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According to Forbes, the total market value of global crypto assets soared to an all-time high of $3.8 trillion in 2024.Among them, the unit price of BTC hit a historical peak of US$106,490.1 on December 17, 2024. Various Meme Coins are the only ones. With the progress and end of the US presidential election, it has become the absolute focus in the market, and the Ethereum ecosystem has also experienced a lot.In the wonderful year, not only did the Dencun upgrade successfully, but ETH achieved a market value increase of about 48%.
Looking forward to what events are worthy of users’ attention in the Ethereum ecosystem in 2025?
Pectra Upgrade
The Ethereum Pectra upgrade is expected to be officially activated in the first quarter of 2025. The Ethereum improvement protocol to be implemented in this round of upgrades includes:
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EIP-2537: Precompiled for BLS12-381 curve operation
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EIP-2935: Provide historical block hash in state
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EIP-6110: Provide verifier deposits on the chain
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EIP-7002: Assets that can be triggered by the execution layer
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EIP-7549: Move committee index out of verification signature
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EIP-7594: PeerDAS
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EIP-7685: General Execution Layer Request
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EIP-7251: Added MAX_EFFECTIVE_BALANCE
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EIP-7702: Set up EOA Account Code for a Transaction
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EIP-7623: Increase the call data fee
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EOF-related technical agreements
As early as November 2023, developers have already started deploying Ethereum Pectra upgrades.Initially, in the developer’s vision, this was just a small upgrade that could be done simultaneously with the March 2024 Dencun upgrade, but at the time there were many technical agreements that were not agreed upon and therefore not implemented.
Public information on the Internet shows that Byzantine’s co-founder and CEO Gaia Regis once said:Pectra upgrade will fundamentally change how the Ethereum security layer works.
After the Pectra upgrade was completed, developers have agreed that Verkle Transition is the next key reform area for Ethereum.
What is Verkle Transition?
Verkle Transition is a major reform of the Ethereum state data structure, which refers to the developers’ plan to transfer all state data from the Merkle Patricia Tree structure to the Verkle structure, which will enable smaller proofs of state data for nodes, thereby improving node efficiency., especially suitable for lightweight node operation, can reduce maintenance costs.
DeFi
On December 23, 2024, Uniswap officially announced that its Layer2 solution Unichain is expected to be launched on the public mainnet in early 2025, which may be the opening event for the Ethereum ecosystem DeFi field in 2025.
Unichain is an infrastructure focused on decentralized finance (DeFi), built on OP Stack and runs on Ethereum’s Sepolia testnet.Since its launch in October 2024, Sepolia Test Network has processed more than 50 million transactions and deployed more than 4 million test contracts.
RWA
Decentralized real-world assets (hereinafter referred to as RWA) will release liquidity, especially in the real estate and carbon credit fields, and may see new explorations in the field of copyrighted works.
According to RWA.xyz, as of December 24, 2024, RWA had reached a total of approximately US$14.9 billion in asset lockouts, with more than 80,000 asset holders.
Juan Leon, senior investment strategist at Bitwise, pointed out in his latest weekly report released on December 18, 2024: Ethereum will usher in a strong rebound in 2025, with the biggest driving force coming from RWA.Relevant data shows that in the current RWA market, RWA on Ethereum accounts for 81%, dominating.
Stablecoin
An article published by Forbes on December 23, 2024 pointed out: Stablecoin has become one of the most successful use cases in the crypto asset field, relying on blockchains such as Ethereum, Solana and Tron to promote cross-chain transactions.
In 2024, Stablecoin’s circulation supply reached 200 billion, and it is expected that the circulation supply in 2025 may continue to grow, exceeding 400 billion.
NFT
On December 22, 2024, an article published by the Web3 media platform cointribune. pointed out that Ethereum-based NFTs achieved a surprising $304 million weekly sales, an increase of 76% compared to the previous week’s sales.NFT sales on Ethereum accounted for 66% of the total NFT sales that week, especially some well-known NFT series’ popularity continues to increase, such as NFTs in the Azuki element series, whose sales increased by 226% compared with the previous week.
As 2024 is coming to an end, the sudden rise in Ethereum NFT sales seems to herald the market vitality that may be gained in 2025.Perhaps, with the joint promotion of more emerging use cases, some media pointed out that ETH is expected to hit a new value high of US$15,000 in May 2025. Let us look forward to it together!
