Art Blocks - Playground Collections vs Curated Collections

    In this dashboard, we aim to compare Art Block's Playground Collections performance to Curated Collections.

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    What Curated and Playground Collections?

    Curated set of NFT's are from the best of Art Block artists. These are reviewed and approved by Art Blocks team through a rigorous process. These are Art Block's branded NFTs! The best ones you can find one Art Blocks.

    Once an artist gets approval of Curated Collection then these artists are eligible for Playground. Artist can setup a Playground Collection and create NFTs with their imagination as the limits. They are free to be creative and create NFTs of their choice without worrying about the constraints imposed on Curated Collections.

    NFTs Minted by Artists

    The chart below shows the total number of Art Blocks NFT minted in Curated & Playground categories together by each artist. If you go by sheer volume the artist "Snowfro" leads the pack with around 6,000 NFTs minted so far. And the second place goes to Alexis, Andre with 3,684 NFT mints.

    From the below graph we can see the number of collections by artists and there we can clearly see some artists doesn't have a Playground collections at all even they have curated collection. But some artists have more than one Playground collections .

    Sales Volume by Artist

    Below graphs we can see total sales volume by artists and for more clear view we can see both the volume of Curated and Playground collections by artists separately.

    Let us start with exploring the total numbers of NFTs sold as well as total volume of sales (USD). Around 71K Playground NFTs were sold on Art Blocks compared to 41K Curated NFTs sold. The total volume of sales (USD) generated by Playground NFTs is close to 210 million USD, whereas Curated NFTs sale volume is around 625.
    Number of Transactions of Playground NFTs were 41.891K and the total volume of these NFTs are 210.3393M.

    How many artists have Playgrounds?

    From the below graph we can see the number of artists who are creating NFTs in Playground vs those who are not creating. 21 out of 38 artists did not create a Playground Collection, whereas 17 artists created Playground NFTs.

    From the above graph we can see the percentage of total sales volume of Curated and Playground collections by artists.

    Observations

    • 55% of artists does not have Playground collections. Only 45% of artists are creating Playground collections.

    • Sales Volume (USD) of Curated NFTs is close to 3x of Playground NFTs

    • Playground NFTs sale transactions are 1.7x more compared to Curated.

    • Artists like Alexis Andre & Joshua Bagley generated more than 80% of sales volume through their Playground NFTs.

    • Artist Dmitri Cherniak generated 95% of sales volume through Curated NFTs.

    • Let us observe couple of artists in detail. We start with the artist 'Beervangeer'

      • The total sale volume is 6.77M Curated vs 1.17M Playground Collections.
      • The number of NFT sales is 54.388 Curated vs 45.612 Playground.
      • Though number of sales from Playground are close to Curated, sale volume (USD) is nowhere nearby. Curated sales volume blow away Playground
    • Another artist 'luxpris' in detail

      • The total sale volume is 7.547M Curated vs 14.192M Playground collections.
      • The number of NFT sales is 10.718 Curated vs 89.2812 Playground Collections.

    Sales Volume

    How about the split of Curated vs Playground for these artists? The following chart shows the percentage of NFTs minted in Curated vs Playground by each artist. Please note that data of artists DCA & Jeff Davis is a bit off.