Key Market Intelligence as of December 31st, how much did you miss out on?
Top News
1. LIGHT Surges Over 250% in Nearly 2 Hours, Breaking Through $1.1
2. Zama Mainnet Launches, Completes First cUSDT Transfer on Ethereum
3. Michael Saylor, Tom Lee, and Arthur Hayes' BTC Year-end Price Predictions Unfulfilled
5. Pacifica to Halve All Trading Fees, Cost per Point Acquisition May Drop to $0.2
Featured Articles
Surprisingly, the long-established public chain is now in conflict. It appears that NEO's co-founders, Erik Zhang and Da Hongfei, who founded the blockchain in 2014, have fundamentally fallen out and continue to confront each other. Based on their statements and public information online, an attempt is made to understand what has happened between these two founders of the long-established public chain.
2. "China Becomes the First to Massively Adopt a 'Yield-bearing Stablecoin'"
On January 15, 2014, Yu'ebao's 7-day annualized yield surged to 6.763%. On the same day, the interest rate for a bank's demand deposit was 0.35%. 19 times. This number was like a heavy blow, awakening hundreds of millions of Chinese depositors: it turns out that if I keep my money in a bank's demand deposit account, the interest is eaten up 19 times. It's not that there is no interest; it's that the interest is taken by someone else.
On-chain Data
On-chain fund flow last week as of December 31

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