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  • State of Sui Q1 2025
    Messari.io - 14:00 Jun 02, 2025
    In Q1 2025, Sui continued expanding across DeFi, gaming, and infrastructure despite a broader market downturn. Average daily DEX volume reached a new high of $304.3 million, led by Cetus and Suilend, while activity across lending, stablecoins, and cross-chain swaps reinforced overall network usage. In consumer and gaming, new titles, the release of the SuiPlay0X1 design, and broader integration of Sui infrastructure signaled growing adoption beyond financial applications. Walrus launched on mainnet with $140 million in funding, bringing decentralized storage to production and driving a wave of new integrations. Institutional interest accelerated with Grayscale’s addition of SUI, Libre’s tokenized fund access, and Canary Capital’s U.S. ETF filing. Core infrastructure expanded with support from Phantom, Binance, RedStone, and Wallet in Telegram, while new RFPs, accelerator cohorts, and hackathons strengthened developer engagement. In the near future, Sui plans to expand its partnerships and technical integratio...
  • Swan Chain Delivers 100,000 GPU Compute Hours to Nebula Block
    Messari.io - 12:00 Jun 02, 2025
    Swan Chain is uniquely positioned at the intersection of decentralized blockchain technology and AI infrastructure, providing a robust platform for comprehensive AI development. Strategic partnerships have validated its decentralized computing model, effectively reducing AI deployment costs and increasing resource efficiency. The collaboration with Nebula Block, securing over 100,000 GPU compute hours through Swan’s AI compute marketplace, exemplifies the platform's ability to deliver substantial cost savings. Through Mission 3.0, Swan Chain advanced community engagement, enabling richer, analytics-driven interactions. With ongoing infrastructure expansions, such as the CDN layer, Swan Chain is well-positioned to maintain its momentum in decentralized AI innovation, addressing emerging needs with agility and strategic foresight.
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  • Crypto Venture Weekly: May 26-31, 2025
    Messari.io - 11:30 Jun 02, 2025
    25 projects raised $109M last week, led by Conduit ($36M), Beam ($7M), and Donut ($7M), while Blockchain Builders and Metalayer each launched early-stage funds focused on the intersection of crypto and AI, and on financial infrastructure. Rob Hadick spotlighted stablecoins’ B2B adoption surge, Wei Dai introduced a design constraint framework for onchain privacy, and Simon Kim cautioned against frothy NAV premiums in crypto treasury stocks. Here’s your breakdown of the week’s top deals and insights.
  • Dripster.fun: The Launchpad Bringing GenAI Product Design to Life
    Messari.io - 14:55 May 30, 2025
    Dripster is a next-generation launchpad that fuses AI-generated product design, token-based funding, and automated manufacturing to bring creator-designed physical products to market. By leveraging trading fees to fully fund production, Dripster allows users to launch tokens tied to their product ideas and unlock manufacturing as market cap milestones are reached. Its proprietary agent system, OffScriptOS, manages manufacturability, logistics, and vendor coordination through a vetted network of over 200 high-end factories. Though the model faces risks around crypto volatility, manufacturing complexity, and the need for a breakout token, Dripster presents a novel, scalable approach to bridging digital culture and real-world goods at the velocity of the attention economy.
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  • Ethereum's Future: Post-Pectra Incentive Alignment
    Messari.io - 14:30 May 30, 2025
    Ethereum stands at a strategic crossroads. While it has made significant technical progress, transitioning to Proof-of-Stake, reducing issuance, and scaling through rollups, these advances have brought tradeoffs: fragmented user experiences, weakened fee capture, and a loss of narrative clarity. In 2025, however, signs of renewed direction have emerged. The Pectra upgrade, Ethereum Foundation leadership changes, and growing institutional engagement reflect a shift toward rebalancing L1 and L2 priorities. Rather than choosing a single identity, Ethereum is working to build a cohesive, scalable foundation that can support multiple roles, settlement layer, execution environment, and monetary asset, while remaining credibly neutral and decentralized.
