🚀 Tether and Georgia launch national stablecoin GEL₮: the lari goes on-chain
This is a historic moment for the entire crypto industry.
Tether (the company behind USDT), together with the government of Georgia, has officially announced the launch of a stablecoin pegged to the Georgian lari.
What this means:
▪️Instant payments and negligible fees, exactly what traditional banks are lacking. This will give both businesses and everyday people the freedom to transfer money.
▪️Cross-border trade in the region will receive a massive boost. No more week-long waits or hidden fees.
▪️Georgia is deliberately stepping into the future, building a "transparent and digital financial world" (quote from Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze).
And the coolest part: Georgian regulation is already compatible with future U.S. legislation (including the GENIUS Act). This means the country’s voluntarily tokenizing its currency according to the most advanced global standards.
Launch details for GEL₮ are still ahead, but it’s already clear that we’re witnessing a new era of digital money 😉
This is a historic moment for the entire crypto industry.
Tether (the company behind USDT), together with the government of Georgia, has officially announced the launch of a stablecoin pegged to the Georgian lari.
For the first time in the world, a national currency receives an official digital incarnation on a blockchain under a special regulatory framework.
What this means:
▪️Instant payments and negligible fees, exactly what traditional banks are lacking. This will give both businesses and everyday people the freedom to transfer money.
▪️Cross-border trade in the region will receive a massive boost. No more week-long waits or hidden fees.
▪️Georgia is deliberately stepping into the future, building a "transparent and digital financial world" (quote from Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze).
And the coolest part:
Launch details for GEL₮ are still ahead, but it’s already clear that we’re witnessing a new era of digital money 😉
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Most teams see $1.5M of token pressure and start talking about a model rebuild 🧩
EarnPark didn't need one.
A single change in the vesting schedule helped reduce peak market pressure without touching allocations, timelines, or investor terms.
The number of tokens stayed the same. The unlock dates changed. That's it.
In our case study, we show:
▫️How monthly unlocks create pressure spikes
▫️Why token flow over time matters more than most teams think
▫️How an audit helped compare the "before" and "after" scenarios
Same economy. Different circulation pattern.
And a very different outcome.
Read the full case here 😎
EarnPark didn't need one.
A single change in the vesting schedule helped reduce peak market pressure without touching allocations, timelines, or investor terms.
The number of tokens stayed the same. The unlock dates changed. That's it.
But for a young token, the way supply enters the market can matter just as much as the amount itself.
In our case study, we show:
▫️How monthly unlocks create pressure spikes
▫️Why token flow over time matters more than most teams think
▫️How an audit helped compare the "before" and "after" scenarios
Same economy. Different circulation pattern.
And a very different outcome.
Read the full case here 😎
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It usually fails much earlier – at the moment a team decides they “need a token” without being able to clearly explain what that token does inside the product.
And that’s where the split begins.
The product moves in one direction, the community forms around expectations. The price follows its own logic, and later the team tries to assign utility retroactively.
😎 Tokenomics shouldn’t start with percentages. It should start with product design. And the question isn’t how to divide allocations. It’s what behavior you want to drive and how the token reinforces the product’s growth.
For teams that want to build this properly, we created an interactive tokenomics workshop. A focused strategic session for projects preparing for TGE or for those already seeing that their current model isn’t delivering what they expected.
In one to two hours, we dissect the product, the economics, the token’s role, and the weak spots in the structure.
You walk away with:
…and the complete recording, so you can come back to the strategy anytime.
Find more details here:
https://8blocks.io/product/workshop
Wishing you smarter tokens and cleaner launches.
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Justin Sun сontinues his battle with Donald Trump 🖼️
Following a UK sanctions risk review, WLFI restricted addresses linked to HTX. In response, the exchange announced the delisting of USD1 and WLFI.
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This sets a troubling precedent for the market. In the past, asset freezes were mostly carried out by centralized exchanges and issuers, the kind of players who have no choice but to follow regulators.
🤔 And DeFi was built on a different promise: access to assets shouldn’t depend on one team, one government, or one court
"Today, restrictions affected WLFI holders. Tomorrow, they could affect anyone. User assets are non-negotiable," HTX stated.
Following a UK sanctions risk review, WLFI restricted addresses linked to HTX. In response, the exchange announced the delisting of USD1 and WLFI.
This sets a troubling precedent for the market. In the past, asset freezes were mostly carried out by centralized exchanges and issuers, the kind of players who have no choice but to follow regulators.
But WLFI positions itself as a DeFi project.
"Today, restrictions affected WLFI holders. Tomorrow, they could affect anyone. User assets are non-negotiable," HTX stated.
