NBA Top Shot: What’s rising and falling on the marketplace
By Duncan Smith
The NBA world has been swept up by the NBA Top Shot phenomenon over the last few months, but it’s reached a critical mass recently. NBA Top Shot’s developers, Dapper Labs, have battled to keep up with the soaring demand and interest, and it’s had fascinating impacts on things from infrastructure to the valuation of Moments.
First, if you’re one of the many newcomers to this space, check out our helpful guide here for a quick primer on just what NBA Top Shot is.
What’s rising and falling on NBA Top Shot’s marketplace
One of the more interesting byproducts of the insane jump in demand that NBA Top Shot has experienced is that the valuation of Moments have largely spiked. If it’s even a remotely rare or in-demand Moment, chances are somebody wants it or needs it and are willing to pay for it.
NBA Top Shot has a proprietary marketplace where you can buy and sell Moments (they recommend all transactions take place there so they can oversee proper practices in sales), and they make it easy to see what cards like yours have sold for recently. If you want to go a step deeper and analyze some trends for Moments (and ogle the valuation of your own collection and that of your friends), you can visit evaluate.market.
That’s the spot to keep an eye on what your Moments are fetching on the marketplace. In our new feature, we’re going to use evaluate.market to keep an eye on some of the biggest risers and fallers on the market. Plenty of lower-priced Moments are highly prone to fluctuation, and it’s definitely exciting to see your $8 Jaylen Brown dunk jump to $20 overnight for who knows what reason, but we’ll focus our attention on bigger ticket Moments.
Our minimum for both rising and falling Moments will be $100, and we’ll catch some bigger price items along the way. We’ll be using the percentage of increase or decrease as our focus metric.