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Nansen is one of the best crypto and NFT data analytics services around. The platform offers free “Nansen Lite” dashboards and a $9 trial, but some of the most incredible alpha I’ve seen yet is from the company’s “Smart Money” dashboard in its NFT Paradise hub.
This area tracks Smart NFT Sweepers, which are per the site:
“Addresses that have profitably swept (bought a certain no. of tokens from a collection in a single day, or at least a threshold ETH value) at least 3 different NFT collections, for a minimum of 5 sweepings.”
In other words, Nansen’s Smart Sweeper tag can help give you a bird’s-eye view of the most profitable NFTers in the space and what they’re minting or selling at any given time.
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Gem is an NFT marketplace aggregator that was just acquired by OpenSea. The platform aggregates NFT listings and sales across OpenSea, LooksRare, NFTX, X2Y2, and more marketplaces to come.
Since Gem aggregates and tracks NFT activity across multiple platforms, I like to occasionally check out the dapp to see what sort of NFTs are trending in that given moment.
For example, if you head to the “Trending Collections” section of the Gem homepage, you’ll find a marketplace stats section that will show you which NFT projects have had the most cross-ecosystem trade volume over the last day, the last week, the last month, and all time.
If you’re on the hunt for new NFT projects, it’s worth periodically checking Gem’s volume stats to see if any new collections are exploding out of the gate on the 24-hr volume charts.
Want to get really serious about finding new NFT projects really early on? Consider getting robotic about the hunt.
For instance, security researcher Austin Williams has created the Alpha Leaks Bot, which tweets out when a new Ethereum smart contract reaches over $1M in total value locked (TVL) for the first time.
These days, many of the projects the bot tweets about are upstart NFT collections. Most of these projects are admittedly garbage that never amount to anything, but you can’t rule out this bot tipping you off to star NFTs early on in the future.
These sorts of automated services are worth keeping an eye on, at the very least.