DeFi will definitely be explored more and hopefully will be developed even further
additionally it seems like some banks are interested in launching their own coins we shall see how banks will adopt cryptocurrency especially with the pending etf approval
I don’t think DeFi will again make a comeback. There was a time when Defi was in hype and everyone was interested in investing in it, but sadly many turned into scams and for which this DeFi system was avoided by many crypto lovers. Yes there is a possibility that, ICO and IEO will be trending soon. With the new AI systems people will develop more tokens and for this I think this will again gain the popularity.
I hope that will happen and happen again where ICO and IEO were successful in 2017/2019, but there is no guarantee that it will happen again because there are many fraudulent projects even though they are in the name of ICO and IEO, if you don't use Escrow it seems like it will continue to happen and even fraudsters use any means to cheat.
In my opinion, up to now there has not been a trend that has succeeded in creating public trust in projects that create quality coinmeme coins for next year's trend, although it seems that public trust has decreased due to the large number of meme coins which are detrimental to investors.