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The year 2024 is coming to an end. At the end of 2024, the Token $ME Airdrop of Magic Eden and the collective recovery of Ethercoin 'blue chips', especially the Token $PENGU Airdrop of 'Pudgy Penguins' under the sunny spotlight, have brought a real wealth effect, which has long been followed by the Non-fungible Token market.
What a year it has been for Non-fungible Tokens! BlockBeats takes you through the past 12 months of the NFT market. After reviewing the NFT market with us for 2024, how would you rate the performance of the NFT market in 2024?
January: The three-way situation in the world is beginning to take shape, and the end of the "hexagonal avatar".
In December 2023, the monthly total trading volume of Solana Non-fungible Tokens reached approximately

Internal Pressure and External Controversies
The latest Bitcoin purchase in El Salvador has once again attracted global attention. According to data from the country's National Bitcoin Office, the total amount held by the Salvadoran treasury has accumulated to 6,000.77 coins, with an estimated market value of 561 million yuan. Despite strong pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the country shows no signs of stopping and continues to promote cryptocurrency policies.
Source: Bitcoin Office
The Salvadoran government announced in 2022 a plan to "buy one Bitcoin per day", and now it has the sixth largest government Bitcoin reserve in the world, second only to countries such as the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, and Bhutan. Despite the continuous warnings from the IMF and some traditional financial institutions that the volatility of Bitcoin may pose risks to the country's financial stability, President Bukele (Nayib

What happened?
The Agridex real asset tokenization (RWA) platform recently completed its first "on-chain coffee transaction".
This transaction exports coffee from the UK to South Africa, and through on-chain transactions, not only are the transaction fees much lower than traditional cross-border agricultural commodity transactions, but also instant settlement can be achieved.
Agridex focuses on tokenizing agricultural products, aiming to help investors, farmers, and governments reduce costs and increase profitability.
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Agridex completes its first coffee transaction on-chain
The Agridex platform for tokenizing real-world assets (RWA) on the Solana blockchain has completed its first on-chain coffee transaction. The purpose of this transaction is to introduce the British coffee brand Tiki Tonga Coffee

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the United States has introduced new regulations requiring Decentralized Finance (DeFi) brokers to collect and report user transaction data, including total earnings from digital asset transactions. This measure aims to enhance tax compliance in the emerging DeFi industry.
According to the updated rules, Decentralized Finance brokers are required to provide customers with a 1099-DA form, which includes key details of transactions, such as name, wallet address, and transaction amount. This enables Decentralized Finance

BTC dropped below $94,000, analysts warn of Depthpullback
Since reaching a new high of $108,000 in mid-December, BTC has been in a pullback consolidation recently. As of today (12/30), it has dropped below $94,000.
After experiencing the historic bull market in November and December, BTC is currently consolidating between $92,000 and $99,000. During the end of the year in Europe and the United States, trading in the stock and cryptocurrency markets tends to be light.
Since October 2024, BTC has remained at 200

Why does token unlocking need to be followed?
Are you unfamiliar with the term 'unlock' in the cryptocurrency market? If you are an investor planning to delve into the market, unlocking is an event that you must closely follow in order to understand its potential impact on token prices.
What is token unlocking? When issuing native tokens for each project, they are usually allocated proportionally to developers, early investors, etc. This is the token distribution model. In order to avoid the huge selling pressure of tokens at the start of the project, many projects set a 'lock-up period', which locks the tokens held by relevant parties for a certain period of time, preventing them from being traded immediately. Subsequently, at a specific time point, these tokens will be partially unlocked, allowing holders to trade freely.
This is a price protection mechanism for the project, but for investors, a large number of unlocked tokens may put pressure on the token price, such as the unlocking of approximately $DYDX at the end of last year (2023).

Pacific Meta Investment! What kind of game is Domenation?
The Asia Web3 accelerator Pacific Meta recently announced that it has invested in the next-generation shooting game 'Domenation' developed by the Spanish game studio Blackmouth Games. The game is currently in the testing phase and has not been officially launched. This game combines traditional shooting games with blockchain technology to create an innovative Web3 gaming ecosystem.
Blackmouth Games was founded in 2017 and successfully developed the first real-time battle royale system in Europe in 2019. It has collaborated with top game industry technology providers such as Improbable, Amazon Web Services, and Epic Games.

With the increasing popularity of blockchain technology, the Crypto Assets trading ecosystem is expanding rapidly. Decentralization exchange (DEX) has become an important platform for digital asset trading due to its advantages of decentralization and transparency. As the market matures, various automated trading tools have emerged. MEV (maximal extractable value) robots are automated programs used to execute strategies and other trading strategies on the blockchain network. They extract the maximal value by rearranging, inserting, or delaying Block transactions. This article will analyze in depth the definition, principle, implementation method, determining factors, and optimization direction of the MEV robot.
With the development of technology and the market demand, clamp robots have also evolved into various types to adapt to different trading environments and strategy needs. Here are several common types of clamp robots:
01, Sandwich Robot
This robot listens to large orders in the transaction pool and places them in these orders.

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Meme coins are not useless: they bypass securities laws, do not benefit venture capitalists, and are also very interesting.
Memes are the essence of cryptocurrency: social trends, satirical humor, and the lure of absurd profits, all wrapped up in a token that serves no real purpose. They may not be for Warren Buffett, but they are for the masses seeking fun, community, and an escape from their marginal environments in a lottery-like manner.
"Memes are leading indicators," said Danny Yang, founder of OnChainMonkey, referring to the insane returns compared to other indicators. Memetic coins gamify the investment process, attracting investors to follow the intangible trends from election results or join the latest coin issuance within ten minutes of the arrest of the shooting suspect of UnitedHealthcare CEO. This is very similar to 4Chan.

Founder's words, community discussion
Recently, there has been another 'Versailles-style' topic in the cryptocurrency community. Dogecoin co-founder Billy Markus recently posted a sarcastic post on a social platform: 'I'm pre-rich.' This sparked discussion among fans. Due to his tendency to respond to controversial topics with sarcasm and humor, this statement was immediately interpreted by netizens as another classic case of 'Versailles' (meaning to inadvertently show off one's superiority).
Image source: X Dogecoin co-founder Billy Markus recently posted a sarcastic post on a social media platform.
However, a closer look at Billy Markus's story reveals that these words may not be literally 'I've made a lot of money.' As early as 2015,

Fear of 'this is the last cycle' + Uncertainty about how long good times can last +

The Japanese AI animation will be released in 2025, with 95% of the scenes using generative AI.
According to ITmedia, Frontier Works, a subsidiary of the Japanese company Animate, recently announced that it will release an experimental AI animation called 'Twins Hinahima' (temporary translation) in spring 2025. The first preview of the production has been released.
The biggest feature of this work is that more than 95% of the production process of the lens uses generative AI technology, but emphasizes that AI is only an "auxiliary tool".
The anime 'Twin Yonayuki' is based on the virtual world of KaKa Creation.