Looking ahead, it's worth paying attention to how blockchain technology, prioritizing privacy and focusing on payments, will develop.

A research report was released on December 4 by a team of analysts at JPMorgan Chase (led by senior strategist Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou).

Projects, agents, and crypto agents are the next major trend. Golden Finance reports that AgentFi automatically optimizes returns and simplifies trading strategies.

In November 2025, MS published an article titled "Financial Inclusion via FinTech: From Digital Payments to Platform Investments".

The foreign exchange market is not at all the "currency exchange market" I thought it was. To be more precise, most of the massive daily trading volume of $7.5 trillion is not "currency exchange" at all—but rather a vast and invisible global dollar lending network.

In the West, finance is a means of social mobilization, and it can only be effective when the "state-society" is separated or even opposed. However, in large Eastern countries where the state and family are structurally similar, social mobilization relies on water conservancy projects and governance capabilities.

For two consecutive Fridays, the Chinese government and industry organizations have launched a crackdown on cryptocurrencies, particularly defining and clarifying the stance on stablecoins and RWA, shaking the industry. What has it banned, what has it preserved, and will closing one door open another window?

A chief analyst at a securities firm told Barron's that previous RWA projects in mainland China certainly did not comply with the latest regulatory guidelines. To date, almost all previously attempted RWA projects in mainland China have been halted.

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This week, 25 blockchain startups raised a total of $478.9 million. CoinMENA raised $240 million in its M&A funding round—the largest funding round of the week.

According to Messari Report: In Q4 2023, BNB Smart Chain (BSC) hit a record 32 million transactions in a single day and an average of 4.6 million daily transactions, representing a QoQ increase of 30% and a YoY increase of 35%. The revenue of BSC witnessed growth by 27% QoQ, and its market capitalization escalated by 48% QoQ. The number of active validators on BSC increased from 32 to 40, demonstrating a 25% QoQ and a 54% YoY increase, spurred primarily by the implementation of BEP-131 and BEP-159. The Venus Protocol surpassed PancakeSwap in terms of DeFi Total Value Locked (TVL) share on BSC, accounting for 39% of the total share, with PancakeSwap covering 37%. A new dimension was added to BNB Chain with the launch of the BNB Greenfield mainnet. This initiative establishes a BNB Chain-native storage network, integrating decentralized cloud storage with the smart contract functionality of BSC for a formidable infrastructure for Web3-native and AI-focused projects. The fourth quarter of 2023 also saw the sunset of the BNB Beacon Chain, with its staking and governance functions being migrated to BSC. This reflects BNB Chain's commitment to enhancing overall security, scalability, and reducing complexities. Moreover, the launch of opBNB, an optimistic rollup boosting the execution throughput for BSC, the introduction of BEP-322 for standardizing proposer-builder separation (PBS) to enhance transparency and stability, and BNB Chain's joining of Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) featured among the key development highlights. The report culminates by stating that as the next market cycle unfolds, BSC is strategically poised to capture value through its forthcoming product launches and focus on fortifying its core protocol.