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Crypto Market Weekly: BTC pulls back after breaking $100,000, ETH drives the market's rise, DeFi and AI Agents become investment hotspots.
Crypto Market Weekly Report
Market Overview
main trends in the market
Market Sentiment and Trends: The market sentiment index reached 91%, indicating an extreme greed state. Although BTC briefly broke above $100,000 before retracing, the overall market resilience remains strong. ETH performed well, driving a general rise in the crypto market, showing sustained confidence in mainstream coins.
Capital Flow Analysis: The market capitalization of stablecoins is steadily increasing, with USDT rising by 1.74% to $141 billion and USDC increasing by 2.03% to $40.2 billion, indicating a continuous inflow of new funds. Large on-chain transfers are frequent, showing clear signs of institutional capital entering the market. The over-the-counter premium remains within a reasonable range, indicating a healthy supply and demand for funds in the market.
DeFi Performance: The total locked value in DeFi ( TVL ) increased from 46.8 billion USD to 53.2 billion USD, an increase of 13.67%. Liquidity staking projects performed well, benefiting from the rise in underlying asset prices and yield improvement. The activity of lending protocols significantly increased, reflecting a rise in leverage demand. DEX trading volume continued to rise, enhancing market activity.
Meme Coin Market: Meme coins are performing relatively sluggishly, with a weekly return rate of 11.94%. The issuance of new projects has decreased, and investor interest has waned. Funds are shifting towards projects with real applications and fundamentals. The level of discussion on social media has declined, indicating a decrease in risk appetite.
Hot Focus: Layer 1 projects have received the highest social attention, with a weekly return rate of 40.04% in the PayFi track. AI Agent projects have gained a new round of attention, especially projects on the Solana, TON, and Base chains. DeFi high-yield staking products continue to attract attention. The NFT market has seen a resurgence in trading activity, but overall valuation is still seeking a bottom.
Investment Advice:
Market Sentiment Index Analysis
Overview of the overall market trend
Hot Tracks
Tron ecosystem
This week, TRX prices have surged significantly, and Tron has gained high market popularity. As the main trading chain for USDT, activity on the Tron chain has increased substantially.
Data on the Tron chain
The Tron chain continues to develop rapidly, with the rise in TRX prices driving ecological development, and the dominant position of USDT trading on the main chain attracting a large number of users to participate.
AI Agent
The AI Agent track has formed three sub-directions: AI Agent Meme coins, AI Agent issuance platforms, and AI Agent underlying infrastructure. It mainly develops on the Solana, TON, and Base chains.
The prices of VVAIFU, VIRTUAL, and CLANKER coins have recently risen rapidly, forming a certain market capitalization scale. Currently, they have not been listed on top exchanges and are still in the early stages of the project.
OpenAI's recent actions have sparked speculation in the crypto market regarding the AI sector. In the next 10 days, the AI sector may see a good increase, and investors should pay attention to investment opportunities in related projects.
Traditional AI Projects in the Crypto Market
| Token | Project Name | Last 7 Days Increase | Circulating Market Cap | |------|----------|------------|----------| | TAO | Bittensor | 22.46% | $5,319,989,872 | | FET | Fetch.ai | 25.89% | $5,288,426,405 | | RENDER | Render | 19.65% | $5,227,613,836 | | WLD | Worldcoin | 43.41% | $2,986,557,188 | | AKT | Akash Network | 6.87% | $1,121,411,518 | | ARKM | Arkham | 15.36% | $830,921,472 | | GLM | Golem | 12.47% | $523,951,936 | | AGIX | SingularityNET | 20.58% | $296,226,702 | | TRAC | OriginTrail | 8.01% | $453,330,796 |
DeFi track
TVL Growth Ranking
The top 5 projects by TVL growth in the past week (excluding projects with a smaller TVL, with a standard of over 30 million USD):
| Project Name | Weekly Increase | TVL (million) | |----------|------------|----------------| | BounceBit | 134.26% | 450.13 | | Astherus | 102.65% | 132.13 | | StakeDAO | 77.17% | 176.42 | | Flexa | 74.51% | 338.32 | | SaucerSwap | 68.16% | 136.37 |
BounceBit (BB): (Recommended Index: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Astherus: (Recommended Index: ⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Stake DAO (SDT): (Recommended Index: ⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Flexa: (Recommended Index: ⭐️⭐️)
SaucerSwap (SAUCE): (Recommended Index: ⭐️⭐️⭐️)
Overall performance of the track
DeFi各赛道TVL:
in-depth analysis
Driving Force of Increase:
Growth Leader:
Investors are advised to pay more attention to the liquidity staking projects of various public chains in the near term.
Performance in Other Tracks
public chain
Top 5 public chain TVL increases in the crypto market over the past week:
| Project Name | Seven-Day Growth | TVL (million) | |----------|------------|----------------| | Hedera | 74.42% | 176.93 | | Zircuit | 70.79% | 329.84 | | Filecoin | 54.12% | 120.54 | | EOS | 47.66% | 259.38 | | Kaia | 41.28% | 117.16 |
Hedera: HBAR has seen a significant increase, benefiting from ETF applications and on-chain development.
Zircuit: ZRC listed on a new exchange, expanding its use cases and gaining support from Kelp DAO.
Filecoin: The FIL token has surged significantly, leading to an increase in on-chain staking activities.
EOS: Participate in BTC-L2, focus on on-chain ecological construction, increase on-chain activities.
Kaia: Launching a new version, initiating on-chain activities to attract users to participate in staking.
Overview of the Increase Ranking
Top 5 tokens by market gains in the past week:
| Token | Project Name | Weekly Increase | Circulating Market Cap | Circulation Rate | |------|----------|------------|----------|--------| | HYPE | Hyperliquid | 324.49% | $4,524,840,415 | 33.39% | | OL | Open loot | 304.84% | $122,785,197 | 4.73% | | CVX | Convex Finance | 127.01% | $548,205,234 | 82.15% | | IOTA | IOTA | 125.08% | $1,705,326,899 | 76.86% | | CRV | Curve | 124.95% | $1,321,165,128 | 56.63% |
This week's growth ranking shows concentrated characteristics of the public chain track, with a generally better upward trend than BTC and ETH. DeFi projects in various public chain ecosystems are flourishing, with both TVL and trading volume on the rise.
Market Theme Overview
| Track | Weekly Return Rate | Monthly Return Rate | Quarterly Return Rate | |------|----------|----------|----------| | PayFi | 40.04% | 263.27% | 274.23% | | NFT | 35.62% | 88.01% | 159.18% | | Depin | 27.38% | 121.28% | 108.06% | | Gamefi | 26.72% | 138.15% | 149.33% | | Defi | 26.09% | 108.88% | 136.44% | | RWA | 24.71% | 132.19% | 145.52% | | Layer2 | 17.73% | 106.63% | 103.36% | | AI | 14.61% | 80.02% | 116.38% | | Meme | 11.94% | 120.29% | 243.95% | | Cefi | 11.33% | 35.58% | 57.77% | | Layer1 | 9.93% | 60.88% | 82.53% | | SocialFi | 9.71% | 52.63% | 55.32% |
According to the weekly return statistics, the PayFi track performed the best, while the SocialFi track performed the worst.
Next Week's Major Events in the Crypto Market
Next Week Outlook
This week the market was positively influenced by Powell's remarks and Trump's nomination of a cryptocurrency-friendly chairman for the SEC, leading Bitcoin to briefly surpass $100,000 and driving optimistic sentiment in the crypto market.