NFT Winter Shifts to Utility: AI, Gaming, and Institutional Plays

Web3 Deep Dive: NFTs, DeFi, and Cryptocurrency Explained podcast.

Hey folks, Crypto Willy here, your best buddy diving deep into Web3 this week leading up to December 13, 2025. Let's kick off with NFTs, where Ethereum's still the undisputed king. KuCoin reports Ethereum snagged 62% of weekly NFT sales at $33.7 million, outpacing BNB Chain's $6.4 million, Mythos Chain's $4.9 million, and Solana's $4.4 million. CryptoPunks and Bored Ape Yacht Club are holding the fort strong amid rising rivals.

But hey, it's NFT Winter out there—AInvest nails it, with the global market hitting $34.1 billion this year, eyeing a 41.9% CAGR to $247 billion by 2029. We're shifting from hype to utility: gaming NFTs own 38% of transactions, like Axie Infinity's massive $3.94 billion volume. Luxury's in too—Gucci's Art Space phygitals are killing it, and institutions like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are tokenizing NFT collateral, boosted by Europe's MiCA regs. Exploding Topics spots AI NFTs exploding, with 0G Lab's ERC-7857 for intelligent NFTs and artists like Claire Silver dropping AI art for Gucci. OpenSea's rocking 2.4 million users, average sale at $940—real value now.

Flipping to DeFi, activity's buzzing on Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin L2s, and fresh chains, per CryptoAdventure's December rundown. Zora's gone fully open to all NFT users, supercharging creator liquidity.

Crypto side? Ethereum's steady at $3,104, BNB at $898, Solana $133—stable amid the NFT dip from October's $629 million to November's $320 million, says KuCoin. Broader market's maturing, with US driving 41% of NFT trades.

Web3's evolving, pals—from speculative flips to play-and-own, AI agents, and institutional cash. Stay sharp!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, folks, crypto Willy here your best buddy. Diving deep
into web three this week leading up to December thirteenth,
twenty twenty five, let's kick off with NFTs, where Ethereum
still the endospeeded King two coin reports. Ethereum snag sixty
two percent of weekly NFT sales at thirty three dollars
and seventy cents million, outpacing B and B chains six
dollars and forty cents million, Mythus Chains four dollars and

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ninety cents million, and Solana's four dollars and forty cents million.
Crypto punks and board Apiach Club are holding the fort
strong amid rising rivals. But hey, it's NFT winter out there.
A invest nails it, with the global market hitting thirty
four dollars and ten cents billion this year, eyeing a
forty one point nine percent kg to two hundred and
forty seven dollars billion by twenty twenty nine. We're shifting

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from hype to utility. A and V NFTs on thirty
eight percent of transactions, like Axieinfinity's massive three dollars and
ninety four cents billion volume luxuries in two Gucci's art
spaceed figitals are killing it in institution means like Goldman
Sacks and JP Morgan are tokenizing NFT collateral boosted by
Europe's Micker Rags, exploding topics spots AI NFT is exploding

(01:09):
with zero grams labs erc dashed seven eighty five seven
for intelligent NFTs and artists like Claire Silver dropping AI
art for Gucci. Open Seas rocking two point four million
users average sale at nine hundred and forty dollars real
value now flipping to DeFi activities buzzing on Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin,
l Two's and fresh Chains per Crypto Adventures December rundown,

(01:31):
Zora's gone fully open to all NFT users, Supercharging Creator Liquidity, Cryptocide,
Ethereum steady at three thousand, one hundred and four dollars
B and B at eight hundred and ninety eight dollars,
Solana one hundred and thirty three dollars stable amid the
NFT dip from October six hundred and twenty nine dollars
million to November's three hundred and twenty dollars million, says

(01:52):
cu coin Broader markets maturing with US driving forty one
percent of NFT trades. Web Three's evolving power from speculative
flips to play and on AI agents and institutional cash
stay sharp. Thanks for tuning in. Catch you next week
for more. This has been a quiet please production and
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