Meme Coins, RWA, AI, DePin Lead Crypto Trends in Q2

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In Brief

  • Crypto market cap fell 14.4% in Q2 2024, ending at $2.43 trillion, with meme coins, RWA, AI, and DePin sectors thriving.
  • Meme coins, RWA, AI, and DePin drew attention despite overall market decline; volatility at 48.2% reflects instability.
  • CEXs and DEXs saw varied trends; Binance’s market share at 45%, Bybit at 12.6%, while Uniswap and new DEXs gained traction.
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In the second quarter of 2024, the cryptocurrency market exhibited a nuanced blend of emerging narratives and significant price shifts.

Despite a 14.4% dip in the total crypto market cap, ending the quarter at $2.43 trillion, several sectors, such as meme coins, real-world assets (RWA), artificial intelligence (AI), and decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePin), stood out.

Dominant Crypto Narratives in Q2 2024

Meme coins continued to intrigue the market, with narratives centered around ‘cat-themed’ tokens climbing into the top 15 crypto narratives. Four out of the 15 most discussed crypto narratives were related to meme coins. Notably, blockchain ecosystems like Solana (SOL), Ethereum (ETH), Base, and TON also remained prominent, with Solana and Base jointly capturing 22.9% of market attention.

Read more: 7 Hot Meme Coins and Altcoins that are Trending in 2024

The spotlight also shone brightly on RWA and AI integration within blockchain ecosystems. DePin, a relatively new narrative, garnered attention as it promises to revolutionize infrastructure by decentralizing physical assets, adding a layer of innovation to blockchain applications.

Despite the overall market downturn, these narratives exhibited resilience and growth. This shift signifies a change in investor preferences toward thematic and speculative investments. Furthermore, the total annualized volatility of the crypto market stood high at 48.2%, reflecting ongoing uncertainty and rapid shifts in investor sentiment.

“Projects like RWA and DePIN, which integrate productive assets from the physical world such as CPUs, GPUs, WiFi routers, dash cameras, and personal weather stations under leading DePIN initiatives, are likely to follow a different trajectory. As these projects scale in terms of users and adoption, their protocols should mature into valuations that traditional investors find more understandable. This maturity could potentially lead to significantly lower volatility compared to other crypto assets, albeit with valuations potentially reaching levels several times higher than current levels,” Fluence Co-Founder Tom Trowbridge told BeInCrypto.

Most Popular Crypto Narratives
Most Popular Crypto Narratives. Source: CoinGecko

The CoinGecko report also discusses other notable events in the fourth quarter of 2024. For instance, the Mt. Gox trustee began moving a stash of 140,000 BTC and the German government started selling seized Bitcoin, coinciding with sharp market reactions.

Moreover, Ethereum witnessed an inflationary shift in Q2, with a net addition of 120,818 ETH to its circulating supply. This marked a significant shift from its previous deflationary trend, influenced by a 66.7% reduction in burn rate as network activity slowed.

Crypto exchanges saw divergent trends. Centralized exchanges (CEXs) like Binance and Bybit experienced varied fortunes.

Binance’s market share stood at 45%, despite a decline in trading volume. Meanwhile, Bybit’s market share increased to 12.6%. Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) like Uniswap and emerging platforms Thruster and Aerodrome saw substantial volume increases. They benefited from the buoyancy in meme coin trading and airdrop activities.

Read more: Best Upcoming Airdrops in 2024

In an interview with BeInCrypto, Bobby Ong, the co-founder of CoinGecko, shared that the outlook for the latter half of 2024 remains cautiously optimistic.

“The crypto market entered a period of post-Bitcoin Halving consolidation amid mixed developments in Q2, with token airdrops in particular coming under scrutiny. While the outlook for the second half of 2024 is murkier, we see positive signs including improving macroeconomic conditions, and teams continuing to build regardless of prices,” Ong told BeInCrypto.

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Harsh Notariya
Harsh Notariya is an Editorial Standards Lead at BeInCrypto, who also writes about various topics, including decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN), tokenization, crypto airdrops, decentralized finance (DeFi), meme coins, and altcoins. Before joining BeInCrypto, he was a community consultant at Totality Corp, specializing in the metaverse and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Additionally, Harsh was a blockchain content writer and researcher at Financial Funda, where he created...
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