2025 will be a key year for cryptocurrency:
1/ AI Agent will become the dominant narrative:
One of the hottest topics to watch in 2025,
Undoubtedly the explosive application of 'AI agents' in the cryptocurrency field.
Fund management: It is expected that AI may manage hundreds of millions of dollars in trading or investment.
and independently make buy and sell decisions.
Social impact: There is a possibility that AI agents could be elected as the annual figure in social or media selections, symbolizing their elevated status in mainstream visibility.
Physical integration: If 'AI + crypto' is extended to real-world robots, then from interactive experiences to decentralized operating models, entirely new forms of applications will emerge.
In addition, the track integrated with AI also includes decentralized finance (DeFi), real-world assets (RWA), decentralized science (DeSci), and emerging decentralized infrastructure (DePIN), which, although perhaps not as 'topic-driven' as AI agents, can also catalyze new growth opportunities.
2/ Infrastructure evolution: Base, Solana, and the new generation of performance monsters
Public chain performance has become an 'arms race' within the industry. The traditional pursuit of high speed and large capacity will intensify in 2025, with emerging projects attempting to enhance processing capabilities and shorten confirmation delays in a short period.
Base and Solana: Already fast and convenient representatives, they will continue to optimize throughput capacity in 2025, striving to further expand the ecosystem.
HyperLiquid, Eclipse, Monad: These projects gained widespread attention in the second half of 2024, attempting to lead the new performance battle either through innovative consensus algorithms or by being EVM-compatible with speeds close to Solana.
MegaETH: A relatively mysterious and potentially disruptive new solution. The project claims to offer speed and scalability that mainstream chains find difficult to match, while ensuring basic compatibility with the Ethereum ecosystem, attracting strong interest from some developers and 'airdrop enthusiasts.'
At the same time, zero-knowledge proof (ZK) technology is playing an increasingly important role in underlying solutions, but for ordinary users, it still seems relatively 'technical,' and in the short term, it will still mainly be driven by the core developer community.
3/ A new landscape for Ethereum, Bitcoin, and other core assets
Bitcoin ($BTC )
Although regarded as 'digital gold,' the concept of 'BTC DeFi' has emerged in recent years, hoping to introduce more contract capabilities and a layer two ecosystem on the Bitcoin network.
If in the future Bitcoin can support ETH-like L2 (such as technologies like StarkNet) through upgrades similar to 'OP_CAT', its functionality will be greatly expanded.
Ethereum ($ETH )
Currently facing the challenge of ecological fragmentation: Different rollups, Layer 2s, and cross-chain solutions are flourishing, but this also causes developers and users to run around in multiple places. In 2025, Ethereum may alleviate this issue through further improvements in account abstraction, unified standards, and upcoming major upgrades (such as Pectra). The goal is to make the user experience feel like operating on the same main chain while maintaining a more flexible multi-network architecture at the underlying level.
Solana ($SOL )
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The direction of Solana can be summarized in one sentence: 'increasing bandwidth and reducing latency.' This chain has always been known for its speed and low costs, and with a strong developer ecosystem and technological advantages, it is expected to maintain its first-mover advantage in the high-performance public chain track in 2025.