1. Grayscale: 2024Q4 Crypto Industry Trends and Potential Tokens

The cryptocurrency industry framework is designed to be dynamically updated with the evolving digital asset market and rebalanced at the end of each quarter. The latest quarterly rebalancing process ended on September 20. Since the beginning of the year, the index rebalancing process has resulted in significant changes in the index composition, reflecting new exchange listings, changes in asset liquidity, and market performance. This year's update to the cryptocurrency industry index highlights emerging themes in the digital asset industry, including the rise of decentralized AI platforms (such as TAO), efforts to tokenize traditional assets (such as ONDO, OM, and GFI), and the popularity of memecoins (such as PEPE, WIF, FLOKI, and BONK). Click to read

2. Vitalik: How should Ethereum ecological projects align with Ethereum

The advantage of the ecosystem is that there are a variety of people and organizations—client teams, researchers, L2 teams, application developers, local community groups—all moving towards their own visions of Ethereum. The main challenge is to ensure that all these projects work together to build something that feels like an Ethereum ecosystem, rather than 138 incompatible feudal territories. Click to read

3. CZ returns: from entrepreneur to industry mentor, crypto guardian completes transformation

Beijing time on September 28, Binance founder and former CEO CZ tweeted "GM" to officially announce his return. This is two days earlier than the original date of release. Binance officials also immediately said that they are very happy that CZ will be able to go home and reunite with his family. Since CZ was imprisoned on May 1 this year, it can be said that Binance and the entire crypto industry have temporarily lacked an evangelist and leader. But four months later, CZ has returned, but at this time he has already completed the transformation of his identity and is about to start a new chapter in his life. Click to read 4. Will the hottest die? Aleo falls from the "altar" Aleo, a project once regarded as a rising star in the blockchain privacy computing track, is experiencing a rapid decline from its peak moment to eclipse. Whether it is the top financing background, the star team, or the high-profile technological innovation, none of them has prevented the Aleo coin price from plummeting, which seems to be another signal that "the hottest ones will die." Click to read

5. How many paths does Bitcoin have in the future?

Mircea Popescu is a mostly forgotten figure in the space, but he was an early and highly influential cultural figure, who faded from public view and eventually "accidentally" drowned off the coast of Costa Rica. He was a pretty crazy and eccentric individual, but he left a lasting impact on the space. I think he was essentially the godfather of what people think of today as "toxic extremism," although compared to people who claim that label today, he makes them look like overly sensitive and whiny kids. Click to read