Hi everyone I'm Rose Marie Miller here with Maria Grasse

Santiano Lenaris a Forbes reporter here to tell us about

NFTs making a corporate comeback.

Thank you so much for joining me today, Maria.

Thank you for having me.

For sure.

So Maria, could you elaborate on the shift

in the NFT market from its peak in 2022 to today?

Yeah, it's been I think certainly a very interesting two years.

January 2022 was when we saw like the all-time high volumes.

We saw a peak of $26.7 billion in sales

over the entire year.

And it was just really the craze, right?

Like when you think of NFTs and you think the pictures of monkey faces selling for multi million dollars and

everyone from Jimmy Fallon to Paris Hilton kind of showcasing that and spending that money.

And for what a lot of people was very confusing, right? of showcasing that and spending that money.

And for what a lot of people was very confusing, right?

Like why would you spend so much money in an image

that I can just right click and save on my desktop?

That I think embodies very much the ethos of that 2022. Now the crypto market as a whole is very different right like market volume has fallen

prices has fallen and it's also just became so like very saturated. There's a lot of profile picture collections a lot of

different just options for buyers and demand went down and so you know what we've

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