As for the markets, Crypto was flat this week. Bitcoin was up ($ 83,000 to $ 84,000). And Coindesk 20, which tracks around 80% of the market, remained at approximately 2,600. Cryptography prices suffered increasingly correlated with the largest financial markets, which are reduced to tariff concerns and reduced corporate profits. Some even said that Bitcoin’s upward market was over.
But markets, of course, only are part of cryptographic history. There were a lot of things and many of them were positive for the future of the industry.
In the regulatory front, Washington’s agencies are preparing for a historical bill of “market structure” in Congress, said Jesse Hamilton. Paul Atkins, someone who knows Crypto intimately, is about to confirm confirmation as president of the SEC, just like the West Jonathan Gould. The Congress continues with the audiences on a draft Stablecoin, since Tether continues to show its systemic importance (Kris Sandor reported). The EU officials care about the Hegemony of USD of Stablecoins, and are preparing plans for a digital euro or CBDC (Jamie Crawley).
Eric Trump joined Metaplanet, Japan’s response to Microstrategy from Michael Saylor, while the Trump family continues to bet in private and publicly for Crypto’s success.
Our reporters made some deep divisions in protocol projects. Oliver Knight lifted the lid in the increase in cardan prices after the (species) of Ada inclusion in an alleged National encryption reserve. Interestingly, that project does not measure success in the total blocked value (TVL), a universal metric, which prefers real world use cases.
Danny Nelson looked at Fun.fun aspirations to dominate Defi’s trade in Solana Defi (after his domination of the emission of Memecoin de Solana).
Meanwhile, Bitcoin miners feel the pinch of the lower hashratos and the decrease in transaction rates, which has erased the profits subsequent to the choice, Tom Carreras reported.
Jamie Crawley explored the efforts of Bitcoin developers to introduce zero knowledge tests to that block chain. (TLDR: It is difficult to make soft tariff blockchains with decentralization as good as Bitcoin’s).
Our Asia team continued to kill him, particularly in market coverage. The technical analysis of the residents Wiz, Omkar Godbole, correctly informed about the Fed ending QT, as well as to highlight how the Flash accident of the Turkish lyre led to an increase in the volume of Bitcoin in that country.
Shaurya Malwa continued his strong reports on XRP, writing about the comments of Ripple Boss Brad Garlinghouse about XRP’s possibilities to be added to the strategic reserve and about Ripple’s OPI plans. Malwa also reported about Raydium’s plan to start a bomb.
Sam Reynolds, based in Hong Kong, covered North Dakota that approved a ATM crypto bill and reported how the man who stabbed Haru Invest CEO could face more than a decade in prison.
And finally, the rapid coverage of Kraken Parikshit Mishra buying Ninjatrader for $ 1.5 billion exceeded most of the competition.
It was one of those weeks when many things happened under the hood. Prices can be on a plateau. But the industry continued to advance on many fronts.
