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Source: CoinDesk; Compilation: Deng Tong, Bitchain Vision
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CoinDesk selected 50 people who defined the crypto field in 2024;
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These names come from finance, technology, policy and other fields;
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Politics and regulation are a major theme in 2024;
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Big Trends: Forecasting the dominance of markets, ETFs, artificial intelligence, DePIN and Bitcoin.
Welcome to the most influential list of the year.
This is an extraordinary year.The haze at the beginning of 2024 finally dissipated.
With Bitcoin ETFs approved in January and Donald Trump’s re-elect in November, everything has changed about cryptocurrencies.New investors enter the market and funds flow across categories.
Bitcoin holds supreme position, soaring to $100,000 in December last year.Bitcoin’s dominance is over 70%.The U.S. president-elect also promised to build a strategic Bitcoin reserve that could buy up to 5% of the total supply of Bitcoin for the U.S.
The issuance of Bitcoin ETFs is the most successful in history, with a $145 billion investment.Bitcoin has found a widely recognized role—digital gold, which looks increasingly like the basic layer of a new financial system.
Critics complain about Ethereum’s lengthy development roadmap and poor performance (compared to Solana and other new l15s), and Ethereum crashes (at least they say so).Despite this, Ethereum rose 58% (compared to Bitcoin’s year-to-date increase of 120%), and more than 500 layers -2 also blossomed.In particular, Base, Optimism and Arbitrum gained appeal in the real world.
Solana’s market value has risen 111% year-to-date, and it is full of emoticon coins and many less ephemeral projects.Telegram is now a true blockchain player, and it attracts hundreds of millions of players around the world with click-to-money games as its selling point.DePIN (or decentralized physical infrastructure) takes off as a category and promises to achieve real-world infrastructure (telecommunications, power, maps, etc.) and a different form of encryption adoption.Polymarket shows that forecasting markets may be better than polls and are as relevant to cryptocurrency traders and the average person.Artificial intelligence becomes part of everything.
Stablecoins remain the most popular form of crypto (by transaction volume) and look more like a global payment tier.USDT dominated, and, with lucrative profits, Tether invested in a series of non-USDT projects, hoping to trade legally in the United States one day.
Cryptocurrencies show real political power, helping Trump and more than 50 other congressional candidates be elected.PACs like Fairshake look good for 2026.
Although Europe is not as dynamic as Asia and the United States, it has implemented MICA and become the first region to have a comprehensive policy framework.Hong Kong and Singapore are leading in the Asia-Pacific region.
Here are the top ten crypto industry figures worth paying attention to in 2024.
Andy Ayrey (34), an artificial intelligence researcher from New Zealand, calls himself a “performance artist”.His AI bot shows how decentralized AI can encrypt, build communities, and even turn stories into reality.Andy Ayrey created Truth Terminal.In a sense,Truth Terminal has influenced the real world of humans, currencies and cryptocurrencies.As Truth Terminal created GOAT, Truth Terminal turned a vulgar joke into a billion dollars in wealth, embodying the narrative of the “Artificial Intelligence Agency Economy” and in many ways represents the space for the booming development of “encryption + artificial intelligence”greater hope.
During this cycle, he used Solana and a series of Meme coins to get a huge reward (he would not disclose exactly how much).His tweet about tokens to watch on X has received hundreds of thousands of views.His nonsense on Solana earned him the title of “Solana Man”.
Back in 2020, Ansem started tweeting when he bought tokens, and he had only 100 followers at the time.Followers also began to emerge when some of his bets began to gain noticeably.He became a little famous celebrity, known for his early dabbling in Solana, Avalanche and other assets.Today, he is probably the closest to Dogwifhat, and when he started promoting the token, it had a market capitalization of $100,000 (now over $3 billion).
Lummis is the most important advocate of cryptocurrencies in Congress, he is a major supporter of building strategic Bitcoin reserves and a major advocate of the Second House stablecoin legislation.With the Republicans controlling all three government departments in 2025, these two issues are likely to be put on the agenda this year.
