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For years, crypto’s mainstream narrative has revolved around speculation, price cycles, and regulatory headaches. But in the shadows of hype and FUD, something real is happening: crypto is quietly solving one of the biggest financial problems in the world – access. Over 1.4 billion people globally don’t have a bank account. Not because they don’t want one, but because they live in places where financial infrastructure is a privilege, not a given. They deal with corrupt institutions, insane remittance fees, unstable currencies, and outright financial censorship. In many emerging markets, the traditional banking system doesn’t just fail people, it actively works against them.
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If you're not using these applications on Base, you could be leaving serious money on the table… Base isn’t just another Layer 2. It has quickly become a go-to blockchain for serious crypto users looking to access all that DeFi has to offer. Whether you're seeking access to off-chain investment opportunities, hunting for premier yield opportunities, or trying to best the market with leverage trading, Base is where the action is happening.
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Stablecoin protocols are nothing new to the crypto industry. However, the methods of pegging these stablecoins to the dollar have evolved over time. Most protocols offer over-collateralized debt positions as a way to issue stablecoins. The newest trend involves creating a delta-neutral position through perpetual futures, where a short futures position is taken, equal in value to the underlying collateral. However, f(x) Protocol recognized the limitations of some of these stablecoin mechanisms and introduced a completely new type of stablecoin that derives its value from yield-bearing assets.
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3️⃣ ZK & FHE Will Protect Us At the summit, Near Foundation's Illia Polosukhin made a strong argument that “whoever controls AI controls everything.” While zk-proofs and Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) are still too slow to work efficiently for AI today, he predicts that by next year, improvements will make these cryptographic methods practical for real-time AI and could unlock these use cases above.
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Despite fierce debate, Ethereum's scalability roadmap still hinges on rollups. While rollups have undoubtedly paved the way for Ethereum’s scaling success, their lack of synchronicity with the main chain creates issues. Rollups must maintain specialized proof mechanisms and rely on security councils or governance votes to stay current with Ethereum’s upgrades, causing lags and disconnect. Further, each rollup’s varied security assumptions and degrees of centralization fragment the ecosystem and slow interoperability. Meanwhile, each new hard fork forces rollup teams to manually update to stay compatible.
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2️⃣ Binance Gets $$$ from Abu Dhabi On Wednesday, Binance announced via Twitter that it had received a $2B investment pledge from MGX, an investment firm based in the UAE that focuses on AI and advanced technologies. According to reports, the investment will be made entirely in stablecoins. While MGX has a background in advanced technologies, this is its first move into the crypto and blockchain sector, according to Binance. MGX stated that it “aims to enable innovation at the intersection of AI, blockchain technology, and finance,” which could signal that Binance is preparing to dive deeper into AI initiatives. With AI agents gaining traction in the crypto space, keep an eye out, Binance may be planning to launch its own soon.
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1️⃣ ETH Price Tumbles Amid Trade War ETH has taken a hit over the past week, with prices sliding amid growing uncertainty around a potential trade war. Former President Trump has flip-flopped on tariff policies, adding to market volatility. Initially, Trump threatened Canada with a 50% tariff hike on steel and aluminum imports but later walked back the statement after Canada halted a planned tax on electricity exports. However, on Wednesday, he did impose a 25% global tariff on steel and aluminum imports. The EU retaliated by announcing $28B worth of tariffs on U.S. goods, including boats, motorcycles, and alcoholic beverages. Trump responded on Thursday, threatening a 200% tariff on wines, champagnes, and other alcoholic products unless the EU removed tariffs on U.S. whiskey. With this back-and-forth, investor uncertainty has driven prices of risk-on assets like crypto downward.
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💰 Trump's World Liberty Financial Finishes $550M Token Sale. Trump's pre-product DeFi play sped through fundraising post-election after a slow start. 👎 Solana Token Emissions SIMD-228 Proposal Fails in Validator Vote. The much-hyped proposal would have drastically reduced SOL token inflation over time. ♻️ Ethereum Devs Prep Another Testnet for Pectra Upgrade. Following a pair of buggy testnet debuts, Pectra is getting one more rollout from Ethereum devs on the new testnet 'Hoodi.'
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Global economies have been flashing with intermittent warning signs of stagnation for months, and official inflation data is still running too hot. Investors are hoping that President Donald Trump’s administration can ignite a new golden era of American economic dominance, but at the moment, even his own administration is sounding the alarm. One top Trump cabinet official recently signaled that the president’s tariff policies – which have received much of the blame for the recent selloff – will be “worth it,” even if they lead to a recession… Markets are hoping for better times ahead, but savvy investors know to get the sails up when rough winds start blowing. Before the storm hits, arm yourself with these seven sizzling onchain strategies to help reduce potential portfolio downside.
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Aave recently announced a new tokenomics overhaul featuring buybacks, and it’s not the only project out there making this move. Since Trump won the election, more crypto projects have introduced tokenomics overhauls, whether via revenue share or buybacks, viewing the regulatory climate as more accommodating for such experimentation. Arbitrum is another prominent name adopting a buyback program, signaling a shift toward implementing TradFi techniques as crypto projects attempt to boost their bottom line and better control their token supply. With these tokenomic overhauls, chatter has erupted on X about whether or not buybacks are the right approach for strengthening digital assets. Opponents dismiss buyback-and-burn as an outdated, finite solution from TradFi, whereas supporters tout it as a direct demonstration of product-market fit and market dominance.
