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UNDER EXPOSED brings you coverage of the biggest macro news of the week impacting crypto and broader markets, with a focus on the newest trends, trades and narratives. Join hosts TylerD, Deeze, Geebz and Peter Jennings as they have longer conversations on the hottest sectors in crypto and NFTs, what is moving markets and what they’re buying and selling. Streaming live every Tuesday from 12:00 PM EST to 1:00 PM EST on YouTube and X. 00:00:00 Crypto Market Trends and Strategic Uncertainty 00:03:55 Crypto Market Surges: Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana Updates 00:07:47 Market Volatility and Equities Outlook 00:11:10 New PM and International Relations Shift 00:15:24 Bitcoin Chart Predictions and M2 Correlation 00:18:33 Ongoing Tax Reform Developments 00:22:17 Unpacking the Global Economic Fracture with Trump 00:25:43 The Rise of Bitcoin Investments and Wealth Management Trends 00:29:12 Signals of a Market Rebound in AI 00:32:47 The Early Days of WalletConnect 00:36:12 Achieving Product Market Fit with WalletConnect ...

Moonbeam recorded 5.8 million transactions in Q1 2025, an 11.6% increase quarter-over-quarter, even as daily active addresses declined by 20.2%. GLMR’s market capitalization fell 69.3% to $70.8 million amid a broader altcoin market pullback. Key developments included system-level upgrades that reduced gas costs by 75%, ecosystem expansion through projects like Nectar Protocol and N3MUS, and governance reforms via a newly constituted Treasury Council. Despite financial headwinds, Moonbeam’s infrastructure and ecosystem initiatives positioned the network for sustainable future growth.

Common and Aleph Zero co-founder Adam Gągol joined Decrypt to talk about how the DeFi suite is making accessible privacy a seamless default, and why it's crucial for the mainstream adoption of crypto.

Crypto holds Gains, Arizona passes BTC bill, Carney wins election FOMO HOUR EP346 Crypto holds gains amid solid ETF inflows. Arizona first state to pass BTC reserve bill. Strategy acquires $1.4bn BTC. S. Korea set to approve crypto ETFs this year. US will accelerate BTC mining: Lutnick. BTC to rise to $120k in 2Q25: StanChart. Coinbase to launch BTC Yield Fund. Market value of stablecoins nears $240bn. ETH Fusaka hard fork upgrade in Q3/Q4. 1inch launches on SOLANA. FTX files lawsuit against token issuers. Mastercard launches global stablecoin payments. Abu Dhabi SWF, IHC, FAB launch stablecoin. Ledger Live offers self-custody stablecoin yield. MetaMask announces new metal debit card. FOMO HOUR brings you the biggest daily news, updates and events from inside and outside of the crypto and macro spheres! Join hosts Farokh, Mando and Tyler as they cover some of the biggest topics at present with some of the biggest names in the ecosystem. Streaming live 5 days per week, Monday to Friday 10:00 AM EST to 11:00 AM...

Global TV hit Peaky Blinders will launch a crypto spin-off in 2026. The makers say it “could be THE game to take Web3 Gaming mainstream.” If youve played the FIFA soccer/football video game anytime in the past few decades, youll have that classic E…A…Sports tagline burned into your brain. But for the first time ever, a new FIFA game is dropping without itand it’s on the blockchain. Built on Polkadot, the new mobile game FIFA Rivals will launch its pre-release in May, before its global launch in June, just in time for the FIFA Club World Cup. It comes from Web3 gaming studio Mythical Games theyre the developers behind the National Football Leagues official blockchain game, NFL Rivals. Much like NFL Rivals, soccer/football fans can build their own teams, play real matches, and trade NFTs of their favorite players. Read more

In Q1 2025, Chronicle Protocol’s TVS increased by 10.5% QoQ to $12.6 billion, supported by growing adoption from protocols such as Spark, Euler, and Dolomite. The protocol recorded 373,300 oracle price updates, a 67.7% increase from Q4 2024, with over 97% of updates occurring on Ethereum Layer‑2 networks. The number of unique price updaters rose to 11,700, up 24.8% from the previous quarter. Leveraging its Scribe technology, Chronicle oracles demonstrated a 63.4% improvement in computational efficiency and a 65.7% reduction in cost compared to Chainlink, despite slight increases in gas consumption. Chronicle also continued to expand its network and infrastructure. Key developments included integrations with Berachain, Unichain, Corn, Plume, and Superseed; the onboarding of three new validators to strengthen decentralization; and several new oracle deployments across DeFi protocols such as Resolv Labs, Avalon, and Credit Coop. The quarter also saw Chronicle reduce the challenge period for its ScribeOptimistic ...

BNB Chain delivered strong network and ecosystem growth in Q1 2025, with revenue rising 58.1% QoQ to $70.8 million, driven by a surge in wallet-to-wallet activity. Despite a 14.8% decline in market cap, DeFi engagement remained resilient, with TVL growing 14.7% in BNB terms. The network implemented major protocol upgrades, including the Pascal hard fork to enhance EVM compatibility and the rollout of multi-tiered MEV protections, culminating in a >90% reduction in sandwich attacks. Ecosystem initiatives expanded with the launch of AI development tools, memecoin infrastructure, and a $100M CEX liquidity incentive program. With the upcoming Lorentz and Maxwell upgrades set to accelerate block times, BNB Chain remains positioned to strengthen its performance and competitiveness in the quarters ahead.

