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Volatile market conditions often result in higher trading volume and, by extension, higher fees making HYPE more lucrative to fundamental investors.

Shifts in U.S. policy are not only reshaping the airdrop landscape but also setting a precedent for innovation worldwide. In response to this evolving environment, the prominent venture capital firm Dragonfly has published the 2025 Airdrop Status Report, offering data-driven insights into how U.S. regulations are influencing airdrops and the broader crypto economy.

At the Tokenize Summit in New York, Ethena, a leading synthetic dollar protocol, and Securitize, an asset tokenization platform, announced the upcoming launch of Converge, a blockchain network tailored for institutional investors. This initiative is designed to serve as the "settlement layer between traditional finance and digital dollars." It will enable a smooth transition of existing smart contracts and decentralized applications (DApps) thanks to its seamless compatibility with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), with an official launch scheduled for the second quarter of 2025.

This article explores the role of cryptocurrency as evidence in criminal cases, its classification as illegal gains, and how it is treated before and after court rulings. It highlights that while cryptocurrencies are widely acknowledged in legal contexts as having monetary value, there are still numerous legal and practical challenges in their management.

This article analyzes more than 200 programmatic advertising campaigns launched by over 70 advertisers on the Addressable platform in 2024. These campaigns targeted more than 1.5 million users globally, aiming to study the situation of CPW across different market cycles, regions, campaign execution scenarios, and segmented audiences.

This article explores the basic concepts, core technologies, application cases, challenges, and future development trends of DeSci to help readers fully understand the prospects of this emerging field.

This research delves into the current state of hacking attacks and presents a detailed analysis of their multifaceted impact on the crypto market, based on several major cryptocurrency hacking incidents. The analysis examines both direct and indirect effects, including market volatility and changes in investor behavior. The research highlights potential risks that the crypto market faces and explores possible strategies for mitigating these risks in the future.

GambleFi was a narrative that emerged in the second half of 2023, with a simple value proposition—democratizing access to casino games and prediction markets for billions of users worldwide, powered by global crypto liquidity.

Gate Research (March 21–27, 2025) presents a comprehensive analysis of key developments in the cryptocurrency market and broader macroeconomic landscape. On March 21, the U.S. SEC clarified that PoW mining activities do not constitute securities issuance. On March 24, the IMF officially introduced a crypto asset classification system, listing Bitcoin under the capital account. That same day, the Oklahoma House passed a bill proposing the inclusion of Bitcoin in public fund reserves, while Kentucky signed the "Bitcoin Rights Act" to protect the rights to self-custody and node operation. On March 25, Asia Web3 Alliance Japan proposed a U.S.-Japan partnership to advance tokenization and Web3 innovation. Finally, on March 27, Wyoming announced plans to launch the WYST stablecoin in July, marking the first fiat-backed stablecoin to be issued by a U.S. state.

Yet many projects struggle to generate meaningful traction. In a crowded field, verifiable metrics stand out as the clearest signal to attract attention. Asia—particularly India—has emerged as a key region where projects can achieve real scale, not inflated stats.

With ACP’s AI citizens driving a thriving on-chain economy, these clusters aren’t just a pipe dream — the future is sooner than you think.

Stablecoin payments, through blockchain technology, solve pain points of traditional payment methods, such as instant settlement, security and reliability, cost reduction, and global coverage. The article introduces in detail the landscape of the stablecoin payment industry, including the application layer, payment processing layer, asset issuance layer, and settlement layer. It also discusses how to expand the scope of stablecoin applications, especially how to attract non-crypto-native users, and analyzes the potential of a stablecoin-native economy and its impact on the traditional financial system.

Nested exchanges are platforms that offer crypto services to users but are powered by the infrastructures of bigger exchanges. They are very risky to interact with because they lack operational transparency and are loosely regulated.

The Trump family-backed DeFi project WLFI has launched the USD1 stablecoin on BSC. After CZ's retweet, the token first surged then fell. While the project leverages Trump's influence, BSC's popularity, and the stablecoin concept for growth, it faces criticism over operational opacity and profit distribution. Whether it can transcend being a "meme project" to become a legitimate DeFi project remains to be verified.

March 2025 witnessed a surge of significant developments in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors, demonstrating the market's vitality and industry trends. Key projects including Gate.com Wallet, Berachain, Aave, Raydium, and Pump.fun made substantial progress through performance upgrades, on-chain governance improvements, protocol expansions, and new platform launches - highlighting product innovation and community growth while injecting fresh momentum into the industry. Meanwhile, the manipulation attack on Hyperliquid, which triggered forced liquidations, served as a wake-up call for DeFi projects to strengthen their risk management and governance structures.