1. Total market value of DeFi tokens: US$132.087 billion

DeFi total market capitalization data source: coinecko

2. Transactions on decentralized exchanges in the past 24 hours Amount of US$7.554 billion

Trading volume data of decentralized exchanges in the past 24 hours Source: coingecko

3. Assets locked in DeFi: US$128.615 billion

DeFi project’s top ten rankings of locked assets and locked positions data source: defillama

1. NFT total market value: US$43.303 billion

NFT total market value, market value Top ten projects Data source: Coinmarketcap

2.24-hour NFT trading volume: $4.41 billion

NFT total market value and top ten projects by market value Data source: Coinmarketcap

Top NFT within 3.24 hours

Top 10 NFT sales within 24 hours Data source: NFTGO

MicroStrategy 1,070 BTC has been acquired for approximately US$101 million

MicroStrategy has acquired 1,070 BTC for approximately $101 million at a price of approximately $94,004 per Bitcoin and achieved a 48.0% BTC yield in Q4 2024 and a 74.3% BTC yield in fiscal 2024 .

As of January 5, 2025, MicroStrategy held 447,470 BTC, with a price of approximately US$62,503 per Bitcoin, and an acquisition price of approximately US$27.97 billion.

1. Analysis: Aave and MakerDAO will perform well in 2024, and DeFi protocol revenue will return to the high level in 2021 driven by the new platform

Various DeFi protocols will be generated in 2024 There’s a lot of revenue coming in, with many established protocols posting revenue figures close to their 2021 highs, while newer platforms are establishing themselves as key contributors. Pump.fun is the most eye-catching highlight of the Solana ecosystem this year. In 2024, Pump.fun generated $313 million in fees, averaging $31 million per month, with an average monthly growth rate of nearly 77%. Starting with just $5 million in fees in January, Jito grew at an average monthly rate of 79%, reaching total fees of $603 million by the end of the year.

At the same time, Ethena went from fees of only $1.7 million in January 2024 to Ethena collecting more than $267 million in fees by the end of the year. Notably, more than 54% of Ethena's full-year revenue was generated in the last three months, and that number grew at an average monthly rate of 150% during that period.

On the other hand, MakerDAO far exceeds the previous record revenue figures of $12.8 million in May 2021 and $32.6 million in April 2024. At the time of writing, MakerDAO generated nearly $40 million in revenue in December, a 38% increase from the previous month. It also incurred more than $313 million in charges for the full year, a 176% increase from 2023. Despite the revenue growth, the MKR token is down 10% this year. For Aave, 2024 marked a recovery with near-all-time revenue, with revenue reaching $60.9 million in December, close to its October 2021 peak of $65.39 million. For the full year, Aave's total fee revenue was $389 million, averaging $32.4 million per month, with monthly growth steady at 14%. This represents a 244% increase in annual revenue compared to 2023. Against this backdrop, the Aave token has surged more than 200% this year.

2. The number of ETH held by the liquid staking platform has decreased by 70,000 since the end of November last year, of which Lido has decreased by 160,000.

In October 2024, it will be locked in the liquid staking platform The number of ETH in them has exceeded 14 million. However, currently the number of ETH held in these protocolsThe total amount of ETH has fallen below the record level at the end of November (13.85 million ETH).

As of January 5, 2025, approximately 13.78 million ETH are still locked in the liquid staking platform, a decrease of 70,000 since the end of November. Among them, Lido dominates, accounting for 69.96% (holding 9.64 million pledged ETH, worth $34.9 billion).

However, ETH staked on Lido has dropped by 160,000 since November 30, 2024, when 9.8 million ETH was staked. At the same time, Binance’s liquidity staking platform added 150,000 ETH in the past 36 days; Rocket Pool experienced continuous fund outflows, losing 479,374 ETH from October 29 to the end of November, and again in the past 36 days. A decrease of 7,743 ETH.

The 13.78 million ETH currently locked on these LSD platforms accounts for 11.44% of the circulating supply of ETH (120,474,080).

3. Vitalik: Mainstream cryptography, network security and decentralization outside of cryptocurrency are seen as "non-cryptocurrency related" is a failure

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin was replying to Ethereum Foundation researcher Devansh Mehta on the X platform Regarding "The Ethereum Foundation should start supporting non-cryptocurrencies, not just activities where people in the circle praise each other" said: "In my opinion, mainstream cryptography, network security and non-blockchain decentralization are regarded as Being "non-cryptocurrency related" is a failure in itself (I think this concept mainly comes from the cryptocurrency side), and it is worth taking steps to solve this problem." 4. Aerodrome will be launched this month. Slipstream V2

Base ecological project Aerodrome Tweeted that it will launch Slipstream V2 this month, aiming to combine the highest performance pool in DeFi with fees that dynamically adjust based on volatility.

5.Kamino: The upper limit of SOL usage will be canceled in major markets, increasing the market supply of approximately 3.3 million SOLs

Solana ecological DeFi protocol Kamino tweeted that its major markets will cancel SOL The upper limit will be used and will increase the market supply of SOL by approximately 3.3 million. Previously, Kamino had introduced a usage cap to limit lending above a certain usage rate to prevent SOL borrowing APY from exceeding LST staking APY.

South Korea’s Jeju Island plans to issue NFT numbersCard to attract Millennial and Gen Z tourists

South Korea’s Jeju Island plans to attract Millennial and Gen Z tourists by issuing an NFT-powered “tourist card”, saying it hopes to start “in the second half of this year” Issue tokens.

Jeju Island will name this card and NFT "Tao". Tourists can get discounts and "travel subsidies" by using this NFT. It is expected to trial the Tao card in the next few months and plans to launch it in 2025. It will begin rolling out its NFTs to “visitors” at a later date.

Arbitrum’s 225 million ARB gaming ecosystem incentive plan officially launched

Arbitrum DAO’s previously approved 225 million ARB (approximately US$190 million) gaming ecosystem incentive plan (Gaming Catalyst Program (GCP) was officially launched. According to the latest transparency report, the program has incurred approximately $1.2 million in expenditures, 93.5% of which was spent on administrative expenses such as legal entity set-up and team compensation. CP plans to fund 100 projects over the next three years and has so far received 64 project applications.

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