🚀 Coinbase just launched Base App — a next-gen superapp replacing Coinbase Wallet.

Now it’s not just a wallet, but a full-blown onchain platform with:

▪️Farcaster-powered social networking
▪️Tokenized posts via Zora
▪️Mini-apps: games, marketplaces, prediction tools
▪️Instant USDC payments via NFC
▪️Encrypted XMTP chat with AI & translation
▪️Real-time friend feed + in-feed swaps

💳 Also introduced Base Pay — instant USDC payments with 1% cashback.

Coinbase is going all-in on the onchain future.

📈 DEX Volume Surges in Q2 2025

📊 In Q2, decentralized exchanges (DEXs) hit a whopping $876.3B in spot trading volume. The DEX-to-CEX volume ratio jumped from 0.13 to 0.23, showing rising interest in onchain trading.

🥞 PancakeSwap dominated the space with 45% market share, solidifying its lead among DEX platforms.

📈 ETH to $7K–$8K in 2025?

If Ethereum mirrors BTC’s 2020 pattern, we could see ETH hit $7,000–$8,000 this year, analysts say.

🔹 Staking ATH: 35.7M ETH ($107B) locked — removed from circulation.
🔹 BlackRock Effect: Bought $499M ETH yesterday — a new daily record. Total holdings: $6.9B.
🔹 Retail hype: Google searches for Ethereum just hit the highest level since Dec 2024.

Bullish signals stacking up fast. 👀

🐋 Satoshi-Era Whale Moves 80K BTC ($9.5B)

A legendary Bitcoin whale—possibly Adam Back, British cryptographer and creator of Hashcash—has fully offloaded 80,202 BTC (≈$9.54B) to Galaxy Digital over the last 3 days. These coins had been dormant for 14+ years, acquired when BTC traded at just $0.78–$3.37.

🕵️‍♂️ HBO speculates that Back and Peter Todd could represent the “collective” identity of Satoshi Nakamoto.

📦 Final transfer: 40,192 BTC to Galaxy.
💰 Avg. price: ~$118,950 per BTC.
👀 Despite the scale, BTC price remains stable at ~$118,000.

🚀 Crypto Market Awakens

Total crypto market cap has hit $4 trillion, while Bitcoin dominance keeps slowly declining. 💰

📈 ETH is now above $3,600, and XRP just smashed its all-time high, trading close to $3.5.

Is altseason finally knocking on the door? 👀

🚔 Officer Turned Crypto Crook

A former UK National Crime Agency officer, Paul Chowles, has been jailed for 5.5 years after stealing 50 BTC (now worth ~$5.9M) seized during the Silk Road 2.0 probe.

💸 Chowles transferred the Bitcoin using a crypto mixer, tried to hide his tracks, and spent over £100K via crypto debit cards.

👀 Ironically, it was Silk Road’s co-founder who blew the whistle, pointing fingers at the NCA as the only ones with wallet access.

Talk about policing yourself—and failing. 😬

🇺🇸 U.S. Crypto Framework Takes Shape

Congress has approved three major crypto bills, signaling a turning point for U.S. regulation:

✅ GENIUS Act — Now heading to Trump for signature. It requires stablecoin issuers to hold 100% fiat reserves, disclose collateral, and undergo audits.

🧾 Clarity Act — Passed by the House, it aims to clearly separate digital commodities from securities, clarifying CFTC vs. SEC jurisdiction for exchanges.

🚫 Anti-CBDC Surveillance Act — Bans the Fed from launching a digital dollar or experimenting with CBDCs tied to surveillance risks.

All 3 bills are part of Trump’s "crypto week" initiative. Democrats voted against, alleging Trump’s personal crypto interests are behind the push.

📈 New Milestone for Bitcoin

Realized Cap of Bitcoin has surpassed $1 trillion for the first time ever. 💰

Unlike market cap, this metric values each coin at the price it was last moved, offering a more accurate view of actual capital held within the network.

For comparison: if a company earned $1 every second, it would take 31 710 years to accumulate one trillion dollars.

– Alex Adler (CryptoQuant)

💸 Crypto Becomes World’s 6th Largest Economy

The total crypto market cap now ranks 6th globally — ahead of the UK, France, Italy, Canada, and Brazil — if compared to national economies. 🧐

🔎 According to CryptoRank, the crypto market is growing into a major economic force, positioning itself just behind the world’s largest GDPs.

