At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, looking back at the crypto world in 2021, from DeFi to Meme, from NFT to Metaverse, from Layer 2 to DAO, each sector represents the epitome of the industry's turmoil.

In the post-pandemic era, global central banks released water, and the price of Bitcoin repeatedly broke new highs; Musk became the "spokesperson" of Dogecoin, Zuckerberg changed Facebook's name to Meta, and El Salvador designated Bitcoin as the national legal tender. When cryptocurrencies are integrated into the global financial market, as everyone knows, we are experiencing the golden age of the encrypted world.

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Bitcoin hits all-time high as global economy bleeds

At the beginning of the year, the still severe COVID-19 epidemic triggered economic recession in various countries, and the era of global negative interest rates is approaching.

The epidemic has caused the central banks of many countries around the world to release water frequently, and the market value of cryptocurrencies has risen accordingly. From $780 billion at the beginning of the year to a record breaking $3 trillion at the end of the year, the golden age of the encryption world has begun.

In February of this year, Tesla submitted a report to the US SEC stating that the company plans to purchase bitcoin worth US$1.5 billion; in March, Tesla's official website announced that it supports bitcoin payments. On the road to being accepted by business giants and the mainstream, Bitcoin has another victory.

At the same time, OKEx launched a unified trading account, which is an innovation to the traditional trading platform model in the industry.

With the launch of OKEx's Chinese name "Ouyi", the global strategic layout is accelerated. And with industry-leading products, technologies, and services, let hundreds of millions of users around the world enter and understand the encrypted world.

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Everything can be NFT, start the journey of NFT in Ouyi

In March, digital artist Beeple's work "Everydays: The First 5000 Days" was sold at Christie's auction house for a sky-high price of US$69.34 million, breaking the record for the highest transaction price of a digital art auction and becoming the most expensive NFT work in history at that time. Overnight, NFT exploded out of the circle and became the talk of people after dinner.

NFT, which solves the problem of confirming the rights of traditional collectibles, has attracted Internet giants such as Tencent, Alipay, and Twitter to compete for layout. Superstars such as Elon Musk, Curry, and Wong Kar-wai have also purchased or sold NFT works.

Under the tide, the turnover of NFT trading platform Opensea skyrocketed exponentially. The continuous increase in the floor price of NFT works CryptoPunks (crypto punks) and the emergence of Loot have completely detonated the NFT market. And when Sotheby's and other established auction houses have entered NFT one after another, it is a sign that NFT is entering the public's field of vision. NFT brings subversive changes to artworks, permanently engraving the ownership and circulation process of artworks and collections on the blockchain.

With the emergence of NFT, Ouyi took the lead in launching NFT ecological tokens such as CHZ and ENJ. Among them, the NFT sports ecological star project CHZ rose by 1644% in the week.

In September, Ouyi launched the DeFi Hub and Ouyi NFT platform, which supports multi-chain assets including ETH and OEC, and has the advantages of low threshold, zero handling fee, and rich categories. Users can freely trade NFT on the Ouyi NFT platform, and enjoy services such as rushing to buy the first NFT in the primary market. The Ouyi NFT trading market includes many well-known artists, game developers and high-quality IP first-time art works, and accesses mainstream popular projects such as Cryptounks and Loot. Today, 12.58 million NFT works have been launched on the Ouyi NFT market, and 25 NFT activities have been launched, with a total sales of 3,569,533 US dollars and 18,301 participants.

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GameFi exploded, is the game the prototype of the Metaverse?

Some people say that 2021 is the first year of the metaverse.

The term metaverse originated from the science fiction novel "Avalanche", which describes a virtual space parallel to the real world, and introduces the operating logic of the real world into the digital virtual world. However, for a long time, the metaverse seemed to be just a concept that carried the romantic fantasy of human beings. Until the sudden emergence of GameFi, people saw the prototype of the metaverse. In the Philippines, where the unemployment rate is 25% due to the epidemic, countless game players flock to the blockchain game Axie Infinity. Players can raise and breed NFT pets, and earn income by doing tasks, fighting, and trading. Today, Axie Infinity has become a leader in blockchain games, driving more than 150,000 jobs in the Philippines, Venezuela and other countries.