She has held Bitcoin since 2013 and she has a unique understanding of the importance of Bitcoin.“We need a store of value that is decoupled from the economy.”This year, she joined New York State Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D) to propose stablecoin legislation and is expected to be a major advocate for the issue.
Since Trump won the second term of the U.S. president, the price of Bitcoin has soared over the past month, up more than $30,000, or about 45%.It is widely believed that the speed at which Bitcoin rose to triple-digits is a direct result of Trump’s victory.The crypto industry hopes that as Trump takes over the White House next year, the crypto industry will eventually gain regulatory clarity, paving the way for further growth and expansion of the digital asset industry.“If cryptocurrency will define the future, I want it to be mined, minted and manufactured in the United States.”
Fairshake is the largest corporate funding player in American politics.Coinbase, Ripple Labs and cryptocurrency investment firm a16z created Fairshake from the ruins of the industry’s latest campaign mechanism.Fairshake is a brand new attempt, “really bringing together elite and blue chip companies in the cryptocurrency and blockchain spaces.”
In 2024, Kraken, Uniswap, World Network (formerly Worldcoin) and Sony’s blockchain labs all used Optimism’s technology to create their own scalable blockchains.The “textbook” project she began to focus on is Plasma, this is an extension design that predates rollups, and ultimatelyBecome the predecessor of Optimism today.After the Plasma Group was founded, she found that people do want a Layer 2 that is cheaper and faster transactions, so they made adjustments and came up with a sketch of the Optimistic rollup.
Optimism uses this technology to package large amounts of transaction data into digestible batches, making its transaction costs lower than Ethereum.Since Optimism went live, Rollups has become so popular that it has been widely used.Other notable projects include Arbitrum, Blast, zkSync, Polygon, Starknet and Scroll.
In 2023, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, applied to create a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund, shocked the investment and cryptocurrency world.BTC’s price surges as financial giants unexpectedly enter the cryptocurrency space.In 2024, BlackRock and several other publishers received permission from U.S. regulators.Many suspect BlackRock’s strong support for Bitcoin ETFs could help affect the SEC.According to Coinmarketcap data,The market capitalization of cryptocurrencies has grown from about $1 trillion when BlackRock filed its Bitcoin ETF to nearly $3.6 trillion now.
Waiting for the best time may be Fink’s secret.He believes that the difference between a great company and a good company is not that they are the earliest adapters of new trends, but that they are reborn in a changing world.BlackRock was not the inventor of ETFs.Others invented ETFs in 1993.But fifteen years ago, Fink’s company achieved great success in the field by acquiring iShares.This year, iShares released BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF.
Nate Geraci, an ETF expert who closely monitors the development of cryptocurrency ETFs, said:“One of the most powerful and influential figures in the financial world supports cryptocurrency ETFs, which is clearly a game-changer.”
In 2024, Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan built it into a multi-billion dollar enterprise and becamePopular indicators for measuring political trends, media from Donald Trump to CNN have quoted him.
Coplan brings unprecedented attention to a long-standing point of view in academia:Group wisdom, coupled with support from vital interests, can make more accurate predictions—or at least more accurate measures of emotions—than traditional experts or polls.
During this year’s U.S. presidential election alone, Polymarket’s trading volume reached $3.6 billion, accounting for 74% of the market share.In previous election cycles, the entire forecast market industry never exceeded $1 billion in transaction volume.
Kannan sees EigenLayer as a “fighting startup.”Over the past 12 months, EigenLayer (which allows emerging blockchain applications to borrow the powerful security of Ethereum) has grown from a relatively unknown company to an industry giant.The platform raised over $100 million from venture capital firms like Andreessen Horowitz, and even before it fully launched, it attracted hundreds of millions of dollars in deposits from crypto users seeking additional benefits.Many are motivated by viral points programs, which investors hope will translate into lucrative token airdrops in the future.
EigenLayer’s success during the bear market is impressive,Kannan may play a bigger role in revitalizing Ethereum’s decentralized finance than any other entrepreneur.In addition to operating Eigen Labs, he still serves as associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Washington, and his “re-staking” theory, which allows people to use restaking Ethereum assets to protect other networks, has sparked a wave of innovation and imitation.“BlockchainIt is the greatest progress in human civilization since the US Constitution.”
