Curated vs. Playground vs. Factory

    Art blocks is a platform where digital artist can publish their programmable generative art works which are stored on the Ethereum blockchain as an non-fungible token (NFT) or ERC-721 token and sold to users. There are three mains series on Art Blocks; namely the Curated, Playground and Factory. Curated hosted one of the best collection of arts which has the approval of Art Block board. Playground is platform for artist that has previously published on Curated but without having to wait for board approval. Lastly, factory is for newer creators who wants to take part in drops, and their arts will be vetted by the Art Block team.

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    First, let's see the number of projects that are currently in all the Art Block Series. Currently, AB Curated has total of 36 collections published and Playground has 30 projects. AB Factory has the highest projects published at 99. The total number of tokens in each series also parallel with number of projects.

    Full list of projects in each AB series can be viewed in table below.

    Now, let's see the monthly sales volume for each AB series. Last month was a very big month for NFT in general. Opensea sales recorded over $3B+ USD and as we can see from the graph below, around 10% of that was contributed by sales from AB Curated. All three series seeing their ATH last month with sales from AB Factory slightly more than AB Playground. The sales from August made the sales from other months miniscule. We only in first week of September, but sales of AB already reached 60M USD for AB in total. So, we might see another ATH this month.

    Although sales volume for AB Curated is much higher than other two, we saw that sales count of AB Factory much higher than AB Curated and AB Playground in last two months. This is because AB Factory has more tokens published compared to other two combined.

    But it was no surprise to see that average price per token has increased significantly over the past year. Average price for AB Curated is now over 20K per token, followed by AB Playground at half of it and AB Factory at half of AB Playground.

    Many believe that NFT is just a bubble waiting to pop, many others also believe that we are just starting so always remember to DYOR before aping into any projects.