Weekly Picks丨AI Agent remains popular; Hyperliquid ecology explodes; BTC falls below $100,000, and altcoins are bleeding into rivers
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12/21/2024·5MPANews Editor's Note: PANews has selected a week's high-quality content to help you use your weekend time to check for omissions and fill in the gaps. Click on the title to read.
macro perspective
Powell"slaps" Trump's Bitcoin reserve strategy, BTC plunges 5% to barely touch the $100,000 mark
On Wednesday afternoon local time, the Federal Reserve announced that it would cut its benchmark policy interest rate by 25 basis points, but suggested that the number of interest rate cuts in 2025 may be less than previously expected. U.S. stocks and cryptocurrency markets plunged.
Hong Kong’s licensed virtual asset trading platform (VATP) has welcomed four new members, following OSL Exchange, HashKeyExchange and HKVAX. At the same time, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission is accelerating the approval process of virtual asset licenses and formulating a clear roadmap for the licensing process to further expand Hong Kong’s territory in the Web3 field.
A review of the Santa Claus market in history: Will it happen again this year?
Cryptocurrencies have experienced "Santa Claus rallies" eight times in the past 10 years.
Before we enter the “crash phase” of this crypto bull market, I think crypto markets will experience a thrilling decline ahead of Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025.
The crypto market ushered in"Black Thursday", what will happen next?
What caused "Black Thursday"? What is the future direction of Fed policy? What do people in the industry think of the current market conditions?
Bitcoin can enhance the resilience of the U.S. dollar and support U.S. economic interests.
2024 Summary and 2025 Outlook
Presto: From Chaos to Clarity, 2024 Crypto Market Review and 2025 Forecasts
Presto Research releases its first annual report, comprehensively reviewing key market trends and making forward-looking forecasts to 2025.
Coinbase Report: Full Track Outlook for the Crypto Market in 2025
Covers in-depth research in the crypto field, from altcoins to ETFs, from staking to games, and more. 2025 will be a pivotal year, with breakthroughs and advancements that are likely to help shape the long-term trajectory of the crypto industry for decades to come.
The on-chain activity of AI agents exceeds 1 million agents, and the daily settlement volume of stablecoins reaches 300 billion US dollars.
Crypto x AI: 10 areas to watch in 2025
This article Archetype analyzes the ten important areas worthy of attention in 2025, including from the interaction of intelligent agents to decentralized computing, from changes in the data market to breakthroughs in privacy technology, etc.
Gradual clarity on U.S. crypto policy will further accelerate institutional adoption of Bitcoin.
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
Memecoins have long transcended simple jokes or short-lived trends, they are increasingly becoming a combination of financial opportunity and cultural expression.
Exponential Growth Opportunities: Why AI Agent is the Next “DeFi Summer”?
AI Agent is a set of feasible narratives between DeFi and Metaverse. Compared with DeFi, it has a broader business logic scenario, and compared with Metaverse, it has tangible and visible application implementation.
How to reduce shitcoin risk from choosing Memecoin?
Solana AI Hackathon is online: A look at 12 new AI Agent projects
Including autonomous trading, DeFi Agent, multi-Agent collaboration and other directions.
From Silicon Valley FOMO to Stanford, Crypto+AI Agent is on the eve of an epic explosion
No matter which dimension you look at, today’s encrypted AI Agent looks very much like DeFi and the Metaverse at the end of 2020.
In this article, Odaily Planet Daily will explain the token data and project business behind the tokens in the Virtuals ecosystem with a market value ranging from US$10 million to US$100 million.
PANews analyzed Fartcoin’s social media popularity and the top 1,000 currency holding addresses, trying to answer how Fartcoin rose from zero to US$1 billion.
PANews’ account [MEME Daily] will select daily hot memes for readers to understand the track situation, click here to view.
Hyperliquid ecology is booming
Hyperliquid ecology has become a new trend, understand the speed pump platform Hypurr in one article
The Hyperliquid ecology is still in the wilderness and rising stages, and there are great opportunities for “gold nuggets”.
Analysis of Hyperliquid’s growth potential from four major dimensions
This article will focus on the market opportunity of Hyperliquid and the fundamental investment logic of the $HYPE token.
The next “on-chain casino” after Solana, Hyperliquid’s guide to bull gold mining
Online copycats are languishing, and Hyper’s ecological landscape is unique.
A few cartoons to help you quickly understand Hyperliquid’s auction mechanism
Hyperliquid’s auction mechanism determines the price at which new tokens are listed on spot exchanges.
Seize the opportunity
Bull Market Essentials: A Look at 12 Cycle Tools and Exit Indicators
This article will introduce 12 cycle determination tools and exit indicators. Multiple indicators show that this bull market cycle has not yet peaked.
PA Caption | A look at the airdrop information of the 18 recently officially announced TGE projects
Recently, with the recovery of the encryption market, many projects have accelerated the TGE process and successively announced airdrop activities. PANews has compiled the 18 recently officially announced TGE projects and their airdrop information. Users who participate in the airdrop must apply in time within the validity period.
In most cases, the opening is still at the peak. If you can get the token within 5 minutes, it is recommended to take profits at the opening. VANA’s predicted price is US$15.9, with a circulating market value of US$479 million.
The Avalanche9000 upgrade will reduce Avalanche L1 deployment costs by 99.9% and reduce transaction costs on existing C-Chain by 25 times.
Web3 things
During this airdrop craze, Pudgy Penguins not only successfully drove the price of its NFT to soar, but also further expanded its community and ecological influence. However, the interest incentives brought by airdrops also triggered a lot of speculation, which caused dissatisfaction in the community.
Trump’s DeFi project WLFI purchased crypto assets on a large scale in December, with cumulative expenditures approaching $45 million, including ETH, cbBTC, LINK, AAVE, ENA and the latest ONDO. Judging from the current situation, most of the leadership team are new faces, and there is still a certain degree of uncertainty about the practicality and innovation of the project.
Polygon has returned to social media discussions again, not because of any major update, but because of the withdrawal of ecological partners such as AAVE and Lido.
"Most Meme coins will 'return to zero' in this wave, and only a few Meme coins will survive."
The real daily rate of return is approximately 1.49%, and it takes one week of staking to recover the capital.
Important information
Trump family encryption project WLFI announces it is seeking long-term cooperation with Ethena Labs
Study: Bitcoin needs more than 300 days of downtime to fully withstand quantum computing threats
Bitfinex report: This crypto bull market is expected to peak around Q3 or Q4 of 2025
Ripple will launch its stablecoin RLUSD on December 17, followed by monthly verifications
Solv Protocol announces that its token $SOLV will be listed on Hyperliquid
Coinbase’s trailing 12-month revenue reaches $5.75 billion, surpassing Nasdaq