After a long and painful eight months in a Nigerian prison, Gambaryan finally returned to his home in Atlanta to recover from his ordeal.A range of diseases he suffered during his time at Kujer’s prison, including malaria, bipneumonia and back disc herniation, which left him unbearable pain and difficulty walking.
Nigerian officials also dropped money laundering charges filed against him since March, with the Nigerian government accusing Binance of assisting in transferring about $23 billion in untrackable funds in 2023, causing the Naira to devalue.
Gambaryan is not an ordinary American executive who was ransomed—he isA former federal agent, former IRS investigator, was part of the federal government’s elite team of early cryptocurrency tracking.During his tenure at the IRS, Gambaryan played a central role in some of the largest cryptocurrency crime crackdowns in the industry’s history, including banning child sexual abuse video network Welcome to Video and dark web market Alpha Bay, seizing near-stolen stolen from Silk Road70,000 Bitcoins and recovered 650,000 Bitcoins stolen from Mt Gox.Gambaryan played a “significant role” in promoting IRS-CI to become a leading federal agency in crypto-investigation.
Here are 40 other strife:
2024 is the year of transformation for Bitcoin miners, many of whom invest a lot of resources in operating artificial intelligence (AI) data centers.However, no company has been as successful as Core Scientific (CORZ), which broke out of bankruptcy in January under CEO Adam Sullivan, and then followed with long-term business partner AI hyperscale provider CoreWeaveA huge deal worth billions of dollars was reached.
Core Scientific is the first mining company to enter the field of artificial intelligence computing on a large scale, which has brought investors back to the mining industry.
Hayes’ family finance office Maelstrom has made dozens of high-profile investments since its founding last year.But this year, the investment that really attracted market attention was Ethena, or USDe.Unlike the two leading players, USDC or USDT, it maintains its $1 value by using staking Ether as a support and offsetting price changes through short positions in ETH while gaining benefits from staking rewards and market fees.
USDe also almost perfectly embodies Hayes’ worldview of fiat currency skepticism – it provides a synthetic dollar alternative that is completely independent of the traditional banking system.Hayes believes thatDecentralized finance, including digital assets such as USDe, is crucial to resist the continued depreciation of value inherent in statutory systems.
In 2024, Aptos has made great progress in working with crypto and traditional financial institutions, both in technology and in products such as Aptos Ascend, a digital asset management platform for financial institutions, and in new integrations with Stripe, Circle and TetherThere are many successful cases in terms of aspects.Franklin Templeton, BlackRock, Libre and other companies have deployed tokenized assets on Aptos.
The Network State is a plan by which techno-utopians abandoned their outdated nation-states and established geographically decentralized techno-bureaucratic sovereignty.“The Network State” quickly became popular as the main exit strategy, while political debates focused on those who invested in existing systems and those who wanted to create new systems.
At the end of this year, Nelson left the U.S. Treasury Department to become a leader in the cryptocurrency field in Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.Nelson previously served as Deputy Minister for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence in the Ministry of Finance, playing an important role in the cryptocurrency field.Lead the fight against digital asset hybrid services and ties with terrorists and attempt to expand the federal government’s influence in the field.
Focusing on the dark side of cryptocurrencies, Nelson believes that cryptocurrency technology could become a tool to fund international terrorism and criminal groups, and believes that anonymous services such as Tornado Cash are the means by which bad people unbridled cash transfers.To this end, Nelson tried to change government means to stop the technology from developing.
The Babylon protocol is one of the most important projects in the emerging field, aiming to introduce practicality to the world’s oldest blockchain common in other networks.Although the Bitcoin network itself does not allow stake (as a proof-of-work blockchain),Babylon’s protocol allows users to stake BTC to protect other chains, thus providing the security of the original cryptocurrency for the wider crypto world.
