Digital land is in loftier demand in what is already a highly lucrative market as the by week's nonfungible token (NFT) and Metaverse sales figures revealed.

Data from industry metrics platform NonFungible.com indicates that there has been more than than $300 million in NFT sales over the past week. Of that total, almost a quarter has been for digital land in The Sandbox metaverse.

Over the past week, each one of the top 10 NFT metaverse sales beyond the pinnacle v collections were for in-game digital country.

The Sandbox traded a total book of $70.5 million for four,433 assets over the past week — making it the metaverse collection that raked in the most cash.

Although Decentraland ranked in second place for the full volume traded, the top 10 most expensive metaverse NFT sales during the past week, ranging from 225,000 MANA ($758,250) to 50,000 MANA ($220,000), were all on the Ethereum-based virtual world. Decentraland traded $six.half dozen million in volume for 399 assets over the past week.

Meanwhile, over the past seven days, CryptoVoxels traded around $650,000 in volume for 81 avails; Somnium Infinite traded $492,000 for 40 assets; and SuperWorld traded $227,600 for 506 assets — all of their superlative trades were also for virtual land.

The metaverse is an immersive virtual reality feel of the internet that uses blockchain technology and NFTs to pay and own items online. For case, when you make an in-game purchase, you really ain the particular and are gratis to hold, merchandise or sell information technology.

According to DappRadar, $106 million worth of metaverse land was sold among more than six,000 traders in the week ending on Thursday. "Undoubtedly, Metaverse land is the adjacent big hitting in the NFT space. Outputting record sales numbers and constantly increasing NFT prices, virtual worlds are the new acme commodity in the crypto space," stated DappRadar in a blog post at the time.

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In June, a virtual real manor investment firm bankrupt Decentraland's record for the most expensive digital country plot ever sold after spending $913,000 on 259 parcels.

On NFT marketplace Opensea, Sandbox and Dentraland held their spots as the top two collections traded on the platform over the past week.