Key Facts

• Market Whiplash: Crypto markets reversed early gains and tumbled on Sep. 5 after weak U.S. jobs data initially sparked optimism of Fed rate cuts. Ether (ETH) shed nearly 4% in minutes to ~$4,280, while Bitcoin (BTC) slid ~2.5% to ~$110,500 coindesk.com. Traders, who had priced in a 0.25% Fed rate cut, briefly raised bets on a 0.50% cut amid the volatility coindesk.com coindesk.com.
• DeFi Heist Thwarted: In a DeFi first, Venus Protocol recovered $13.5 million stolen by North Korea’s Lazarus hackers via an emergency governance vote ainvest.com. The attacker’s wallet was frozen and liquidated within 12 hours, marking the first major on-chain hack fund recovery and sparking debates on decentralization vs. security ainvest.com ainvest.com.
• NFT Market Rebound: NFT trading volumes hit a 2025 high, rising 9% in August to $578M even as total sales dipped 4% coincentral.com coincentral.com. Collectors spent more per NFT, Ethereum maintained ~61% of market share, and Coinbase’s Base L2 suddenly became the #3 NFT chain by volume (thanks to low fees and airdrops) coincentral.com coincentral.com. Physical adoption grew too – Ibiza’s Hï Club opened a permanent NFT art gallery featuring Beeple – underscoring NFTs’ mainstream crossover.
• Trump’s $105M Crypto Play: Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s media company (TMTG) partnered with Crypto.com to acquire 684.4 million Cronos (CRO) tokens (~$105M at $0.153 each) cointelegraph.com. The joint venture aims to build a $6.4 billion “crypto treasury” for Trump’s Truth Social, integrating CRO for user rewards cointelegraph.com. News of the deal sent CRO’s price surging over 65% since late August cointelegraph.com, deepening ties between Trump’s camp and crypto amid scrutiny over potential conflicts cointelegraph.com.
• Stripe & Paradigm Launch “Tempo”: Payments giant Stripe and crypto VC Paradigm unveiled a new Layer-1 blockchain, Tempo, optimized for stablecoins and high-speed payments pymnts.com. Incubated jointly and led by Paradigm’s Matt Huang, Tempo promises 100,000+ TPS and sub-second finality on an EVM-compatible chain unchainedcrypto.com unchainedcrypto.com. Stripe CEO Patrick Collison said existing blockchains “are not optimized for stablecoins and high-throughput, low-latency payments,” so Stripe helped build Tempo as a “payments-oriented L1” for real-world use cases pymnts.com pymnts.com.
• Regulatory Momentum: The U.S. Senate Banking Committee circulated a sweeping crypto market structure bill draft on Sep. 5 that exempts blockchain validators from AML requirements and clarifies NFTs “are not securities.” ainvest.com ainvest.com The 182-page proposal, dubbed the Responsible Financial Innovation Act, includes strong legal protections for crypto developers and directs the SEC and CFTC to jointly regulate digital commodities, aligning with industry calls for clarity ainvest.com ainvest.com. “The new draft has the best developer protections language we have seen to date… worth celebrating immediately,” noted DeFi attorney Amanda Tuminelli coindesk.com. The bill’s innovation-friendly tone – paired with joint SEC–CFTC statements supporting U.S. crypto leadership – signals a shifting regulatory climate ainvest.com.
• Network Health & Upgrades: Ethereum staking demand roared back, flipping the network’s queues positive. Over 932,000 ETH (~$4B) is queued to stake vs. 791,000 ETH to exit, reversing last month’s surge of withdrawals coindesk.com coindesk.com. An early Ethereum ICO whale even staked 150,000 ETH ($645M) after 8 years dormant, bolstering confidence in long-term ETH yields coindesk.com. “While the unstaking queue is at ATH, so are ETF inflows,” one analyst noted, as fresh institutional demand helped absorb would-be sell pressure coindesk.com. Meanwhile, Solana’s community approved a landmark “Alpenglow” upgrade with 98% support, aiming to slash transaction finality from ~12 seconds to 0.15 seconds by overhauling Solana’s consensus (replacing Proof-of-History and TowerBFT with new engines “Votor” and “Rotor”) coindesk.com coindesk.com – a major scalability leap for the fast-growing chain.

