Locked liquidity on Decentralized Finance (Defi) applications achieved a record of $ 270 billion in July, partly powered by Tokenized stock growth.
The Daptar data shows the total value locked (TVL) in Defi-Protocols jumped 30% monthly-over-month, while active portfolios for tokenized shares rose from around 1,600 to more than 90,000, which pushed their market hairstyles 220%.
In the meantime, NFT trade volumes rose 96% to $ 530 million in the month. The average NFT price also doubled to around $ 105 as more users are involved in the market.
NFT activity edges before Defi
While Defi -Liquidity climbed, the user’s attention shifted elsewhere. In July, around 3.85 million of the 22 million daily active portfolios with NFT Dapps interacted – slightly more than was active in Defi.
Ethereum-Based Marktplaats Blur rode a lot of the activities and recorded up to 80% of the daily NFT volume, while OpenSea was at the top of around 27,000 traders. Zora also got Momentum with his maker-first layer 2 and $ Zora token for cheap mining.
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Big brands continued to experiment with NFTs. Nike.Swoosh collaborated with EA Sports for virtual sneaker drops, and Louis Vuitton, Rolex and Coca-Cola (China) launched authentication and collection pilots.
NFT trading volume also rose to $ 530 million by around 36% in July, an increase of $ 389 million in June, although it is still falling compared to the 2025 high of $ 997 million in January.
Source: Dapp Radar
As reported by Cointelegraph, there has been a revival in interest in OG NFT collections such as cryptopunks. Data from NFT floor price shows that the collection-based collection has risen by more than 25% in the past month.
During the last 24 hours, nine of the top 10 NFT sale were cryptopunks: the only non-punk sales were an NFT from the Web3 artist Beeble.
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NFT -Market is still far from the flowering of 2021
Despite the Rebound of July, NFTs are still overwhelming compared to earlier peaks. The overview of the industry of DAPRADAR 2024 shows that the trade volume of NFT fell by 19% and decreased by 19% annually and that sales figures fell by 18%, so that 2024 one of the weakest years since 2020.
CryptoSlam data for H1 2025 further underline the slow recovery: the sale of NFT was $ 2.82 billion, a decrease of 4.6% compared to the second half of 2024.
Although there was a remarkable revival in July, with trade volume and floor prices, the market still rise far below the highlights of 2021, when trade volumes encountered the dozens of billions.