The game platform Roblox, as the first stock in the Metaverse, was successfully listed, which opened the way for the stars and seas of the Metaverse. Internet social giant Facebook also changed its name to Meta within the year, announcing its full-scale entry into the Metaverse. As the founder of Facebook, Zuckerberg believes that the metaverse will become the successor of the mobile Internet.

In order to promote the ecological development of the Metaverse, Ouyi launched a ten-million-dollar fund on August 20 to boost the Metaverse Project. Through a series of measures such as special investment funds and project incubators, it will help accelerate the growth of excellent projects in fields such as Metaverse and GameFi.

Ouyi launched a number of high-quality GameFi assets. In March, it launched the metaverse star project SAND, with an increase of 4096% in half a year. In July, the well-known game guild project YGG was launched, with an increase of 1881% in the following month. Launched the block chain game star project AXS, with an increase of 126% in the next month. In September, Ouyi launched 5 GameFi projects. Among them, GALA rose by 947% in the next month after its launch, and CELT, the top OEC GameFi project, rose by 1800% at the opening; in October, the well-known metaverse project STARL was launched, and the month rose by 430%. In November, the well-known game project TOWN was launched, with an increase of 257% within the month; the well-known game public chain IMX was launched, with an increase of 195% within the month.

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Popular sectors come and go, Ouyi screens high-quality assets

Looking back at the encryption world in 2021, people have witnessed the bull market of encrypted assets, and also experienced the rotation of DeFi, Meme, NFT, GameFi, Layer 2, DAO and other sectors.

This year, the increasing number of participants in on-chain activities such as DeFi has led to transaction congestion on the Ethereum chain and high gas fees, which has also promoted the flourishing of major public chain ecologies and the rise of the Layer 2 sector. In terms of Layer 2 ecology, Ouyi has successively launched star projects MATIC, CELR, etc., among which MATIC rose by 700% in the next month.

When a hundred schools of thought in the public chain contend, the cross-chain also ushers in prosperity. Today, cross-chain bridges have surpassed centralized service providers and become the main channel for cross-chain capital flows. In order to support the ecological development of the well-known cross-chain project Polkadot, Ouyi launched Polkadot series projects such as PHA, POLS, and MXC in February, with an average increase of over 460% within the month. In June, Ouyi supported the Kusama parachain slot auction. In July, CFG, KAR and other Polkadot ecological series projects were launched, with an average increase of 297% in the next month. In November, Ouyi launched the Polkadot parachain slot auction channel to support Polkadot slot auctions.

Web3.0, which is firmly optimistic about by the global investment institution a16z, has also become an important part of the sector rotation. In order to support the development of Web3.0, Ouyi launched the star project Mask Network, which rose 4000% at the opening. Launched LPT, VRA and other Web3.0 ecological projects, with an average increase of 807% in half a year. And ENS, the well-known Web3.0 project launched by Ouyi in the world, rose as much as 700% on that day.

When the community became an integral part of the encryption world, the Meme sector rose again: Musk, as the "chief marketing officer" of the sector, used his influence to push Dogecoin into the top ten market capitalization. In order to bring more possibilities to the community and help the industry to develop a balanced ecology, Ouyi launched the star community project SHIB in May, which rose 592% that week. In July, the well-known community token BABYDOGE was launched, with an increase of 742.2% in the following month.

In the construction of the platform currency OKB, Ouyi started the whole industry layout and endowed OKB with more application scenarios. With more solid value support, the price of OKB broke through $40 in May, an increase of 701% in half a year. On October 22, Ouyi launched Jumpstart pledge mining. The first phase is GODS, a well-known Ethereum project: APY is 264%, and GODS has increased by 148% since its launch.

In the past year, Ouyi has made simultaneous progress in platform ecological construction, product innovation, promotion of industry development, and layout of emerging tracks, etc., and has achieved full-blown growth. It has now covered more than 200 countries and regions, with tens of millions of The number of users; the risk reserve of the platform ranks first in the industry, the throughput and matching speed of the trading system, and the stability of the risk control system are also far ahead in the industry.

In the next five years, Ouyi will continue to shoulder the responsibility of being a leading blockchain ecological builder and promote the industry to continue writing a new chapter.