Market Whiplash Amid Fed Hopes and Fears

Cryptocurrency prices saw sudden whiplash on Friday (Sep. 5) as macroeconomic news rattled traders. Early in the day, markets rallied on a soft U.S. jobs report – only 22,000 jobs added in August – which cemented bets that the Federal Reserve would finally cut interest rates coindesk.com. But euphoria was short-lived. Following the U.S. stock market open, crypto reversed course violently, led by a sharp plunge in Ethereum. Ether (ETH) collapsed nearly 4% within minutes, falling below a key bull-trend support coindesk.com. Bitcoin proved slightly more resilient, dipping about 2.5% to ~$110K – still “slightly higher over the past day” despite the intraday drop coindesk.com. Solana and XRP similarly fell ~3–4%.

Traders quickly recalibrated their outlook on Fed policy. Having already priced in a 0.25% rate cut for the upcoming Fed meeting, futures began assigning a 14% probability of a larger 0.50% cut coindesk.com coindesk.com. Lower interest rates tend to boost risk assets, but the intra-day reversal showed markets remain highly sensitive to broader sentiment shifts. U.S. equities gave up early gains (Nasdaq –0.6%, S&P –0.7%), suggesting crypto’s slide was part of a wider risk-off turn coindesk.com. Gold, by contrast, touched a record $3,654/oz before settling up 0.9% as investors sought safety coindesk.com.

“There’s barely been any job growth in the past 4 months… The Federal Reserve has to cut in September. And maybe October now,” observed economist Heather Long on X, encapsulating the rate-cut optimism that briefly buoyed markets coindesk.com. But as the day wore on, concerns about lingering economic uncertainty and profit-taking took over. By afternoon, crypto’s initial rally flipped into a rout, catching traders off guard. Still, on a multi-day view, Bitcoin’s new perch above $100K has held; one analyst noted a six-figure price now makes BTC “feel less like a high-beta trade and more like a global reserve asset in the making.” coindesk.com

Altcoin highlights: Amid the turbulence, several altcoins saw outsized swings. Stellar (XLM) spiked ~5% on upbeat network news before a “dramatic final-hour collapse” erased those gains coindesk.com. Cronos (CRO), the Crypto.com token, quietly continued a week-long climb – fueled by the Trump partnership news – and is now up over 65% in two weeks cointelegraph.com. And as always, crypto Twitter churned with speculation (and memes) about a looming “Red September” downturn decrypt.co, though thus far major assets are only modestly off recent highs.

DeFi Drama: Hack Recovery Makes History

Decentralized finance experienced a rare feel-good ending to an exploit saga this week. Venus Protocol, a Binance Smart Chain lending platform, successfully recovered $13.5 million that had been stolen by the infamous Lazarus Group hackers】 ainvest.com. The twist? The funds were retrieved via community governance within 12 hours, marking the first time a major DeFi hack’s loot was clawed back in full.

The incident began on Sept. 2 when a high-value Venus user was compromised by a phishing attack. The North Korea–linked Lazarus Group tricked the victim (later identified as Kuan Sun) into installing a tainted Zoom software client, which let the attackers take control of his account keys ainvest.com. They swiftly drained liquidity by borrowing against the user’s collateral, making off with millions in stablecoins, BTC, and other tokens. Venus’s monitoring partners (including security firms Hexagate and Hypernative) raised the alarm within minutes, and the protocol hit the emergency brake, pausing operations to halt further losses ainvest.com.

What came next was groundbreaking. Venus’s community and team rallied to mount a response. Developers confirmed the platform itself wasn’t breached – this was a user-side compromise – and proposed an emergency governance vote. In an expedited on-chain vote, Venus token holders approved forcibly liquidating the attacker’s positions and freezing the stolen assets ainvest.com. This enabled Venus to seize back the loot, which was then transferred to a secure recovery wallet. Within half a day of the hack, the stolen crypto was largely back under Venus’s control, an unprecedented turnaround for DeFi.

The quick thinking prevented broader contagion. Venus’s XVS governance token, which initially plunged ~10% on news of the attack, rebounded after the recovery announcement ainvest.com. The episode showcased the potential – and contentious trade-offs – of decentralized governance in emergencies. Proponents argue the 12-hour resolution proves community-run platforms can act decisively to mitigate losses, even outperforming traditional CeFi systems that might take weeks to unwind a breach ainvest.com. Critics counter that such interventions edge into centralized territory and blur the “code is law” ethos.

