The global NFT marketplace market reached $1.675 billion in 2025 and continues its growth trajectory with a compound annual growth rate of 3.40% through the forecast period. The broader NFT market capitalization exceeds $86 billion as of early 2026, with a compound annual growth rate approaching 41.8%. Gaming NFTs generated over $21 billion in the preceding year. These ...
According to DappRadar’s third quarter 2025 report, around 18.7 million wallets connect to a decentralized application every day. One of the most popular use cases of decentralized applications is gaming, accounting for 25% of interactions. Others that follow include NFTs at 18.5% and DeFi at 17.9%. In fact, the DeFi sector alone has locked up ...
In 2021, when the concept of NFT was merely young, the entire building principles around non-fungible tokens revolved around hype. The story is quite different today. Now, more than ever, NVT development involves displaying a keen interest, not just in beautiful arts, but also in tokens that unlock some form of utility, or something tangible. ...
Metaverse development has become a broad category that covers everything from browser-based virtual spaces to large-scale multiplayer environments, immersive training platforms, digital showrooms, social worlds, and blockchain-enabled ecosystems. That breadth creates an obvious problem for companies looking for a development partner: almost every agency that works with 3D technology, virtual reality, blockchain, or interactive applications ...
Remember the 2021 NFT boom? In 2026, the NFT market is just a shadow of what it was in 2021. Yet, many NFT marketplace development services continue to ride on the nostalgia of the NFT boom. Key takeaways: NFT data analytics indicated that the trading volumes plunged to merely 823 million in Q2 2025, a ...
Making a token on an existing blockchain is today something that takes minutes and costs cents. Open-source libraries and already-resolved standards eliminated the technical barrier. The result is a market flooded with new tokens: CoinGecko analyzed 18.67 million tokens launched on Pump.fun and found that 68.67% stopped trading on the same day of their creation. Only 4.55% remained active ...
On Monday, August 31st, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced that the social media giant telegram is starting the rollout of its Gram wallet to a select group of users. The CEO announced that the network targets to roll the wallet out gradually in the next few weeks targeting over $1 billion users. In a post ...
Atomic swaps enable trustless peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchanges across different blockchains. The protocol guarantees a binary outcome: either both parties receive their assets or both receive refunds. Three distinct mechanisms have emerged in this domain: Hash Time-Locked Contracts (HTLCs), Point Time-Locked Contracts (PTLCs), and Taproot-enabled PTLCs. Each represents a successive layer of cryptographic optimization, moving contract logic from on-chain scripts ...
Hedera Hashgraph operates a public distributed ledger that does not rely on a blockchain. The network implements a directed acyclic graph (DAG) data structure combined with the Hashgraph consensus algorithm, a combination that distinguishes it from conventional blockchain architectures. This design delivers ~10,000 transactions per second (TPS) on the mainnet with 3–5 second absolute finality, compared to Ethereum’s ~15–30 TPS and ~13-minute ...
Multiple Layer-1 networks are now building infrastructure designed exclusively for autonomous AI agents, eliminating the human from the transaction loop entirely. Neo co-founder Da Hongfei formalized this direction in March 2026 with a strategy document positioning Neo X as a “Humanless Blockchain“. BNB Chain followed in July 2026 with plans for a dedicated Layer-1 targeting ...