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Recently, PANews conducted an online interview on Twitter Space with the theme of " Year-end Special Space: Outlook for Ethereum and Altcoin Market "

be a year of adjustment. Although the market will experience ups and downs, it will not be as extreme as in 2024. In addition, there may be some regulatory measures to curb excessive speculation.

output: A group of industry veterans gathered on Twitter Space to discuss the future potential of Ethereum and the altcoin market and shared their insights on topics ranging from the upcoming Ethereum upgrades to the timing of the next altcoin season. Here's a summary of their conversation:

Despite being very active in 2024, Ethereum faced doubts due to its performance relative to Bitcoin and Solana. However, these doubts stem from differing interpretations of events, such as the foundation selling coins, which can be viewed positively or negatively.

Ethereum's performance in 2024 can be divided into two stages: H1 was driven by the NFT bull market and the launch of L2 projects, while H2 saw a slowdown in application activity and a lack of new narratives.

Regarding L2 development, ZK narratives were once popular, but after multiple large ZK projects were launched and airdropped tokens, there was negative news. However, Ethereum is still promoting ZK applications in two directions: improving technology and reducing costs.

In terms of altcoin ETFs, Litecoin, Solana, Ripple, and other projects applied for ETFs. If Trump takes office, their ETFs may be approved. However, will they repeat the lackluster market performance of Ethereum ETF?

Overall, Ethereum's leading position remains solid, mainly reflected in market capitalization and application ecology. As for the ETF approval process of other projects, it is a gradual process that requires the market and regulators to adapt together.

Regarding the changing position of Ethereum as the leader of altcoins, there is a clear gap between market expectations and reality. Previously, the market generally believed that the approval of ETFs would bring a large amount of incremental funds, driving the entire Ethereum ecosystem and related altcoins to rise.

However, the reality is that in the U.S. stock market, cryptocurrency ETFs may only be regarded as a type of small and medium-sized technology stocks. Judging from the market performance since November, funds have not flowed along the expected path of " Bitcoin ETF → Ethereum ETF → Altcoin ETF ". Instead, projects such as XRP and Stellar (XLM), which have been deeply rooted in the US market for a long time, have performed more prominently.

After the Ethereum ETF was approved, its fund inflow performance was not as good as the Bitcoin ETF. But recently, we have seen that the fund inflow of the Ethereum ETF is gradually increasing. I would like to ask you, what is the reason behind this? Is it possible that the fund inflow of the Ethereum ETF will exceed that of the Bitcoin ETF in the future?

From the perspective of investor psychology, when many people first enter the cryptocurrency market, their first reaction is often "Bitcoin is too expensive, I want to buy something cheaper", and then they choose Ethereum or other currencies. This is a very common psychology.

Based on this observation, I believe there are three key factors that will influence the future development of Ethereum ETFs:

Although the inflow of funds to Ethereum ETFs may still be limited in the short term, based on these three reasons, I am optimistic about its long-term development, but I just need to give the market some time.

From the perspective of trading strategy, I see two possible capital flows:

The capital inflow of Ethereum ETF will continue to increase next year, but it is unlikely to exceed that of Bitcoin ETF.

The Ethereum ecosystem still seems to be focusing on infrastructure and needs to shift to the application level. In addition, many investors are paying attention to when the new round of altcoin season will come.

This is an interesting question. Although Ethereum has been developed for more than ten years and Solana's performance is quite good, there is still a lot of room for improvement from an infrastructure perspective.

When it comes to the application level, the new generation of applications will inevitably develop with the improvement of infrastructure. For example, look at the evolution of Uniswap: from V1 to V4, each upgrade is adapting to the new infrastructure capabilities, taking into account new features such as performance optimization, multi-Layer2 deployment, cross-application calls, and automation.

I think the copycat season is definitely coming, and it’s usually accompanied by:

The key to this question lies in how to define "copycat". This definition has undergone significant evolution in the past few rounds of bull markets:

In fact, according to the new definition, the alt season has quietly begun. It is like the great waves washing away the sands. In each bull market, new alt projects will replace the old ones and grab attention and funds. Investors need to accept this evolution instead of sticking to the past cognition.

The current crypto market has become more segmented and mature. We should analyze it according to different sectors just like we do with the traditional financial market:

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