#2024

The co-founder of Immutable, Robbie Ferguson, has extended the timeline for the unlocking of 125 million IMX tokens. With a current worth of $66 million, these tokens were scheduled for developers but will now see the light of day only in July 2024.

Craig Wright, who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, has dropped another post. “The mystery of who I am will be revealed with lots of evidence in the year 2024.” His enigmatic approach is truly captivating! Does he find joy in crafting backward messages? Learn more about Craig Wright on our website.

Amid the evolving crypto landscape, one prediction stands out: Davis Hui from Caanan foresees BTC's price potentially skyrocketing to $100,000 by 2024. This bullish forecast is rooted in upcoming events like the bitcoin halving, set to diminish the BTC issuance rate by halving miner rewards. Compounding this optimistic view is the undeniable attention from financial powerhouses, with BlackRock, boasting $10 trillion in assets, as a prime example. For Hui, it's this mix of major institutional influx and a shrinking bitcoin supply that suggests a bullish future for BTC.

Mairead McGuinness, the European Commissioner for Financial Services, believes there's no need to rush the launch of a digital euro before the next EU elections in June 2024. She advises the next EU Commission to take a careful and measured approach to the CBDC rollout. Furthermore, McGuinness mentioned that the European Central Bank will finalize its stance on the project this coming October.

Investment fund Pantera Capital has forecasted a boost in Bitcoin's price following the forthcoming halving in April 2024, a pattern observed in the past. With historical trends as a basis, they anticipate Bitcoin will hit $35,000 before the halving and surge to $148,000 by 2025. Decisive events, like a positive court verdict for XRP and the greenlight for BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF, are expected to shape these potential outcomes.

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has stated that the crypto market regulation, known as Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA), won't be in place until December 2024 at the earliest.

Bitstamp, one of the longest-running cryptocurrency exchanges, is in discussions with three major European banks to assist them in providing crypto services, with plans to roll out these services in the first quarter of 2024.

A federal judge denied the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) request for an appeal against Ripple, asserting that the regulator did not demonstrate significant reasons to justify disagreements in opinions. However, he has set a court hearing date for April 2024 to address certain issues in the case.

According to insights from the Wall Street Journal, Meta's ongoing project is a new AI system. They aim to topple established language models, such as GPT-4 and even their own Llama 2. This fresh initiative will center on large-scale text processing and its subsequent scrutiny. The timeline for initiating the model's training is set for 2024.