I wrote this article with nothing to do on Christmas Eve, and it was first published on Weibo, but it was quietly deleted, and I didn't find out until the next day. I didn't leave a draft, so I could only rewrite it from memory, waiting to be slapped in the face at this time next year.
Bakkt's trading volume exploded, becoming the largest futures exchange for Bitcoin.
The price of Bitcoin hit a new all-time high, and the price of Ethereum continued to fall.
The usdt squeeze event occurred, and the concept of stable currency ebbed.
The lightning network is widely accepted, and Bitcoin is once again facing a hard fork for expansion.
There are decentralized lending projects on the Bitcoin chain, as well as related derivatives projects.
A large number of DAO projects have emerged, and a new model of blockchain crowdfunding has been born.
Driven by capital, more and more alliance chain projects embrace open source, and the number of nodes in the alliance chain increases rapidly.
The boundary between the alliance chain and the public chain is gradually blurred, and mainstream financial institutions have begun to try public chain applications.
The PoS experiment failed, and PoW became the mainstream consensus algorithm again.
Anonymity and privacy protection are getting more and more attention, and zero-knowledge proof has become the standard configuration of blockchain.
