ChainCatcher news, ai16z founder Shaw posted on the X platform stating that there is no need to mimic their projects, as there are many unexplored areas worth trying, and emphasized that innovation and bold attempts can bring greater potential rewards.In response to the question "What areas do you hope people will expand into?", he suggested focusing on the following directions: projects that can help people "make money while they sleep," tools that help people save time, and new forms of social media that expand existing applications or websites.

ChainCatcher news, Mike Dudas, founder of 6th Man Ventures and former founder of The Block, stated on the X platform that he recently saw the performance report of Multicoin's fund, which has achieved an 18.6 times return since the market bottomed out in 2022.In response, a user inquired how much of that return figure is realized profit/liquid status and how much is unrealized/locked status. Dudas indicated that this is a liquid fund, and only a very small portion of the assets have poor liquidity; he was also quite surprised when he saw this report.Additionally, another user asked about the fund's holdings composition. Dudas revealed that SOL is a core component, but there are also some Solana ecosystem tokens and other tokens.

ChainCatcher news, Azuki founder Zagabond disclosed during interactions with the community and users that Animecoin will not have its TGE before the end of the year, but an announcement is expected to be released soon. In addition, Zagabond also revealed that Animecoin is expected to launch on Anime Chain before being deployed on the Ethereum mainnet and Arbitrum.

ChainCatcher news, Trump made some promises to the crypto industry during his campaign, and whether he will make the U.S. government a holder or even a buyer of Bitcoin remains a hot topic. SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci stated, "I want to remind everyone, if you think that after January 20th next year a switch will be flipped and everything will get better, and the Bitcoin and digital asset community will thrive, you are mistaken; that's not how Washington works."

ChainCatcher news, MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor posted on the X platform asking the community: Have you been accumulating Bitcoin this year?At the same time, Michael Saylor also attached the company's Bitcoin holding data, which shows that MicroStrategy ranks first.

ChainCatcher message, BurnPENGU founder @valeriehub stated that due to an operational error, 90% of the private placement reserved tokens were destroyed, and the minting rights have also been revoked; the destruction of BurnPENGU was executed through the Incinerator burning program, not sent to the contract address, and it has been confirmed that it cannot be recovered.Currently, we are contacting the SLERF founder for assistance, and the BurnPENGU community should reach out to the Binance Chain official for help.BurnPENGU currently has a total trading volume of 1.6 million USD, with 94.97% of the total 1 billion tokens already destroyed. The holding of 50 million on-chain has essentially entered a state of destruction, and BurnPENGU2 is currently priced at 0.0000633 USD, with an increase of 33.46%.

ChainCatcher news, AVA posted on platform X that ai16z founder Shaw has joined the Eliza project as an advisor. Meanwhile, Eliza Studios director, ai16z creative Jeff, Nous Research researcher Ropirito, and Ryze Labs founder Matthew also announced their roles as advisors for the Eliza project.

ChainCatcher news, Pantera founder Dan Morehead stated in a recent interview that in 2013, people were worried about regulators cracking down on Bitcoin, but the situation is completely different in 2024. Bitcoin has reached "escape velocity" and will not go backward.In 2013, media coverage was mostly negative, focusing on the Silk Road incident and ignoring the positive impacts. Although the U.S. once banned gold, now 50 million Americans hold cryptocurrency. Most Americans are under 40, but in the past three years, 90% of the wealth created by the monetary policies of the Federal Reserve and Congress has flowed to those aged 70 and above, which is essentially a massive transfer of wealth from the younger generation to the older generation.

ChainCatcher news, Pantera Capital founder Dan Morehead stated in a recent interview with Bankless that Bitcoin has indeed developed to a considerable scale, and we can no longer expect a 1000x growth, as that would consume all the energy on Earth.However, a 10x increase to a market cap of $15 trillion is entirely possible compared to the global total of $500 trillion in financial assets. Dan Morehead added that he would not predict the situation 50 years from now, but within our current investment cycle, such as a 5-10 year timeframe, a 10x increase from the current position for Bitcoin is completely reasonable and would not seem crazy or overvalued.

ChainCatcher news, CryptoQuant founder and CEO Ki Young Ju posted on the X platform that recently, reports about Bitcoin whale accumulation have become a daily topic. Two or three years ago, news of whale accumulation would cause a strong reaction in the market, but now it is no longer a sudden event, but rather routine information. Retail investors are moving away from Bitcoin, and whale funds are dominating the market.Currently, Bitcoin is in a clear bull market, with on-chain data showing approximately $7 billion in capital flowing into the market each week. Although market corrections may occur, it is difficult to see a decline of more than 30% during a bull market cycle, and even if a short-term pullback happens, the subsequent rebound potential is quite considerable.At present, there are still many people predicting the arrival of a bear market, who may be overlooking the actual market conditions reflected by on-chain data.

ChainCatcher news, ai16z founder Shaw posted on X stating that DeFi is the killer application for crypto AI agents. AI agents that can automatically earn profits while users are resting will far surpass AI agents that only engage in simple conversational interactions.

ChainCatcher news, MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor posted on the X platform that there is no better Christmas gift than BTC.

ChainCatcher news, Jon Ma, the founder of the encrypted data platform Artemis, shared his cryptocurrency investment journey. He first encountered Bitcoin in 2015 through a computer science course but did not pay much attention to it; he only began purchasing cryptocurrencies like BTC and Litecoin at the peak of the bull market in 2017. Conversations with ShapeShift founder Erik Voorhees made him realize that government and currency could be separated.After that, he missed the DeFi summer of 2020 and the NFT boom of 2021, returning to the crypto market only in mid-2021, purchasing SOL and Solana NFTs through FTX US, and engaging with projects like ENS and Wonderland Money. He also participated in Axie Infinity with his girlfriend and established a scholarship program in the Philippines.Ma stated that compared to traditional SaaS, fintech, and internet consumer sectors, cryptocurrency has created a larger global labor and financial system. Looking ahead, he expects traditional finance (TradFi) participants to drive the market capitalization of crypto assets from the current $3.5 trillion to over $100 trillion.With major asset management institutions like Fidelity and BlackRock launching digital asset ETFs, and payment giants like Stripe and Visa entering the crypto payment space, traditional finance participants are expected to become the main force shaping the global digital financial system after 2025.

ChainCatcher message, 1confirmation founder Nick Tomaino posted on the X platform stating: "ETH is the internet's native store of value, with the best monetary policy in the world. The supply of BTC will continue to increase, reaching 21 million by 2140.As the usage of DeFi, stablecoins, NFTs, prediction markets, SocialFi, etc. increases, the supply of ETH decreases, stake ETH, earn yields and HODL."

ChainCatcher message, MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor posted on X: "Last week, $MSTR's financial operations generated a 0.72% BTC yield, with a net gain of approximately 3,177 BTC. At $94,000 per BTC, this amounts to a gift of $299 million to our shareholders."

ChainCatcher news, ai16z founder Shaw, in response to the Chinese community's question about whether "AI-Pool's token issuance will be affected by the freezing of the founder's account," stated that regardless, the bot will deploy the AI-Pool token, and this is unstoppable. He is very optimistic about the project.It is reported that ai16z founder Shaw has expressed his support for the project multiple times on social media today.