Digital Art Sales Snapshot

A daily sales list can look like a random mix of names until you notice what’s actually moving: a one-of-one work on SuperRare, a Beeple piece from a larger Ethereum collection, and a resale from Chromie Squiggle, one of the oldest status symbols in onchain art. That combination tells you collectors are still paying attention to prestige names, not just chasing whatever is newest. (superrare.com) (opensea.io) (chromie-squiggles.com) “The Unsent Embrace” sits on SuperRare as a 2023 one-of-one by Checksy, and Checksy’s own site describes it with the line about “the last day” and “a hug I haven’t sent yet.” That is a very different market lane from profile-picture collections: one buyer, one token, one artist page, more like a gallery sale with a blockchain receipt. (superrare.com) (checksy.art) Checksy is still small by headline standards, which is part of why that name matters in a roundup next to Beeple. SuperRare shows the artist joined in August 2023 and has only a handful of listed works there, so even a modest sale reads less like mass-market churn and more like a collector picking a specific artist. (superrare.com) Beeple is the opposite end of the spectrum. Christie’s says “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” was minted on February 16, 2021 and sold for $69.3 million, which turned Mike Winkelmann into the name most non-crypto people still associate with non-fungible tokens. (christies.com) (artnews.com) So when a sales feed flags “REGULAR ANIMALS MEMORY #115,” it is not just another token changing hands. It is a secondary-market trade in a Beeple collection that OpenSea lists with 223 items and hundreds of Ether in total volume, meaning buyers are still pricing Beeple as an active market, not just a 2021 museum piece. (opensea.io 1) (opensea.io 2) Chromie Squiggle plays a third role in this market: it is less about celebrity and more about origin story. Chromie Squiggles launched on November 27, 2020 as the genesis project of Art Blocks, and the project’s explainer says each work is generated directly from code stored onchain rather than pointing to a separate image file. (chromie-squiggles.com) (artblocks.io) That is why a resale like Chromie Squiggle #2001 still gets noticed years later. CoinGecko says the collection has 10,000 pieces and a floor price around $5,535, while NFT Price Floor ranks it among the top collections by floor cap, so a single Squiggle sale is closer to a blue-chip print changing hands than a forgotten internet collectible. (coingecko.com) (nftpricefloor.com) (opensea.io) The backdrop is a market that got cheaper and busier at the same time. DappRadar reported that in the second quarter of 2025, non-fungible token trading volume fell 45% to $867 million while sales count jumped 78% to 14.9 million, which is what a market looks like when average prices come down but trading does not disappear. (dappradar.com) Art-specific tokens have been hit harder than the broader category. DappRadar said art non-fungible token trading volume fell from $2.9 billion in 2021 to $197 million in 2024 and then to $23.8 million in the first quarter of 2025, so the surviving headlines are increasingly concentrated in names that already have cultural weight, collector history, or both. (dappradar.com) That is what this kind of sales snapshot is really showing. The broad mania is gone, but the market still has three working engines: emerging one-of-one artists finding buyers, Beeple pieces trading on brand recognition, and early onchain works like Chromie Squiggles holding their place as digital-art landmarks. (superrare.com) (christies.com) (chromie-squiggles.com)