NFT Lending Volume Surpass $2.1B, Led by Blend

24 April 2024

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What Is the Top NFT Lending Platform?

Blend is the top NFT lending platform, dominating the market with a 92.9% share, at a monthly lending volume of $562.33 million in March 2024. Blend launched in May 2023 as the lending protocol offered by leading NFT marketplace Blur (BLUR), and immediately captured a majority 82.7% market share in the same month. Since then, Blend’s monthly market share has remained in the lead, ranging from 88.8% to 96.5%. In Q1 2024, Blend saw its NFT lending volume jump 49.2% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) to reach a new high of $2.02 billion.

Arcade, NFTfi Lead Among Smaller NFT Lending Players

The next most popular NFT lending platforms are Arcade (ARCD) with 2.8% in market share from $16.94 million NFT lending volume, and NFTfi (NFTFI) with 2.2% from $13.32 million volume in March 2024. Arcade and NFTfi are the only other NFT lending platforms that have managed to consistently capture above 1.0% in monthly market share since last year.

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Arcade also recorded a new quarterly high of $39.46 million in NFT lending volume in Q1 this year, which is a 37.1% increase QoQ. In the same period, NFTfi’s lending volume rose 48.3% QoQ to reach $35.88 million. With Arcade’s token launch in April 2024 and NFTfi’s upcoming token launch, it remains to be seen what the impact will be on each platform’s NFT lending volumes.

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The remaining NFT lending platforms are X2Y2 (X2Y2) and BendDAO (BEND), which both hold 0.8% market share, and Parallel Finance (formerly ParaX) with 0.5% market share.

Total NFT Lending Volume Hits $2.1B High in Q1 2024

The total NFT lending volume reached a quarterly high of $2.13 billion last quarter, representing a growth of 43.6% QoQ as 5 of the 6 biggest NFT lending platforms experienced higher volumes. In particular, January 2024 saw a record $0.90 billion in total monthly NFT lending volume, surpassing the previous high of $0.85 billion in June 2023.

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Market share of the top 6 biggest NFT lending platforms by lending volume, as of March 2024:

Rank	NFT Lending Platform	Market Share
1	Blend	92.91%
2	Arcade	2.80%
3	NFTfi	2.20%
4	X2Y2	0.78%
5	BendDAO	0.77%
6	Parallel Finance	0.54%

NFT Lending Volume by Month

The total NFT lending volume each month, across the top 6 NFT lending platforms:

Month	Total NFT Lending Volume
Jan 2023	$76.01 million
Feb 2023	$70.75 million
Mar 2023	$83.07 million
Apr 2023	$102.18 million
May 2023	$418.46 million
Jun 2023	$847.54 million
Jul 2023	$538.38 million
Aug 2023	$380.32 million
Sep 2023	$310.54 million
Oct 2023	$323.12 million
Nov 2023	$563.07 million
Dec 2023	$598.26 million
Jan 2024	$900.92 million
Feb 2024	$625.20 million
Mar 2024	$605.23 million

Methodology

The study examined the top NFT lending platforms by monthly lending volume from January 2023 to March 2024, based on Dune Analytics data from @ahkek, @nftfi-team, @beetle and @arcade_xyz.

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Lim Yu Qian

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