"Trump"'s NFT debut once again proved the power of the world's top streamers, and single-handedly led to a blowout in the Polygon NFT track.
Written by Frank, Foresight News
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Note: "Weekly Hot Searches" counts the user search results of Foresight News from last Friday to this Friday (December 16 to December 22), and the capitalization of the same concepts is merged.
"Binance" continued to top the hot search list this week, continuing the FUD test that occurred last week. However, Binance also published articles from multiple angles, including user asset security, Binance's financial status, cooperation with verification companies, and judicial investigations (see "Binance's "Facing FUD" Full Text: Response to Recent Media and Community Questions"), and sorted and responded to them one by one.
Regarding the most critical reserve fund, Binance once again emphasized that all users' assets on Binance are supported 1:1, and users also have the right to withdraw money at any time. Binance will support and serve users' withdrawal needs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and stated that "between December 12 and 14, the platform's net withdrawals reached 6 billion US dollars, but we withstood the test."
At the same time, the popularity of "Hong Kong" has risen again. On the one hand, it should still be the popularity generated by the launch of Asia's first batch of virtual asset ETFs by Southern China Asset Management Co., Ltd., which was officially listed on December 16: Southern China Asset Management Co., Ltd. Bitcoin Futures ETF (3066.HK) and Southern China Asset Management Co., Ltd. Ethereum Futures ETF (3068.HK).
On the other hand, this week, a refrigeration equipment failure occurred in the computer room of Hong Kong PCCW rented by Alibaba Cloud, affecting the use of cloud products such as cloud server ECS, cloud database, storage products (object storage, table storage, etc.), cloud network products (global acceleration, NAT gateway, VPN gateway, etc.) in Hong Kong's availability zone C, directly leading to the product services of encryption companies such as "OKX" and Gate. Among them, the trading interruption time of OKX once exceeded 12 hours, which aroused market concern.
After the Alibaba Cloud failure was resolved, OKX successfully resumed trading and stated that it would bear all customer losses caused by platform reasons. It also released a subsequent optimization plan including customer losses and compensation, and the promotion of multi-cloud strategy.
In addition, as the first "NFT" launched by former US President "Trump", the floor price of the "Trump Digital Trading Cards" series of NFTs has increased nearly tenfold from 0.08 ETH when it was launched on December 15, and has "FOMO" all the way to more than 0.6 ETH.
As early as December 14, Trump revealed that "there is important news to be announced", but most people speculated that it was related to the announcement of his candidacy for the US presidency in 2024, so the NFT series that was finally unveiled was beyond the expectations of most people.
This NFT series is all minted on Polygon, priced at $99, and can be purchased with ETH or fiat currency. This has also to some extent boosted the popularity of NFT sales on the Polygon network, and single-handedly contributed to the impressive data and major transaction volume of Polygon NFT.
The "FTX" incident continued to advance this week. "SBF" has been extradited from Panama to the United States and was quickly released on bail for $250 million. People can't help but think of his recent statement that "there is only $100,000 left in the bank account." In the blink of an eye, $100,000 turned into $250 million. It turns out that powerful people are magicians who can confuse everyone.
In addition, former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder Gary Wang have also pleaded guilty to federal criminal fraud charges and have been released on bail of $250,000 each.
Another trend worth noting is that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stated in a lawsuit against the former CEO of Alameda and the co-founder of FTX that FTX's trading token FTT was sold as an investment contract and is a "security." According to analysis, this incident may set a bad example and form a basis for sentencing other platform coins such as BNB and even most cryptocurrencies. The subsequent impact is still unknown.
FIL’s inclusion in the list this week is probably related to its sharp drop. Not only did it fall below the $4 mark that it had been hovering for a while, but it also hit a new historical low of $2.33, a drop far exceeding the market level during the same period. It is a pity that the once king of the generation has now hit new lows.
The reason behind this also points directly to "DCG" - Will Clemente, co-founder of institutional research firm Reflexivity Research, tweeted that "several cryptocurrencies related to DCG have been sold off heavily tonight, including FIL, ZEN, ETC, and NEAR, which makes people wonder whether the selling came from DCG itself."
Blur recalculated the number of packages in the second round of airdrops and extended the claim period to January 3. The wash trade filter that previously affected normal traders was fixed, and the number of airdrops received by affected users has been recalculated. I believe many friends have received extra surprises (see "A Quick Look at Blur Airdrop 3 Details: How to Incentivize Buyer Depth?"); Aztec's inclusion on the list is undoubtedly due to its $100 million financing led by a16z.
Musk played a very novel voting game - he launched a Twitter vote on whether he should resign as the head of Twitter, and said he would abide by the results of the vote. The final result was about 17.5 million votes, with about 57.5% of the votes in favor. He then said that he was actively looking for a new CEO.
On the Mirror hot word rankings, "LayerZero" continues to be popular, and other hot words are almost the same as last week. The only new entry "Aztec" is linked to the site.
The Mirror author rankings this week are all new faces, and the familiar industry media "TechFlow" topped the list for the first time. The category also has almost the fewest "airdrop tutorials" in history - only 2, showing a rare trend of diversification.
1. TechFlow (industry media)
2. Usama (Project Introduction)
3.yiyangzhi.eth (Airdrop Tutorial)
4.awpdvl.eth (Industry Observation)
5.play-casino.eth (Project Introduction)
6.yueya (Industry Observation)
7. Richard Wang (Industry Observation)
8.zdaocrypto.eth (Airdrop Tutorial)
9.louisli.eth (Industry Observation)
10. meliew.eth (project introduction)