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Forbes predicts seven major trends in the crypto industry by 2025

On December 24, Forbes published an article predicting seven major trends in the crypto industry by 2025:

1. G7 or BRICS countries may establish strategic Bitcoin reserves; 2. The market cap of stablecoins is expected to double to $400 billion; 3. The Bitcoin DeFi ecosystem will achieve rapid growth through L2 networks (like Stacks, BOB, Babylon), with locked assets expected to exceed the current $24 billion in cross-chain wrapped Bitcoin; 4. Crypto ETF products will expand to include Ethereum staking and Solana, among other sectors; 5. Tech giants like Apple and Microsoft may follow Tesla in increasing their Bitcoin holdings; 6. The total market cap of the crypto market will break $8 trillion; 7. Improved regulatory environment in the U.S. will drive a resurgence in crypto startups.

Wall Street: Predicts 2-year U.S. Treasury yield will decline by 50 basis points next year

Despite the imminent threat of President-elect Trump's trade and tax policies on the bond market, Wall Street still draws insights from the Federal Reserve, predicting that U.S. short-term Treasury yields will decline by 2025. Strategists' forecasts largely agree that the 2-year Treasury yield, which is more sensitive to Federal Reserve interest rate policies, will decrease.

QCP Capital: Nearly $20 billion in nominal value of Bitcoin and Ethereum options will expire this Friday

After last week's market washout, spot prices have remained sideways. This Friday will see nearly $20 billion in Bitcoin and Ethereum options expire, accounting for nearly half of Deribit's total open interest. The option expiration may trigger end-of-quarter volatility sell-offs, especially as spot prices remain stagnant and sellers continue to roll over short positions. If BTC breaks $100,000, volatility may remain stable; otherwise, altcoins may have an opportunity to catch up.

BNB Chain releases 2024 annual report: BSC TVL grows 58.2% to $5.5 billion, opBNB daily active users reach 4.7 million

BNB Chain has released its 2024 annual report, including the latest progress and data on ecology, technology, and more. The report shows that in 2024, BNB Chain continues to promote the multi-chain development strategy of One BNB, namely BSC + opBNB + Greenfield. opBNB achieves a groundbreaking expansion capability of 4,600 TPS and a 100 million Gas Limit per second, and introduces parallel EVM;