{"id":49774,"date":"2021-09-20T13:48:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T10:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=49774"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T11:23:22","slug":"report-dapp-users-shift-from-defi-to-nft-and-gamefi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/report-dapp-users-shift-from-defi-to-nft-and-gamefi\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Dapp users shift from DeFi to NFT and GameFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Share of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-decentralised-finance-defi\">DeFi<\/a>-protocols in the traffic of tracked DappRadar decentralized applications (dapps) from May to August fell from 45% to 18%, giving way to projects in the GameFi and NFT segments (45% and 41%, respectively).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gamers get serious \ud83c\udfae<\/p>\n<p>\u00abDeFi dapps now represent around 18% of the traffic whereas games account for 45%\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Learn more in our User Behaviour Report<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CskHbLZcfE\">https:\/\/t.co\/CskHbLZcfE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DappRadar (@DappRadar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DappRadar\/status\/1439590108932440068?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Analysts attributed the rising share of GameFi and NFT segments from July to August to the popularization of the <span class=\"old_tooltip\" data-descr=\"play-to-earn\">play-to-earn<\/span> concept in blockchain games and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/opensea-nft-marketplace-trading-volume-tops-3-billion-since-early-august\">new wave of interest<\/a> in non-fungible tokens.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"645\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-550.png\" alt=\"Report: dapp users shift from DeFi to NFT and GameFi\" class=\"wp-image-149928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-550.png 645w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-550-300x156.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><figcaption>Dapp dynamics by category. Data: DappRadar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u00abBlockchain games significantly intersect with NFTs, as items or even game characters are represented by these non-fungible tokens\u00bb<\/em>, \u2014 explained the experts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Geographically, the largest contribution to NFT-driven traffic came from users in the United States, Thailand, India, Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Daily user activity analysis across different dapps showed a 63% increase in connections to gaming projects from July to August. During this period, similar metrics for DeFi and NFT rose by 3% and 6%, respectively.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"596\" height=\"294\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-464.png\" alt=\"Report: dapp users shift from DeFi to NFT and GameFi\" class=\"wp-image-149929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-464.png 596w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-464-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><figcaption>Dynamics of unique wallets by category. Data: DappRadar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The total number of daily active dapps users grew to 2 million in August \u2014 up 18% from July and 883% year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p>From August 1 to September 12, DappRadar&#8217;s audience stood at 884,000. Leading countries: United States (121,683), Philippines (72,551), China (48,842), Brazil (35,625), Indonesia (36,742) and Thailand (40,138). In Russia this figure was 27,074, in Ukraine 10,109.<\/p>\n<p>The most active dapp users are aged 25 to 34 (37.34% of traffic). Following are those aged 18 to 24 (26.88%). In August, the fastest growth was shown by the 45+ age group. In the overall sample, almost one in four were women.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"616\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-285.png\" alt=\"Report: dapp users shift from DeFi to NFT and GameFi\" class=\"wp-image-149930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-285.png 616w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-285-300x162.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><figcaption>Distribution of dapp users by age over time. Data: DappRadar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In September, Huobi Group&#8217;s investment arm <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/huobi-ventures-launches-10-million-fund-for-gamefi-investments\">announced<\/a> the launch of a new fund with a $10 million budget for investments in promising Game Finance projects.<\/p>\n<p>For a look at how the GameFi segment is developing, see ForkLog&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/toward-the-metaverse-how-the-gamefi-industry-is-evolving\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share of DeFi protocols in the traffic of tracked DappRadar decentralized applications (dapps) from May to August fell from 45% to 18%, giving way to projects in the GameFi and NFT segments (45% and 41%, respectively).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1737,73,1093,1155],"class_list":["post-49774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-dappradar","tag-dapps","tag-defi","tag-games-and-gamefi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49776,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49774\/revisions\/49776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}