Ethereum Pectra upgrade is completed, introducing account abstraction to simplify transactions, increasing the upper limit of pledge to 2048 ETH, and reducing gas fees with PeerDAS. VanEck predicts that ETH will rise to $11,800 in 2030, dominate 70% of the smart contract market, and annual revenue may exceed $51 billion.

From idealism to speculative frenzy to realistic compromise, Crypto has failed to deliver on its initial revolutionary promise, but it has not failed completely. Instead, it has entered a more pragmatic stage.

The Trump Organization’s World Liberty Financial (WLFI) is breaking down the boundaries between private enterprise and government policy in a way unprecedented in modern American history.

The industry is experiencing a dangerous alienation. When users become data points to be optimized rather than souls to be enlightened, unsupported marketing is empty at best and a drain on resources at worst.

An in-depth analysis of the Asian crypto market landscape: Learn about the differences between Asian countries, user behavior, market characteristics, and how to enter the Asian market

Against the backdrop of Trump's vacillating tariff policy and turbulent global trade situation, the cryptocurrency market is experiencing a significant cooling. How will the various sectors of the cryptocurrency industry develop in this market reshuffle?

In general, Trump's tariff war is a trade dispute on the surface, but behind it is a major change in the world pattern. The collapse of the monetary order, the tearing of the political order, and the reshuffle of geopolitics, the golden age of globalization has come to an end. Whether you like it or not, the world has changed.

These projects cover a variety of areas including cryptocurrency price prediction, AI agents, AI smart investment advice, privacy protection, off-chain payments, and SMS encrypted payments.

Circle’s financial report highlights the deep contradictions in its business model. Its over-reliance on interest-sensitive reserve income and other drawbacks may cause it to face the valuation dilemma of “increasing revenue but not profits” while rushing for an IPO.

In the evening, CoinDesk published a report that TUSD suffered a loss of nearly US$500 million due to the misappropriation of its custodian assets by First Digital Trust, the issuer of FDUSD.

The other side of Sun Yuchen's grandstanding and hype: Initially, he wanted to study literature and aspire to become an important writer, but after entering Peking University, he switched to specializing in global history. He said, "Because of this, I see the world as a unified whole."

This discussion highlights the diversity and contradictions of the crypto market: on the one hand, Meme coins and exchange innovations drive industry vitality; on the other hand, speculative bubbles and ecological involution cannot be ignored. As Brother Qie said: "A bull market requires tossing, but the direction of tossing determines the outcome." Whether it is a project party, an exchange or a user, only rational judgment and tolerance of trial and error can get through the fog of the cycle.

Hyperliquid's network unplugging was seen as "over-centralized behavior", and the Polymarket oracle manipulation incident earned it the evaluation of "pseudo-decentralization". As the important issue of "decentralization" has once again sparked heated discussions, as industry participants, how should we view decentralized trading platforms that are not "decentralized" enough?

The 10,000-word report details the sovereign cross-chain token standard "ERC-7281". How does this solution make cross-chain tokens interchangeable again?