Messari has issued its State of Move Q1 2025 report, highlighting Move’s efficiency up to now this 12 months.
Launched by Dapper Labs in 2020, Move was one of many earliest pioneers in implementing account abstractions and UX enhancements. In Q1 2025, the consumer-facing community superior this work, increasing its partnerships with a number of cross-chain bridges, together with LayerZero, Axelar, and deBridge. Move is now built-in with over 100 chains, enhancing composability and onboarding for builders.
Though usually overseen among the many hundreds of different shopper chains at the moment, the report signifies good ahead momentum for Move, notably when it comes to its NFT ecosystem, essentially the most energetic sector on the chain.
Regardless of difficult macro market situations, each gross sales and person acquisition round NFTs on Move have been up 7% QoQ in 2025. Specific manufacturers and IP driving this momentum embrace NFL, NBA, Disney, Barbie, Scorching Wheels, UFC, and extra, all of which unlock new ROI by way of gamified, mobile-first fan experiences.
NBA Prime Shot, NFL All Day, and their IP-based NFTs are the 2 dominant collections. Collectively, these made up 80% of its $8.1 million of NFT buying and selling quantity in Q1.
Notably, each NBA Prime Shot and NFL All Day NFTs may also be used to compete and play in prediction competitions, challenges and tournaments.
A part of Move’s Q1 development can also be due to the community’s collaboration with OpenSea, which noticed the NFT market going reside on Move in February 2025. With this integration customers are in a position to commerce NFTs and earn XP on the platform utilizing Move Pockets.
In March, Move’s main NFT assortment NBA Prime Shot turned tradable on OpenSea, after which it was ranked in OpenSea’s prime 5 trending collections for 4 weeks.
When it comes to video games, Move emerged into the sector in 2023, however hasn’t fairly discovered its candy spot but. In step with the recognition of sports activities content material on the community, it’s no shock that Metaverse Soccer League (MFL) is essentially the most profitable recreation. In Q1, it generated $1 million, up 130% QoQ, in secondary-market quantity throughout Packs and Gamers.
Common day by day energetic addresses on Move additionally elevated 144% QoQ, and day by day transactions have been up 10.6% from This autumn 2024.
Lastly, the DeFi sector noticed some document highs too, with Move’s TVL hitting an all-time excessive of $44.4 million, led by protocols like KittyPunch and MORE Markets. These supply new investing and buying and selling alternatives, one thing that widens Move’s use case past NFTs.
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