SND Genesis Battle Pass leads NFT market as VanEck uses Pudgy Penguins in ETF ad

The SND Genesis Battle Pass collection dominated the non-fungible token (NFT) market with $1.39 million in sales volume on Tuesday, July 23, according to data from CryptoSlam.

The Ethereum-based collectible is linked to Sword & Dungeons, a role-playing game backed by OKX Ventures.

The industry-leading secondary sales volume came after the game minted 4,000 Genesis Battle Pass NFTs, which subsequently sold out.

The SND Genesis Battle Pass had 2,460 unique buyers from 96 merchants.

This helped Ethereum maintain its top spot with a total of $6.27 million in sales during the day, up from $4.16 million recorded the previous day.

The second-place collection of the day was Pudgy Penguins, which was also on Ethereum and made a total of $655,675 in sales.

Despite asset manager VanEck using the collection’s mascot in an ad for its new Ether exchange-traded fund (ETF), Pudgy Penguins failed to reach the top.

Spot Ether ETFs began trading on U.S. markets for the first time on Tuesday, opening with $1 billion in inflows.

Pudgy Penguins ranks as the 18th best-selling film of all time with $393.5 million in sales, nearly $7 million behind Cool Cats at number 17.

The DMarket collection on the Mythos blockchain, which ranked third on Tuesday, generated $617,108 in sales with 3,226 unique buyers and 2,855 sellers.

DMarket’s average price per NFT, which represents in-game virtual items, was $25.92.

In fourth place was Immutable’s Gods Unchained Cards, which generated $563,292 in sales revenue, while CryptoPunks on Ethereum came in fifth with $545,917 in sales revenue.

Solana Monkey Business on the Solana blockchain followed suit, retreating from Monday’s peak with $460,267 in sales.