The Results of the 2024 Web3 Awards Are Announced

In 2023, the crypto market showed a clear recovery trend, with significant improvements in asset value and market sentiment. Throughout the year, multiple innovative narratives unfolded, including the Bitcoin inscription craze, RWA tokenization, the DePIN revolution, and Bitcoin spot ETFs, all revolving around the core concept of "linking."

Recently, a Web3 annual selection event themed "CONNECT" has concluded. After nearly two months of registration, voting, and professional review, a total of 123 projects/enterprises and 10 individuals received 21 annual awards.

Outstanding Contribution Award

Based on various indicators such as the number of on-chain addresses, the number of smart contracts deployed, the number of active developers, trading volume, and technological upgrades, three Annual Outstanding Contribution Awards are selected: Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana.

Annual Application Rankings

The annual application list includes 8 major award categories, including Innovative Applications, DeFi, GameFi, SocialFi, RWA, DePIN, AI+Web3 integration, and Most Popular NFT. The selection criteria include data indicators such as user activity, trading volume, total locked value, governance token market capitalization, and the results of popularity voting.

Annual Innovative Applications

Worldcoin, Blast, SINOHOPE, De.Fi, and a certain trading platform Web3

Annual Best DeFi

EigenLayer, a certain DEX, a certain DEX, JustLend, Helix, ether.fi, Venus, GMX, Lido and AAVE

Annual Best GameFi

Pixels, Matr1x Fire, BigTime, Illuvium, Shrapnel, Parallel, Seraph, Abyss World, Dark Forest and MIR4

Annual Best SocialFi

Farcaster, TaskOn, Phaver, Galxe, and UXLINK

Annual Best RWA

Ondo Finance, Maker, KlimaDAO, Centrifuge, and Tangible

Annual Best DePIN

Render, Script Network, Fetch AI, BitTensor and Filecoin

Annual Best AI+Web3 Combination

Web3Go, Impakt, ChainGPT, Fetch AI and rct AI

Most Popular NFT of the Year

Weirdo Ghost Gang, Bitcoin Frogs, Mocaverse, Memeland, Pizza Ninjas, Pudgy Penguins, Doodles, bitmap, Mad Lads, and Nobody

Annual Public Chain Selection

Based on metrics such as the number of active users, the number of developers, network fundamentals, the total number of protocols, and the total fees, five of the most vibrant public chains and twenty of the most promising ecological projects will be selected.

Most Vibrant Public Chain of the Year

Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin, Sui and Conflux

The most promising projects in each ecosystem

• Bitcoin Ecosystem: Merlin Chain, Stacks, Particle Network, Nervos Network, Bounce Finance
• Ethereum ecosystem: zkSync, EigenLayer, Linea, Taiko, Puffer Finance
• Solana Ecosystem: Jupiter, Pyth, Solana Mobile, Backpack, Render
• Cosmos Ecosystem: Berachain, Injective, Celestia, Dymension, Sei

Annual Best Tools

MiniBridge, DeGame, DeBank, Etherscan, and RigSec

Most Popular Inscription of the Year

ORDI, SATS, ATOM, RATS, COOK, ETHS, AVAV, MICE, BNBS and POLS

Most Popular MEME of the Year

PEPE, SHIB, BONK, DOGE, MEME, AIGOGE, SILLY, SMOG, WIF, FLOKI

Best Investment Institutions of the Year

Certain trading platforms Labs, A16Z, certain trading platform Ventures, Amber Group, DWF Labs, Web3.com Ventures, Animoca Brands, Hashkey Capital, NGC Ventures, and SevenX Ventures

Best Exchange of the Year

a trading platform, a trading platform, HashKey Exchange, a trading platform, and BitMart Exchange

Most Influential KOL of the Year

Kevin, Biteye, Uncle Jian, Phyrex, BITWU.ETH, Cos(, Yuxian), Eleven Landlord, Block Mr., Crazy Sleep in the Rain and Geek Web3

As the market scale continues to reach new highs and application scenarios keep expanding, encryption technology and assets are gradually entering the global mainstream vision. In the future, the industry is expected to develop towards a more stable and mature direction, and the scope for imagination will further expand. This selection aims to document and encourage those builders and participants who actively engage in this financial revolution.