  • State of FLock.io Q1 2025
    Messari.io - 12:15 May 30, 2025
    FLock.io recorded 4,728 training submissions and over 410,000 validation submissions in Q1 2025, reflecting strong protocol engagement despite a 92% drop in token price post-launch. The staking ratio surged from 1.3% to 41.1%, signaling growing economic alignment among participants. Major milestones included the closed beta launch of FL Alliance for privacy-preserving federated learning, the rollout of the Web3 Agent Model outperforming leading LLMs on blockchain tasks, and validator expansion with institutional partners like DCG and HashKey Cloud. While market conditions posed challenges, FLock.io advanced its decentralized AI infrastructure and broadened adoption, setting a solid foundation for continued growth.
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  • State of Sonic Q1 2025
    Messari.io - 14:30 May 29, 2025
    Sonic’s first full quarter since mainnet launch showed rapid ecosystem expansion, strong user activity, and growing protocol diversity. DeFi TVL reached $1 billion, powered by the arrival of blue-chip protocols like Aave and Silo, while DEX trading volume reached $10.4 billion with Sonic-native platforms leading usage. The launch of the FeeM monetization program created a new revenue path for builders, and the stablecoin market gained depth with both bridged and native assets. Across categories — from infrastructure to payments — over 150 applications are now live. Driven by strong user activity, these applications generated $19.7 million in Chain GDP during Q1 2025. On the technical side, Sonic announced SonicCS 2.0, a major consensus upgrade planned for future client releases. The update introduces overlapping elections and matrix-based voting to improve scalability and resource efficiency. These developments align with strong network performance during the quarter, including 520,300 average daily transacti...
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  • State of SynFutures Q1 2025
    Messari.io - 14:00 May 29, 2025
    SynFutures navigated a market-wide downturn in Q1 2025 with $34.1 billion in trading volume and a 62.5% market share on Base. While user and revenue metrics declined, the protocol advanced its infrastructure with the launch of Synthia, an AI trading agent, and a spot aggregator. SynFutures also sunset its Blast deployment to focus on Base and began supporting third-party applications built on its infrastructure, signaling a broader shift toward modular onchain finance.
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  • State of Particle Network Q1 2025
    Messari.io - 13:30 May 29, 2025
    In Q1 2025, Particle Network recorded significant increases in activity across its ecosystem. The launch of its native token, PARTI, on March 25 resulted in $1.00 billion in spot trading volume within 24 hours, with listings on multiple centralized exchanges. Universal Accounts grew to 110,900, reflecting a 557.6% QoQ increase, while average daily transactions rose to 27,100, up 806.5% from Q4 2024. Transaction volume was highest on Ethereum L2s, including Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism. UniversalX, Particle’s trading platform built on Universal Accounts, recorded a 15,154% increase in average daily trading volume to $5.9 million. Fee revenue and trade counts followed similar growth patterns, driven by increased user activity in the lead-up to the PARTI TGE. The rollout of UniversalX V2 and the integration of Everclear supported improved functionality and reduced liquidity rebalancing costs across supported networks. By the end of the quarter, over 90 development teams announced plans to integrate Universal Acc...
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  • Bitcoin execution and trust models
    Messari.io - 12:30 May 29, 2025
    This report provides a structured overview of Bitcoin programmability and the emerging ecosystem of Bitcoin-aligned execution layers. It categorizes current and proposed architectures—including sidechains, externally sequenced systems, rollups, and bridging models—based on how they interact with Bitcoin’s base layer, what trust assumptions they require, and how execution is secured. The report also evaluates why adoption has remained limited, highlights promising technical paths like BitVM and OP_CAT, and sizes the total addressable market (TAM) for core use cases like collateralized lending and stablecoin swaps. Drawing on Ethereum as a behavioral reference, it estimates how large Bitcoin’s programmable economy could become if trust-minimized infrastructure takes hold.
