This Week on web3 5min recap

Market information and major news from 12/21~27.

Good morning.
Mitsui from web3 researcher.

This is a summary article about the web3 market for the last week.We have gathered information from over 20 national and international media outlets and newsletters and have picked out news from them.Please use it to catch up on information and trends!

💥News Pickup
📊Market &News (L1, L2, DeFi, NFT, GameFi, AI, Other)

💥News Pickup

1,61% of virtual currency stolen in 2024 was by North Korea-related hackers

• In 2024, the total value of stolen crypto assets jumped 21% to a whopping $2.2 billion

• More than half of this amount was stolen by a group of North Korea-related hackers.

• The majority of virtual currency hacks occurred between January and July of this year, highlighting that the amount stolen has already exceeded $1.58 billion, an increase of approximately 84.4% compared to the same period in 2023

2,In 2024, "meme coins" will be the biggest virtual currency trend = CoinGecko

• CoinGecko released its ranking of the virtual currency categories that attracted the most attention in 2024 on March 23.

• The meme coin category is the most popular, with AI and RWA tokens also ranking high.

• Meme coins in general" alone topped the list at about 14% of the total, with "Solana meme coins," "Base meme coins," "AI meme coins," and "cat meme coins" coming in at #4, #11, #15, and #16, respectively, with meme coin topics as a whole accounting for 30.67% of trafficThey were.

3,Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino Teases AI Platform for Debut in Early 2025

• Tether aims to launch an artificial intelligence platform in the first quarter of 2025, CEO Paolo Ardoino said in a Friday X post

• The company has issued $140 billion worth of USDT Stablecoins and recently invested in several areas, including AI, to expand its business beyond stablecoin issuance