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Bankless: Five Major Predictions for NFTs in 2025
Original Article Title: 5 NFT Predictions for 2025
Original Article Author: William M. Peaster, Bankless
Original Article Translation: Wuzhu, Golden Finance
Driven by record-breaking minting activity and the continued growth of use cases, NFTs solidified their position as a cornerstone of crypto innovation in 2024.
The new year is poised to push the boundaries of NFTs even further as real-world applications drive mainstream adoption, cultural breakthroughs redefine the concept of ownership, and with momentum from all sides, the space is set to achieve even greater heights in 2025!
From infrastructure improvements to price surges, here are five bold predictions that I believe will define the next chapter of the NFT revolution.
New Minting Records
According to Electric Capital's annual developer report, the NFT space experienced its most active year to date.
Benefiting from low transaction fees on Ethereum's layer 2 solutions and increasing competition from alternative layer 1 solutions, creators launched more NFT contracts than ever before and met similar strong demand: minting volume, transaction volume, and the number of active minting wallets all hit historic highs in 2024.
Looking ahead to 2025, the crypto space should brace for another wave of NFT innovation and activity. Rekindled interest from creators and consumers, coupled with improvements in user experience and groundbreaking consumer-facing applications, should set the stage for unprecedented growth.
We will closely monitor new developments in the Abstract ecosystem and the continued rise of on-chain proxies like Virtuals and Wayfinder as the vanguard of NFT adoption.
Infrastructure Will Play a Bigger Role
While NFTs are most commonly associated with the proliferation of image-based on-chain collectibles, we anticipate that less obvious non-fungible use cases will see the most adoption in 2025.
Stablecoin issuer Liquity recently integrated NFTs for V2, enabling users to transfer or trade their collateral debt positions. Polymarket's conditional NFTs have facilitated the creation of prediction markets, and the emerging AI agent creation platform Virtuals uses NFTs in its Immutable Contribution Vault (ICV) system to track contributions.
NFT will continue to be a comfortable format for artists to distribute their creations, but expect this transformative technology to play a larger role in practical on-chain applications.
The Cambrian Explosion of Gaming
In October, Starknet partnered with Cartridge's L2 Gaming Master to stress test its L2 and set a new L2 speed record in the process! During the trial period, Starknet's average fee was only $0.002 per transaction, processing up to 867 transactions per second.
The rise of account abstraction has greatly improved the user experience for crypto newcomers. Although mainstream laggards have yet to adopt crypto gaming at scale, the sector provides gamers with in-game item ownership and introduces token incentive mechanisms, allowing them to explore new data while promoting financial inclusion.
With blockchain infrastructure continuing to improve in 2025, we expect the increasing popularity of on-chain gaming to drive L2 to its first-ever +1k TPS.
Bitcoin Puppets Poised for Breakthrough
Imagine this: It's November 2025, and BTC has just surpassed $500,000. The United States under the leadership of Donald Trump continues to accumulate BTC as a strategic reserve, and this momentum shows no signs of slowing down.
In this era of newfound abundance, BTC whales may seek to flaunt their wealth through top-tier NFT projects (similar to what Ether OG did during the last bull market). As a consensus game leading in the niche Ordinals space with strong community support, Bitcoin Puppets have a unique advantage to capture the lion's share of these inflows.
Under such favorable conditions, Bitcoin Puppets may not only ride the wave of the bull market but also solidify their position as a top 5 NFT collection by the end of the year.
CryptoPunks Poised to Set New Records
Some of the largest NFT sales in cryptocurrency are CryptoPunks, with the "Alien" variant of this PFP series firmly leading the sales charts! An Alien Punk 5822 was sold for a record-breaking 8,000 ETH (24 million USD) near the peak of the 2022 NFT bubble, and two of these highly coveted collectibles changed hands in 2024 at a staggering eight-figure price.
We expect ETH to rebound in 2025 as both institutions and individuals seek greater access to decentralized finance and on-chain computation. With these powerful tailwinds, record-breaking sales of Alien CryptoPunks may occur.
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Mixin has launched USTD-margined perpetual contracts, bringing derivative trading into the chat scene.
The privacy-focused crypto wallet Mixin announced today the launch of its U-based perpetual contract (a derivative priced in USDT). Unlike traditional exchanges, Mixin has taken a new approach by "liberating" derivative trading from isolated matching engines and embedding it into the instant messaging environment.
Users can directly open positions within the app with leverage of up to 200x, while sharing positions, discussing strategies, and copy trading within private communities. Trading, social interaction, and asset management are integrated into the same interface.
Based on its non-custodial architecture, Mixin has eliminated friction from the traditional onboarding process, allowing users to participate in perpetual contract trading without identity verification.
The trading process has been streamlined into five steps:
· Choose the trading asset
· Select long or short
· Input position size and leverage
· Confirm order details
· Confirm and open the position
The interface provides real-time visualization of price, position, and profit and loss (PnL), allowing users to complete trades without switching between multiple modules.
Mixin has directly integrated social features into the derivative trading environment. Users can create private trading communities and interact around real-time positions:
· End-to-end encrypted private groups supporting up to 1024 members
· End-to-end encrypted voice communication
· One-click position sharing
· One-click trade copying
On the execution side, Mixin aggregates liquidity from multiple sources and accesses decentralized protocol and external market liquidity through a unified trading interface.
By combining social interaction with trade execution, Mixin enables users to collaborate, share, and execute trading strategies instantly within the same environment.
Mixin has also introduced a referral incentive system based on trading behavior:
· Users can join with an invite code
· Up to 60% of trading fees as referral rewards
· Incentive mechanism designed for long-term, sustainable earnings
This model aims to drive user-driven network expansion and organic growth.
Mixin's derivative transactions are built on top of its existing self-custody wallet infrastructure, with core features including:
· Separation of transaction account and asset storage
· User full control over assets
· Platform does not custody user funds
· Built-in privacy mechanisms to reduce data exposure
The system aims to strike a balance between transaction efficiency, asset security, and privacy protection.
Against the background of perpetual contracts becoming a mainstream trading tool, Mixin is exploring a different development direction by lowering barriers, enhancing social and privacy attributes.
The platform does not only view transactions as execution actions but positions them as a networked activity: transactions have social attributes, strategies can be shared, and relationships between individuals also become part of the financial system.
Mixin's design is based on a user-initiated, user-controlled model. The platform neither custodies assets nor executes transactions on behalf of users.
This model aligns with a statement issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on April 13, 2026, titled "Staff Statement on Whether Partial User Interface Used in Preparing Cryptocurrency Securities Transactions May Require Broker-Dealer Registration."
The statement indicates that, under the premise where transactions are entirely initiated and controlled by users, non-custodial service providers that offer neutral interfaces may not need to register as broker-dealers or exchanges.
Mixin is a decentralized, self-custodial privacy wallet designed to provide secure and efficient digital asset management services.
Its core capabilities include:
· Aggregation: integrating multi-chain assets and routing between different transaction paths to simplify user operations
· High liquidity access: connecting to various liquidity sources, including decentralized protocols and external markets
· Decentralization: achieving full user control over assets without relying on custodial intermediaries
· Privacy protection: safeguarding assets and data through MPC, CryptoNote, and end-to-end encrypted communication
Mixin has been in operation for over 8 years, supporting over 40 blockchains and more than 10,000 assets, with a global user base exceeding 10 million and an on-chain self-custodied asset scale of over $1 billion.
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