Either way, the industry took note. Security experts lauded the coordination between Venus and firms like PeckShield, Binance, and SlowMist in tracing and freezing funds ainvest.com. Kuan Sun, the relieved victim, publicly thanked the teams and called the effort “a battle we actually won,” highlighting the collective effort to outsmart elite hackers ainvest.com. Going forward, DeFi projects may consider Venus’s approach as a playbook: emergency pauses, white-hat alliances, and ad hoc governance powers to respond to crises. As one observer put it, DeFi’s decentralization may need flexibility in extreme cases – a debate sure to continue as the sector matures.

NFT Uptick Signals Renewed Interest

After a prolonged cool-down, the NFT market is flashing signs of life heading into the fall. August and early September data show a healthy uptick in NFT trading activity, suggesting collectors and builders are re-engaging with digital assets.

According to DappRadar, NFT trading volumes in August climbed ~9% from July, reaching about $578 million coincentral.com. Notably, this came even as the number of individual NFT sales dipped by ~4% (5.2 million sales in August vs 5.5M in July) coincentral.com. In other words, fewer NFTs changed hands, but at higher prices on average – a sign that collector conviction and value-per-trade are rising coincentral.com. This pattern pushed the last two months’ volume to the strongest since February 2025, marking a potential end to the NFT slump coincentral.com.

Several factors underpin the rebound. Rising mainstream adoption is a tailwind: DappRadar’s Sara Gherghelas highlighted novel projects bridging physical and digital art coincentral.com. For example, in Ibiza, the popular Hï nightclub just opened a permanent gallery displaying NFTs from artists like Beeple and Mad Dog Jones, bringing crypto-art to club-goers in real life coincentral.com. Meanwhile, celebrity and brand engagements continue – over the summer, Snoop Dogg sold out an NFT music collection in 30 minutes via Telegram (yes, the messaging app) coincentral.com, and major brands from fashion to sports have rolled out new Web3 collectibles. These high-profile events remind the public that NFTs can offer unique fan experiences and utility.

Technical developments are also boosting NFT ecosystems. Coinbase’s new Base layer-2 network has quickly become the third-largest chain for NFT trading volume, trailing only Ethereum and Solana coincentral.com coincentral.com. Base’s low fees and an airdrop-fueled summer “onchain summer” campaign drew NFT projects and traders onto the platform. Ethereum, for its part, still dominates ~61% of the NFT market by value coincentral.com – and it isn’t sitting still. In August, Ethereum developers introduced “trustless AI agents” that let NFTs interact with AI and dApps, hinting at future NFT use cases in identity and reputation coincentral.com.

The net effect is cautious optimism in the NFT sector. Prices of top collections have stabilized, and blue-chip NFTs are moving again – this week a rare Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT sold for over $1 million in ETH, a level not frequently seen in 2024. Trading hub OpenSea noted that collectors are paying more attention to rarity and provenance, favoring quality over quantity. If the broader crypto market remains constructive, analysts say NFTs could be poised for a mini-rally into year-end, especially with major events like Art Basel on the horizon (where NFT art and fashion collabs are expected to feature prominently).

Big Players Bet on Web3: Partnerships & Projects

This week saw striking moves by traditional tech and media giants into the blockchain space, underscoring that Web3 integration is marching forward at the highest corporate levels.

Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) – the company behind Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform – announced a sweeping partnership with crypto exchange Crypto.com that immediately sent shockwaves through both political and crypto circles. On Sept. 5, TMTG closed a deal to purchase 684.4 million Crypto.com CRO tokens (worth roughly $105 million) as part of a joint venture to create a crypto “treasury” for the social network cointelegraph.com cointelegraph.com. Under the agreement, Crypto.com is providing half the CRO in exchange for TMTG equity, effectively making the exchange a stakeholder in Trump’s media outfit cointelegraph.com. The ultimate plan? Build a war chest of up to $6.4 billion in CRO that can be used to power Truth Social’s economy – for example, rewarding users with CRO tokens for engagement, enabling in-app purchases or tipping, and potentially facilitating NFTs or tokenized content on the platform cointelegraph.com cointelegraph.com.

