Behind Elon Musk’s X outage: What really happened and why it matters

What caused the X outage? On March 10, 2025, X’s services went down for many users, causing frustration and confusion across the platform.  The outages were significant enough to make headlines and draw attention from the tech community and the media. Elon Musk, ever the outspoken owner, quickly attributed the disruptions to a “massive cyberattack.” … Read more

Hong Kong crypto payment firm RedotPay wraps $40M Series A funding round

Hong Kong-based crypto payment platform RedotPay closed a $40 million Series A funding round led by Lightspeed, with participation from HSG and Galaxy Ventures. RedotPay aims to enable cryptocurrency use in everyday transactions while simplifying blockchain transactions for spenders, akin to fiat. In November 2023, the company launched its own physical Visa cards, which can … Read more

Bitcoin’s Market Dominance Faces Challenges as On-Chain Activity Shifts Towards Ethereum

Bitcoin (BTC) has long held a dominant position in the cryptocurrency market for years. However, recent trends show a shift in the landscape as Bitcoin’s market dominance faces increasing pressure from Ethereum (ETH) and other Layer 1 networks. While Bitcoin’s dominance in terms of market capitalization has been steadily increasing since 2022, when measured by … Read more

Smart Money Wallets Show Growing Interest in AI, DeFi, and Meme Tokens: A Look at Recent Accumulations

In the cryptocurrency world that is changing rapidly, the term “smart money” is often linked to investors making really good decisions who have a profound knowledge of the cryptocurrency market, and who mostly follow certain trends or new narratives that are coming onto the scene. You know — nice, clean, smart decisions that tend to … Read more

Exploring the Leading Real World Asset (RWA) Projects by Total Value Locked (TVL)

The fast-evolving realm of decentralized finance (DeFi) now has an even more recent and exciting development: incorporating real-world assets into the blockchain world. Bringing RWAs into play has become a critical story that has captured the attention of both developers and investors. Such projects aim to close the bridge between old finance and new blockchain-based … Read more

SEC Extends Review Period for Grayscale’s Cardano ($ADA) ETF Proposal

The cryptocurrency market received a significant development last week when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made a decision about Grayscale’s Cardano ($ADA) Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) proposal. The SEC opted not to make a decision about whether to approve, deny, or seek further proceedings on the ETF, and instead extended its review period by … Read more

Bitcoin logo shines over Austin, Texas as Gemini sets new world record

Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini set a new Guinness world record by deploying 1,000 drones to form the Bitcoin logo in the sky, marking the largest-ever aerial display of a currency symbol. The event, held on March 13 in Austin, Texas, celebrated the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve initiative. Source: Gemini Gemini’s drone show featured depictions of a … Read more

Trump-backed World Liberty Financial nets $550M in token sales

World Liberty Financial, a decentralized finance (DeFi) project backed by the Trump family, has completed its second public token sale, raising $250 million from investors. WLFI launched on Sept. 16, 2024, with the goal of promoting DeFi and stablecoins pegged to the US dollar. The project is endorsed by President Donald Trump and his sons … Read more

USDC Market Cap Surge Highlights Stablecoin Shifts Amid Binance Delisting and Global Regulation

The stablecoin marketplace is experiencing some remarkable changes, with the market capitalization of USD Coin (USDC) in the last week pushing toward a nice growth spurt. This has been attributed to a few different catalysts—most notably the potential upcoming delisting of Tether (USDT) from Binance for a large swath of users in the European Economic … Read more

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