In 2025, meme coins and AI tokens dominated crypto attention but underperformed, posting average YTD losses of -31.6% and -50.2%, respectively, with most major tokens falling sharply. DeFi (-34.8%), DEXs (-55.5%), and Layer 2s (-40.6%) also struggled, reflecting a challenging year across popular narratives. In contrast, real-world assets (RWA) led gains with 185.8% YTD, alongside strong Layer 1 performance at 80.3%, while Gaming, DePIN, and Solana saw steep declines. Overall, 2025 highlighted a shift from speculative trends toward RWA and Layer 1 resilience.
NFT sales decline slightly.
NFT sales remain stable despite the Ethereum drop.
Bitcoin BRC-20 NFTs drive weekly volume.
More buyers and sellers are returning to the NFT marketplace.
Global NFT sales registered a slight decrease, reaching around US$65,5 million last week, remaining relatively stable compared to the previous period. Despite the virtually unchanged volume, the market showed clear signs of increased participation, with significant growth in the number of active buyers and sellers.
The total number of NFT buyers increased by 26,31%, reaching 292.030 addresses, while the number of sellers rose by 24,44%, reaching 205.205. The number of transactions remained practically stable, with a slight decrease of 0,95%, totaling 869.747 operations, indicating a greater dispersion of transactions.
In the platform rankings, DMarket, built on the Mythos blockchain, regained its weekly leadership position, processing US$5,32 million in sales. The 72,49% growth compared to the previous week was accompanied by nearly 143 transactions, with over 10,6 buyers and 9 sellers, reinforcing the platform's role in the gaming-related NFT segment.
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Second place went to Polygon's marketplace, which reached US$4,99 million in volume, a 66,58% increase compared to the previous week. This performance was accompanied by strong activity, with over 67 transactions and a high number of buyers, despite a smaller seller base.
Bitcoin-based BRC-20 NFTs advanced to third place, with US$3,45 million in sales and a significant appreciation of 335,14%. There were 2.100 transactions, with significant participation from buyers and sellers, reinforcing the positive momentum of NFTs on the Bitcoin network.
Among the collections, CryptoPunks climbed to fourth place, totaling US$2,51 million in sales, a 68,62% increase in the week. In contrast, Milady Maker fell to fifth position, with US$2,26 million traded, reflecting a 42,01% drop in volume.
In the blockchain breakdown, Ethereum maintained its lead in NFT sales, but suffered a sharp drop of 23,92%, totaling US$20,88 million. Bitcoin took second place with US$12,12 million, after a weekly advance of 70,52%. Solana showed a significant decline, falling by 23,03%, while Polygon and Mythos Chain registered solid growth, supporting the diversification of the NFT market across different networks.
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Institutional Investors Dump Bitcoin and Ethereum, Buy Solana and XRP, Trigger $952,000,000 of Weekly Outflows: CoinShares
Institutional investors just sold an overall total of $952 billion in Bitcoin and crypto assets in only one week, according to a new update from Coinshares.
This marks the first outflows in four weeks for digital asset investment products.
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CoinShares notes the sell-off happened alongside delays in the US Clarity Act and concerns over whale investors selling adding pressure.
Ethereum led the outflows with $555 million withdrawn. Bitcoin followed with $460 million in outflows.
Solana saw inflows of $48.5 million, while XRP gained $62.9 million.
The US drove most of the negative flow. Outflows there reached $990 million. Canada offset some with $46.2 million in inflows. Germany added $15.6 million.
Assets under management now stand at $46.7 billion, below below last year’s $48.7 billion.
Year-to-date inflows for Bitcoin hit $27.2 billion. That’s down from $41.6 billion in 2024. Ethereum’s year-to-date inflows are $12.7 billion, up from $5.3 billion last year.
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💥 Popular Altcoin Founder Shares Predictions for 2026
Eli Ben-Sasson, co-founder of StarkNet (STRK) and CEO of StarkWare, shared his predictions for the cryptocurrency ecosystem in 2026.
Ben-Sasson’s analyses focus on topics such as the rise of privacy technologies, competition among smart contract platforms, and the resurgence of the on-chain gaming ecosystem.
According to Ben-Sasson, the concept of privacy will become more prominent in the crypto world by 2026. The StarkWare CEO stated that he expects increased interest in privacy within the community and expressed cautious optimism that some trusted execution environments (TZEs) and technological updates in this area could be implemented during the year.
Ben-Sasson argued that competition will continue in the smart contract and DeFi spheres, stating that the battle between Ethereum and Solana will not produce a clear winner until the end of 2026. He predicted that both networks will remain strong and play decisive roles in the ecosystem.
Ben-Sasson, drawing attention to blockchain gaming as a more surprising topic, argued that the gaming sector will make a strong comeback in the new year with on-chain solutions. He believes this comeback will particularly occur on Starknet, explaining that this is due to the ease with which features needed by gaming applications can be delivered thanks to native computational abstraction (NAA), and Starknet’s high scalability capacity.
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