The move is ambitious and not without controversy. It represents one of the largest forays of a major political figure’s business into cryptocurrency. Some lawmakers have already raised eyebrows, given Trump’s current presidential campaign and the potential conflicts of intertwining a social media base, a crypto treasury, and policy influence cointelegraph.com. Nonetheless, Crypto.com’s CEO Kris Marszalek has been actively engaging with U.S. regulators – he even attended a White House summit in March to discuss digital asset policy cointelegraph.com. For Crypto.com, the partnership is a branding coup (imagine Truth Social integrated with Crypto.com services), and for TMTG it provides a hefty crypto stash that could appreciate if the market rises. Indeed, CRO’s price jumped from ~$0.16 to $0.27 in the weeks around the announcement – a 66% surge – boosting the value of TMTG’s new treasury considerably cointelegraph.com. This alliance signals how politics, social media, and crypto finance are increasingly entwined.

Meanwhile in Silicon Valley, Stripe – one of the world’s largest fintechs – is diving headlong into Web3. In a surprise reveal, Stripe and famed crypto VC firm Paradigm introduced a new Layer-1 blockchain called “Tempo.” Billed as a “payments-first blockchain” optimized for stablecoins and real-world payments pymnts.com, Tempo aims to solve the throughput and usability issues that have hindered crypto as a payments rail. The project is led by Matt Huang, Paradigm’s co-founder, and was incubated jointly with Stripe over the past year pymnts.com. Tempo is currently in a private testnet with select partners (rumored to include Stripe itself, Visa, and even OpenAI as contributors) unchainedcrypto.com. It boasts some eye-popping specs: 100,000 transactions per second and sub-second finality, far beyond Ethereum’s ~20 TPS or even Solana’s ~1,000 TPS in practice pymnts.com.

Stripe’s involvement is particularly notable. CEO Patrick Collison said Stripe backed Tempo after concluding that “existing blockchains are not optimized for stablecoins and high-throughput, low-latency payments.” For instance, he noted, it’s important for users that fees be denominated in fiat (so they’re predictable), but most chains charge gas in volatile tokens pymnts.com. Also, Stripe processes >10k TPS at peak – far above current chains pymnts.com. “As such, we decided to incubate Tempo… a payments-oriented L1 optimized for high-scale, real-world financial services,” Collison wrote on X pymnts.com. Tempo’s ethos is to be enterprise-friendly (permissionless eventually, but with stablecoin-specific features). If it succeeds, it could provide the backbone for global companies to settle transactions on-chain without the bottlenecks and volatility of older blockchains. Observers say this could also pressure existing L1s to improve user experience or risk ceding ground to a Silicon Valley-backed chain.

Other notable partnership news included a Web3 gaming crossover: Bybit exchange partnered with game studio Lowkick to launch “WorldShards”, an online game economy where players earn tokenized rewards (the $SHARDS token TGE went live Sep. 5) morningstar.com. And in fintech, SoFi (the U.S. neobank) confirmed it will integrate Bitcoin’s Lightning Network for global remittances by year-end, working with Lightspark to enable instant USD-to-local-currency transfers via BTC channels coindesk.com coindesk.com. From social media and banking to gaming, legacy and crypto firms are joining forces – often with the goal of leveraging blockchain tech for speed, user engagement, or new markets.

Crypto Policy: From Crackdown to Clarity

In the regulatory arena, September kicked off with significant moves to clarify crypto’s legal status – particularly in the United States. On Sept. 5, lawmakers on the Senate Banking Committee privately circulated a new draft of the long-awaited crypto market structure bill, marking a major step toward comprehensive U.S. crypto legislation coindesk.com. The Senate’s version, officially the Responsible Financial Innovation Act (RFIA) of 2025, spans 182 pages and reflects a more pro-innovation stance compared to the House’s earlier Clarity Act.

Crucially, the Senate draft explicitly carves out protections for blockchain participants. It states that simply validating blockchain transactions does not make one a “financial institution” for anti-money-laundering purposes ainvest.com – a relief for miners and stakers who feared being deputized as crypto cops. It also clarifies that creating, selling, or transferring an NFT is not a securities offering ainvest.com ainvest.com (unless it imbues traditional investment rights), pushing back against arguments that many NFTs might be unregistered securities. These provisions had been highly requested by the industry, which argued that overregulating validators and NFTs would stifle blockchain networks and creative economies.

