Weekly Featured丨AI Agent has become an absolute hot spot, and the top tokens have hit new highs repeatedly; the European MiCA Act has been implemented; Bitcoin has recovered and rebounded

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macro perspective

The IRS’s “DeFi Broker” final rules faced strong opposition from the crypto industry. How likely is it that the Trump administration will revoke them?

Crypto industry insiders pointed out that in actual application, it is users who facilitate transactions, and the IRS mistakenly defines DeFi service providers as brokers and compulsorily collects user information, which will cause huge privacy infringement issues and exceed the U.S. Internal Revenue Service The scope of the Bureau’s statutory authority.

The New Year is approaching, will three major catalysts boost the market’s strong rebound in January?

Historical data patterns include Trump taking office as a new president, FTX starting to pay down debt, and generally rising during the Lunar New Year.

Retail Investors vs. Venture Capital: Finding Fair Game in Web3

What are the limitations of Fair Launch and what are the new alternatives?

The European MiCA Act is about to be implemented. What impact will it have on the market?

Will Cryptocurrency Adoption Increase in Europe in 2025? How will MiCA affect businesses and investors?

2024 Summary and 2025 Outlook

As 2025 approaches, let’s take a look at how crypto VCs view market interpretation and potential opportunities.

Standing at the starting point of 2025, PANews invited more than a dozen top VCs to share their observations and thoughts on the encryption industry. They reviewed the highlights of the past year, analyzed the opportunities and challenges of the current market, and made predictions about future development trends.

Review of the 2024 performance of 22 mainstream public chains: half of the data declined, and Hyperliquid ranked first in many data

From a data perspective, which public chains will really rise in 2024? Which public chains’ loss of power may not be due to underestimation, but real decline?

Core investment themes worth paying attention to in crypto in 2025: DeFi and AI

AI and DeFi will become the two core narratives next year.

Annual performance of crypto narrative: AI and Meme increased by more than 20 times, L2 fell by 20.7% and ranked at the bottom

CoinGecko analyzed this year’s crypto narrative themes, and the results show that the annual returns of different narrative themes vary significantly, ranging from -20.7% to +2,939.8%.

Year-end Special Space Review: Bitcoin’s Future and Macro Trend Outlook

PANews invited ABCDE investment research partner Lao Bai, Mask Network founder Suji Yan, dForce founder Ming Dao, and HashKey Capital investment research director Jeffrey Hu to discuss the future development trends of the encryption market.

Year-end special Space review: Ethereum and altcoin market outlook

In this interview, PANews invited Chainfeed founder Pan Zhixiong, Nothing Reaearch partner Todd, Gate Group chief commercial officer Kevin Lee, as well as independent research and NingNing to jointly look forward to the future potential of Ethereum and altcoin markets.

For more 2024 summary and 2025 outlook, please enter the special topic " Bull Market Fantasy: 2024 Annual Summary and 2025 New Year Outlook "

AI and Meme

Interpretation of the development status of ai16z and Virtuals: occupying more than half of the AI ​​Agent market share, both face challenges from ecological centralization

In this AI Agent craze, ai16z and Virtuals Protocol are undoubtedly the two most powerful representative projects, and their ecology has attracted various capitals that have heard of the news to actively dig for money.

The market value of AI Agent far exceeds that of the DeFi Summer period, or will it replicate the DeFi-style market trend?

The AI ​​Agent craze is seizing most of the liquidity on the chain, and there is increasing market discussion about encrypted AI being in a cycle similar to DeFi Summer. In this article, PANews will compare the market development scale of encrypted AI and DeFi, and explore the similarities and differences in the development of these two fields.

Horizontal comparison of four major AI agent frameworks: adoption status, advantages and disadvantages, and token growth potential

The seeded players are already competing for the tens of billions level track in the future.

Comprehensive analysis of Bittensor ecology: the power game for the AI ​​Iron Throne

Bittensor is a decentralized AI infrastructure used by AI developers to build and deploy machine learning models or other AI-related developments on it.

PANews' account [MEME Daily] will select daily hot memes for readers to understand the track situation, click here to view.

Seize the opportunity

Next Ethena? Resolv Stablecoin Protocol Airdrop Guide

Resolv is a delta-neutral stablecoin protocol built around the tokenization of market-neutral investment portfolios.

Cheats for lazy people to make money: Buy 10 BNB at the beginning of the year and earn money with compound interest on Binance. How much money can you earn by the end of the year?

Is there any way to make money without liver, gambling or heartbeat? Some smart money is targeting platform activities such as Binance’s Launchpool or Megadrop to achieve the goal of compound interest.

Countdown to mainnet launch! Take a look at the 22 ecological projects that will soon be settled in Abstract Chain

In this article, PANews took stock of 22 of the crypto projects that have received high market attention, mainly NFT projects, but also covering multiple tracks such as games, DeFi, Launchpad and AI.

Conversation with trader Amanda: How to develop an investment strategy to outperform BTC in a bull market?

Of the various exit strategies, regular selling performs best.

MegaETH ecological overview: What projects does MegaMafia cover?

Currently, MegaMafia covers 13 projects, and there are 15 projects that are built on MegaETH or plan to integrate MegaETH but are not yet part of MegaMafia.

Web3 things

Missed a big opportunity by just one thought, review BIO’s history of blood and tears

When a certain track is still very early, don't hesitate to rush in first and then be a friend of time.

COW skyrocketed after being listed on Binance, is it just because of the Trump family?

Behind CowSwap, Safe and Gnosis family buckets are the real "understanding kings".

Musk changed his name and avatar. What is Kekius Maximus who looks like Pepe?

Musk’s new favorite meme.

Magic Eden after the currency issuance: opportunities and challenges in the multi-chain NFT market

Magic Eden is the leading multi-chain NFT market and dominates the Solana and Bitcoin ecosystems, but faces strong competition from Blur and OpenSea in the Ethereum ecosystem. Despite its outstanding performance in revenue and market share, the price of token $ME has fluctuated significantly since its issuance, and market confidence is insufficient. Future token unlocks may intensify selling pressure. The platform needs to break through the bottleneck of the Ethereum market, optimize the economic model and promote ecological innovation to consolidate its industry position and realize long-term growth potential.

Important information

The clean energy usage rate of Bitcoin mining has exceeded 50%, and the market expects Musk to fulfill Tesla’s Bitcoin payment promise

Founder of 1confirmation: ETH will eventually rise to $10,000

Uniswap V4 version release delayed, officially announced to be "coming soon" in 2025

CZ forwarded the view "Optimistic about the performance of altcoins in Q1 2025, with a minimum target price of BNB of $1,314"

Switzerland plans to include Bitcoin in its constitutional system and has now launched a referendum review process

Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po: Promote blockchain-based cross-border trade digital currency settlement

Polkadot’s 2025 roadmap released: shortening the waiting time for DOT unlocking and promoting DOT to become a universal fee token

MicroStrategy: Approximately $6.88 billion in shares still available for issuance and sale

Japan’s Financial Services Agency plans to change the classification of cryptocurrencies from “payment instruments” to “financial assets”

Syria proposes legalizing Bitcoin to boost economic recovery

Messari releases six predictions for 2025: Hyperliquid’s outperformance may be over, ETH will outperform SOL

Foreign media: Morgan Stanley’s E-Trade is exploring offering cryptocurrency trading