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Across, crypto's fastest and cheapest interop solution, is now live on BSC, unlocking crosschain swaps on PancakeSwap. Expanding into the BNB Smart Chain ecosystem, Across now connects over 20 L1s and L2s, including Arbitrum, Hyperliquid and Unichain.
PancakeSwap's integration [6]of Across enables seamless crosschain swaps between BSC, Arbitrum, and Base, available for all PancakeSwap token pairs, including CAKE. The PancakeSwap integration follows integrations with other top DEXes like Uniswap, Kyberswap and Velora.
Tron is set to go public via a reverse merger with Nasdaq-listed SRM Entertainment, creating “Tron Inc.” and seeding it with $210 million of TRX tokens in a treasury model akin to Michael Saylor's Bitcoin holding firm. The deal lifted TRX by nearly 4% and sent SRM shares up about 250% in pre-market trading. Justin Sun, a Trump ally, aims to leverage this listing to capitalize on recent crypto IPO momentum despite Eric Trump publicly denying any formal role.
Trump Media and Technology Group filed an S-1 with the SEC to launch a spot Bitcoin and Ether ETF, allocating 75% to Bitcoin and 25% to Ether, with Crypto.com appointed as custodian and liquidity provider. It follows the company's recent standalone registration for a Bitcoin ETF and mirrors the Trump family's Ethereum-focused holdings at World Liberty Financial. If approved, the fund would join a roster of major crypto ETFs, with Bitcoin alone having amassed over $131 billion in assets under management.
zkPDF is a zero-knowledge toolkit that cryptographically verifies digitally signed PDFs and proves specific facts like a name or balance without revealing the rest of the document. It overcomes PDF complexity by using the SP1 ZKVM for native Rust circuits, a custom lightweight parser for page-by-page text extraction, and optimized signature verification via precompiles. Proofs take under a minute on typical PDFs and require minimal dependencies, making zkPDF immediately applicable to ecosystems like India's DigiLocker, contract platforms (DocuSign), and banking documents.
Marble is a managed cloud platform from the Ponder team that streamlines the hardest part of crypto backends – offchain indexing – by offering zero-downtime deployments, built-in RPC connections, automatic observability, and collaboration tools. Built on the open-source Ponder engine used by Morpho, ENS, and Optimism, Marble lets developers go from local prototype to production in a few clicks without wrestling with re-orgs, backfills, or infrastructure sizing. While indexing is the first focus, Marble's primitives-not-opinionated-solutions approach will soon extend to other offchain workloads.
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The new payment stack streamlines crypto payments by removing intermediaries like CEXs and aggregators. Users onboard with Privy (embedded wallets), complete one-time KYC, and use Bridge for seamless in-app on/off-ramps, while Stripe supplies banking rails, licenses, and merchant access. Compared to the traditional fragmented stack, this model collapses complexity and may become the dominant UX layer for crypto payments at scale.
Several high-profile chains launched in early 2025, but only Unichain and WorldChain show strong signs of sustainable traction. This has largely been driven by DeFi integration and identity-linked network effects, whereas others like Berachain and Ink have struggled post-airdrop due to sharp usage drop-offs. The market is maturing fast: token hype is fading, and only chains solving real user problems or embedding into core crypto infra are surviving.
Markets price tokens not just on utility or promise, but on the gap between story and execution. Celestia, while building real infrastructure, launched with high narrative expectations that are outpacing visible traction, creating “narrative bleed.” In contrast, Hyperliquid's underpromise-overdeliver approach has kept its narrative aligned with progress. Token launches effectively borrow against future execution and if that debt compounds unaddressed, the market punishes the lag.
Crypto markets suffer a hidden fragility: liquidity that appears deep in calm conditions vanishes under stress, much like ETFs and passive funds in TradFi post-2008. Fragmented order books across dozens of exchanges and phantom volumes from spoofing and wash trades mean tokens plunge with severe slippage when sentiment shifts. Embedding cross-chain bridging and smart liquidity routing into base protocol designs could unify pools, reduce fragmentation, and ensure capital flows smoothly. With execution speeds now near 10 ms and automated stablecoin trading dominant, the infrastructure exists, but what's needed is plumbing that treats asset movement as a foundational feature, not an afterthought.
Tron has quietly become a stablecoin behemoth, ranking #2 in both blockchain revenue and on-chain stablecoin supply, second only to Ethereum.
Bybit has officially launched Byreal, a Solana-powered onchain liquidity network featuring RFQ-backed vaults, a token launchpad, and native integration with its centralized liquidity.
Rain's platform extends stablecoin utility beyond storage powering card programs for remittance apps, exchanges, neobanks, and global fintechs.
Hyperliquid has generated over $350 million in trading profits since launch.