The bill goes further. It proposes legal safe harbors for software developers – protecting those who publish blockchain code or run decentralized protocols, as long as they aren’t directly custodying user funds coindesk.com. “This draft has the best developer protections language to date,” cheered Amanda Tuminelli of the DeFi Education Fund, emphasizing how critical it is to shield open-source innovators coindesk.com. There are also new bankruptcy rules for digital assets, ensuring customers retain ownership of their tokens if a crypto platform goes under coindesk.com. And notably, the bill nudges regulators toward cooperation: it orders the SEC and CFTC to jointly define “digital commodities” and harmonize oversight, rather than jockeying for turf ainvest.com. This could pave the way for clearer rules on things like which tokens fall under securities laws versus commodities laws.

Industry reaction has been optimistic. After years of enforcement-driven approach (which saw the SEC sue major exchanges in 2023), Washington seems to be moving toward constructive rulemaking. The timing is critical – participants note the next 6–12 months could determine whether the U.S. remains a crypto innovation hub or cedes leadership. The Senate bill, championed by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and now backed by key Republicans, is expected to face negotiations with Democrats and the parallel House bill coindesk.com. But there’s momentum: the House’s Digital Asset Clarity Act already passed with a 308-122 bipartisan vote in July coindesk.com. If the two chambers reconcile differences, a unified bill could reach President Trump’s desk by year-end. Insiders say the Administration is likely to support reasonable crypto legislation – Trump himself has publicly criticized the Fed’s slow embrace of crypto and pushed agencies to collaborate with industry.

Indeed, cooperation was a theme this week. In a joint statement, SEC Chair Paul Atkins and CFTC Acting Chair Caroline Pham pledged to “support innovation and competition” in digital assets, hinting at a break from the turf wars of the past ainvest.com. And in a significant first step, staff at both agencies signaled that major exchanges like NYSE and Nasdaq can list spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs without legal barrier ainvest.com. This one-two punch – legislative clarity and regulatory détente – has crypto firms feeling cautiously hopeful. “A more accommodating regulatory environment” is emerging, one CoinDesk analyst noted, after a year of uncertainty ainvest.com.

Outside the U.S., regulatory moves continue as well. Europe’s MiCA framework (Markets in Crypto-Assets) is on track to fully roll out by 2025, introducing unified licensing for EU crypto firms. And in Asia, countries like Pakistan announced progress on crypto rules and even a CBDC pilot, aiming to balance “opportunities and risks” in fintech modernization reuters.com reuters.com. The global trend is clear: after a bruising 2022–2023, regulators are shifting from sheer crackdown mode to crafting rules that allow crypto activity under oversight. The coming months will reveal how quickly these policies translate into real-world growth – for example, whether U.S. banks and stock exchanges start offering crypto products once clear laws are in place. For now, the direction of travel is positive for those longing for clarity.

Blockchain Networks and Tech: New Milestones

It wasn’t just policy and big partnerships making news – blockchain technology itself hit fresh milestones and continues to evolve rapidly as we head into the final quarter of 2025.

On the Ethereum network, recent metrics show a dramatic improvement in its post-Shanghai dynamics. In mid-August, pundits worried that a record 816,000 ETH waiting to unstake could flood the market once allowed coindesk.com. But as of this week, those fears have flipped on their head. Over 932,000 ETH (~$4B) are now queued to enter staking, versus 791,000 ETH set to exit, the first time in weeks that staking demand exceeds withdrawals coindesk.com coindesk.com. In plain terms, more Ether is looking to be locked up securing the network than is seeking to leave, easing concerns of a post-upgrade sell-off. The turnaround was helped by a single whale: an early Ethereum ICO participant who staked a whopping 150,000 ETH ($645M) after holding it idle for eight years coindesk.com. This long-term bet by a so-called “Ethereum OG” was seen as a huge vote of confidence in Ethereum’s future. In fact, despite choppy markets, ETH’s price is down only ~4% since mid-August, outperforming Bitcoin and many alts over the same period coindesk.com. “While the unstaking queue hit ATH, so did ETF inflows,” noted DeFi researcher Ignas, pointing out that anticipated Ethereum spot ETF approvals are driving fresh capital into ETH that offsets sellers coindesk.com. With staking rewards averaging ~4% APY and Ethereum’s roadmap (danksharding, verkle trees, etc.) promising scalability improvements, many investors appear content to stake and hold for the long term – a fundamentally bullish sign for network security and supply reduction.

