Weekly Hot Searches | "Worldcoin" reaches the top, "Hong Kong" is hot again

"Worldcoin" reached the top of the hot search list without any pressure, and "Hong Kong" became more popular as June approached.

Written by: Frank, Foresight News

Cartography: Kiet, Foresight News

Note: "Hot Searches of the Week" counts the search results of Foresight News users from last Friday to this Friday (May 12 to May 18), and combines capitalization and capitalization of the same concept.

With the blessing of ChatGPT, “Worldcoin”, as a cryptocurrency company founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, topped the hot search list without any pressure this week, attracting widespread attention from inside and outside the circle.

In fact, Worldcoin has been established as early as 2020, and the latest news is that it is seeking financing of nearly US$100 million at a valuation of US$3 billion. It is precisely because of the phenomenon-level application expectations and the blessing of ChatGPT’s aura that everyone’s participation (masturbation) is soaring. Even iris certification can’t stop everyone’s enthusiasm, and there are even some controversies about gray production (extended reading: " OpenAI founders and Worldcoin's Web3 ambitions").

At present, Worldcoin has launched new measures to combat the black market, including adjusting the face-to-face registration process, etc. However, for such a top-tier project with such a grand vision and attention, the follow-up battle against cheating and anti-cheating is bound to be protracted.

The popularity of 「Sui」 continues to be maintained. Coinbase also opened SUI transactions this morning. The progress news of ecological projects seems to be relatively intensive. Projects such as Turbos Finance and Suia have carried out IDO-related plans, but Turbos Finance has stated yesterday that it will refund the funds that users participated in the public offering, the reason is that it is much lower than market expectations.

Indeed, judging from the price performance of the secondary market, many projects in the Sui ecosystem have not formed a profitable effect that effectively attracts users' attention. Whether it is the previous Cetus or this week's Turbos Finance, the performance is not satisfactory. To a certain extent, many users who participated in Sui’s early ecological nuggets have been discouraged. Whether Sui can launch application products with traffic effects on the original key layout of the game track is crucial to the subsequent development of the entire ecology. , requires long-term attention.

「Hong Kong」 As June approaches, CFX, ACH and other related concept tokens have indeed ushered in a good rebound in recent days. Yesterday, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority also announced the launch of the Digital Hong Kong Dollar Pilot Program. 16 selected companies from the financial, payment and technology sectors will conduct the first round of trials this year to conduct in-depth research on the potential use cases of the digital Hong Kong dollar in six areas, including comprehensive payment, Programming payment, offline payment, tokenized deposit, third-generation Internet (Web3) transaction settlement and tokenized asset settlement (extended reading "Hong Kong Monetary Authority Launches "Digital Hong Kong Dollar" Pilot Program, 16 selected companies will carry out this year "First round of trials"); and a subsidiary of Greenland Holdings also disclosed that it is planning to apply for a license to trade virtual assets in Hong Kong.

In general, as June gets closer, the Hong Kong sector will undoubtedly receive widespread attention from the market again, especially the implementation of the Hong Kong government’s relevant encryption regulatory policies, which will pave the way for the next stage of development in Hong Kong and beyond. The evolution of the encryption narrative sets the tone and deserves a lot of attention.

「BRC20」 The popularity has declined slightly, and the secondary market hype of 「Ordinals」 NFT has entered a new stage of looking at the rarity of "Satoshi", which has opened up people's imagination again.

The layout of each exchange level is continuing to advance. Among them, OKX is constantly in the news. First, it cooperated with the Bitcoin inscription wallet UniSat Wallet to build the BRC-20 industry standard, and then announced the Web3 wallet Bitcoin ecological roadmap. According to the disclosed information, it is expected that there will be a series of related actions at the end of this month and the beginning of next month, so you can continue to pay attention.

「Bitget」 released the first-quarter transparency report this week, announcing a series of relevant data. The trading volume of the spot and futures markets in Q1 reached 59 billion US dollars and 658 billion US dollars respectively, of which the spot trading volume increased by 8% month-on-month, and the futures market The trading volume increased by 27% month-on-month, and the high growth of the futures sector is obvious.

「Lido」 led the rebound of the entire LSD concept sector this week. On the one hand, the smooth launch of the V2 version opened a new era of stETH withdrawals. At the same time, the overall data inflow and outflow are also within the expected range of the market , which verified Lido’s resilience and status as the leader of LSD (Celsius’s 428,000 stETH withdrawals are considered a special case)—occupied more than 70% of the LSD market share, ranking firmly in Diaoyutai.

On the other hand, the Lido community is also chasing after the victory and launching a new proposal, which plans to introduce the LDO pledge module and the repurchase plan, allowing token holders to pledge LDO in exchange for a part of the Lido DAO income (through the LDO repurchase and distribution plan), including 20% - 50% of future Lido DAO revenue (specific parameters based on governance decisions) will be distributed to LDO pledged users weekly through the repurchase and distribution mechanism.

Thanks to the interactive activities launched by Argent and Braavos, “Starknet” recently has a relatively obvious increase in TVL lockup (TVL). According to L2BEAT data, Starknet’s TVL has reached 53.46 million US dollars as of the time of publication. Within 30 days an increase of nearly 50%.

At the same time, the Starknet Foundation also announced the first round of 67 grant projects of the Starknet Early Adoption Grant (EAG) program, with a total budget of 10 million STARK tokens, accounting for 0.1 of the initial supply of STARK tokens (10 billion). %, among the donated projects, the projects launched on the main network before April 5 can unlock 100% of the grant tokens, the projects in the test network can unlock 25% immediately, and the remaining 75% will be 2 after the main network is launched Distributed within the month (recommended reading "10 Million STARK Budget, Quick Look at 67 Granted Projects in the First Round of Starknet Early Adoption Grant").

The popularity of MEME tokens represented by 「PEPE」 faded rapidly this week. Sure enough, last week was a phased historical high; 「Blur」's Blend continued to stir up the NFT lending market. Zhou Youxin supports two NFT series of BAYC and MAYC. Users can purchase MAYC NFT with 1 ETH or obtain a loan fund of up to 40 ETH through BAYC.

This week, the number of new faces on the Mirror hot search list has increased a lot. In addition to the hot words that have been on the list in history, the newly launched “Worldcoin” is linked to the site, and “SRC20” is used as BRC20’s derivative related concepts are on the list for the first time (the site has never been on the list), and “AltLayer”, as a technology-oriented Ethereum expansion project, is also on the list for the first time.

On the author list, there are more old faces. "ZkSync Chinese Assistant" has been on the list for four consecutive weeks, "Airdrop Information Second-hand Sharing" has been on the list for three consecutive weeks, and "Van | LayerZero" has been on the list a week before. Overall, the category of authors is still dominated by airdrop tutorials.

1.Van | LayerZero (Project Information)

2. MetaEnd (Industry Observation)

3.0x7FAf (Airdrop Tutorial)

4.0x8DBA (Airdrop Tutorial)

5.0xA306 (Airdrop Tutorial)

6. guowenshuai.eth (airdrop tutorial)

7. ZkSync Chinese assistant (project information)

8. Deinvest News (industry media)

9. Bit Big Pig (Industry Observation)

10. Second-hand sharing of airdrop information (airdrop tutorial)