🚨 Ripple Co-Founder Moves $30M in XRP — ATH Follows!

On July 17, Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen transferred $30M worth of XRP to Coinbase. The very next day, XRP hit a new all-time high of $3.65. 🙀

📊 Since the start of 2025, Larsen has moved $344M in XRP to exchanges.

💰 He still holds 2.6B XRP (~$8.5B) and is now worth $9.7B, according to Forbes.

Coincidence or master timing? 👀

🇺🇸 Trump Signs GENIUS Stablecoin Act — Crypto Titans Attend

The GENIUS Act, a new U.S. law regulating stablecoins, was officially signed by Donald Trump — with a star-studded crypto delegation present:

• Jeremy Allaire (Circle)
• Brian Armstrong (Coinbase)
• Paolo Ardoino (Tether)
• Sergey Nazarov (Chainlink)
• Winklevoss Twins (Gemini)

📸 Even Chainlink posted photos from the event — signaling major institutional alignment with U.S. crypto policy.

🇺🇸📈 Trump Calls Bitcoin Speech “GOATED”

🗒 Donald Trump shared what he called the “greatest Bitcoin explanation of all time” via Truth Social — a 2018 Senate testimony by Coin Center’s Peter Van Valkenburgh.

🎬 The viral clip explains Bitcoin as a revolutionary, decentralized payment system that protects user privacy and removes middlemen. Trump’s post signals growing support for crypto, which he says “strengthens the US dollar.”

💥 Last week, Trump signed the GENIUS Act — the first federal crypto bill — creating a regulatory framework for stablecoins and boosting USD dominance globally.

💷 UK Plans to Sell £5B in Bitcoin to Fill Budget Gap!

🇬🇧 The UK government may sell over 61,000 BTC — seized in 2018 and now worth £5.4B — to help plug a £20B budget deficit. The Home Office is preparing infrastructure to handle large-scale crypto liquidations.

While Reform UK’s Nigel Farage urges the creation of a national Bitcoin reserve, the ruling Labour party remains cautious, citing BTC’s volatility. 🧐

🕵️‍♂️ Experts warn that rushing a sale could echo Gordon Brown’s infamous 1999 gold dump — which missed out on a 6x price rise. Still, with inflation, weak growth, and mounting debt, Chancellor Rachel Reeves may view crypto as a rare fiscal lifeline.

🚀 Is the Long-Awaited Altseason Finally Coming?

The market is heating up — even ETH is showing strength, recently touching $3,800. 🔥

Analysts are eyeing a breakout above $4,000, which could ignite a full-blown altcoin rally.

🔎 According to CoinGlass, the Altcoin Season Index is rising fast, but only a few coins have surged so far. If ETH clears $4K, expect massive altcoin gains to follow. Get ready for those x’s! 📈

📱→₿ Depressing but True: iPhones vs. Bitcoin

If you had bought Bitcoin instead of every new iPhone since 2007… you'd now have $242 million. 😳

Yep — skipping yearly Apple upgrades and stacking sats instead could’ve made you a centimillionaire. Talk about “hodling” your calls. 📉📈

📸 The chart from Documenting Saylor makes it painfully clear: tech fades, but Bitcoin stays (and pumps).

💰 How Much BTC Do You Need to Retire by 2035?

A new analysis shows how much Bitcoin you’d need to retire by 2035 — factoring in 7% annual inflation and BTC price growth. 🌍

🌴 With just 0.01 BTC, you could live comfortably in countries like Burundi, Pakistan, Afghanistan, or Sudan.

🎰 But if you’re dreaming of high-roller nights in Monaco’s casinos, better stack 5–7 BTC to retire in style.

🚀 Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) keeps doubling down on Bitcoin

Between July 14–20, the company bought 6,222 BTC for $739.8M at an average price of $118,940 per coin. 💰

🔹 Total holdings now stand at 607,770 BTC (~3% of total supply).
🔹 Since 2020, the firm has spent $43.61B at an average of $71,756 per BTC.
🔹 Unrealized profit has surpassed $30B — exceeding the company’s total bond debt used to fund BTC purchases.

📈 Michael Saylor's bold Bitcoin bet is paying off big as prices soar.