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Earlier this month, I wrote about the Fluidkey privacy app on Base. It lets you obscure wallet connections to outside observers. But what if you want full untraceability rather than just unlinkability? For example, say you want to play Crypto: The Game under an alt account rather than under your real name, but onchain sleuths can study the wallet address you mint your entry pass NFT from. How can you ensure there's no way to connect your transactions from your main wallet to your alt wallet?
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In crypto, new chains are a dime a dozen and tend to follow familiar patterns. Thus, over the past several years we've seen a fair share of copycat chains with little to add to the conversation. Celestia has been different. The chain has taken a unique approach, dialing in its functions as a data layer for rollups, allowing chains to post their data on the Celestia network, similar to how blobs are posted on Ethereum. While this model presents an exciting next step for blockchain technology, the real question is, how has Celestia been performing so far, and what are its plans to compete with other chains like Ethereum?
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2️⃣ SEC Drops More Crypto Cases The SEC continues to back down from enforcement actions against crypto companies. This week, the SEC dropped its case against one of the biggest centralized exchanges, Kraken. Kraken was sued by the SEC back in November of 2023 alleging that they were acting as an unregistered securities exchange. The SEC also dropped cases against Cumberland and Yuga Labs. Cumberland was sued by the SEC only last year alleging that they were operating as an unregistered securities dealer. Yuga Labs has been going at it with the SEC a bit longer, over three years. The SEC opened a probe into Yuga Labs to try and determine if specific NFTs were securities. The total number of cases dropped by the SEC over the past month is now up to 11.
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1️⃣ Trump Establishes Bitcoin Reserve On Thursday, Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve using tokens already held by the government via seizures. The market dumped BTC prices, in part disappointed that the government would not be buying additional bitcoin, but also just selling the news of the signed order. It was a perplexing week for the crypto reserve after Trump dropped some "truths" on his social media platform first mentioning XRP, SOL, and ADA as targets for the crypto reserve. After some confusion and backlash, he later added, “And, obviously, BTC and ETH." The inclusion of so-called "America coins" in the reserve was to the chagrin of many in the crypto space, even including Solana's founder.
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Berachain has quickly become one of the fastest-growing chains in the space, surpassing Base and Arbitrum in total value locked (TVL) according to DefiLlama, and its mainnet has been live for less than a month! This rapid growth signals that users are migrating to Berachain to put their capital to work. But why not maximize your earnings by securing potential airdrop rewards while providing liquidity or lending out your tokens?
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When it comes to crypto’s hottest airdrop opportunities, hunters can find themselves trapped in an endless loop, forced to continually seed wallets with fresh tokens, constantly engage with applications, and patiently wait (sometimes forever) for their favorite farms to bear fruit… For years, regulatory uncertainty prevented many crypto companies from launching their own native tokens; ironically, these circumstances provided ideal growing conditions to cultivate the juiciest airdrops of all time! Under newly inaugurated President Donald Trump, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has pumped the brakes on many of its high-profile crypto enforcement actions. While the staff decisions made in many of the cases are not yet final, they collectively signal that U.S. financial regulators are working to provide a ruleset for digital asset issuance.
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When it comes to crypto’s hottest airdrop opportunities, hunters can find themselves trapped in an endless loop, forced to continually seed wallets with fresh tokens, constantly engage with applications, and patiently wait (sometimes forever) for their favorite farms to bear fruit… For years, regulatory uncertainty prevented many crypto companies from launching their own native tokens; ironically, these circumstances provided ideal growing conditions to cultivate the juiciest airdrops of all time! Under newly inaugurated President Donald Trump, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has pumped the brakes on many of its high-profile crypto enforcement actions. While the staff decisions made in many of the cases are not yet final, they collectively signal that U.S. financial regulators are working to provide a ruleset for digital asset issuance.
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3️⃣ Bank of America CEO Excited for Stables Bank of America CEO, Brian Moynihan, spoke at an Economic Club meeting in Washington, D.C., where he was asked about the outlook for stablecoins if comprehensive legislation is passed. He responded, "If they make that legal, we will go into the business," suggesting that Bank of America may already be preparing to enter the stablecoin market. He also hinted at the possibility of the bank offering dollar-backed tokens linked to customers' accounts.
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Fluidkey is a privacy app on Base. It centers around stealth addresses powered by private ENS domains and Safe smart accounts, with support for social logins (via Privy), multichain swaps (via SOCKET), and bank transfers (via Bridge). The support for moving money onchain and offchain through Bridge is new, so let's recap the basics of Fluidkey and then get you up to speed on how to add this useful crypto ramp to your toolbox.
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Sonic (an evolution of Fantom) is an L2 EVM blockchain focused on DeFi. Its main appeals for builders and participants are its fee structure and speed. It’s become a very popular chain for DeFi enthusiasts, ranking 13th in TVL currently at $710 million and growing. Its native token, S, is used as gas to pay for transaction fees to interact with its many apps. Sonic is distributing 190,500,000 S tokens as part of an airdrop campaign to reward participants in the network. The first season of the airdrop will conclude around June 2025, with 25% of the allocation immediately available and 75% vested over 270 days (as NFTs, and therefore, these positions will be transferable).
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