2022

According to Gate market data, Amazon's stock price surged by 14%, marking the largest single-day increase since November 2022.

Galaxy Research Director Alex Thorn posted on the X platform that the second quarter's dormant Bitcoin awakening volume hit a new low since the third quarter of 2022, significantly decreasing from the high levels of 2024 and 2025.

According to Tiger Research and RootData based on research of 9,416 investment transaction data from the first half of 2018 to 2026, the capital inflow in the cryptocurrency market reached $13.3 billion in the first half of 2026, which is basically on par with the total of $13.2 billion for the entire year of 2024. However, the number of financing rounds was only 435, a decrease of 78% from the peak of 1,978 rounds in 2022, indicating that market funds are accelerating towards a few large transactions.The report points out that the current cryptocurrency investment market is dominated by a few large crypto-native VCs focused on leading investments, as well as venture capital departments of exchanges with liquidity and marketing support, while medium-sized institutions are being rapidly squeezed out. In terms of financing structure, the number of seed round transactions decreased by 88% from 2022 to 81, while financing in Series A and later stages accounted for 75.2% of total investments, with Series A financing amounting to $745.8 million, exceeding the total amount of all seed round financing of $423.3 million during the same period.In terms of sectors, payments and stablecoins, centralized exchanges, and prediction markets have become the most concentrated areas of capital. The payments and stablecoins sector attracted $2.85 billion in funding in the first half of 2026, but about 84% of this was driven by mergers and acquisitions such as Mastercard's acquisition of BVNK and Payward's acquisition of Reap; the investment share in the CEX sector rose to 18.2%, while prediction markets rose to 17.5%. In contrast, the number of financing rounds in the gaming sector plummeted from 141 rounds in 2024 to only 5 rounds, a decrease of 96%. Additionally, traditional financial institutions participated in 54.5% of all investment transactions in the first half of 2026.It is reported that Tiger Research is an independent research institution established in 2022, covering the Asian digital asset market, with business operations in South Korea, Japan, China, and Indonesia, publishing institutional-level research content in five languages, with over 100,000 monthly readers and more than 200 institutional clients.

The total circulation of stablecoins has fallen by about $10 billion from the peak in May 2026 to about $312 billion, with a decrease of $7.7 billion in June alone, marking the largest single-month dollar decline since the Terra-Luna event in 2022. The supply of Tether USDT decreased from about $190 billion to about $184 billion, while Circle USDC fell from nearly $80 billion to about $73 billion. However, the overall decline is only about 3%, far lower than the over 26% contraction during the bear market from 2022 to 2023.Market participants believe this fluctuation is a normal adjustment within a strong long-term growth trend, as the market value of stablecoins has doubled in two years. There was also a decline of about $9 billion from late 2025 to early 2026, followed by a return to historical highs. Positive factors include regulatory progress such as the GENIUS Act driving new competitors into the market, the circulation growth of regulated products like Global Dollar (USDG) under Paxos, and major financial institutions still expecting the stablecoin market to reach trillions of dollars by the end of this decade.

According to the latest report from Tiger Research, as of June 18, 2026, the number of active job openings in the cryptocurrency industry is only 2,932, a significant decrease of over 97% from the estimated peak of about 130,000 in 2022.The report shows that the wave of layoffs in the cryptocurrency industry continues in the first half of 2026. March was the month with the highest concentration of layoffs, with several companies including Gemini, Crypto.com, Algorand, OP Labs, PIP Labs, and Messari announcing layoffs at the same time. Some companies were acquired at low prices after multiple rounds of layoffs; for example, Messari was acquired by Blockworks for about $10 million in June 2026 after experiencing three rounds of layoffs, while its previous valuation had reached $300 million.In terms of recruitment structure, positions in centralized exchanges (CEX) account for the highest proportion, reaching 30.8% (904 positions), mainly contributed by OKX, Bybit, and Binance. The stablecoin and payment sector accounts for 13.4%, but is highly concentrated in two companies, Tether and Ripple.In addition, the demand for AI skills in job postings continues to rise, with the proportion of cryptocurrency job postings mentioning artificial intelligence skills increasing from 23% in early 2025 to 53.1% in March 2026.

According to Jinshi, the wholesale prices in the U.S. in May saw the largest consecutive increase since 2022, with the PPI rising by 1.1% month-on-month, exceeding market expectations of 0.7%. Over the past 12 months, wholesale prices have increased by 6.5%, marking the largest annual increase since the end of 2022. Despite rising costs, businesses have not fully passed on the new expenses to customers, who are showing resistance to paying more. Steve Rick, the chief economist at financial services provider TruStage, stated that inflation is becoming difficult to fully eliminate.

According to The Block, the latest "2026 Ecosystem Vulnerability Audit Report" released by Web3 security company Immunefi shows that losses from DeFi protocols due to hacker attacks have decreased by 74% from the peak of $2.62 billion in 2022 to approximately $680.3 million in 2025.The report points out that the median loss per attack has also significantly decreased, from $6 million in 2022 to $1.5 million in 2025, reflecting an overall improvement in security levels.At the same time, the proportion of losses from bridge exploits has dramatically decreased from 73% in 2022 to 3% in 2025, and the share of flash loan attacks has dropped from 54% to less than 1%. Risks at the infrastructure level (such as private key leaks and database attacks) have also decreased from 30.7% in 2022 to 10.3% in 2025. Immunefi stated that this reflects the ongoing optimization of oracle design, reentrancy attack protection, and access control standards, indicating that the overall DeFi ecosystem "is becoming safer."However, the report also notes that losses slightly rebounded to $680.3 million in 2025, mainly due to the increasing complexity of multi-chain systems and a few high-severity incidents. Meanwhile, the number of independent security incidents continues to rise, reflecting an expanding attack surface.