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  • Panther Protocol: Advancing Privacy-Preserving DeFi
    Messari.io - 14:00 May 28, 2025
    Panther Protocol has launched its Limited Mainnet Beta on Polygon, enabling real-world testing of its privacy-preserving DeFi infrastructure within a regulated framework. The beta integrates Eurobit as a licensed Zone Manager and PureFi for compliance, allowing users to perform private transactions using Zero-Knowledge Proofs while undergoing KYC/KYT verification. Key features include Shielded Pools, private swaps via zSwap, and onchain compliance tools. A comprehensive 171-day audit by Veridise validated the protocol’s smart contracts, cryptographic systems, and compliance mechanisms, supporting trust in its architecture. Following the audit, Panther open-sourced its code under permissive licenses and transferred its IP to the Panther Protocol Foundation, encouraging transparency, security, and developer participation.
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  • State of Avalanche Q1 2025
    Messari.io - 12:01 May 28, 2025
    In Q1 2025, Avalanche saw a 23.6% QoQ increase in average daily transactions across Avalanche L1s, reaching 3.8 million. This growth was driven by Pulsar (1.8M daily txs) and QChain (up 1,720% QoQ). Daily active addresses on Avalanche L1s grew 146.3% QoQ to over 3,000 daily, led by Lamina1 and QChain. DeFi TVL (AVAX)rose 61.9% QoQ to 59.8 million, while TVL (USD) decreased 14.7% to $1.1 billion. Aave’s TVL grew 3.3% QoQ to $515M, dominating 45.9% of Avalanche C-Chain’s DeFi TVL. Stablecoin market cap on Avalanche C-Chain fell 15.9% to $1.9 billion, though USDC rose 42.7% QoQ. While the number of active validators fell 4.4% QoQ to 1,401, total stake (AVAX) increased 2.6% to 211.9 million. Avalanche’s enterprise and gaming ecosystems continued to see growth. Eight new Avalanche L1s launched in Q1 2025, including projects like Growth, GUNZ, and TradeX. In enterprise adoption, Avalanche was selected by the Wyoming Stable Token Commission to issue WYST, became the backbone for over 700,000 digitized land records i...
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  • State of Mantle Q1 2025
    Messari.io - 16:30 May 27, 2025
    Mantle maintained a leading position among competing protocols in Q1 2025, prioritizing infrastructure development and ecosystem alignment. Despite a 36.6% QoQ decrease in market cap to $2.7 billion, Mantle outperformed ETH’s 46.0% decline. The mETH Protocol and Function closed the quarter with $709.7 million and $1.2 billion in TVL, respectively. Treasury value decreased 10.3% to $3.5 billion, with MNT comprising 65.4% of holdings. The network fully integrated EigenDA, enabling 15 MB/s throughput and securing the system with over 163,000 mETH (approximately $335 million) in restaked assets. While usage metrics declined, onchain engagement was sustained through initiatives like the Mantle Rewards Station, Methamorphosis Season 3, EcoGalaxy: Mantle Surge, and Kaito’s Yap leaderboard.
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  • State of Autonomys Network Q1 2025
    Messari.io - 15:01 May 27, 2025
    Autonomys is building an AI infrastructure stack with distributed storage, data availability, and decoupled execution, structured across consensus, storage, and execution layers. The Mainnet is launching in three phases: Phase-1 went live in November 2024 with the consensus and storage layers; Phase-2, expected in Q2’25, will introduce execution and token transferability; Phase-3, planned for 2026, will focus on scalability through data sharding and new domains. In Q1, total pledged storage increased 20% QoQ to 522 PB, and archived blockchain history reached 124 GB.
