Snapshot 2021: End-of-year memory of the encrypted world

In 2021, the crypto industry is changing at an unprecedented rate, from NFT, Eth2, DeFi and algorithmic stability coins to BSC, Axie, GameFi, Layer 2, DAO, Metaverse, Web3. The industry has been turbulent over the years, and is still the latest major innovation in this industry.

This year, the global cryptocurrency market value hit a new high of US $ 3 trillion for the first time, while Bitcoin rose from US $ 29,000 to a high of US $ 67,000.

This year, the ecology of the public channel was born to a hundred schools of thought. In addition to Ethereum, many public channels with millions of dollars in lockdown channels have been born including BSC, Solana, Avalanche, Fantom, etc.

This year, Wall Street Capital began to enter the large-scale crypto industry, with total crypto industry assets increasing almost tenfold from $ 3.1 billion in 2020 to $ 30 billion. dollars in 2021 (PitchBook Data statistics).

But this year, people are still connected to the virus, the crypto industry's global credit rating has been rewritten, and the growing media bubble has become Damox's sword. Mad hacker incidents also affect everyone. Securities assets and the rapidly growing crypto industry meet new global standards.

In 2021, we ourselves are experiencing rapid changes in this industry and the global scale of new partnerships. Hurry up. It not only records major and minor events of the year, but also provides details. industry development.

Growth in the annual closed volume of public channels in 2021

ETHereum: TVL's Highest Public Channel and Richest Green Project Ethereum's Green Project is the wing of the entire crypto industry. ETH's investments increased by 542.6%, from $ 23 billion at the start of 2021 to $ 147.8 billion at the end of 2021. The largest TVL project in ecology was Maker, representing 12.6% and the five first projects representing 50% of all TVL.

Terra: Terra's TVL channel has grown 370 times, from $ 53 million at the start of the year to $ 20 billion at the end of the year, making it the second-largest public channel that has almost doubled in December. Among other channels that appear in public. The ecological abundance of the Terra ranges is not high. Of these, only Anchor, Lido and Terrawap account for 83.1% of the total TVL.

Solana: Takeover of the FTX platform and the venture capital firm SBF, Solana became one of the fastest growing public channels in 2021. TVL on the channel increased 63.2-fold to 140 million. from dollars at the start of the year to $ 9 billion at the end of the year. Currently, our best performing products, radium, serum and marinade, account for 51% of the total TVL of the collar.

BSC: One of the fastest growing public channels with Solana. The main network BSC was launched in September 2020 and the total TVL channel stands at $ 20 million at the start of April 2021, a record, with an increase of 627 times throughout the year.

Avalanche: By 2021, AVax's on-line TVL has grown 3,400 times, from $ 3.6 million in February at the start of the year to $ 12.33 billion at the end of the year. year. Among them, three contracts of Aave, Traders Joe and Benqi provided 3.31 billion, 2.15 billion and 1.7 billion fixed assets, representing 54.7% of the total TVL. The development of Avalach is directly linked to the sponsorship of San Arrow Capital. Investor Suzhu has praised Avalanch several times on its own Twitter platform.

Fantom: Like Solana, AC is behind Fantom. TVL channels have grown nearly 3,200 times, from over $ 1 million at the start of the year to $ 4.43 billion at the end of the year. In particular, Geist Finance, a mortgage deal struck in October, was popular. , TVL went from 1.65 billion to 5.79 billion in four days.

Stablecoin issue in 2021

In 2021, the total revenues of major securities (USDT, USDC, BUSD, DAI, etc.) will be $ 15.61 billion, representing 6.5% of the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies, with turnover of 12.155 billion USD. Throughout the year, the number of American coins, or new stationary coins, reported this year more than quadrupled from the previous four years. Of these, USDT posted $ 81.51 billion, with 54.12% of the stock, followed by USDC with $ 42.56 billion, 28.26%, and BUSD with 14.44 billion of dollars, with $ 95.99 billion recorded. %.

In terms of annual growth, USDT reported 59.72 billion yuan, USDC reported 38.36 billion yuan, BUSD reported 13.36 billion yuan, and DAI reported 8.03 billion yuan. Although the USDT is still the number one stable currency, in 2021 the market share of the USDT increased from 75% at the start of the year to 54.12% at the end of the year, when the 'USDC rose 14.4% at the start of the year. . 28.26 at the end of the year, almost doubled.

Presentation of all stable results in 2021 Data source: Block

Annual Work Change in Grayscale 2021

Founded by DCG Capital in 2013, Grayscale is a company that represents the traditional capital attitude to Wall Street. As a cryptocurrency financial firm, it has a large portfolio, which affects the mood of the entire market, and the office's position is also a barometer. marketing.

As of December 21, Greyscale holds 645,200 Bitcoin (equivalent to US $ 31,643 billion), 3,116,700 Ether (US $ 12,558 million) and crypto assets valued between 1 and tens of millions of yuan.

Looking at Grayscale's year-over-year job growth, the total job value increased 97.6% from $ 22.81 billion to $ 45.08 billion, of which the trust value Bitcoin was 19.148 billion to 31.09 billion yuan. Up 62.3%, Ethereum's trust rose 316%, from 2.979 billion yuan to 12.43 billion yuan.

At the same time, Greyscale withdrew its trusted XRP product., added 7 trusted products including Chainlink, Decentland, BAT, Filecoin, Livepeer, Solana, DeFi Markets (for major DeFi applications), which accounts for 25.6% of total assets, and Decen Land holds the largest share of new assets, reaching $ 60 million.

