Blockchain

In 2025, the crypto industry executed 133 mergers and acquisitions with a total value of $8.6 billion. Coinbase, Ripple, Kraken, and Stripe are aggressively expanding their presence across trading, custody, payments, and regulatory licensing in the financial infrastructure sector.

A review of the 12 biggest winners in the crypto industry in 2025: from policy shifts and spot ETFs to stablecoins, RWAs, and prediction markets—analyzing who truly captured the structural trends.

The 2026 World Cup will serve as a system-level stress test for prediction markets. This article examines the core constraints and winner dynamics of prediction markets at scale, focusing on regulation, settlement, distribution, and liquidity.

With the midterm elections approaching, can Congress pass a crypto market structure bill within the narrowing time window? This article analyzes the jurisdictional battle between the SEC and the CFTC, interest-bearing stablecoins, DeFi regulation, and political risks, assessing the legislative outlook heading into 2026.

Trust Wallet browser extension version 2.68 was compromised in a supply chain attack, where hackers inserted a backdoor to steal users' mnemonic phrases, leading to total losses of over $6 million. This article reconstructs the attack timeline, examines the technical details and movement of funds, and explores why official extensions can also present significant security vulnerabilities.

Using the metaphors of a “legitimacy bank” and an “F1 pit crew,” the article clearly illustrates how a16z simultaneously shapes public narratives, influences regulation, and coordinates capital expectations.

Amid escalating geopolitical tensions and the rapid rise of AI, artificial intelligence and blockchain are emerging as complementary forces—twin pillars of a new civilization. Together, they will enable payment systems for billions of intelligent agents, establish the framework for Mars colonization, prevent AI from becoming the exclusive tool of major corporations, and ensure blockchain transcends the role of a simple ledger. In unison, these technologies will shape a new paradigm for civilization in an increasingly polarized world.

Cryptocurrency hacks do more than drain wallets—they create a long-tail crisis: projects face the double blow of capital outflows and brand collapse, shifting the key to survival from preventing attacks to enduring six months of damage control. This reveals the fragile truth of decentralized risk resistance theories when faced with centralized custody nodes.

HealthFi represents a blockchain sector with trillion-dollar real-world potential. It is transforming the nicotine addiction market by moving from a focus on user retention to V2E-based reduction incentives. By integrating with Apple Health, HealthFi is advancing the adoption of preventive healthcare.

Web3 is not short on technical innovation, but it has long lacked compelling narratives and emotional resonance. From the perspective of communication and content creation, this article explains why, without strong storytelling capabilities, Web3 struggles to truly reach a broader user audience.

Render (RENDER) is a decentralized GPU compute network that allows users to submit rendering or AI tasks, which are executed by distributed nodes worldwide and settled via tokens. Its core value lies in reducing compute costs, improving resource efficiency, and building an open marketplace for GPU power.

The author goes beyond simply listing sectors by supplementing the analysis with data on community fundraising scale, the number and size of privacy-project financings, and representative protocols and application cases, clearly highlighting structural shifts such as “from airdrops to community fundraising” and “from single-function products to full financial workflows.”

As crypto assets become further embedded in the mainstream financial system, major Wall Street institutions are steadily increasing their involvement in Bitcoin spot ETFs. Recent market reports reveal that Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin spot ETF is in its final preparation stage and may be officially listed in the near future. If the launch succeeds, it will represent a key milestone—marking one of the first instances of a traditional banking institution directly introducing a Bitcoin ETF. This development also highlights the rising interest of mainstream financial institutions in the digital assets marketplace.

This article analyzes how shielded pool zero-knowledge proofs combine Bitcoin’s monetary policy with cash-level privacy. This approach mitigates risks from the weaponization of CBDCs and the vulnerability of Bitcoin’s 24% centralized supply to seizure. Additionally, it resolves longstanding issues through upgrades including Sapling, Halo 2, Zashi, and NEAR.

In an era where anxiety has become the norm and speculation an outlet, the author draws on personal experience to systematically break down a life strategy of “building a stable foundation first, then making asymmetric bets.” The article examines education, income, risk, and agency, and seeks to answer a practical question: in a world of extreme uncertainty, how can ordinary people avoid being pulled into a gamble—and instead become part of the rules themselves?