Blockchain

Alliance DAO’s investments in 28 Web3 consumer-facing apps—spanning lifestyle, gaming, crypto speculation, SocialFi, creator tools, financial services, and utility platforms—showcase its thesis and strategic approach in this fast-growing vertical. This report unpacks the core paradigms, challenges, and opportunities shaping the Web3 consumer app landscape, and explores how we should define and evaluate success in this category.

In 2025, crypto ETFs expanded to alternative assets such as Solana, XRP, and DOGE, with mainstream asset management firms rushing to submit applications. This article provides a detailed analysis of the current status of ETF applications, the likelihood of approval, and their potential impact, outlining the key path for crypto assets to integrate into the traditional financial system.

This report presents an in-depth analysis of emerging Layer 1 blockchain Berachain, centered on its innovative Proof of Liquidity (PoL) consensus mechanism. It explores the project’s architecture, tokenomics, ecosystem protocols, TVL dynamics, and governance model. The report also highlights structural risks such as inflation pressure, TVL concentration, and a potential innovation slowdown, while assessing whether Berachain can evolve into a sustainable, liquidity-driven public chain paradigm through continued DeFi and dApp ecosystem development.

MANTRA's OM token experienced a catastrophic 90% crash, plummeting from $5.21 to $0.50, in what appears to be more than just a technical failure. The article details MANTRA's controversial history, including centralized token control with 90% of tokens in a single wallet, alleged OTC fundraising schemes, and legal disputes in Hong Kong. The crash was reportedly triggered by forced liquidations resulting in $66.97 million in liquidations and strategic investors' exodus, with 43.6 million OM tokens being transferred to exchanges before the crash.

Vitalik's new work, a systematic discourse on the value of digital privacy, explores how privacy underpins freedom, order, and technological progress. It is an important piece of thought literature in the era of AI and blockchain.

XUSD is a fully-backed, USD-pegged stablecoin issued by StraitsX, a payment infrastructure company for digital assets based in Southeast Asia and regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)

Explore Definitive (EDGE), a non-custodial platform for advanced on-chain trading, liquidity aggregation, and token-based incentives.

Telcoin (TEL) is a blockchain-based platform aiming to make affordable remittances accessible via mobile networks and decentralized finance solutions.

IMPT is a blockchain-based platform focused on carbon offsetting and sustainable shopping through tokenized carbon credits.

AminoChain is a blockchain-based platform designed to improve biobanking by connecting medical institutions and researchers in a decentralized network. It facilitates secure and transparent sharing of biospecimens while enabling patients to retain control over their samples. The platform enhances the efficiency of medical research through streamlined collaboration and access to data.

KernelDAO enhances blockchain security and staking efficiency through restaking, liquid staking, and automated yield strategies.

Gate Research (April 11–17, 2025): April 14, Solana raises block computation limit and upgrades network performance. April 15, EigenLayer launches mainnet slashing. April 16, Polygon’s AggLayer builds a “value internet.” April 17, Sony Soneium and EigenLayer slash blockchain finality time by 98%, setting a new L2 benchmark.

The 2008 financial crisis gave birth to the earliest believers in Bitcoin. The "suicide" of the legal currency system in 2025 will also promote the growth of stablecoins on the chain, especially non-USD, non-full reserve interest-bearing stablecoins (YBS, Yield-Bearing Stablecoins). However, non-full-reserve stablecoins are still theoretically envisioned, and the aftermath of the Luna-UST collapse in 2022 is still lingering. However, driven by capital efficiency, partial-reserve stablecoins will definitely become the mainstream of the market. Non-US dollar stablecoins are still in the experimental stage, and the global currency status of the US dollar is still widely recognized. In order to maintain industrial production capacity and employment, the RMB will not actively internationalize on a large scale, and replacing the US dollar will be a very long process.

The VIX has soared above 60, signalling extreme market fear. This article analyzes the historical correlation between the VIX and risk assets, explores how U.S. equities and Bitcoin typically behave during high-VIX environments, and offers strategic insights across different VIX ranges to help investors capture rebound opportunities.

This article provides an in-depth analysis of how BitBonds incorporate Bitcoin into the U.S. Treasury system through a "budget-neutral" approach. It explores the potential implications for fiscal stability, the crypto market, and the global financial order, revealing practical pathways and risk boundaries in the fusion of cryptocurrency with sovereign credit.