Binance Labs Fund, Binance exchange investment arm, wrapped up its 2024 with a brief recap and a forecast for 2025. Looking forward, Binance Labs revealed it will keep a close look in three “key areas of focus” while investing.
The company posted an announcement on December 31 calling for the year of the Wood Snake, symbolizing growth and creativity. On that note, Binance Labs will soon rebrand and plans to count with Changpeng Zhao’s (CZ) guidance for its investments.
As disclosed, the “key areas of focus” in 2025 will be crypto and blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), and biotech. “We are also excited to see innovations emerging at the intersection of these three areas,” the fund wrote.
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Besides the also bullish stance regarding Donald Trump’s crypto-friendly administration in 2025, Binance Labs commented further on its forecasts for the new year regarding specific crypto narratives and trends.
“We anticipate that underperforming sectors like gaming, ZK technologies, and privacy solutions may experience a resurgence as they transition from development to production, enabling new use cases. Further, existing narratives like DeSci, RWAs/Stablecoins, and AI agents should continue to do well with strong momentum, as we are only scratching the surface of what can be achieved.”
– Binance Labs Fund
Binance Labs Fund 2024 recap
Notably, Binance Labs disclosed its year-to-date investment strategy, balancing a fifty-fifty allocation among decentralized applications (DApps) and infrastructure projects.
Out of 46 funding deals, decentralized finance (DeFi) led with 10, followed closely by AI and the Bitcoin (BTC) ecosystem, with seven deal each. Expanding to other narratives, restaking solutions had four deals and the gaming sector had three. Finally, zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs, real-world assets (RWA), and consumer apps had two deals each, closing Binance’s 2024 funding activities.
Interestingly, only 14 out of the 46 projects were from the BNB Chain (BNB) ecosystem, which Binance is a main stakeholder. This shows an unbiased and chain agnostic approach, which will potentially influence Binance Labs’s rebranding.
“We’re always on the lookout for projects that have real-world use cases, strong teams, solid roadmaps, and sustainable business models,” the firm concluded. The announcement also explained that Binance Labs is expanding its scope for investment beyond primary market deals.
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