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A growing product doesn’t mean a growing token
And that’s one of the biggest traps in Web3.
🎙Tomorrow, our CPO Sergei Novikov joins BeInCrypto for a conversation on “Why Product Growth Doesn’t Always Create Token Value.”
We’ll talk about the missing link between product adoption and token demand, the difference between real utility and whitepaper utility, and the mistakes teams make before TGE that later show up as unlock pressure, weak demand, and broken value capture.
At 8Blocks, this is exactly the connection we help teams audit and improve before launch, after launch, and when the market has already started showing where the model breaks.
💥We’ll bring the full conversation once it goes live next week. This is one to watchbefore your token has to prove itself in the market.
And that’s one of the biggest traps in Web3.
🎙Tomorrow, our CPO Sergei Novikov joins BeInCrypto for a conversation on “Why Product Growth Doesn’t Always Create Token Value.”
We’ll talk about the missing link between product adoption and token demand, the difference between real utility and whitepaper utility, and the mistakes teams make before TGE that later show up as unlock pressure, weak demand, and broken value capture.
A token doesn’t automatically benefit from a growing product. It needs a clear role inside the product, a reason for demand, and a mechanism that lets value return to the token economy. That’s where token-product fit starts.
At 8Blocks, this is exactly the connection we help teams audit and improve before launch, after launch, and when the market has already started showing where the model breaks.
💥We’ll bring the full conversation once it goes live next week. This is one to watch
A top-tier exchange listing no longer looks like a happy ending
Sometimes, it’s the moment the market first sees thata token was overpriced .
We analyzed 542 launches on Binance, OKX, MEXC, Gate.io, BingX, and LBank. The result is hard to ignore:
🔻79% of tokens were down 90 days after listing
🔻22% of projects dropped by more than 80%
🔺And only 21% managed to preserve or increase their capitalization
For years, the market believed in a simple formula: a strong exchange, high FDV, and fund backing meant the project should grow.
But the data tells a different story.
Read the full research on our website🔥
Sometimes, it’s the moment the market first sees that
We analyzed 542 launches on Binance, OKX, MEXC, Gate.io, BingX, and LBank. The result is hard to ignore:
🔻79% of tokens were down 90 days after listing
🔻22% of projects dropped by more than 80%
🔺And only 21% managed to preserve or increase their capitalization
For years, the market believed in a simple formula: a strong exchange, high FDV, and fund backing meant the project should grow.
But the data tells a different story.
A listing no longer works as an automatic growth driver. It simply brings the token to the market, where expectations meet liquidity, unlocks, and real demand. And if FDV was already inflated before trading started, that test quickly becomes painful.
Read the full research on our website🔥
And additionally burn an equivalent amount of tokens from its reserves. The market reacted with a rise of more than 10%.
This is a positive signal, but a buyback on its own rarely becomes a driver of long-term growth.
Everyone's quick to compare Aster's new model to Hyperliquid,
A buyback affects supply. But in the long run, price is determined by demand.
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It's a story that keeps repeating itself. The product grows, users show up, revenue climbs, and the token keeps sliding anyway.
Most teams treat this as some kind of anomaly, when it's one of the most common problems in Web3.
But here's the part nobody wants to hear.
Product growth doesn't create token demand on its own, so when there's no link between usage and the token, revenue moves in one direction while the token quietly drifts in the other. You end up with more users, more activity, and a chart that still bleeds.
In a new episode with BeInCrypto, Sergey Novikov, CPO at 8Blocks, breaks down exactly where that link snaps:
Pour a coffee, this one's worth it😎 :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-14LejDJgg
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Why Product Growth Doesn’t Always Create Token Value
Why does a Web3 project grow while its token keeps going down? And why do most tokens fail even when the product actually works?
8Blocks designs, audits and stress-tests tokenomics for Web3, GameFi and DeFi projects, with a focus on building token economies…
8Blocks designs, audits and stress-tests tokenomics for Web3, GameFi and DeFi projects, with a focus on building token economies…
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Crypto security is becoming its own financial discipline
Most of us know how to handle fiat. Crypto still leaves a lot of people unsure of their footing. Meanwhile the market is growing up, and the industry has started to settle on a clear set of rules.
In a new episode of Safety Talks, the educational project from EarnPark, Sergey Novikov (CPO at 8Blocks) breaks down what matters when it comes to tokenomics and risk:
🫥 what makes tokenomics genuinely good (spoiler: it isn't a flawless unlock chart)
🫥 why utility on paper and utility in real life are two completely different things
🫥 what an investor should look at before TGE to avoid buying a pig in a poke
🫥 the questions worth asking yourself before you ever buy a token
He also shares a checklist every retail investor should run through before stepping into a new asset.
