Huobi: Investments in the Metaverse and GameFi increased by 300%

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Huobi Cryptocurrency Exchangepublished a report “Overview and Trends of the Global Crypto Industry”, where the company’s analysts made several conclusions about the state of the industry, publishing statistics on the non-fungible token industry, centralized exchanges (CEX) and metaverses.

Huobi analysts note that the volume of investments in the primary market in 2022 exceeded $27.7 billion, and the total market capitalization of crypto assets decreased by more than $2.2 trillion.

The study authors analyzed the five mostPopular search queries related to the Web3 industry: "DeFi", "BTC", "NFT", "cryptocurrency" and "GameFi". NFT-related searches dominated, Huobi experts said, because collectible tokens can be well integrated with a variety of things like sports, entertainment and art. According to the report, interest in metaverses and GameFi has grown significantly around the world over Last year. Investments have also increased: investments in these two sectors of the crypto industry increased from $874 million in 2021 to $2.4 billion in 2022 - by more than 300%.

Analysts say the US leads inparts of CEX user usage. Almost 10% of all CEX traffic comes from America, followed by South Korea (7.4%), Russia (6.1%), Turkey (5.6%) and Japan (3.8%). The States also became the first in the development of the industry - Huobi assessed the share of DeFi volume, the share of CEX volume, the percentage of cryptocurrency users and the index of Internet users among the population.

Capgemini previously reported that more than 90% of consumers expect metaverses to make significant changes in how users interact with famous brands and people.