other times they\u2019re negatively correlated, like November 2021,\u201d the analysts said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
They went on to conclude that the NFT market should be thought of as \u201crelatively independent\u201d from the broader crypto space, and that it \u201cmay for the most part move separately from the rest of the crypto market.\u201d<\/p>\n