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DeFAI: The Application and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence in Decentralized Finance
Decentralized Finance(DeFi), as an innovative financial model, has quietly developed in recent years, gradually changing the traditional financial landscape. DeFi makes the use of complex financial tools more widespread through open protocols, eliminating the need to rely on traditional intermediaries. However, "open" does not mean easy to use.
Currently, participating in the DeFi market requires a lot of expertise and continuous attention: monitoring price fluctuations, adjusting portfolios, and responding promptly to market changes. For ordinary users, these requirements create a high barrier to entry, limiting the widespread adoption of DeFi.
In this context, DeFAI( decentralized finance artificial intelligence) has emerged. The smart crypto AI agent aims to simplify operational processes and automate complex tasks, making decentralized finance more intuitive and user-friendly.
Definition and Features of DeFAI
DeFA

In 2024, the crypto market experienced the strong rise of Bitcoin and the challenges posed by Ethereum, with MEME culture flourishing. As institutional participation increases and the regulatory environment becomes more lenient, new applications and cycles are expected to emerge in 2025. Institutions generally have a positive outlook on the prices of mainstream tokens such as Bitcoin, while stablecoins and AI become the focus of attention, requiring investors to actively seize new opportunities.

The Ethereum ecosystem faces significant challenges, and Puffer UniFi may become a key turning point.
Recently, a political figure's team launched a meme coin on Solana that caused a stir in the market. This choice not only significantly boosted the valuation of the Solana ecosystem but also led to a large amount of capital moving away from the Ethereum ecosystem, putting Ethereum under the most severe market test since its inception.
The dramatic change in this market landscape has not only shaken the market confidence in Ethereum within the public chain track but also highlighted that the competition in the Layer 1 track is entering a critical turning point: in the face of the dual challenges of scalability and user experience, the Ethereum ecosystem needs breakthrough technological innovations. The UniFi solution launched by the Puffer team based on the Based Rollup architecture opens up new possibilities for Ethereum's scalability.
UniFi, as a revolutionary Ethereum Layer 2 solution, is dedicated to solving

The Impact of Large Language Models on Cognitive Abilities: MIT's Latest Research Reveals
With the widespread use of large language models (LLM) such as ChatGPT, their impact on human cognitive abilities has attracted the attention of researchers. Recently, an in-depth study conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) explored the effects of using LLMs for writing tasks in educational settings on the brain and cognitive abilities.
The 206-page research report, which lasts for 4 months, points out that over-reliance on artificial intelligence chatbots may reduce users' cognitive abilities. The research team designed an experiment that included three groups of participants: the LLM group, the search engine group, and the brain-only group. Participants completed writing tasks on different topics within a specified time, conducting a total of four rounds of experiments.
The study employed various methods to assess participants' performance, including electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings and natural language processing (NLP) analysis.

OpenSea Vice President Kelly Digregorio clarified that the company is not seeking a sale, focusing on developments in three areas: gaming, Web3, and consumer loyalty, and launching new technologies and partnership projects. Although the NFT market faces challenges, the company remains confident in its future applications.

GameFi is the concept of combining traditional games with Blockchain technology, promoting players' ownership of in-game assets. YGG, as a major GameFi community, provides profit opportunities for players through the DAO model, facilitating cross-game collaboration and community participation. Despite facing sustainability challenges, YGG continues to expand its influence and projects, enhancing players' vesting and profit sharing.

The approval process for the Solana Spot ETF has accelerated, and the market anticipates approval in July.
Recently, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) required several institutions applying for a Solana Spot ETF to resubmit revised S-1 documents within 7 days, mainly involving wording corrections related to "physical redemption mechanism" and "staking provisions." This action was interpreted by the market as a clear signal of a shift in regulatory attitude, which subsequently triggered a surge in bullish sentiment, causing the SOL price to briefly break through $165, with a single-day increase of up to 5%.
Investors are increasingly betting that Solana could become the third cryptocurrency to be included in a Spot ETF after Bitcoin and Ethereum. As the trading structure of the ETF becomes clearer and regulatory signals warm up, the market focus has shifted from "whether it can pass" to "when it will pass" and "who will launch it."
The SEC's request for applicants to clarify the details of the staking mechanism in the S-1 filing is widely understood as a regulatory agency.