Speaking of scalability, Solana is gearing up for a radical upgrade after its community delivered a nearly unanimous 98.3% “yes” vote for the Alpenglow proposal coindesk.com. Described as the most significant technical overhaul in Solana’s history, Alpenglow will replace the core of Solana’s consensus mechanism to massively speed up the chain coindesk.com. The upgrade introduces two new components, dubbed Votor and Rotor, which together will replace Solana’s Proof-of-History timestamp system and TowerBFT consensus coindesk.com. The expected result is astounding: transaction finality times could shrink from ~12 seconds currently to as low as 150 milliseconds – effectively instantaneous confirmations coindesk.com. This could cement Solana’s position as one of the fastest blockchains, a boon for DeFi and gaming dApps that demand real-time responsiveness coindesk.com. With the vote passed, Solana core devs are now preparing to implement Alpenglow in an upcoming network upgrade (timeline TBA). If successful, it could alleviate past concerns around Solana’s outages and performance under load, making the chain more resilient and enterprise-ready.

In the world of real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, momentum is also building. Galaxy Digital (Mike Novogratz’s crypto investment firm) revealed it’s working with tech startup Superstate to issue Galaxy’s own stock as a token on Solana – effectively creating a fully compliant, on-chain representation of a NASDAQ-listed equity coindesk.com coindesk.com. Unlike synthetic stock tokens of the past, these will be real shares with full shareholder rights, transferred on a blockchain. And Ondo Finance just launched a platform offering 100+ tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs on Ethereum to overseas investors coindesk.com. From Robinhood to Tesla shares, foreign users can now get exposure via tokens backed 1:1 by equities held by a regulated custodian. These developments underscore how traditional finance is increasingly intersecting with blockchain. Tokenized assets promise 24/7 trading, instant settlement, and fractional ownership – features that could reshape capital markets (though U.S. investors are largely excluded until regulators approve). Even Coinbase has signaled interest in offering tokenized stocks pending SEC approval reuters.com reuters.com. As these pilots advance, 2025 is shaping up as the year Wall Street meets Web3 in a tangible way.

Finally, Bitcoin’s ecosystem is also evolving beyond its base layer. While Bitcoin’s price dominance has grown, its Lightning Network has faced challenges (capacity on public channels fell ~20% from late 2023) cryptoslate.com. But innovation continues: fintech firm SoFi’s integration of Lightning for remittances is a huge adoption win, enabling potentially millions of users to make near-free cross-border payments via Bitcoin’s rails coindesk.com coindesk.com. And startups like Amboss are launching Lightning-based yield products, seeking to make Bitcoin’s L2 more user-friendly theblock.co. Even Bitcoin’s code may get a jolt – developers at OPCAT Labs argue re-enabling the long-disabled OP_CAT opcode could bring smart contract capabilities to Bitcoin, making it “as programmable as Ethereum or Solana” if embraced coindesk.com coindesk.com. Such proposals are contentious in the Bitcoin community, but they highlight a theme across all networks: continuous experimentation to push blockchain tech to new heights.

Expert Outlook: As we wrap up the whirlwind of blockchain news from the past two days, a clear picture emerges of an industry in transition. Markets are maturing – Bitcoin above $100K has instilled a new sense of gravitas, and the quick recovery from Ether’s dip shows how interwoven crypto is with macro trends. Developers and enterprises are building at a blistering pace, whether it’s Stripe’s high-speed chain, Solana’s consensus revolution, or the merging of social media with token economies. And crucially, governments are finally engaging to provide rules of the road. “The tone from regulators has flipped from punishment to partnership,” observes one policy expert, noting the flurry of constructive bills and forums.

If September 2025’s first week is any indication, the coming months could bring even more landmark moments – from the first spot Bitcoin ETF approval in the U.S., to major network upgrades (Ethereum’s next hard fork, Solana’s Alpenglow rollout), to perhaps new all-time highs if the bull market rekindles. For now, crypto participants can take heart that despite bouts of volatility, the industry’s foundations are stronger and more widely supported than ever. The narrative is shifting from mere survival to strategic growth and mainstream integration – a triumph in the making after the turmoil of recent years.

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