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The AI craze drives the market recovery, and the DeFi ecosystem's TVL stabilizes and rises.
Crypto Market Weekly Report: The AI Sector Continues to Heat Up, DeFi Ecosystem Recovers
Market Overview
This week, the crypto market shows an overall upward trend, with market sentiment improving somewhat. The market sentiment index has risen from 10% last week to 19%. Although it is still in the panic zone, it has shown signs of recovery. Despite still being in a holiday period and market liquidity not fully restored, funds have begun to gradually flow back into the crypto market.
The total locked value of DeFi projects ( TVL ) increased from 52.7 billion dollars last week to 53.2 billion dollars, a growth of 0.95%, ending two consecutive weeks of negative growth. The gun pool projects and preparatory DEX projects performed outstandingly, mainly benefiting from the increase in yields brought about by the rise in market base interest rates, as well as the increase in contract trading demand due to the decline in liquidity during the holiday period.
The AI Agent track continues to maintain its status as a market hotspot, with a market size reaching $12.2 billion and a weekly growth rate of nearly 12%. Market attention is gradually shifting from AI Memes to AI infrastructure construction projects, among which the issuance of autonomous tokens by AI Agents has become the most关注的领域, with related infrastructure projects such as Phala Network performing prominently.
This week, the Meme coin market is mainly focused on AI-related projects, benefiting from the wealth creation effect brought by AI Agent's autonomous token issuance, leading to significant gains for AI Meme projects. This trend reflects that market funds are chasing AI-related concepts, but it also shows an increase in speculative characteristics.
Public chain projects performed well in this week's market rebound, mainly due to the increase in APY of on-chain Decentralized Finance projects and the demand for the development of AI projects. Among them, public chains that support AI development, such as Solana and zkSync Era, stood out, indicating that public chains are moving towards AI infrastructure.
Hot Track Analysis
AI Agent
The AI Agent track continues to be the focus of the market this week, mainly driven by the self-issued tokens of AI Agents. Some Meme coins issued by Virtuals and ai16z have seen significant increases, creating a wealth effect and attracting investor attention. The hottest topics in the market are the ai16z asset issuance platform and the infrastructure project Phala Network for the self-issued tokens of AI Agents, indicating that market attention is shifting from AI Memes to AI infrastructure.
Decentralized Finance
The top five DeFi projects ranked by TVL growth are mainly concentrated in the liquidity pool and preparatory DEX fields:
In the stablecoin market, the market cap of USDT has slightly decreased by 1.38% to $14.27 billion, while USDC has increased by 2.56% to $4.4 billion, indicating that the main buying force in the market is still maintaining continuous capital inflow.
Performance of Public Chains
Top five in TVL growth for public chains:
Token Growth Rankings
The top five tokens with the highest increase are all related to the AI Agent track:
Market Outlook
Next week, the U.S. will release employment data, which may influence the Federal Reserve's interest rate cut decisions and is expected to bring market volatility. As the holiday ends and institutional investors return, market liquidity is expected to recover. It is recommended that investors: