Flow: FLOW Usage During the NBA Playoffs

Q19. Analyze the NBA Conference Finals (May 17th- May 29th) and determine whether it had an impact on NBA Top Shot's volume.

Did the Warriors, Celtics, Mavericks, or Heat see higher sales volume?

FLOW

Flow is a fast, decentralized, and developer-friendly blockchain, designed as the foundation for a new generation of games, apps, and the digital assets that power them. It is based on a unique, multi-role architecture, and designed to scale without sharding, allowing for massive improvements in speed and throughput while preserving a developer-friendly, ACID-compliant environment.

NBA Top Shot is an NFT marketplace where basketball video clips may be purchased, sold, and traded. NBA Top Shot, which debuted in 2020, is a collaboration between the NBA and Dapper Labs, the company behind CryptoKitties. Users of this NFT can purchase, trade, and collect NBA NFTs that highlight significant "Moments" that were created on the FLOW blockchain.

Flow Volume Results

• This charts shows the daily and cumulative transaction volume on Flow.
• As can be seen, there was a postive trend in NFT sales specifically from the middle of May. Nevertheless, does not seem that NBA conference finals play-off have had any impact on flow sales volume.
• The day with more volume was June 25th with +1,9M transactions.
• From April 20th until today more than 56 M transaction were done in Flow.

Now let's check This of NBA Top Shot NFT sales during the NBA conference finals of this season.

NBA Top Shot Volume Results

• This chart show the daily sales volume of NBA Top Shot NFT collection.
• As we can see there is a large volume of sales during Mid april and start of May. However, during the NBA conference finals (May 17th- May 29th) does not seem to be a great volume on sales.
• The day with more volume was May 6th with +67k transactions.
• From April 20th until today more than 1,6 M transaction were done about NBA Top Shot NFT collection.

NBA Top Shot Volume Results by Team

• As can be seen on the chart the Warriors, Celtics, Mavericks, or Heat saw higher sales volume during the NBA conference finals.
• The 4 teams make up to +40% of sales during that period.
  • Mavericks got 8448 sales making 11,6% of the total.
  • Warriors got 8276 sales making 11,3% of the total.
  • Celtics got 7050 sales making 9,65% of the total.
  • Miami Heat got 6338 sales making 8,67% of the total.