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Solana and Ethereum have competed for dominance throughout Q4 2024. Ethereum secured over $850 million in institutional capital inflow to ETFs, while Solana attracted over $300 million in cross-chain inflows within the past week.  Market experts and reports suggest Solana is poised to beat Ethereum and replace ETH as the largest altcoin in crypto. 2025 is therefore a pivotal year for Ether and Solana, the latter’s competitive edge lies in DEX metrics and its growth potential alongside rising capital inflows.  Solana’s win could bring changes to portfolios and Ethereum beta plays could suffer a correction in the event SOL dethrones…

CyberKongz, one of the pioneering PFP NFT collections with deep ties to blockchain gaming, has publicly revealed it received a Wells Notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).The notice signals the SEC’s intent to recommend legal action against CyberKongz, alleging that the project may have violated securities laws. Specifically, the regulator’s concerns focus on the integration of an ERC-20 token within the CyberKongz ecosystem and a technical event involving Genesis Kongz NFTs in 2021.CyberKongz has criticized the SEC’s approach, claiming it reflects a misunderstanding of blockchain technology and creates uncertainty for other blockchain-based gaming projects. Source: CyberKongzWhat was…

This one’s for the NFT degens: We’re very excited to announce our newest partnership with OpenSea! OpenSea is currently the largest marketplace for NFTs (non-fungible tokens), with over 1 million active users and 80+ million different NFTs available for trading. If your first foray into web3 was with OpenSea—you’re not alone. We’ve seen the way that NFTs can aid in our mission to empower and engage web3 communities. That’s why we’re working with projects like Astro Girls Society, and why we airdropped commemorative NFTs to users who participated in our latest product launch. Now, we’re collaborating with OpenSea and Dune…

Bloomberg exchange-traded fund (ETF) analyst Eric Balchunas says that 2025 will likely see many new digital asset ETFs be approved. In a post on the social media platform X, Balchunas says that he’s anticipating a “wave” of new crypto ETFs next year, potentially in a particular order. Says Balchunas “We expect a wave of cryptocurrency ETFs next year, albeit not all at once. First out is likely the BTC + ETH combo ETFs, then prob Litecoin (bc its fork of btc = commodity), then HBAR (bc not labeled security) and then XRP/Solana (which have been labeled securities in pending lawsuits).”…

Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. As Ethereum slows, emerging tokens like XYZVerse, the first all-sport memecoin, promise exponential returns in a bullish market. As leading cryptocurrencies like Ethereum and Solana show signs of slowing down, investor attention is shifting to emerging tokens with significant growth potential. Amid a bullish market where Bitcoin has hit remarkable milestones and altcoins are flourishing, a low-priced gem is promising exponential returns by year’s end, captivating those seeking the next big opportunity.  One such promising contender is XYZVerse (XYZ),…

While celebrities can raise a project’s profile, their involvement does not make the project legitimate. In fact, celebrity-backed projects fared terribly in previous cryptocurrency cycles. Still, inexperienced investors have continued to believe in these projects despite repeated failures.Even without a practical use case, platforms like Pump.fun make it easy to introduce memecoins. That has led to a slew of highly publicized failures and alleged scams. Here are five notable examples of when tokens backed by celebrities went awry.1. Haliey Welch’s Hawk Tuah TokenHaliey Welch became famous for a viral comment during an interview. Riding her newfound fame, she launched a…

Things are looking up for Ethereum. Now that The Merge is complete, a huge weight (measured in tonnes of CO2) has been lifted from the Ethereum community’s collective conscience. And the world-at-large is watching to see what this community does next. Right now the ecosystem has a unique opportunity to show the skeptics what Ethereum can do — how a foundational layer of trust on the open internet can be used to tackle the big coordination problems that we have yet to solve. The road to Serenity is long, and Ethereum’s impact is still small on the scale of human…

TON-based decentralized stablecoin protocols, Aqua Protocol and Delea, saw their total value locked (TVL) soar to record levels. Both projects borrow from MakerDAO’s model and represent collateral debt position (CDP) projects that issue their own stablecoins to be used in decentralized finance (DeFi). DefiLlama data shows that Aqua’s TVL has nearly doubled in December to a record $4.1 million. Elsewhere, Delea, which launched a month ago, saw its TVL surge to $5.4 million. It gained over 100% on Tuesday alone. Aqua is a decentralized platform that aims to become a liquidity hub on the TON blockchain. It enables users to…

Namada, the layer-1 blockchain platform and shielded asset hub, has announced that community member Ether Gavin has outlined a proposal to reward Coin Center donors with the native token NAM. In an announcement on December 17, Namada revealed that Gavin’s governance proposal aims to initiate a public goods funding campaign, which would airdrop NAM tokens to donors of the blockchain advocacy group Coin Center. The initiative is set to coincide with the holiday season. If the Namada community supports the proposal, the L1 blockchain will airdrop between 1 and 2 million NAM tokens to Coin Center. This allocation would represent…

We’re excited to feature our newest contest winners for The Graph! The Graph is a decentralized protocol for indexing and querying data from blockchains. It allows anyone to build and publish open APIs called subgraphs, making data more easily accessible. Instead of developing and operating proprietary indexing servers, developers and companies can build server-less applications that run entirely on public infrastructure with The Graph. We partnered with The Graph to help promote Graph Day 2022, a full-day event at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco with some of web3’s most impactful developers, investors, and core protocol specialists. With…