The second iteration of the Industry Map covers six verticals - Infrastructure, DeFi, NFTs GameFi, Decentralized Social, and DAO Tooling. In the infrastructure vertical, the cryptocurrency exchange looked at projects in the areas of scalability and fairness, data usability and tooling, Security and privacy, and computation and content delivery.
In the DeFi sector, issuance, liquidity, trading, connectivity, and risk management were the main areas of focus for projects. Marketplace, financialization, and service were the core areas that were looked into for NFT-related projects.
Binance Research made it clear that the findings of the report shouldn't be necessarily seen as investment advice, recommendation, offer, or solicitation to buy or sell any securities, or cryptocurrencies, or to adopt any investment strategy.