2024 was a brilliant year for Babylon’s development, raising $70 million in a round of financing in May, and received a warm response from pledges when the mainnet was launched in August.For security reasons, the mainnet startup limit is 1,000 BTC, which has reached this threshold in just over an hour.The agreement kicked off its second round of financing in October, raising 24,000 BTC in about an hour and 40 minutes.
Balchunas and Seyffart are at the forefront of social media, telling unreliable people and professionals that they may “agree” or “oppose” these highly anticipated products.
Balchunas had foreseeed the level of hot discussion in Bitcoin ETFs very early. He tweeted as early as 2013: “It’s crazy: the registration application for Bitcoin ETFs alone has been released more than dozens of new useful ETFs.The total media attention and tweet attention are more.”
In 2024, the first American publicly-listed company to be attracted by Bitcoin is Eric Semler, his medical technology company Semler ScientificSelect Bitcoin as its primary reserve asset.
Taproot Wizards, a collection of 2,108 JPEG images engraved on Bitcoin using the Ordinals protocol, received a $7.5 million seed round in 2024.Taproot Wizards was founded by Eric Wall, Udi Wertheimer and Francisco Alarcon with a mission“Make Bitcoin magic again”, the project will now shift its focus to upgrading Bitcoin itself using the proposed OP_CAT protocol, the protocol was originally built into Bitcoin by Satoshi Nakamoto but was removed after people were concerned about excessive memory usage and potential vulnerabilities.
The representative of “encryption + artificial intelligence” is Erik Voorhees.His career spans multiple eras.In 2012, when Voheis launched the blockchain-based gambling game “Satoshi Dice” – which once accounted for half of the total Bitcoin transactions – he pioneered new use cases for cryptocurrencies.
He is now applying the spirit of Bitcoin to the next wave of artificial intelligence, launching Venice.AI, whose humble goal is“Unrestrained Civilization Progress”.On May 10, Voheis announcedVeniceWhen it went online, it explained that the appSimilar to ChatGPT or Claude, Venice does not censor dialogue or “inject bias, securityism, or political propaganda.”
The Sui created by Evan Cheng doesn’t just build another blockchain.He also designed a paradigm shift.In the past year, Sui, one of the bull darlings, has been a total locked value (TVL) as one of the bull market’s darlings, hasFrom more than $200 million at the beginning of the year to more than $1.5 billion.
Cheng learned from the ill-fated Diem project run by Meta (then Facebook) to create a first-tier blockchain that is not only faster and cheaper, but also has other first-tier blockchains.Fundamentally different.With these lessons, Cheng and his team created Move, which makes coding more efficient and streamlined.“The most successful projects on Sui are not clones of existing DeFi protocols, they are native products that cannot be built elsewhere.”
As thousands of DePIN projects flourish in 2024, they should be particularly grateful for a decentralized network of physical infrastructure that has pointed it to: Helium.“We’re seeing that in 2024, new companies will emerge with a variety of ideas and use cases, allowing Helium’s economic model to truly power real-life physical infrastructure. It’s amazing.”
Under Fred Thiel, MARA Holdings (MARA) (formerly Marathon Digital Holdings) has become not only one of the world’s largest bitcoin miners, but also the second largest business owner of bitcoin, with a balance sheet value of about 100 million yuan.$3.9 billion.
Under Thiel’s leadership, MARA devoted all his efforts to Bitcoin and became the first miner to follow in the footsteps of MicroStrategy’s executive chairman Michael Saylor to buy large quantities of digital assets in the spot market.The company has even managed to raise $1 billion recently to buy more Bitcoins,Thiel may be Michael Saylor in the Bitcoin mining industry.
Think of Akash as an open source “super cloud” that allows people to buy and sell computing, which is now a coveted resource in the age of artificial intelligence.This is the core concept of decentralized physical infrastructure (also known as DePIN)—using blockchain technology to organize originally scattered resources (in this case computing).Akash is designed as a long-term alternative to Nvidia’s centralized chips, aiming to make computing costs more affordable for individual users.“Akash gives you the right to calculate, freedom from censorship and freedom of free thought.”
Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley and Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan have worked tirelessly over the past seven years,Introducing institutional funds into the cryptocurrency sector,Finally received the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approval for spot ETFs for Bitcoin and Ethereum earlier this year.The digital asset management company has launched funds for both assets, giving it more than $10 billion in assets under management, and Solana’s third ETF may also be available soon.
But their efforts in the cryptocurrency space are much more than that, with the pair often sharing insights into their work with their large social media followers, driving large banks, multi-family offices and other highly relevant institutional investors “are working to open up access to Bitcoin””Authorization” statement.Hougan said“We are entering the golden age of cryptocurrencies.”
Long before he co-founded the decentralized application blockchain protocol NEAR, Polosukhin worked as an artificial intelligence researcher at Google and co-wrote the groundbreaking paper in 2017.Attention is everything you need, The paper is widely regarded as a pioneer of the “Transformer” technology that powers popular large language model (LLM) artificial intelligence applications such as ChatGPT.His qualifications in artificial intelligence are impeccable.
“Artificial intelligence is indeed a powerful force,” Polosukhin pointed out in 2023, “but we don’t want it to be controlled and partially taken by a company.” So, Polosukhin now centers his initial love (AI) with NEAR’s decentralizationCombining missions and working onCreate a complete ecosystem for decentralized artificial intelligence, from computing to training to proxy.“AI is in NEAR”.
As Hong Kong turns to embracing cryptocurrencies and Web3, he has also become a major advocate for the industry within the government, inviting companies like Coinbase to apply for regulation (they rejected him) and calling for the launch of cryptocurrency ETFs in Hong Kong (they were approved in April).Last November,He went to the Nobel Prize CommitteecallSatoshi Nakamoto is listed as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize or the Nobel Prize in Economics.”The emergence of Bitcoin based on blockchain technology is solving inflation problems in some countries and providing economic solutions to more impoverished areas. It has also revolutionized the global payment methods, reflecting the current status of the global economy.”
Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) CEO Leung Fengyi noted:“While the debate over the intrinsic value of Bitcoin will continue, the fact is that Bitcoin has experienced multiple cycles of boom and bust over the past 15 years, which clearly demonstrates its endurance as an alternative asset. More explicitly,The underlying technology of Bitcoin—Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), will continue to exist.”
By market value, Tron is the world’s third largest blockchain project, but the founders of Tron tend to ignore criticism and focus on construction.Justin Sun’s cryptocurrency holdings have increased by nearly $700 million this year, from $1.5 billion at the beginning of the year to $2.2 billion today, making him the richest man in the cryptocurrency space.This is largely due to the rapid growth of TRX and the surge in on-chain stablecoins issuance, which is currently over $60 billion.For a short period of time, there were more USDTs on Tron than on Ethereum.
In early 2022, during the cryptocurrency winter, Hon left Jump and co-founded Monad Labs with others.This vision attracted $225 million in 2024, which isOne of the largest cryptocurrency financing this year.Monad’s technical specifications say it all: Ethereum processes 15 transactions (TPS) per second, with a fee of $10 to $50, while Solana processes 2,600 transactions per second, with less than a cent, andMonad’s goal is to execute 10,000 transactions at a price of just $0.001 per transaction.Currently, DeFi’s daily trading volume is still billions, a small part of the daily trading volume of traditional finance.
The two-year recovery story of Solana blockchain may have peaked in late November as SOL hit an all-time high.Liu shifted the focus of industry insiders from Solana itself to entrepreneurs who build license-free financial systems on it, from stablecoins to games and more.This could make a big difference in the competition where blockchain proves its purpose.
Luca Netz recently announced thatIt will launch its own PENGU token on Solana in 2025.About a quarter of the tokens will be reserved for NFT holders of the project, and other tokens will be reserved for Solana and Ethereum users.
Pudgy’s success is a testament to Netz’s efforts, who acquired the Pudgy Penguins NFT series in April 2022 after a bidding war with Web3 influencer BeanieMaxi and others.Netz kept the brand relevant, selling 1.5 million plush toys at Walmart and Target.Pudgy has a loyal online fan base, with 2 million followers on Instagram, 520,000 followers on TikTok and 205,000 followers on X (formerly Twitter).The Penguin character’s video has been viewed 32 billion times on Giphy.