Venice AI: A New Star in the Uncensored AI Platform
Venice AI is an emerging artificial intelligence platform that focuses on privacy protection, decentralization, and censorship-resistance. The platform was founded by ShapeShift founder Erik Voorhees in 2024 and integrates multiple open-source large models, including DeepSeek.
Technical Features
decentralized architecture
Venice AI is built on the Ethereum Layer 2 network Base, utilizing blockchain technology to ensure data security and decentralized processing. The platform processes requests through a distributed GPU network, avoiding central servers for storing user data, with all conversation records only saved on the user's local device.
Open Source Model Integration
The platform adopts various open-source models, including Meta's Llama 3.3 for text generation, DeepSeek and S

The charm of messaging software: seamless connection
The biggest attraction of communication software lies in its ability to connect us closely with family and friends. When you notice that the people around you are all using a particular software, you will naturally join in as well. This connection effect makes certain applications rapidly popular, becoming an indispensable part of daily life.
It is worth noting that the global population using cryptocurrencies is approximately 1 billion. If one-third of mainstream messaging app users join the cryptocurrency ranks, the market value of Bitcoin will significantly increase.
The Rise of Super Apps
Embedding payment functions into messaging apps is a key step for them to become super applications. Now, users can complete various operations such as payments, shopping, and transfers on the same platform. More importantly, many messaging apps also have a large number of mini-programs built in, allowing users to complete various tasks such as booking hotels, ordering takeout, and buying train tickets all within one app.
this one-stop service platform

The DAO fund, as an emerging decentralized investment model, is gradually gaining attention. It changes the traditional operation of hedge funds by raising funds and returning profits. Taking daos.world and VaderAI Fun as examples, the former is a DAO fund issuance platform, while the latter focuses on AI agent investment. Although DAO funds promote investment democratization, they still face challenges such as management risks, high market capitalization bubbles, and high entry barriers, and future development needs to carefully assess risks.

CertiK became a key enterprise partner in Hong Kong and participated in the signing ceremony.
Recently, at an important event organized by the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, CertiK, a leading company in the Web3 security field, officially became a key enterprise partner of Hong Kong. Dr. Li Kang, the company’s technical leader, represented CertiK at the signing ceremony, reaching a cooperation agreement with the Hong Kong government together with 17 other high-tech enterprises.
The signing event attracted over 200 representatives from various sectors, including key enterprises, chambers of commerce, research institutions, universities, financial and professional service companies, as well as representatives from government departments. A total of 18 companies joined the ranks of key enterprises, covering multiple fields such as advanced manufacturing, new energy technology, artificial intelligence and data science, financial technology, and life and health technology. As the only company focused on Web3 security, CertiK leverages its expertise in blockchain security.

Tokenization of U.S. Stocks: Opportunities and Challenges
Recently, Coinbase announced the restart of its stock tokenization program, which has drawn attention from the industry regarding the topic of securities tokenization ( STO ). In this episode, we invited dForce founder Ren Dao to delve into the development prospects of STO and its potential impacts.
The value proposition of STO
The public believes that the core value of STO lies in:
1. Improve capital efficiency. Through blockchain technology, the settlement time can be significantly shortened, reducing the cost of idle capital.
2. Expand the capital pool. Transform a single regional market into a global market to attract more investors.
3. Expansion of stock equity. After stock tokenization, more functionalities can be granted, such as staking and payments, transforming the pure shareholder certificate into a tool with practical value.
4. Reduce intermediary costs. Decentralized trading can reduce intermediate links and lower transaction costs.

The evolution of the MEV landscape one year after the Ethereum merge
In the year following the ETH merge, the market share of MEV-Boost has remained around 90%. Currently, the complexity of MEV is very high, with non-user roles including seekers, builders, relayers, validators, and proposers. They engage in complex games within a 12-second block time to pursue their maximum interests.
This article will compare the changes in profit margins before and after MEV, outline the lifecycle of MEV after the merge, and share insights on some cutting-edge issues.
1. After the merge, MEV profits have significantly decreased.
- One year before the merge, according to MEV-Explore data, the average profit was 22MU/M.
- One year after the merge, according to Eigenphi data, the average profit is 8.3 MU/M.
After excluding hacker incidents that should not be attributed to MEV, the overall yield decreased by approximately 62%.