CryptoQuant stated that Bitcoin's recent trend is similar to the bear market rebound phase in March 2022, with market demand still weak and sentiment indicators having fallen back into the "extremely pessimistic" range.The report pointed out that Bitcoin's recent rebound was blocked near the 200-day moving average at around $82,400, and then it fell back to around $76,000. CryptoQuant believes this trend is similar to that in March 2022: at that time, Bitcoin rebounded 43% from its low but also encountered resistance at the 200-day moving average and re-entered a downward trend.Julio Moreno, head of research at CryptoQuant, stated that during a bear market, the 200-day moving average is usually a key dividing line between "rebound markets" and "trend continuation." If Bitcoin cannot effectively break through this moving average, it may indicate that the bear market structure has not yet been broken.

According to Cointelegraph, the latest report from the Federal Reserve shows that 10% of Americans will use or invest in cryptocurrencies by 2025, the highest level since 2022.

Analyst Murphy stated that new addresses buying Bitcoin for the first time (First Buyers, FB) are providing fresh blood to the market while absorbing excess distribution. As of May 13, the Bitcoin holdings of first-time buyer addresses have returned to 3.719 million, an increase of 40,000 BTC compared to May 1. The continuous accumulation by new buyers reflects a gradual recovery in investor risk appetite. In comparison to the last cycle, the current 3.72 million is comparable to September 21, 2022. Once the holdings of new buyers exceed 4 million, the overall market structure will become healthier, making it unlikely to experience significant declines or fall below previous lows.

Crypto analyst Murphy posted on the X platform that the holdings of new Bitcoin buyers have been steadily increasing recently, rising from a low of 3.38 million to 3.68 million.Although there is still a distance of over 1 million from the peak of the bull market, it at least indicates that as the macro environment improves, investors' risk appetite is gradually returning. Compared to the last cycle, this is roughly equivalent to the scale of new buyers in mid-August 2022. At that time, it was also in the latter half of a bear market. BTC rebounded from a low of $19,000 to $24,000 (a 26% rebound); this time, BTC rebounded from $62,000 to $79,000 (a 27% rebound); the situation is similar.However, the difference is that to hold the same amount of BTC, the money spent is 3-4 times that of the past, yet it still cannot stop so many strong new buyers from entering the market.

According to CertiK Alert monitoring, the total losses from cryptocurrency security incidents in the month of 2026 amounted to approximately $651 million, of which about $3.5 million originated from phishing attacks. This is the highest single-month loss recorded since 2022, second only to the Bybit theft incident in 2025.

The research institution 10x Research published on platform X, pointing out that the trading volume in the cryptocurrency market has reached a new low since 2022. Currently, the total market capitalization of the crypto market is $2.3 trillion, down 1.7% from last week, with an average weekly trading volume of $90 billion, a decrease of 7% from the average.Among them, Bitcoin's weekly trading volume is $38.2 billion, which is 5% lower than the average; Ethereum's weekly trading volume is $18.3 billion, which is 18% lower than the average. The Ethereum network fee (0.12 Gwei) is at a level of 17%, indicating low network utilization.In addition, the Bitcoin funding rate rose 4.1% this week to 1.5%, at a level of 13% over the past 12 months, with open interest in futures increasing by $100 million to $21.5 billion. The Ethereum funding rate rose 3.7% this week to 2.8%, at a level of 12% over the past 12 months, with open interest in futures increasing by $100 million to $11.8 billion.

Distributed Capital partner Shen Bo posted on X detailing the complete list and addresses of his stolen assets in 2022. He revealed that the theft occurred on November 10, 2022, Eastern Time, between 00:46 and 01:02. The Trust Wallet hot wallet installed on his iPhone 12 Pro Max was stolen, with assets valued at approximately 42 million dollars.The address details are: ETH: 0x6be85603322df6DC66163eF5f82A9c6ffBC5e894 BTC: 1ECNeZyiHgqJmv42i3pkWY48xiXy7KukTG / bc1qg3mnvn8saea50js7nzkhm8k054mpwqmcuq3de5 TRON: TJLBmmUb5TcFFXTLzuuaKU96uTg5Sjn1yD26. On that day, Shen Bo set a bounty to recover approximately 42 million dollars worth of cryptocurrency stolen three years ago.

According to Gate market data, the euro against the US dollar (EUR/USD) has fallen 2.1% since last Friday, on track to record the largest two-day decline since September 2022.

Bitcoin fell over 19% in February, marking its worst monthly performance since 2022, due to concerns related to global tariffs.

According to data from Artemis Analytics, the circulating market value of the world's largest stablecoin Tether's USDT has decreased by approximately $1.5 billion this month, marking the largest monthly decline since the collapse of the FTX exchange in December 2022.Previously, USDT had shown a continuous growth trend since former U.S. President Trump returned to the White House. This decline also follows a slight retreat in January.

According to CoinDesk, Santiment data shows that XRP has just recorded its largest realized loss since November 2022, with a weekly realized loss of $1.93 billion, indicating a panic sell-off among holders.Note: Realized loss refers to the loss that investors confirm and lock in when selling an asset at a price lower than their purchase cost; in contrast, unrealized loss is merely a paper loss and is not counted until the asset is sold. A significant increase in realized loss in on-chain data typically indicates that a large number of holders are choosing to sell while at a loss, reflecting a concentrated stop-loss or "capitulation sell-off" in the market, often accompanied by a significant weakening of sentiment.