Grayscale operations at the start of January 2021 and at the end of December 2021

Bitcoin's global computing power changes in 2021

In 2021, Bitcoin's global computing power has undergone an unprecedented overhaul. At the start of 2021, the calculated power of the entire Bitcoin network was 140 EH / S, and only China was contributing 79.5 EH / S of the calculated power, or 56.7%.

Since May, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Xinjiang, Sichuan, Guizhou and other regions have carried out several clean-up operations of virtual currency mining projects, the calculated power of Bitcoin directly fell by 166EH / S at 99ET / S. Since September, the country with. the use of "Virtual Currency Law Notice" "mining activities" data, many Chinese mining pools such as F2Pool and Poolin have moved to the sea or are resting, and the calculation performance of Bitcoin in China has also changed from the previous 79.5. EH / S drops to zero.

Today, the world's largest Bitcoin computing powerhouse is the United States, which grew from 15.7 EH / S at the start of the year to 46.7 EH / S in August, accounting for 35.4% of the total. of Chinese power. Over time, Kazakhstan, Canada, Russia, and other countries have also become major growth centers for Chinese power.

Bitcoin Global Hash Map Data Source: ccaf.io

Total income of Bitcoin / Ethereum miners in 2021

According to Block statistics, at the time of writing, Bitminus' revenue in 2021 was $ 16.23 billion, the highest in March of this year, and total monthly revenue was $ 1.75 billion. .

According to Ethereum, the income of Ethereum miners in 2021 is estimated at $ 18.3 billion, the highest monthly income is in May, the monthly income is $ 2.4 billion, and the annual income for the alone. months of January were less than $ 1 billion.

Annual marketing of the NFT platform

By 2021, the commodity volume of NFT trading platforms (such as OpenSea, Nifty Gateway, SuperRare, Foundation, etc.) will reach $ 131.18 billion, of which Opensea accounts for at least 96% of the industry. of packaging, and the entire annual trade volume of 2020 OpenSea only $ 21 million USD, the Opensea NFT packaging industry has grown nearly 600 times compared to 2020, which is still the microcosm of the entire NFT industry.

Thanks to the annual growth, the NFT trading volume at the start of the year is only supplied by the NBA Top Shot project, and on average, all markets enter the period of popularity of NFT portraits. jump. Since August, many NFT companies such as Cryptopunks and Boer Ape Yacht Club have achieved sky-high exchange rates, and NFTs have also spread to Won beyond Won. . The theft that took place in September caused NFT fever to peak, and with the ebb and flow of NFT fever, the industry entered a period of calm after the violence.

Consumer NFT project volume change graph

The theft lasted over a year

In DeFi business, the total loss due to theft in 2021 is estimated at $ 639 million, with the largest theft taking place in the Crimea Finance project.

As of October 27 of this year, the DeFi Cream Money protocol was in the process of securing loans, with around $ 130 million in tokens stolen from its place of contract. The next step is BadgerDAO. On December 2, the central BadgerDAO agency was attacked by thieves, resulting in an unauthorized exchange of consumer assets, totaling around $ 120 million in stolen assets. In addition, DeFi projects include Compound, Uranium Finance, Bunny, etc. has a total of 30 and 60 million assets stolen in hacker attacks.

$ 30 million or more stolen (in some cases)

Listed companies with the most Bitcoins in 2021

In the coming year 2021, although crypto assets, NFTs or DeFi have grown at an unprecedented rate, the most common agent is BTC. There aren't a few BTC followers from listed companies, and the listed company with the most BTC is MicroStrategy from the United States, with 114,000 bitcoins (roughly $ 7.16 billion). MicroStrategy is a mobile software and cloud services company developed by Michael J. Saylor. Michael has been buying Bitcoin since July 2020.The price of holding by BTC is $ 27,700..

The second company is the well-known Tesla, and Musk is the head of Tesla, not only a giant in the global market, but also the No.1 KOL in the cryptocurrency industry, and has a good attitude towards Bitcoin. . Confusion Currently, Tesla holds 43,200 Bitcoins, or roughly 575 million Bitcoins.

Among the listed companies that advertise the value of Bitcoin bars,Most American and Canadian companies, representing more than 90% of the total, the top five insurers are all businesses in the United States.

BTC statistics held by listed companies (top 5)

Most expensive NFT of the year

On October 29, NFT listed Farokh.eth to buy CryptoPunk # 9998 NFT for 124,457 ETH (approximately $ 532 million). CryptoPunk # 9998 also became the most expensive NFT, but was later questioned by Farokh. The hype for the left hand in .eth on the right hand.

From the perspective of the latest forecast, the most expensive NFT in 2021 is Artist Park's 'Merge' operation, and 'Merge' sold for $ 91.8 million on the NFT Nifty trading platform. Gateway, or about 584 million yuan, the most expensive in the world. NFT It turns out that it works together. The reason it is called modular is that this NFT is like a split NFT auction rather than a conference, so the total auction has 28,983 buyers and the number of “fragmented NFTs” sold up to 312,686. room.

Even more restricted to single player participation, the NFT's Most Expensive One-Year Laurel Wreath is arguably the work of renowned artist Beeple "Everyday: The First 5000 Days". This item sold in the Christie's store on March 11 of this year. It sells for $ 69.3. million, Singaporean programmers pay 42,329 Ether for it.

In 2121 the whole crypto industry has undergone big changes, and this time the industry has undergone big changes and continues to explore new jobs and new models, find out the cost of it. personal application.

The year 2021 resembles the Cambrian era of explosions. Lots of new things, beautiful ideas and types appear in the endless water. There were times of desperation and wonder. The crypto industry is evolving at an unprecedented rate. Every little change can affect the future of the business.

If you were to look back on the course of the crypto industry in 2021, how would you enjoy your capture? What are your penalties? Please leave your footprints in the area ~