In Q1 2025, IoTeX advanced its DePIN and AI initiatives with the launch of Quicksilver, a framework that enables AI agents to act on decentralized physical data. New partnerships with GEODNET and Nubila integrated device-level verifiability through ioID, supplying verified data inputs for the Quicksilver framework. Average daily active wallets and transactions declined QoQ but remained up 850% and 2,250% YoY, respectively. Total network fees decreased 55% QoQ to $201,000 but were still up 980% YoY, with ioID activation fees showing relative resilience compared to other revenue sources.

Recall is an onchain platform for competitive AI agent benchmarking, leveraging crypto incentives to surface and reward high-performing autonomous systems. In its first month, the testnet recorded over 1M transactions from 276K+ accounts and 100K+ data blobs. The AlphaWave trading competition drew 1,000+ teams competing for $25K in prizes, while Recall Surge onboarded 200K+ users in days. This report explores Recall’s infrastructure, incentive design, and its potential role as a foundational layer for open, merit-based AI coordination.

Vertex continued its strategic expansion, launching the anticipated V3 trading engine, extending its presence across additional blockchain networks, and enhancing VRTX tokenomics to boost community engagement. Despite facing softer overall market conditions, Vertex maintained momentum through sustained product innovation and user-focused improvements.

Crypto analysts are casting doubt over Bitcoin’s return to $100,000, Sam Bankman-Fried moves prison: Hodler’s Digest Michael Saylor, the CEO of top corporate Bitcoin holder Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), expressed support for new US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins. In an April 23 X post, Saylor wrote that SEC Chairman Paul Atkins will be good for Bitcoin. The statement follows Atkins swearing-in as the 34th chairman of the SEC on April 21. Blue Macellari, head of digital assets at investment firm T. Rowe Price, also commented on Atkins in a recent Bloomberg interview. She seemed hopeful and recognized a change in how the SEC has acted under the new administration, particularly with crypto-related information, including close to six or seven roundtables with industry professionals. Read more

Fed ends Crypto Crackdown, SUI leads L1s, AI coins rebound. FOMO HOUR EP345. BTC stable, SUI leads gains in L1s. Fed ends crypto reporting mandate for banks. BTC supply on exchanges lowest since Nov 2018. Cantor stock doubles after Capital 21 announced. CME Group to launch XRP futures on May 19. US delays DOT, HBAR ETF decisions. Citi projects $3.7T stablecoin market by 2030. New Hampshire BTC bill clear Senate. Tether increases stake in Juventus FC to 10%. MetaMask allows users to choose gas token now. AT&T subs can now connect to Helium Network. Coinbase to collab with PayPal to promote PYUSD. Securitize to collab with Mantle on crypto fund. Lazarus set up shell co. in US to dupe developers. Binance launches points system for airdrops. FOMO HOUR brings you the biggest daily news, updates and events from inside and outside of the crypto and macro spheres! Join hosts Farokh, Mando and Tyler as they cover some of the biggest topics at present with some of the biggest names in the ecosystem. Streaming live 5 da...

Rayon Labs operates a synergistic trio of Bittensor subnets—Chutes for serverless model hosting and inference, Gradients for decentralized AutoML fine-tuning, and Nineteen for ultra-fast, high-throughput inference—that together command roughly 29 % of daily TAO emissions. Chutes has exploded in popularity by offering headline open-source models like DeepSeek V3 for free via OpenRouter, amassing over 8 000 GPUs and delivering industry-leading latency, while Gradients’ competitive miner marketplace consistently outperforms major clouds on test-loss, making one-click training accessible to non-experts. Nineteen narrows its focus to a handful of models and rewards miners for raw throughput, resulting in some of the fastest free inference on the market. Rayon is building a freemium ecosystem—paid tiers on Chutes, enterprise-grade integrations, and an agent platform called Squad—to convert today’s subsidized usage into durable revenue and alpha-token buybacks. The strategy’s success, however, depends on weathering ...

Clues suggest that Pokémon is headed to Sui, a Filipino Cardinal is a leading Pope candidate on Polymarket, and more. Asia Express Pokmon and crypto fans are speculating that the beloved monster-collecting universe could be taking its first steps into Web3 via the Sui blockchain. On April 23, The Pokmon Company released an update for its Pokmon HOME mobile app, a cloud-based hub for managing and trading Pokmon characters across various games and devices. The update dropped a new medal collection feature, but what really caught the crypto communitys attention was a quiet change in the apps privacy policy. In certain regions, the policy now adds Parasol Technologies as one of the developers that The Pokmon Company may share user data with. Parasol is a blockchain gaming studio recently acquired by Mysten Labs, the core team behind the Sui blockchain. Read more

