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Macro perspective

The IRS's final "DeFi Broker" rule has been strongly opposed by the crypto industry. How likely is it that the Trump administration will revoke it?

Crypto industry insiders pointed out that in actual applications, it is the users who facilitate transactions, and the IRS mistakenly defines DeFi service providers as brokers. The mandatory collection of user information will cause huge privacy violations and exceed the scope of the IRS's statutory authority.

The New Year is approaching, will three major catalysts help the market rebound strongly in January?

Trump took office as the new president, FTX started to repay debts, and the historical data pattern of general rise during the Lunar New Year.

Retail investors and venture capitalists: Finding a 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 European cryptocurrency adoption increase in 2025? How will MiCA affect businesses and investors?

Summary of 2024 and Outlook for 2025

As 2025 approaches, let’s take a look at how crypto VCs view market performance 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 crypto industry. They reviewed the highlights of the past year, analyzed the opportunities and challenges of the current market, and made predictions on future development trends.

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

From the perspective of data, which public chains have truly risen in 2024? Which public chains may not be underestimated, but actually decline?

Key investment themes worth paying attention to in the crypto space in 2025: DeFi and AI

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

Crypto narrative annual performance: AI and Meme increased more than 20 times, while L2 fell 20.7% and ranked last

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

Year-end special Space review: Bitcoin future and macro trend outlook

PANews invited Lao Bai, investment research partner of ABCDE, Suji Yan, founder of Mask Network, Ming Dao, founder of dForce, and Jeffrey Hu, head of investment research at HashKey Capital, to discuss the future development trends of the crypto 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 business officer Kevin Lee, and independent research and NingNing to jointly look forward to the future potential of Ethereum and the altcoin market.

For more 2024 summary and 2025 outlook, please go to 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: They occupy more than half of the AI Agent market share and both face the challenge of ecological centralization

In this AI Agent craze, ai16z and Virtuals Protocol are undoubtedly the two most representative projects with the strongest performance, and their ecosystems have attracted various investors to actively dig for gold.

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

The AI Agent craze is grabbing most of the liquidity on the chain, and there are more and more discussions in the market about crypto AI being in a similar DeFi Summer cycle. In this article, PANews will compare the market development scale of crypto AI and DeFi, and explore the similarities and differences in the development of these two fields.

Comparison of the four major AI agent frameworks: adoption status, strengths and weaknesses, and token growth potential

In the future billion-level track, the seed players have already started competing.

A comprehensive analysis of the Bittensor ecosystem: the game of thrones 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 the hot memes of the day for readers to understand the track situation. Click here to view.

Seize the opportunity

The Next Ethena? A Guide to the Resolv Stablecoin Protocol Airdrop

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

How to make money by lying down: Buy 10 BNB at the beginning of the year, and make money by compounding interest on Binance. How much money can you make by the end of the year?

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

Mainnet launch countdown! A look at the 22 ecological projects that will soon be settled in Abstract Chain

In this article, PANews lists 22 crypto projects that have attracted much market attention, mainly NFT projects, but also covering multiple tracks such as games, DeFi, Launchpad and AI.

Dialogue with trader Amanda: How to develop an investment strategy that outperforms BTC in a bull market?

Among various exit strategies, regular selling actually performs the best.

MegaETH Ecosystem 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

A moment of thought led to a missed opportunity: a review of BIO's bloody history

When a track is still in its very early stages, don't hesitate, rush in first and make friends with time.

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

Behind CowSwap, the whole family of Safe and Gnosis is truly the "king of understanding's choice".

Musk changed his name and profile picture. What is Kekius Maximus, who looks like Pepe?

Musk’s new favorite meme.

Magic Eden after the coin issuance: opportunities and challenges of the multi-chain NFT market

Magic Eden is a leading multi-chain NFT market, which dominates the Solana and Bitcoin ecosystems, but faces strong competition from Blur and OpenSea in the Ethereum ecosystem. Despite its outstanding revenue and market share, the price of the token $ME has fluctuated significantly since its issuance, and market confidence is insufficient. The future token unlocking may increase 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.

Key Information

Bitcoin mining clean energy utilization rate has exceeded 50%, the market expects Musk to fulfill Tesla's Bitcoin payment promise

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

Uniswap V4 release delayed, officially announced as “coming soon” in 2025

CZ forwarded the view that "optimistic about the performance of altcoins in Q1 2025, BNB's lowest target price is $1,314"

Switzerland plans to include Bitcoin in the constitutional system and has started the referendum review process

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

Polkadot 2025 Roadmap Released: Shorten DOT Unlock Waiting Time and Promote DOT to Become a Universal Fee Token

MicroStrategy: There are still approximately $6.88 billion of shares available for issuance and sale

Japan's Financial Services Agency plans to change the classification of cryptocurrencies from "payment tools" 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 cryptocurrency trading