In 2024, the ten most significant launches of crypto tokens amassed over $1 billion.
Although this amount and the average per offering are large and very respectable, even by pre-2022 Bitcoin and Ethereum standards, they do not, in and of themselves, tell us anything about these tokens’ futures or the investors’ amounts of happiness in the future with regard to these tokens.
When those future...
The Sonic ecosystem is undergoing rapid expansion, backed by a bold mix of incentive engineering, technical innovation, and rising adoption among both retail and institutional players.
With total value locked (TVL) surpassing $1 billion during its Season 1 (S1) airdrop, the question now is whether Sonic’s momentum can be sustained—and what its redesigned growth model means for the future of...
In May 2025, Raydium Protocol reached an important milestone.
The platform most recently achieved its all-time high application revenue market share across all blockchain networks. Now, this is what we call a bad
damn! And let us tell you why:
You can see, in the picture right here above, the clear differentiation with the revenue share across DeFi protocols. Moreover, while many initiatives in...
For nine days now, BlackRock’s Ethereum-focused ETF, ETHA, has enjoyed inflows not just for a day or two, which would already be impressive, but for a week plus two days.
It has accumulated during that time period over $492 million. It is worth noting, as a first instance of this kind of streak, that BlackRock’s September inflows have thus far exceeded its August inflows.
Record-Breaking Inflows...
Increasingly, the evolution of Bitcoin from a speculative digital asset to a basic building block of institutional investment portfolios is being seen.
Recent data have shown that the number of large holders of CME Bitcoin futures has surged to an all-time high of 217. That marked a 36% increase since the beginning of this year. The data strongly suggest sustained accumulation, not short-term, in...
In a historic action for the cryptocurrency derivatives market, a single crypto options block trade with an unreal $1.19 billion in notional value was executed today.
The trade, which dealt with 11,350 BTC and generated $7.5 million in premiums, is the largest options block trade recorded in the sector. Watching the market, one cannot help but interpret the structure of this trade as an...
Riding the developer excitement from the recent BNBAI Hack, BNB Chain has proclaimed the initiation of BNB Hack—a global, long-term hackathon that aims to supercharge Web3 developers.
This is no ordinary hackathon. Traditional hackathons, while sometimes effective, can also be limiting. They are camped in time (an event) and space (a venue) and then are often filled with a kind of frenzy that is...
Marathon Digital Holdings (NASDAQ: MARA), one of the largest miners of Bitcoin in North America, has registered a never-before-seen month in May 2025, marking a significant punctuation in its word-to-Bitcoin-long-accumulation strategy.
The company announced that it mined 282 Bitcoin blocks—a monthly record—resulting in the production of 950 BTC, a 35% increase month-over-month (MoM). That surge...
BCP Technologies has made a landmark step in the UK’s developing digital asset arena with the launch of its British pound-backed stablecoin, $TGBP.
The move puts the UK ever so slightly ahead of the curve as it eddies closer toward a regulatory framework for stablecoins, with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) at the fore and the Bank of England staying mostly in the background.
In contrast...
The last few months have seen the spotlight of DeFi shine brightly on Euler Finance and Maple.
But another player has been quietly making a notable return. Gearbox Protocol, long viewed as an innovative venue for leveraged credit strategies, has once again become very active in the DeFi space.
What is now propelling Gearbox to the DeFi frontlines is a series of strategic moves, fresh product...