SINGAPORE, Dec. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — As Bitcoin surpassed the $100,000 mark on December 5, 2024, this landmark yr for the crypto trade is closing on a excessive observe. It has additionally been a fruitful yr for HTX Ventures, the worldwide funding division of HTX, which supported a complete of 28 main crypto tasks and funds, regularly exploring new frontiers of crypto utility. Just lately, HTX Ventures launched its 2024 Yr In Assessment, highlighting this yr’s key developments within the crypto trade and forecasting market tendencies for the upcoming yr.
Inside this report, HTX Ventures highlighted 5 key sectors that confirmed encouraging progress in 2024 – the Bitcoin Ecosystem, Infrastructure, Meme Cash, AI, and the TON Ecosystem – and can proceed to carefully monitor these areas in 2025.
Bitcoin Ecosystem
With Bitcoin dominance reaching 56.81% and Bitcoin spot ETFs now accounting for five.3% of the overall Bitcoin provide, a brand new market pattern has emerged. Bitcoin has solidified its place because the core asset, with spot ETFs appearing as liquidity channels, and U.S. listed corporations comparable to MicroStrategy (MSTR) serving because the autos to soak up limitless greenback liquidity.
Because of this, it’s more and more important to additional develop Bitcoin’s ecosystem and improve capital utilization effectivity. It has pushed infrastructure tasks, together with Layer 2s, execution layers, interoperability options and safety layers, to constantly emerge.
With robust help from macro markets and infrastructure help, HTX Ventures anticipates an extra surge in Bitcoin demand over the subsequent two years.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure remained a cornerstone on this yr’s crypto investments and funding. The synergy between capital and expertise has pushed the speedy improvement of Layer 1, Layer 2, and middleware tasks, amongst others.
By way of ongoing upgrades and development, the Ethereum ecosystem has improved Layer 2s’ efficiency and diminished community charges. Different Layer 1s, comparable to Solana and TRON, achieved lively on-chain transactions, attributable to the event of meme cash, and infrastructure like Pump.enjoyable and Sunpump. Layer 0 and cross-chain middleware have made breakthroughs in interoperability, increasing the multi-chain panorama. Modular public blockchains, like Celestia and Monad, supplied distinctive efficiency and adaptability, thus attracting numerous functions. Restaking tasks, which intention to reinforce community safety and capital effectivity, has seen speedy improvement and gained market consideration. Bitcoin Layer 2 has emerged as a brand new focus within the main marketplace for its try to mix Bitcoin’s safety with high-performance scaling options.
As HTX Ventures acknowledged, infrastructure remains to be crucial on this yr’s crypto investments and funding. Layer 1 options, specifically, now signify the point of interest of technical improvement and exploration inside the crypto area, and it’s anticipated to stay a precedence for improvement assets and capital funding sooner or later.
Meme Cash
The Meme coin sector emerged as a hotspot within the crypto market in 2024, fostering neighborhood consensus whereas integrating with fields like DeFi and GameFi to create new use instances. For instance, Solana has actively championed the innovation and progress of meme tasks, efficiently energizing its ecosystem. Because the crypto market surroundings grows more and more favorable, extra retail traders are anticipated to enter the market, positioning Meme tasks as important channels for capital inflows.
The Meme coin honest launch sector has gained vital market consideration and attracted substantial members this yr. Infrastructure tasks comparable to Pump.enjoyable and SunPump have emerged as top-performing money circulation turbines, injecting recent momentum into Meme coin improvement. As multi-chain ecosystems mature and real-world use instances broaden, Meme coin infrastructure will proceed injecting extra vitality into this sector.
AI
In 2024, the intersection of Crypto and AI sector has been driving the exploration of a number of segmented fields comparable to ZK/OPML for enabling AI on-chain, AI knowledge crowdsourcing, decentralized computing energy rental, AI knowledge buying and selling, AI video games, and AI brokers.
One of many hottest segmented fields is AI brokers, that are placed on chains to make the most of the token mechanism to incentivise and bootstrap sure behaviors with the brokers, together with interacting with good contracts, buying and selling and querying on behalf of customers. Sooner or later, AI brokers will step by step grow to be private butlers and assistants for customers, serving them with complete capabilities, comparable to impartial asset issuance, initiation of viral advertising campaigns, formation of DAOs, and even fund administration and funding decision-making. Over time, they might develop distinctive cultures and religions. This deep integration of AI and encryption expertise is a groundbreaking evolution that’s unattainable inside Web2 and can’t be achieved by Web3 relying solely on encryption expertise.
TON Ecosystem
Attributable to Telegram’s a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of customers and sturdy technical help, the TON (The Open Community) ecosystem has progressively developed right into a multi-layered blockchain ecosystem. In 2024, it skilled a full-scale increase in its ecosystem and market presence. From DeFi and meme cash to NFTs and gaming, TON leveraged its huge person base to attain vital milestones in varied fields, pioneering the monetization of Web2 social functions by way of crypto.
One standout success was the adoption of “tap-to-earn” video games with token airdrop incentives, which successfully onboarded a lot of Web2 customers. Nonetheless, because the TON ecosystem strikes into 2025, it should discover and discover new enterprise fashions to enhance person retention and determine its subsequent progress curve.
2025 Outlook
Donald Trump’s anticipated repeal of SAB 121 after his inauguration on January 20, 2025, would permit conventional monetary establishments to carry crypto property on their steadiness sheets, additional accelerating the institutionalization of crypto property. The repeal won’t solely open up extra financing choices for crypto but in addition make spot cryptos extra accessible by way of present institutional exchanges and partnerships.
On the similar time, this regulatory easing is poised to reinforce the general maturity of the institutional crypto market. With the entry of conventional monetary establishments, Bitcoin is anticipated to achieve stronger help and step by step set up itself as a core dollar-denominated asset, alongside others tied to the greenback trade cycles, comparable to AI.
HTX Ventures factors out that the market remains to be removed from its bull market peak. Towards the backdrop of Trump’s fiscal enlargement insurance policies and unprecedented crypto-friendly alerts, a strong bull market is anticipated.
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About HTX Ventures
HTX Ventures, the worldwide funding division of HTX, integrates funding, incubation, and analysis to determine the most effective and brightest groups worldwide. With greater than a decade-long historical past as an trade pioneer, HTX Ventures excels at figuring out cutting-edge applied sciences and rising enterprise fashions inside the sector. To foster progress inside the blockchain ecosystem, we offer complete help to tasks, together with financing, assets, and strategic recommendation.
HTX Ventures at the moment backs over 300 tasks spanning a number of blockchain sectors, with choose high-quality initiatives already buying and selling on the HTX change. Moreover, as probably the most lively Fund of Funds (“FOF”) traders, HTX Ventures invests in 30 prime world funds and collaborates with main blockchain funds comparable to Polychain, Dragonfly, Bankless, Gitcoin, Figment, Nomad, Animoca, and Hack VC to collectively construct a blockchain ecosystem. Go to us right here.Be happy to contact us for funding and collaboration at [email protected]
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