From Zero to Hundreds of Millions: How Consumer-Facing DApps Stole the Spotlight A new revenue hierarchy is emerging across Web3. Twelve months ago, few analysts expected a single on-chain application to eclipse the fee income of a major Layer-1 network. Yet that is precisely what has happened. Trading game PumpFun Continue Reading
Pepe Finds Its Line in the Sand as Meme-Coin Winter Deepens
Funding Rates Flash Warning While Spot Volume Dries Up The meme-coin complex has been in a prolonged drawdown, and no token illustrates that pain better than Pepe. Twelve months of relentless selling have pushed the frog-themed coin roughly 40 % lower, printing a fresh one-year low this week. Perpetual-futures data Continue Reading
SBF’s 25-Year Sentence Under Fire: Inside the Appeal Shaking Crypto Markets
Appeal Argument: “Presumed Guilty” and Judicial Bias Nineteen months after a New York jury found Sam Bankman-Fried guilty on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy, his new legal team has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to scrap the verdict entirely. In a 150-page brief filed Continue Reading
Brussels Pushes to Hand ESMA the Keys to Europe’s Crypto Exchanges
Why Brussels Wants a Single Crypto Sheriff The European Commission is preparing a December “markets integration package” that would elevate the Paris-based European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) from a coordinator to the direct supervisor of the largest cross-border crypto exchanges, stock exchanges and clearing houses. Senior officials argue that Continue Reading
XRP Flirts With $2.60 Resistance While New Layer-2 Projects Steal the Spotlight
XRP Price Action: Volume Grows Inside a Descending Triangle XRP is trading near $2.55 after a 1.7 % daily advance, pushing 24-hour turnover above $2.16 billion and keeping its market capitalization close to $153 billion. On the daily chart the token continues to coil inside a well-defined descending triangle: lower Continue Reading
Coinbase, Capitol Hill, and the High-Stakes Poker of U.S. Crypto Politics
From Inaugural Checks to Ballroom Bricks: Senator Murphy’s “Corruption Factory” Claim A single post on X this week ignited one of the fiercest political flare-ups the digital-asset industry has seen since the 2022 market crash. Senator Chris Murphy accused Coinbase of feeding what he called former President Donald Trump’s “corruption Continue Reading
Bybit Halts New Sign-Ups in Japan as FSA Tightens the Screws on Crypto
Bybit’s Proactive Pause: What Changes on 31 October? On Wednesday the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume confirmed that, effective 12:00 UTC on 31 October, it will stop onboarding new Japanese nationals and residents. Bybit described the move as a “proactive approach” to domestic rules that are still in Continue Reading
Ethereum Foundation Unveils “Ethereum for Institutions” Portal as Wall Street Races On-Chain
Why a Dedicated Gateway Matters in Late 2025 In a series of posts on X this week, the Ethereum Foundation (EF) introduced “Ethereum for Institutions,” a new portal built to serve banks, asset managers, and corporates moving real-world value onto public blockchains. The launch lands at a pivotal moment: more Continue Reading
SharpLink’s $200 Million Ethereum Deployment Marks a New Era for Institutional DeFi
Why a Nasdaq-Listed Gaming Firm Is Migrating Its Treasury to Linea’s zkEVM SharpLink Gaming, Inc. startled both Wall Street and Crypto Twitter this week by revealing plans to shift roughly one-third of its nine-figure ether treasury onto Linea, the zero- knowledge Layer-2 network engineered by Consensys. The move instantly positions Continue Reading
Altcoins Eclipse Bitcoin in Q3 2025 as ETFs and Treasuries Reshape Crypto Markets
Market Returns to Four-Trillion Territory A liquidity-fuelled rebound pushed the combined crypto market value above $4 trillion in the third quarter, according to the latest CoinGecko industry report. Capitalisation climbed 16.4 %—a $563.6 billion jump that locked in a third straight green quarter and the highest headline figure since late 2021. Activity broadened Continue Reading
