Is the NFT market making a comeback? This is what the data shows.

Although not as impressive as 2022's performance, this market seems to be slowly recovering.

The NFT movement seems to be gaining a resurgence with increasing adoption rates predicted to grow exponentially in the coming years.

Some metrics point to steady renewal, but we'll soon be far from our glory years.

Predicted for growth

According to the report of the analytical platform Coinlaw.io, the non-reversible token (NFT) market is showing signs of revival. Moving away from speculative art to an interconnected ecosystem that includes fashion, gaming and legal affairs, it is predicted to grow into the hundreds of billions by the end of the decade.

Current forecasts suggest that the global NFT market will reach more than $60 billion by 2025, and with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 42%, will exceed $247 billion by 2029, depending on adoption trends and market conditions.

The leading trends remain gaming and digital art, representing 38% of global NFT transactions and 21% of market size. Some recent transactions, such as real estate, have exceeded $1.4 billion, and figital tokens, linked to physical goods, have seen transaction volume rise 60%, led by luxury brands.

Institutions and venture capital (VC) firms also seem to be drawn to this market, with the latter investing $4.2 billion in NFT projects this year alone. Financial firms such as Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan have explored tokens as collateral for digital assets, while firms such as SoftBank and Sequoia Capital are expanding into tokenized digital assets.

Additionally, an application has already been filed for the Pudgy Penguins ETF by asset manager Canary Capital, which could hold the Penguin Meme coin and the Pudgy Penguins NFT collection.

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Transaction volume and sales

NFT sales have been steadily increasing since the start of the year, with transaction volume hitting record highs, with a $2M jump and $419 million decline, respectively.

As noted in the chart, July and August saw the strongest recovery since the mid-year decline, adding nearly a billion NFT to the market cap and the number of wallets increasing by 90,000.

Despite signs of recovery, the market is still far from its 2022 peak, which saw a market cap of nearly $24.7 billion, while its current level is just shy of $6B, a whopping 76% decline, according to data from CoinGecko at press time.