The 2024 crypto venture capital landscape shows cautious optimism, marked by a rebound in funding activity and growing institutional interest, with Animoca Brands leading venture capital activity with over 100 investments; followed by OKX Ventures with over 80 investments.

This article will explore the top ten market trends predicted by Delphi Digital to reveal the possible future evolution of the cryptocurrency industry.

AI covers everything from smart contract platforms to meme, DePIN, Agent platforms, data networks, and intelligent coordination layers. Its market position is undoubtedly comparable to DeFi and meme. The computing market is the next "L1 market"; the crypto AI work team will be a human-machine hybrid.

Regulatory clarity will lead to an all-time high in the number of cryptocurrency investors.

Covering areas such as AI, Desci, stablecoins, enterprise services, fintech, games and infrastructure.

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.

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

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.

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%.

The total market value of the crypto AI asset sector has exceeded US$70 billion this year, and the number of related projects exceeds 600.

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

Celebrity crypto projects have failed to establish a virtuous cycle and have instead degenerated into a predatory mechanism.

Ethereum alt season will not happen; Base loses in competition with L1s; Metaverse tokens are reborn as VR makes new progress; ICOs are great again.

AI agent platforms and tokens will grow 50x to $500 billion.

New cycle, new direction, new application.

2024 is the year when crypto assets truly turn into mainstream assets. This article will review the key milestones of crypto spot ETFs this year, analyze in detail the market performance of crypto ETFs this year, and look forward to the development prospects of crypto ETFs in 2025.