Crypto

• In August 2024, Klaytn (backed by South Korea’s Kakao) and Finschia (developed by Japan’s LINE Tech Plus) merged to form the Kaia chain, a Layer 1 blockchain aimed at becoming Asia’s leading Web3 ecosystem.
• LINE, the leading messaging app in Japan, Thailand, and Taiwan, boasts approximately 200 million high-value monthly active users, with over 80% penetration in key markets, and is partnering with Kaia to deliver a rich Web3 experience on its platform.
• The key initiative of the Kaia-LINE NEXT partnership to onboard users from Web2 to Web3 is the Mini Dapp ecosystem, which mirrors the Telegram-TON partnership’s Game-Token-DeFi strategy, with the Kaia foundation driving developer engagement.

• Gunzilla Games, a game studio with over $100M in investment funding, is spearheaded by leading talents in gaming and art. Their premier title, Off The Grid (OTG), is a AAA cyberpunk battle royale game featuring web3 integration.
• OTG’s business model focuses on revenue generation through the value appreciation of in-game assets and a thriving in-game economy. This structure ensures that gamers, in-game validators, and the studio collectively benefit from the game’s success through a shared network effect.
• The game runs on its dedicated blockchain, GUNZ. Its testnet has rapidly gained traction, boasting 17 million created wallets, 500,000 daily active addresses, and 2.5 million daily transactions. These metrics are on par with those of leading battle royale games like Apex and Fortnite.
• The GUNZ mainnet is currently live for early access. Plans for in-game asset withdrawals and full migration are scheduled to commence in July 2025, with due consideration for digital asset regulations

• Solana is a high-performance blockchain platform that is designed to host decentralized, scalable applications.
• It can process thousands of transactions per second, significantly more than many other blockchains, including Bitcoin or Ethereum (though Ethereum 2.0 aims to improve its scalability).
• This high throughput makes it suitable for applications that require rapid processing, such as decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms, non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces, and gaming.

• Alongside the technological development in our era in almost every aspect of our daily lives, one could argue that it would be inevitable such digital emergence to make also its appearance on financial services as is the case with digital coins.
• More specifically, Bitcoin and Ethereum, which both capture on a significant scale the meaning of digitalized finance not only on monetary value but also on a historical perspective through their developmental process since their initial issue, could be considered the epitome of financial-technological innovation.
• Both respectively, should be analyzed on a financial basis through the course of their history to achieve a deepest comprehension of their functionality and usage by examining the main factors contributing to Bitcoin and Ethereum’s rise and general fluctuation over the past.

• Significant Growth & Untapped Potential: While global crypto ETF AUM has reached $168.3B, this represents a small fraction of the $14.8T global ETF market and the $128T total global AUM, indicating a vast addressable market and substantial room for future expansion. We project the global crypto ETF AUM to potentially exceed $1T in five years, over 6x the current level.
• US Dominance in AUM, Europe in Variety: The US leads globally with $144.3B in crypto ETF AUM (85.7% market share), largely driven by the successful launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs. Europe, while smaller in AUM ($15.3B), offers a wider array of altcoin ETFs. Canada and Hong Kong have also emerged as important regional hubs.

• Quantitative Spotlight on US Market Dynamics: Daily net flows into spot ETFs show a positive but modest correlation with Bitcoin price changes (0.34) and a very weak correlation for Ethereum (0.13). Coupled with low R-squared values, this indicates that spot ETF flows, while impacting underlying crypto price, are just one of many factors

• Sui commands an ~US$11 bn market cap (FDV US$34 bn) barely two years after launch, yet real‑world usage is still embryonic. 
• Claimed throughput of 297 k TPS contrasts with currently observed ~48 TPS (peak 335). 
• A restrictive validator set, modest staking yields, looming token unlocks, and limited developer traction undermine the decentralisation and growth narrative.

• In August 2024, Klaytn (backed by South Korea’s Kakao) and Finschia (developed by Japan’s LINE Tech Plus) merged to form the Kaia chain, a Layer 1 blockchain aimed at becoming Asia’s leading Web3 ecosystem.
• LINE, the leading messaging app in Japan, Thailand, and Taiwan, boasts approximately 200 million high-value monthly active users, with over 80% penetration in key markets, and is partnering with Kaia to deliver a rich Web3 experience on its platform.
• The key initiative of the Kaia-LINE NEXT partnership to onboard users from Web2 to Web3 is the Mini Dapp ecosystem, which mirrors the Telegram-TON partnership’s Game-Token-DeFi strategy, with the Kaia foundation driving developer engagement

• Digital assets are the new frontier for investors, with AI and disruptive tech playing a key role
• Market inefficiencies in crypto still exist, leading to potential profit opportunities
• On-chain metrics provide unique insights for predicting future price movements in the crypto market

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• The report by Delphi Consulting presents USD.AI, a DeFi-based solution to fund AI and decentralized infrastructure by enabling short-term loans backed by real-world hardware.
• It introduces USDai, a synthetic dollar backed by collateralized hardware assets, offering scalable capital access through on-chain mechanisms.
• Legal enforceability is ensured via tokenized ownership under UCC laws, while risks are mitigated through conservative lending terms, insurance, and governance oversight.

• In Q1 2025, Sui made significant strides in both infrastructure and ecosystem development.
• The network introduced BTCfi primitives, enabling native Bitcoin staking and DeFi integrations via protocols like Suilend and Aftermath.
• On the tech side, upgrades like Mysticeti v2, Move VM 2.0, and Pilotfish execution sharding enhanced scalability, latency, and modularity.