ChainCatcher news, RootData released the "2024 Web3 Industry Investment Research Report." The report shows that early-stage investments (under $5 million) continue to dominate, with 627 financing events occurring throughout the year, a 20.6% increase from 520 projects in 2023. Mid-stage investments ($5 million to $10 million) showed robust growth, completing 244 projects in 2024, up 24.5% from 196 projects in 2023. Late-stage and large-scale investments (over $10 million) completed 188 projects, a slight increase from 175 projects in 2023.From the leaderboard of leading investors, Polychain ranks first with 30 lead investments, clearly focusing on the infrastructure and DeFi sectors. The second place, Hack VC, made 24 lead investments, 17 of which were directed towards the infrastructure field. Among Animoca Brands' 17 lead investments, 8 were directed towards gaming projects, demonstrating its professional layout in the gaming sector. Overall, sectors like NFT and DAO showed a lukewarm performance in terms of lead investments, with most institutions having zero lead investments in these areas.In the TOP 10 active investment institutions of 2024, OKX Ventures ranks first with 72 investments, primarily focusing on infrastructure and DeFi sectors. Notably, OKX Ventures was active in the gaming sector, making 34 investments. Following closely are MH Ventures and Cogitent Ventures, both making 56 investments.

ChainCatcher news, CryptoQuant has released its user survey report, which shows that Binance is the best-performing cryptocurrency exchange across several key metrics, ranking first in multiple critical categories. Among the respondents, 53% reported that Binance is the centralized exchange they use most frequently, 48% have most of their crypto assets on Binance, and 51% have achieved their highest returns through Binance.According to the survey results from global regional market segments, Binance dominates with 52%-72% of users in the Middle East, South America, and Africa; in competitive markets like Asia and Europe, Binance also shows strong influence, with adoption rates of 50% and 51%, respectively.Additionally, more than half of the respondents believe that Binance has the best cybersecurity measures (54%), customer service (55%), and C2C trading platform (59%). Among the participants in this survey, 83% value compliance in the crypto industry, while 32% believe that Binance has the highest compliance standards, 18% higher than the second-ranked CEX.

ChainCatcher news, according to the "2024 DePIN Status" report jointly released by Messari DePIN research analyst Dylan Bane and Escape Velocity Ventures co-founder Salvador Gala, the Distributed Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN) sector is expected to achieve significant growth in 2024:Market Performance: The total market capitalization of DePIN reaches $50 billion, covering 350 tokens, with an annual revenue price-to-earnings ratio of about 100 times.Device Contribution: Over 13 million devices globally participate in DePIN operations daily.Network Competition: Solana leads in the infrastructure sector, while Base excels in consumer and market domains.Capital Inflow: In 2024, DePIN projects raised over $350 million in seed and early-stage funding.Application Expansion: Local governments are beginning to utilize DePIN to address infrastructure issues, such as cross-border payments and logistics network optimization.Looking ahead to 2025, the DePIN sector is expected to achieve 100-1000 times growth in emerging markets and break through in broader application scenarios.

ChainCatcher message, a research report from CICC states that AI Agent is an intelligent entity capable of perceiving the environment, autonomously planning, making decisions, and executing actions to achieve goals. It possesses fundamental characteristics such as autonomy, interactivity, reactivity, and adaptability, with its core driving force being large language models.With breakthroughs in underlying technologies empowered by large models, we see AI Agents gradually landing in application scenarios focusing on verticals and multiple intelligent agents collaborating. According to market.us, the global large model market size is expected to grow from $4.5 billion in 2023 to $82.1 billion by 2033, with a 10-year CAGR of 33.7%. There are optimistic investment opportunities arising from the future development trends of AI Agents and changes in the upstream and downstream industrial chains. (Jinshi)

ChainCatcher news, a report from CICC states that after being severely hindered by hurricanes and strikes, the number of new jobs in the U.S. rose sharply to 227,000 in November, but the unemployment rate also increased to 4.2%, indicating that the labor market is slowing down. Overall, the labor market remains in a state of "employment growth momentum weakening, but the job market itself is not weak," which will provide a reason for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates again in December.At the same time, it is predicted that the Federal Reserve will slow down the pace of rate cuts in 2025, as decision-makers will become more cautious as interest rates approach neutral levels. One risk in the forecast is the impact of the immigration policy proposed by Trump on the labor market, which currently tends to have a moderate impact, but the possibility of extreme scenarios also needs to be closely monitored. Based on non-farm data, it is believed that the Federal Reserve is likely to cut rates by another 25 basis points this month.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, JPMorgan's latest research report shows that the economics of Bitcoin mining significantly improved in the first half of November. Data indicates that the hashprice, which measures mining profitability, has increased by 29% since the end of October, primarily benefiting from Bitcoin's price increase outpacing the growth in network hash rate, as well as an increase in the proportion of transaction fees to block rewards.The report points out that the total market capitalization of the mining stocks tracked by the bank grew by 33% from October 31 to November 15, approximately $8 billion. The network hash rate has increased by 2% so far this month, averaging 718 EH/s. Notably, 14 publicly listed mining companies in the U.S. currently account for about 28% of the global network hash rate, maintaining a historical high.

ChainCatcher news, according to Decrypt, Blocktempo and ChainCatcher recently launched a survey targeting early-stage crypto investors in the Asia-Pacific region. The participants included native crypto venture capital funds, traditional venture capital funds, individual investors, and family offices, resulting in 1,084 valid responses.According to the survey, the following key points were noted:• 90% of investors have a single investment amount within $1 million.• In terms of investment data inquiry and project tracking, 85% of early-stage investors chose to use RootData, making it the most commonly used data decision-making platform for early-stage crypto investors in the Asia-Pacific region. Cryptorank and Crunchbase are also commonly used data platforms for cross-validation by early-stage crypto investors.• Regarding project evaluation criteria, team background and experience (75%), technological innovation (53%), and business model (45%) are considered the most important. The main challenges include project information transparency (61%) and rapid industry changes (43%).• Investors believe that DeFi (41%), Bitcoin ecosystem (34%), and RWA (32%) are undervalued sectors, while Layer1/Layer2 (48%) is seen as an overvalued sector.• 42% of investors plan to maintain their current investment pace over the next four months, 27% plan to increase their investment intensity, 22% plan to reduce their investment intensity, and a small number of investors (9%) hold a cautious or uncertain attitude towards the market outlook, finding it difficult to judge or choosing to stop investing. Additionally, 44% of professional investors believe that there have been no significant innovations in the crypto industry this year.The research report also surveyed investors' investment strategies, research methods, due diligence approaches, etc. Click here to access the complete research report.