• NFTs Surge, DeFi Booms, and Crypto Presales Sizzle: Your Weekly Web3 Roundup with Crypto Willy

  • Apr 19 2025
  • Length: 3 mins
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NFTs Surge, DeFi Booms, and Crypto Presales Sizzle: Your Weekly Web3 Roundup with Crypto Willy

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

    Hey friends, Crypto Willy here, ready to break down the wild week in Web3—NFTs, DeFi, and all things crypto. Grab your digital wallet and let’s dive straight into the latest from this rollercoaster space.

    Let’s kick things off with the NFT scene. April’s shaping up strong, shaking off a quiet March with a 46% jump in NFT trading volume, hitting $14 million in just 24 hours this week. The shiny spotlight falls on DeFi Dungeons, a Solana-powered idle RPG collection, taking the throne with $1.5 million in sales and a $5 million market cap. Not far behind, Taproot Wizards—crafted by the Quantum Cats creator—landed $1.1 million in daily sales and a hefty $28 million market cap on the Bitcoin blockchain. Clearly, NFTs aren’t hibernating; they’re back in the spotlight, with real gaming and art utility leading the charge.

    On the DeFi front, President Trump made waves by repealing regulations on DeFi activities. This move sparked both excitement and a little regulatory whiplash across the space. At the same time, big players like Cronos and ChainGPT struck up new partnerships, promising better scalable AI-powered DeFi solutions. Over at PumpSwap—a DEX from the pump.fun team—trading volume soared 37% in a single week, tallying up to $5.4 billion, and daily volume peaked at $478 million with over 219,000 active wallets on April 15. For those watching the blue chips, Curve Finance reported monster transaction growth, topping $35 billion for Q1, nearly a 13% bump from last year.

    But not all the news was bullish. Security took a hit as KiloEx, a cross-chain protocol, suffered a $7.4 million exploit, adding another cautionary tale about keeping your digital assets locked down tight and being wary of phishing schemes, which also ran rampant this week.

    On the more speculative side, presale cryptos are back in the limelight. Names like BlockDAG, Cold Wallet, Dragoin, Web3Bay, and Web3 ai are generating serious buzz, with some touting 10,000% potential ROI—though remember, that’s the marketing, not a guarantee!

    Meanwhile, new innovations are brewing. GMX, the decentralized derivatives heavy-hitter, proposed shifting to the EVM-compatible Bitcoin L2 network Botanix. If the DAO greenlights it, we could soon see trustless Bitcoin trading hit the L2 stage for the first time—a massive leap for DeFi composability.

    And don’t ignore Qubetics, which is making noise with its decentralized VPN concept, bucking trends and gathering momentum in presale rounds, just as the Fed’s latest moves rattle overall market sentiment.

    So, whether you’re flipping NFTs, yield farming, or watching for the next crypto unicorn, this week proves Web3 continues to evolve at lightning speed. That’s the scoop, straight from your best friend next door in crypto—stay savvy, stay secure, and I’ll see you on the blockchain!

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