  • State of Core Q1 2025
    Messari.io - 12:00 May 27, 2025
    In Q1 2025, Core’s native DeFi TVL increased 40% QoQ to 1.1 billion CORE, while it decreased 34% in USD to $531.3 million due to a 53% QoQ CORE price decline to $0.50. Market cap rose 6% QoQ to $981.1 million, reflecting a 3% increase in circulating supply. Network activity declined, with average daily transactions falling 27% QoQ to 402,900, active addresses dropping 25% QoQ to 188,000, and DEX volume decreasing 74% QoQ to $623,400. Total CORE and BTC staked (USD) fell 17% QoQ to $629.1 million, with BTC staked down 15% to 5.500 million and CORE staked up 3% to 175.1 million. The liquid staking rate rose 52% QoQ to 11%, with stCORE supply increasing 57% to $8.6 million. Core initiated Season 3 of the Sparks Incentive Program on March 12, resetting Sparks (points) and adding new multipliers and application campaigns. Additionally, the Core Commit Program began with a cohort of 10 developer teams working on BTCFi, DeFi, and infrastructure projects. Colend, Pell Network, and BitFLUX led DeFi TVL in Q1. Future d...
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  • Understanding Huma Finance: A Comprehensive Overview
    Messari.io - 15:59 May 26, 2025
    Huma Finance is a payment financing (PayFi) protocol, offering structured settlement liquidity for use cases like cross-border payments and credit card settlements. By connecting liquidity providers and borrowers through blockchain infrastructure, Huma provides an alternative to capital-intensive and delayed settlement systems. The protocol operates two products: Huma Institutional, a permissioned platform for accredited participants, and Huma 2.0, a permissionless service designed for retail investors. Since launching Huma 2.0 on April 9, 53,400 depositors have supplied 50 million USDC to the protocol. To date, Huma has originated $2.3 billion in credit across $4.5 billion in total transaction volume and currently supports 12 active lending pools across Solana, Stellar, and EVM-compatible chains. Backed by $46 million in funding and a 2024 merger with Arf, Huma is scaling its role as the financing layer of the PayFi stack.
  • Crypto Venture Weekly: May 19-25, 2025
    Messari.io - 11:30 May 26, 2025
    26 projects raised a total of $267M last week, led by World Foundation’s $135M public token sale and Catena Labs’ $18M seed round, while DePIN Pulse, Alchemy, and Apex Group drove M&A activity. Theta Capital launched a $175M fund-of-funds to back crypto-native VCs. James Ho positions Pendle as the leading stablecoin yield bet, Emma Cui charts crypto VC’s reset toward long-term fundamentals, and Mads Mathiesen unpacks the scalability and decentralization trade-offs of Multiple Concurrent Proposers.
  • State of Ethereum Q1 2025
    Messari.io - 15:57 May 23, 2025
    Ethereum faced significant headwinds in Q1 2025, from macroeconomic pressure and price underperformance to declining network fees and DeFi TVL. Yet amidst this turbulence, the network demonstrated resilience across its L2 ecosystem, staking infrastructure, and stablecoin economy. Key protocol upgrades like Pectra signal long-term investment in scalability and usability, even as near-term market sentiment remains cautious.
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  • Reserve: Index DTFs and their Governance via Vote Locking
    Messari.io - 14:00 May 23, 2025
    Reserve’s Index Protocol introduces Index DTFs, tokenized portfolios that provide fully backed exposure to curated crypto baskets. Built for transparency and governance, these assets can be minted, redeemed, and traded onchain, with design decisions controlled by vote-locking governance tokens. With $3.46 million in market cap, rising trading volumes, and top DTFs posting strong returns, Index DTFs are emerging as a new gateway for thematic crypto investing.
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  • State of Fuel Q1 2025
    Messari.io - 13:58 May 23, 2025
    In Q1 2025, Fuel navigated its first full quarter post-TGE by expanding its ecosystem, launching the FS-1 dApp Program, and rolling out a decentralized sequencer to improve network trustlessness and scalability. Despite a 79.8% drop in market cap and declining activity metrics, the network maintained an average of 128,000 daily transactions and supported over 70 live dApps. Key DeFi protocols like Mira Protocol and Swaylend continued to anchor the platform, with Mira driving over $164 million in cumulative DEX volume. Fuel also advanced its infrastructure with zero-knowledge settlement, low validator requirements, and support for shared sequencing across rollups, setting the stage for long-term adoption.
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