Blockchain

Crypto Shockwaves: Bitcoin’s Red September, Trump’s Token Turmoil & Stripe’s Blockchain Bombshell – Roundup Sep 4–5, 2025

Key Facts Cryptocurrency Market Movements: Bitcoin’s Big Test and Altcoin Plays After riding high through the summer, Bitcoin entered September on shaky ground. Historically, September has been a notoriously weak month for BTC, and 2025 appears to be no exception. Bitcoin opened this week around $110K – its lowest in nearly two months – triggering déjà vu for traders aware that BTC has fallen in 9 of the past 14 Septembers (with average ~12% drawdowns) coindesk.com. “Bitcoin’s slide into September comes with an uncomfortable reminder that history is not on [the bulls’] side,” CoinDesk noted, as total crypto market cap

5 September 2025

Blockchain Boom: 11 Shocking Crypto Developments (Sept 3–4, 2025)

Key Facts Market and DeFi Trends Early September saw unexpected resilience in crypto markets. Bitcoin held steady just under its recent highs (≈$110K–$112K), and Ethereum briefly broke above $4,400 before retracing xt.com. Despite September’s reputation for sluggish performance, the market had pockets of strength. Analytics showed DeFi tokens up ~2.7% on average and even meme coins +2.4% xt.com. Niche altcoins outperformed: for example, MemeCore spiked +35%, and exchange platform tokens like OKX’s OKB jumped 8.5% xt.com. Traders noted this rotation into higher-risk tokens as a sign that investor sentiment, while cautious, is “turning opportunistic at the margins” – capital is

4 September 2025

Blockchain · Crypto News · Cryptocurrency · Digital Assets · Fintech · NASDAQ:GLXY · NYSE:JPM · NYSE:TM

Crypto’s 48-Hour Blitz: Bitcoin Blazes Past $113K, Trump’s Blockchain Gambits, and DeFi Surges (Aug 27–28, 2025)

Key Facts Market Overview: Bitcoin, Ether and Altcoins Rally (With Caution) Bitcoin (BTC) saw choppy trading on August 27, 2025, dipping under $110,000 before recovering above $111,000 by day’s end, as shown in the intraday price chart above nasdaq.com. After a volatile start to the week, Bitcoin (BTC) regained ground to trade around $112K–$113K by August 28. The rebound came after BTC briefly plunged to the mid-$108K range on Tuesday amid a broad risk-off move coindesk.com. Analysts tied the bounce to external market strength – the S&P 500 notched a fresh peak and chipmaker Nvidia’s earnings beat expectations, reinforcing the

28 August 2025

Bitcoin · Blockchain · Cryptocurrency · DeFi · Finance

Bitcoin Whiplash, Trump’s Crypto Gambit & NFT Revival – All the Blockchain Bombshells (Aug 26–27, 2025)

Major Developments in DeFi, NFT & Gaming DeFi momentum builds: The decentralized finance sector saw moderate growth during August’s last week, buoyed by climbing crypto prices. Total value locked in DeFi protocols rose about 3.3% to roughly $149.2 billion ts2.tech. Liquid staking leader Lido Finance led the pack with over $38.1B in assets staked ts2.tech, reflecting continued appetite for staking yields as Ethereum’s Shanghai upgrade (enabling withdrawals) has bedded in. Lending and DEX platforms also benefited from renewed capital inflows. On-chain activity ticked up across multiple chains – a sign that traders are putting idle crypto to work amid the

27 August 2025

Bitcoin · Blockchain · Cryptocurrency · Financial News · NFTs

Bitcoin Flash Crash, Ethereum’s New High & Web3 Breakouts – Blockchain News Roundup (Aug 25–26, 2025)

Over the weekend, an anonymous whale dumped 24,000 BTC worth over $2.7 billion, triggering a flash crash that sent BTC briefly below $111,000 before hovering around $112–113K by Monday morning. Ethereum briefly crossed $4,900 to set a fresh all-time high before easing to the mid-$4,700s, with ETH up about 9% on the week amid BTC-to-ETH rotation. DeFi total value locked rose about 3.3% to roughly $149.2 billion, led by Lido Finance with $38.1 billion in assets. Solana’s mainnet stress test on August 17 pushed throughput to 107,540 TPS using noop transactions, while typical real-world throughput runs about 3,000–3,500 TPS and

26 August 2025

Bitcoin · Blockchain · Cryptocurrency · Ethereum · NYSE:BULL · Web3

Bitcoin Blazes Toward New Highs as Regulators Embrace Crypto – Weekend Blockchain Roundup (Aug 24–25, 2025)

Bitcoin traded around $115,000–$117,000 over Aug. 24–25, 2025, roughly four times its level a year earlier and well above its 2021 all-time high of $69,000. Ethereum neared $4,800 and briefly hit about $4,870 on Aug. 24, 2025, approaching its record and signaling strong institutional demand. Aave deployed its v3 on the Aptos blockchain on Aug. 21, 2025, marking its first expansion beyond Ethereum, with the AAVE token rising about 19% to around $355. The U.S. Senate passed the GENIUS Act 68–30 in June 2025 to set federal standards for stablecoins, and the CLARITY Act advanced over Aug. 24–25 to unify