Most of us know how to handle fiat. Crypto still leaves a lot of people unsure of their footing. Meanwhile the market is growing up, and the industry has started to settle on a clear set of rules.
In a new episode of Safety Talks, the educational project from EarnPark, Sergey Novikov (CPO at 8Blocks) breaks down what matters when it comes to tokenomics and risk:
He also shares a checklist every retail investor should run through before stepping into a new asset.
😎 Catch the full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0ODSxl_hOs
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Tokenomics Red Flags Before TGE: What Retail Investors Miss. Safety Talks with 8blocks
Most people look at tokenomics and check two things: allocation and vesting.
But is that enough to understand whether a token model can actually survive after launch?
In the first episode of Safety Talks, we speak with 8Blocks about what makes or breaks…
But is that enough to understand whether a token model can actually survive after launch?
In the first episode of Safety Talks, we speak with 8Blocks about what makes or breaks…
Why does tokenomics fall apart after listing?
The bear market usually takes the blame, but the root causes trace back to tokenomics mistakes made before TGE😎
In our piece for BeInCrypto, we focused on two things that quietly kill a project:
🖼️ flawed distribution that keeps constant pressure on the price;
🖼️ no real use for the token, so investor interest fades the moment the hype does.
Dig into the full breakdown
The bear market usually takes the blame, but the root causes trace back to tokenomics mistakes made before TGE
In our piece for BeInCrypto, we focused on two things that quietly kill a project:
We tested this against cases across GameFi, DeFi, RWA, and social, to see what keeps the strong players alive and where the weak ones slip.
Dig into the full breakdown
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In our new article, we break down six mistakes crypto projects make before the token ever launches.
The kind that no amount of marketing, and no strong product, can fix later.
🔗 Give it a read
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Nearly a million people lost money on a memecoin
The guy who made it walked away with a billion…😎
Losses on $TRUMP hit $3.81B, with almost a million people underwater by the end of June. The coin cratered 97%, from a January peak of $75.35 to $1.76 in July 2026, according to The New York Times, citing Nansen.
Meanwhile Donald Trump himself declared 927 pages of income from crypto projects, more than💲 1.4B in total.
The guy who made it walked away with a billion…
Losses on $TRUMP hit $3.81B, with almost a million people underwater by the end of June. The coin cratered 97%, from a January peak of $75.35 to $1.76 in July 2026, according to The New York Times, citing Nansen.
Meanwhile Donald Trump himself declared 927 pages of income from crypto projects, more than
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Strategy sold 3,588 BTC for $216 million
The proceeds went to preferred dividend payouts and to refilling the company's dollar reserve. Strategy is still sitting on 843,775 BTC and $2.55 billion in cash after the sale.
😎 What's changing isn't how much they sold, it's how they think about the reserve. Bitcoin used to be something Strategy simply piled up. Now they're openly putting it to work as part of corporate finance, servicing capital, covering dividends, keeping liquidity on hand.
For any company running a Bitcoin treasury, that's a precedent worth noting😉
The proceeds went to preferred dividend payouts and to refilling the company's dollar reserve. Strategy is still sitting on 843,775 BTC and $2.55 billion in cash after the sale.
That's less than 0.5% of its total stack, but it's the biggest BTC sale the company has ever made.
For any company running a Bitcoin treasury, that's a precedent worth noting
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A great product doesn’t always mean a great asset 🖼️
🤔 VIRTUALS is the case that proves it. The ecosystem grew, pulled in revenue, brought in users, and most token holders still walked away empty-handed.
See what we found
In our latest piece, we dig into why token utility isn't the same as investment value.
How incentive structures can quietly reshape a project's whole economy, and what the whole thing says about the wider AI-crypto space.
See what we found
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Listing doesn't complete tokenomics, it puts it on trial
The market doesn't care about your spreadsheets. It tests emission vs. demand, liquidity vs. unlocks, hype vs. real utility. And most of what breaks after TGE was already baked in before it.
🗓 Tomorrow at 2 PM UTC we get into this in an AMA with EarnPark.
🔗 Save your seat
The market doesn't care about your spreadsheets. It tests emission vs. demand, liquidity vs. unlocks, hype vs. real utility. And most of what breaks after TGE was already baked in before it.
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The MiCA transitional period closed on 1 July 2026. The unlicensed players are already gone. Now ESMA is turning to the ones who made it through.
This is the first large-scale supervisory project since MiCA came into full force, and it runs almost a year, until mid-2027. Every CASP holding client assets is in scope.
What it means for the market and for investors, with Anton Efimenko, cofounder of 8Blocks.
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