MoneyArk: A new type of DeFi project on Ethereum
Recently, a striking new project called MoneyArk has emerged in the Ethereum DeFi space. Although the overall DeFi sector has not performed as well as the Inscription and Solana ecosystems, MoneyArk shone during its initial token offering (1D0) on December 10, with its $Mark token price skyrocketing over 20 times that day.
MoneyArk offers two ways to participate: purchase and hold $Mark tokens, or deposit USDC into its algorithmic treasury to earn a daily yield of 0.5%.
$Mark Token: The Core of Value Storage
$Mark, as the core token of MoneyArk, aims to achieve long-term low volatility and sustained growth. Its features include:
- 10% transaction tax, used for holder dividends and liquidity provision
- The total supply is fixed at 100 million,

Looking at the Trump family's initiatives to see the future development direction of Web3
Recently, the "Trump trading" market has sparked heated discussions, and the crypto industry is more focused on the policy direction after Trump takes office. Trump has quickly nominated several key positions, and these nominees will dominate the crypto policy in the US and even globally over the next four years. Regardless of the intensity of policy implementation, it signals that the industry faces new opportunities and uncertainties.
Among Trump's cabinet, the most notable is the newly established Office of Artificial Intelligence and Cryptocurrency Affairs. This agency is primarily responsible for developing the regulatory framework for the cryptocurrency industry and coordinating with departments such as the SEC, CFTC, and Congress. The Crypto Advisory Committee under it is composed of executives from industry companies, providing advice for policy formulation.
Several new policies promised by Trump are worth noting, including making the U.S. a global cryptocurrency hub, stopping the crackdown on cryptocurrencies, preventing the development of central bank digital currencies, and establishing Bitcoin reserves. From the current

The Rune protocol is an alternative token protocol based on the Bitcoin UTXO model, featuring higher efficiency and security. Compared to BRC-20, Rune is simpler and more efficient, having become an important asset in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Currently, DOG is the leader of the Rune track, performing excellently and possessing further development potential.

Ethereum ETF: A New Era for the Crypto Assets Market
The launch of the Ethereum ETF marks an important step towards the recognition of crypto assets by mainstream financial markets. As an investment tool, the ETF allows investors to indirectly hold encryption assets without the need to directly purchase and store actual crypto assets. This not only lowers the barrier for traditional investors to enter the crypto market, but also provides a safer and more compliant investment avenue.
The success of the Bitcoin ETF has paved the way for the Ethereum ETF. Currently, the net inflow of funds into the Bitcoin ETF has exceeded $17 billion, directly driving up the price of Bitcoin. However, Bitcoin's performance has not triggered a comprehensive recovery in the overall encryption market, mainly because the investors holding Bitcoin are mostly institutions and large holders, who are less likely to reinvest their profits into other crypto assets.
The unique impact of Ethereum ETF
Unlike Bitcoin ETFs, the funds flowing into Ethereum ETFs

Decentralization Cloud Computing: A Quietly Rising Revolution
With the rapid development of technology, the market value of giant companies in the field of artificial intelligence has shown explosive growth in recent years. Crypto x AI has become the core narrative of the current market cycle, with investor enthusiasm and the continuous influx of funds confirming the formation of this consensus. In the wave of AI, Decentralization has shown great attraction and imaginative space as a tool to promote the development of AI. Although there is still a gap in practical applications compared to centralized models, leveraging the advantages of web3 to expand the four core areas of AI (data, models, training, and reasoning), and continuously optimizing to unleash greater potential has become a common goal for web3 participants.
Currently, Decentralization technology can provide support in the above four aspects. Data, as the fundamental raw material for AI technology, is undoubtedly the most core element, while models, training, and inference are different ways of processing data.

Investment strategy for the new cycle: finding a balance between BTC and MEME.
In the current cryptocurrency market cycle, investors face two distinctly different strategy choices. One is a simple and direct approach: to hold Bitcoin, thereby capturing most of the market growth. The other is a complex and variable strategy: to engage in numerous emerging MEME coins, during which one needs to tackle various challenges such as filtering projects, enduring volatility, avoiding risks, and ultimately realizing profits at peaks.
For ordinary investors, how to scientifically and sustainably obtain profits in this fiercely competitive environment has become an important topic worth discussing. To this end, we have invited several industry experts, including the Chief Marketing Officer of a certain cryptocurrency project, the founder of a certain cryptocurrency community, a virtual streamer in the cryptocurrency field, and an angel investor, to jointly discuss this issue.
The following are experts