25 August 2025

Bitcoin · Blockchain · Cryptocurrency · Finance · Regulation

Bitcoin Blasts Past $120K as Wall Street Embraces Crypto – July 2025’s Must-Read Blockchain Roundup

Bitcoin breached $120,000 in July 2025 and traded around $123,000 by month’s end. The total crypto market capitalization surpassed $4 trillion for the first time in July 2025. MicroStrategy purchased 4,225 BTC for about $472.5 million in mid-July 2025, bringing its holdings to 601,550 BTC. Grayscale’s Digital Large Cap Fund was approved to convert into a spot ETF with roughly $755 million in assets, becoming the world’s largest diversified crypto ETF. The Genius Act was signed on July 18, 2025, establishing a federal stablecoin framework with 1:1 reserves, monthly audits, and AML requirements. Coinbase secured a MiCA license from Luxembourg

23 July 2025

Bitcoin · Blockchain · Cryptocurrency · Finance · Wall Street

Web3 and DApp Platforms: June–July 2025 News Report

Executive Summary Platform Updates Ethereum Following the May 2025 Pectra upgrade, Ethereum’s PoS chain showed robust health. Staking surged to new heights: over 35 million ETH (28.3% of supply) was locked as of mid-June cointelegraph.com, driven in part by renewed confidence after the upgrade. Analysts noted ~500K ETH was staked in the first half of June alone cointelegraph.com. Liquid staking protocols lead – Lido holds ~25% of staked ETH, Binance ~7.5%, Coinbase ~7.4% cointelegraph.com. The network’s roadmap continues with Layer-2 scaling and new improvements, though no major on-chain governance events occurred in June–July. Markets remained bullish: CoinDesk reports DOT’s (Polkadot)

9 July 2025

Blockchain · DApp · News · Platforms · Web3

June–July 2025 Blockchain & DLT Developments: Major News, Trends, Regulation, and Adoption

Circle Internet Financial’s NYSE IPO on June 5 priced at $31 per share, opened at $69, surged about 800% to over $270 within two weeks, pushing Circle’s market cap above $60 billion and the deal was oversubscribed roughly 25×. Coinbase and Kraken secured MiCA licenses to operate across all 27 EU member states (Luxembourg for Coinbase, Ireland for Kraken), and Kraken launched the Krak mobile app enabling transfers across 110 countries in 300+ assets. Mastercard announced partnerships to integrate stablecoins—USDC, Paxos USDP, PayPal PYUSD, and FIUSD—across its payments network, while Fiserv launched FIUSD for institutional use and partnered with PayPal

8 July 2025

Adoption · Blockchain · DLT · Industry Trends · Regulation

Blockchain’s Global Social Impact Revolution: From Banking the Unbanked to Fighting Corruption

1.7 billion adults lack access to formal banking, about 31% of all adults, and 55% of the unbanked are women. BitPesa, a crypto-powered remittance firm in sub-Saharan Africa, has cut transfer fees by up to 90% compared with traditional methods. In Kenya, the Red Cross and Grassroots Economics launched a blockchain-backed community currency, enabling 25 women with feature phones to create a credit and savings pool, with expansion planned to 320,000 users across Africa. In Haiti, a 2020 World Bank-backed blockchain pilot allowed 1,342 small producers to export directly, lifting mango revenues by 262% and cocoa by 348%. Sierra Leone

7 July 2025

Anti-Corruption · Blockchain · Financial Inclusion · Global Change · Social Impact

Blockchain Revolution: How the ‘Trust Machine’ Is Transforming Business by 2025

Blockchain is a distributed, append-only ledger where each transaction is grouped into a block cryptographically linked to the previous one, making the system tamper-resistant. Smart contracts on platforms like Ethereum are self-executing code that enforces agreements when conditions are met, operating with no downtime, censorship, or fraud. Walmart and IBM demonstrated a blockchain-based food-traceability system in which tracing a batch of mangoes took 6 days 18 hours with traditional methods but 2.2 seconds on the blockchain. In 2023, JPMorgan, HSBC, and BlackRock announced deepened involvement in blockchain projects, signaling major financial institutions’ adoption. Forecasts suggest that by 2027 as much

7 July 2025

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Blockchain Technology Comprehensive Report 2025: Background, Evolution, Trends & Future Outlook (26th of June 2025).

In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper, and in January 2009 Bitcoin’s genesis block was mined. The 2016 DAO hack on Ethereum triggered a hard fork. Vitalik Buterin proposed Ethereum in 2013, and the Ethereum Frontier network went live in July 2015, introducing smart contracts. By 2019, Walmart deployed a food traceability system using IBM Food Trust built on Hyperledger Fabric. Amazon launched Amazon Managed Blockchain on AWS in 2019. Ethereum’s Merge in 2022 switched from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake, reducing energy use by about 99.95%. Christie’s sold a digital NFT artwork for $69 million in 2021, highlighting mainstream NFT

28 June 2025

Blockchain · Evolution · Future Outlook · NASDAQ:AMZN · NYSE:IBM · NYSE:WMT · Technology · Trends

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