China denies trade talks, 21 Capital to buy 42K BTC, TRUMP pumps on dinner prize. - FOMO HOUR EP343 FOMO HOUR brings you the biggest daily news, updates and events from inside and outside of the crypto and macro spheres! Join hosts Farokh, Mando and Tyler as they cover some of the biggest topics at present with some of the biggest names in the ecosystem. Streaming live 5 days per week, Monday to Friday 10:00 AM EST to 11:00 AM EST on YouTube and X. BTC: 92.4k (-2%), ETH: 1740 (-3%), SOL: 146 (-4%). Top Gainers: TRUMP, POL, SUI, LEO, CRV. BTC ETFs: +$917mn, ETH ETFs: -$24mn. BTC hits $94.7k then pulls back with stocks. Sovereigns front-running US on BTC buying: Bitwise. SWFs quietly buying BTC: Coinbase. 21 Capital set to buy 42k BTC, Mallers will be CEO. Missouri BTC bill passes first committee. BTC whale groups all in accumulation. Russia launches National BTC and Crypto Exchange. Metaplanet buys $13.6m BTC. SOL strategies to buy up to $500m SOL. DeFi Dev Corp buys $10m SOL. SBF transferred to low-security p...

Crypto AI tokens are now more popular than memecoins, robot butlers arrive, plus why does ChatGPT constantly kiss your ass? AI Eye. The crypto AI sector is showing signs of life, with the combined market cap increasing by more than one-third in the past two weeks. The sector soared to a combined market cap of $70.42 billion back in mid-January and just as quickly plummeted back to earth, bottoming out at $21.46 billion on April 9, according to CoinMarketCap. Its now back at $28.8 billion, with much of the growth in the past week. Near gained 26% in the past seven days, Render is up 23%, the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance gained 36%, and Bittensor surged 47%. (That said, even Ether gained 14% this week, so everything has been going up.) The AI crypto sectors outperformance came hot on the heels of a CoinGecko report on April 17 that found that five of the top 20 crypto narratives are AI-related, capturing 35.7% of global investor interest ahead of six memecoin narratives, which had a 27.1% share. The mo...

In the wake of OpenAI’s release of a new image generator for GPT-4o, the internet was flooded with AI-generated art mimicking the iconic Studio Ghibli animation style, sparking both admiration and intense debate over the ethics and legality of AI-driven content creation. This “Ghiblification” trend prompted industry figures like Jason Zhao of Story Protocol and Kyle Samani of Multicoin to weigh in on the evolving relationship between intellectual property (IP) and AI. Zhao called for infrastructure that enables compensation for artists, while Samani questioned the relevance of IP altogether in a world of zero marginal cost creation. In this report our analysts weigh in on the topic, discussing the role of IP in the age of AI.

THORChain’s first quarter of 2025 was defined by volatility, volume, and a pivotal reset. While RUNE’s price fell sharply and DeFi TVL contracted, protocol usage surged during market-wide dislocations, including a record $1.05 billion in single-day volume tied to the Bybit exploit. At the same time, THORChain initiated its most significant internal reform to date, passing Proposal 6 to unwind THORFi liabilities without inflating RUNE supply. Amid uncertainty, affiliate volume hit an all-time high, native deposits grew, and the protocol doubled down on its core mission: powering cross-chain swaps at scale.

BTC back to $93K, Trump softens rhetoric, AI coins surge FOMO HOUR EP342 FOMO HOUR brings you the biggest daily news, updates and events from inside and outside of the crypto and macro spheres! Join hosts Farokh, Mando and Tyler as they cover some of the biggest topics at present with some of the biggest names in the ecosystem. Streaming live 5 days per week, Monday to Friday 10:00 AM EST to 11:00 AM EST on YouTube and X. BTC: 93.6k (+5%), ETH: 1810 (+11%), SOL: 152 (+9%). Top Gainers: IMX, SUI, BONK, ENA, CRO. BTC ETFs: +$913mn, ETH ETFs: +$39mn. Crypto pumps on Trump’s Powell comments. Crypto rally leads to $500m liquidations. BTC & ETH ETFs see largest inflow in months. BTC flips Alphabet to become 5th largest asset. BTC being used to hedge systemic risk: StanChart. SUI & ETH lead rally in L1 coins. XRP ledger suffers hacker attack. Trump Media & CryptoCom to partner on ETFs. Cantor, Softbank, Tether form $3bn BTC vehicle. DeFi Development Corp buys $11.5m SOL. US support for crypto poses risks for Europe:...

This report argues that the United States is undergoing a structural shift away from the neoliberal international order and toward a strategy of neo-isolationism, driven by the need to preserve relative power in the face of China’s rise. Drawing from realist theory and the historical precedent of the Nixon administration, the report outlines how the U.S. is prioritizing containment over global growth. This reversion includes reshoring manufacturing, accelerating the clean energy transition, and restricting technological flows, particularly in AI, to prevent espionage and maintain strategic advantage. In this environment, crypto emerges not as a tool of global integration but as a beneficiary of fragmentation. The report concludes that we are entering an era where power, not efficiency, will define economic policy, and in this new industrial paradigm, Bitcoin, DePIN, and DePAI are uniquely positioned to thrive.