Luuk Strijers said: It feels like stepping into this rebellious intersection-Kafka’s struggle against systemic constraints has been resounding in today’s digital asset revolution.Under Strijers, Deribit has consolidated its dominance in the crypto derivatives sector, accounting for 80% of the global crypto options market.Daily trading volume exceeds $1.3 billion, far exceeding competitors like Binance, OKX and CME.
DePIN is one of the biggest news in the crypto space in 2024.From telecommunications and energy to maps and weather data, DePIN came into being to provide useful services to end users through blockchain, tokens and smart contracts.
Ramakrishnan believes thatThere are several factors in the success of DePIN.First, governments, traditional finance and traditional companies are unable to meet the huge demand for new infrastructure.Secondly, the DePIN network has begun to show superior economic and functionality than centralized systems, and Telecom is a significant example.Ramakrishnan believesDePIN is part of a larger shift in society’s departure from the traditional government structure after the 2008 financial crisis.DePIN is completely different in design, with users sharing services and directly receiving participation rewards in the form of tokens.This is a sharing economy, and incentives and rewards are widely shared.
Long oversees a strict regime that requires companies to comply with anti-money laundering rules, resulting in only four cryptocurrency companies being allowed to operate in the UK in 2024.Overall, 48 of the 365 application companies were approved.Long, which leads policymaking in the cryptocurrency industry, held a series of roundtables earlier this year on the upcoming cryptocurrency system in the UK, and the FCA also said it intends to release a series of documents to collect industry-wide stablecoins, trading platforms, pledges, etc.The view, aims to determine the final rules for the industry by 2026.
Starting in 2020, Michael SaylorOpening the way for businesses to buy Bitcoin.Through large-scale securities sales, he successfully raised funds for micro-strategy companies to buy billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin.Whether it is a bull or a bear market, Sailer has bought a lot of BTC.
Paolo Ardoino is the CEO and spokesperson of stablecoin giant Tether, which has been dominant in the cryptocurrency market this year.The company’s flagship token, USDT, is the first and only stablecoin with a market capitalization of over $100 billion so far, and accounts for 70% of the market share of this rapidly growing asset class.2024 is the year when stablecoins make breakthroughs.But under Ardoino, Tether has begun betting on the next big event.The company converts its profits into venture capital in payments, telecommunications, artificial intelligence and Bitcoin mining.It has also strided into the commodity trade financing space, and recently, it launched a tokenization platform—another hot crypto trend.
In 2022, he began a tough battle to fight for an industry career that had just suffered massive damage and disreputation.He believes that digital asset regulation is a goal worth investing in a lot of political capital. He fought fiercely with Congress committees, political parties and the House of Representatives, and finallyHis 21st Century Financial Innovation and Technology Act (FIT21) was submitted to the House for consideration in May 2024.
It wasn’t until August 24, 2024 that Pavel Durov entered the public eye.The 120th richest man in the world with a $15.5 billion fortune (Forbes) isn’t so compelling just because of that.But Durov’s achievements on social media are what really stands out from him—his openly support for internet freedom highlights his active role in the world.
Durov’s first achievement in social media was in Russia when he co-founded the social networking site VKontakte (VK) in 2006.The controversy sparked by the website and subsequent intervention from the Russian government forced Durov to leave his homeland in 2014, and just a year ago he worked with his brother Nikola to develop the groundbreaking social networking site Telegram.In 2017, the company moved its headquarters to the United Arab Emirates.This year, Durov was arrested.In his opinion, the Internet is free.Exchange of ideas should be promoted, not suppressed.His arrest was in fact the result of a long-term joint surveillance operation conducted by the French government in cooperation with the UAE.Both governments want to get the key to the Durov encryption code.
