Weekly Hot Search | DA & Troll, serious and lively at the same time

The Ethereum DA discussion is raging, and Musk once again relied on TROLL to prove his absolute dominance in the meme world.

Written by Frank, Foresight News

Cartography: Kiet, Foresight News

Note: “Weekly Hot Searches” counts user search results from Foresight News last Friday to this Friday (January 12th to January 18th), and the uppercase and lowercase letters of the same concept are combined.

Spot Bitcoin** “ETF”** has basically entered the “sell the news” stage after last week. Although the inflow and outflow data of the daily trading market are still biased towards positive factors (recommended reading “Bitcoin Spot ETF Set Sail” , what challenges will the fund managers who manage them face?", “Breaking 10 billion in the first week, digging into the big winners behind Bitcoin ETFs”), but the secondary market performance of BTC can only be said to be unsatisfactory. As of the time of publication, it has returned to Near the integer mark of 40,000 USDT.

However, even if the ETF narrative has stalled in the short term, it is currently less than a hundred days away from Bitcoin’s fourth halving. The rotation of the halving narrative and the room for speculation do not rule out taking over in the next three months (recommended reading “CoinShares” Mining Report: The Bitcoin Cycle Code Hidden Behind the Halving”).

Last week “Manta” launched an airdrop plan, and this week it topped the list of hot searches by virtue of its successive listing on Binance and its LaunchPool, “Bitget”, Bithumb and other leading exchanges. As a product that was ignored by some users last year The project has been an unexpected surprise to many people.

However, just this morning, Manta seemed to be accused of team dumping or money laundering in South Korea. It is not ruled out that it will encounter regulatory challenges in the future, especially in areas like South Korea that have strict controls on crypto transactions.

“OKX” followed closely. This week, OKX’s Dubai subsidiary OKX Middle East Financial Technology Co., Ltd. received a license from the Dubai Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) and will be put into full operation in the next few weeks. , at the same time, the number of downloads of the OKX Web3 wallet Chrome plug-in has exceeded 500,000, and the momentum is good.

After “SUI” broke through the integer mark of 1 USDT last week, it continued its efforts this week, sweeping away the decline of the past half year. Not only did the secondary market price once exceed 1.4 USDT and continue to hit a recent high, the TVL on the chain also A rising tide has lifted all boats, with a single-week growth rate exceeding 70% at one time, and CETUS and others within the ecosystem have also followed suit and performed well.

In addition, another hot topic in the community this week is the big discussion about the legitimacy (or legitimacy) of Ethereum DA, which also involves “EigenLayer”, “Celestia” and other related matters Head project, when I was sorting out the new variables of the pan-Ethereum ecology, I found that since the end of last year, Vitalik has begun to frequently speak out about maintaining the legitimacy of Ethereum DA (see “ETF Boots Fall, Who Will Take Over the Mainstream Narrative in 2024” ?》).

In fact, from the soaring market price of TIA, we can also see that the DA track has gradually entered everyone’s mainstream vision with the evolution of the new pattern of L1&2, and the flourishing of related solutions such as Celestia and NEAR has indeed weakened it to a certain extent. The competitiveness of Ethereum DA.

From this perspective, the game on the DA track will also become a main narrative in 2024 to see if it can come up with an eye-catching project.

“Blast” will launch the test network this week, and simultaneously launch the Blast BIG BANG airdrop competition. In addition, Blast’s native DEX Thruster will also launch the test network. Overall, the Blast ecological project should gradually expand in the first quarter of this year. debuted and became a new popular direction.

At the same time, “AltLayer” also announced airdrop standards and token economics this week, with a total amount of 10 billion, with investors allocating 18.5% of the total, Binance Launchpool allocating 5%, and the team allocating 15%. Strategic advisors are allocated 5%, protocol development is allocated 20%, treasury is allocated 21.5%, and ecosystem and community are allocated 15%.

“Berachain” finally opened the testnet “Artio” to the public this week. In fact, the community began to circulate information about the testnet as early as November last year, but it has been delayed until now. As a former star project that brought out its own characteristics, everyone’s FOMO mood has almost faded away at the beginning. However, its exquisite Pond’s design, once the market picks up, it cannot be ruled out that it will become a new generation of legendary project, and it is still worthy of attention.

“SkyArk Chronicles” Although it looks like a new face, as a 3A gaming platform, it just completed US$15 million in financing this week, led by Binance Labs. In addition, in 2024, the market is generally optimistic about the resurgence of blockchain games. expectations, he is a seed player that is particularly noteworthy next.

According to the “Solana” ecological report for the fourth quarter of 2024 released by Messari, many Solana indicators have increased significantly quarter-on-quarter, including market capitalization (423%), DeFi TVL (303%), and average daily DEX trading volume (961%) and average daily NFT transaction volume (359%), etc. (Refer to “Data surges across the board, take a look at Messari’s fourth quarter Solana Ecological Report”).

In addition, it is worth noting that the Saga mobile phone, which was suddenly out of stock due to airdrops of BONK and other tokens, also suddenly received new news.

“TROLL” once again verified the absolute dominance of (former) the world’s richest man Musk in the meme world - on January 9, Musk changed the X account profile to “(CTO) Chief Troll Officer”, that is, “Chief Troll Officer” “Magic Officer”, and then the meme token of the same name started to go crazy with FOMO, rising nearly a hundred times in a week…

This also led to everyone starting to look for clues of historical posts from Musk and even Musk’s mother’s X account, starting a wave of meme creation. However, taking history as a guide, the crazy Zoo MEME currency market in 2021 shows that once market sentiment reaches extremes, it means that a short-term correction is inevitable.

“Inscription” The popularity this week is still on a downward trend, but the news about the Binance Web3 wallet seems to be gradually confirmed, so you can still keep an eye on the head project of the Inscription track.

“Manta” and “Berachain” in this week’s Mirror hot search list are linked to the hot searches on the site. In terms of the author list, the proportion of airdrop tutorials has not changed much:

1.0x667C (project introduction)

2.danunahuyblayd.eth (project introduction)

3.hellozeck.eth (project introduction)

4.BiubiuShip (Airdrop Tutorial)

5.tp96a (airdrop tutorial)

6.mydfinity.eth (airdrop tutorial)

7.rulb2025 (Industry Observation)

8.rabbitverse.eth (airdrop tutorial)

9.0xaF1F (project introduction)

10.MattGamefi (airdrop tutorial)