ENS Trading Goes Crazy as Market Snaps up 4-Digit Numbers

ENS continues to enable the Web 3 world through its name service.

Investors and NFT enthusiasts clamored for a newly released batch of 10,000 ENS domain NFTs. From 0000 to 9999, the NFT collection soared in value, sparking a frenzy within their new community. The 10,000 ENS names sold out in less than 6 hours for $200 each and are now trading for over $1,500 on the secondary market.

The 4-Digit ENS Battle

In the past 24 hours, the number of traders purchasing ENS domains surged more than 183% to almost 9,000, while sales jumped 198% to 22,153. This suggests that each trader bought two ENS domain names as people raced to secure their own four-digit Web3 identities.

Over the last two days, a flurry of people registering and purchasing newly released four-digit Ethereum Name Service (ENS) web domains has caused a substantial spike in trading volume. In the last 48 hours, more than 28,000 ENS names registered to push ENS NFT trading volume up 334%. A recent Dune Analytics dashboard for ENS shows us that the spike began around April 21, when registrations jumped from around 2,700 to more than 7000 by April 24.

Surprisingly, PFPs aren’t the only way to build a community in the Web3 space. For example, a Twitter page called 10kClub invited all the holders of four-digit ENS names to join an exclusive Discord. Since its creation, the Discords is now home to over 3,000 ENS holders. As the community continues to develop, it will be intriguing to see how the community grows and fosters new ideas.

In Web 3, verification is everything, and subdomains help NFT projects eliminate the theft of NFT by the “right-click save” skeptics. Since images can be faked, a domain cannot. As collection fraud continues to proliferate, the industry may need a new approach to verification.