Solana’s status as a top memecoin chain is largely attributed to its rising launch platform Pump.Fun.Pump.Fun redefines the way cryptocurrency investors create and bet on jokes in 2024.In the process, it earned hundreds of millions of dollars for its founding team.
Since its debut in the UK in early 2024, Pump.Fun has launched more than 4 million memecoins.
Ray Chan uses his expertise to blend humor and culture with blockchain to bring the Meme culture he helped create in Web2 to Web3.
Chan believes that Web3 is an opportunity to redefine the interaction between fans and creators through a “fan proof” way, where creators can interact with fans while building ownership layers, which is impossible in the Web2 world.
Since taking office in November last year,Teng has been committed to transforming Binance from a founder-led organization (like Zhao Changpeng’s six-year term as CEO) to a board-led organization.He has also made Binance comply with a range of global regulations, invested heavily in developing compliance personnel on cryptocurrency exchanges, and received regulatory approvals from regulators around the world.
Under Teng’s leadership, Binance’s management team has ambitious expectations for the future of cryptocurrency exchanges:“It’s really about building a sustainable business that not only succeeds in the next few years, but continues to thrive in the next 50 to 100 years.”
In October 2023, Robin Linus published a white paper introducing a theoretical approach to making Bitcoin more programmable, shocking the field of cryptocurrency development.The well-known “BitVM” followed by a second iteration of “BitVM2” in August 2024, revealing some improvements that could bring the concept closer to implementation.His proposed BitVM is hailed as a breakthrough because it does not require any changes to the Bitcoin code.The launch of BitVM, originally designed by Linus, has inspired people to build projects on Bitcoin.
This year marks a key year for Rune Christensen’s bold plan, which aims to transform one of the largest and oldest decentralized finance (DeFi) protocolsMakerDAO.The platform was renamed Sky—although it wasn’t smooth sailing—and he also launched a new stablecoin and governance token.
The agreement announced a “tokenization prize” that puts $1 billion in stablecoin reserves into tokenized real-world assets (RWA), attracting BUIDL, the tokenized currency market in BlackRock.Interested by dozens of publishers.Sky’s new USDS stablecoin has also expanded from the protocol’s long-term home Ethereum to the popular Solana. Christensen has previously admired this blockchain network and even proposed the idea of using Solana’s underlying technology to create customized chains for Maker/Sky..
As Bitcoin prices soar in 2024, traditional media organizations have taken on the unrealistic mission of finding Satoshi Nakamoto, 13 years after his disappearance.HBO is hyping up “Currency Electronics: The Mystery of Bitcoin”, and many industry insiders are suspected to be Satoshi Nakamoto.
Sergio Demian Lerner is a programmer from Buenos Aires who is known for his early research on Satoshi Nakamoto’s mining activities and his later contribution to Ethereum development.Rootstock is currently in its “BitVMX” project, which aims to improve Bitcoin’s programmability by leveraging the BitVM design released by Robin Linus in late 2023.The white paper of the project says: “The BitVMX framework provides the basis for running any CPU on Bitcoin.”BitVMX’s goal is to put the theory behind Linus’ BitVM paradigm into practice by creating a framework for running programs on Bitcoin, and to implement further development of sidechains and layer 2.
TON has exploded and now has a market cap of over $17 billion, making it the 13th largest project in the entire cryptocurrency space.Yun tweeted that “TON will go to the United States” after SEC Chairman Gary Gensler announced plans to resign early next year
The Animoca Brands portfolio company has a total market capitalization of $35.6 billion, up nearly 37% in the last 30 days alone.Siu believes:“Digital ownership can provide a foundation for a more equitable society.”“Property and capitalism are the basis for achieving democracy.”Siu expects substantial progress around the world to develop regulations governing ownership of digital assets by the end of next year.He explained, “This will give users clear rights to their digital assets, thus giving them powers – rights that are currently implemented through blockchain technology but are not well known in many jurisdictions.”
Since 2021, anonymous blockchain detective ZachXBT has built an unparalleled reputation for relentless pursuit of cryptocurrency thieves and scammers.He has 700,000 followers on X and 45,500 followers on Telegram.
