Neobanks are running two payment systems at once.

Revolut already did ~$10B in stablecoin volume, Nubank pushing crypto custody into US banking. Card rails still dominate merchants but growth is happening on stablecoins.

That’s the key divergence.

Legacy = trusted, slow, expensive
Stablecoins = fast, global, composable

This won’t flip overnight, but once merchants start optimizing for margins, stablecoin rails win. Whoever captures merchant flow controls the next payment stack.

And crypto is already sitting in the backend waiting.

Ethereum eating RWA market share.

61% of all tokenized assets now sit on ETH:

→ ~$206B settled
→ +40% YoY growth

Pure consolidation.

RWAs aren’t a multi-chain race yet. They’re still an Ethereum gravity game.

ETH Q1 looks bad on paper.

-32.8% QoQ, but March closed green (+1.3%).

That resilience hides what really happened:

• $5.4B liquidations nuked leverage
• L2s ate fees → burn collapsed → inflation back
• Macro flipped risk-off (oil, gold > crypto)

Meanwhile, activity has reached ATH.

So price ↓, usage ↑.

ETH is stuck between two regimes:

Short term → macro liquidity + broken fee model

Long term → still the settlement layer everyone builds on

Disconnect like this doesn’t last forever.

Lido considering a $20M buyback.

Up to 10,000 stETH → buying LDO ≈ 8% of circulating supply

At the same time: LDO/ETH ratio at ~0.00016, which means ~70% below historical levels.

Protocol still dominates liquid staking, revenue intact, usage there, price got nuked with the rest of ETH beta.

My take: this is a classic “fundamentals vs sentiment” setup.

If DAO steps in to absorb supply here, insiders will see value where market sees dead weight.

Solana RWA holders up +440% YoY.

218K wallets across stocks, funds, commodities.

ETH still dominates in size,
but Solana is winning distribution.

More wallets → more flow → eventually more TVL.

Follow users, capital follows next.

The whole market today is a joke… or is it? Let’s break it down ↓

General
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Market
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DeFi
➖ The Defiant: DeFi Generated $8 Billion in Onchain Yield in 2025: Analysis

Blockchains & networks
➖ 4pillars: Solana: Built on Innovation, Slowed by Incentives
➖ 4pillars: Pharos's Blueprint for Institutional-Grade Financial Infrastructure

Tokens & currencies
➖ 4pillars: Web3 Business Playbook: Mastercard
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RWA went from $1B to $27B in ~3 years.

Treasuries leading growth. Private credit holding the largest share.

Institutions are also here: JPM moving $2B daily, Robinhood bringing tokenized equities on-chain.

Looks unstoppable, but zoom out.

This growth is built on one thing: yield + rates.

RWAs are working because TradFi returns are attractive. If macro shifts, flows can too.

Stablecoin supply crossed $294B, but structure matters more than size.

USDT still dominates with ~62% share, keeping liquidity concentrated, while USDC remains the only real competitor at scale.

USDS and USDe are growing on yield, while PayPal and Ripple push distribution with PYUSD and RLUSD. DeFi stables like crvUSD are still holding ground.

Apps are starting to outperform chains.

RWA and stablecoin issuers like SKY and Centrifuge held positive price momentum, while major L2s like Arbitrum and Optimism were still deep in the red despite strong activity and volume.

Value is moving up the stack, from infrastructure to applications that capture real cash flows. Investors are starting to care less about blockspace and more about who actually owns the liquidity and earns on it. If this trend continues, capital will keep rotating from chains into protocols that monetize real usage.

Polymarket open interest is back near election highs, but the structure has changed.

Previously, over $500M was concentrated in a single narrative, the US presidential election. Now the same level of capital is distributed across geopolitics, sports, macro, crypto, and culture.

It shows the platform is no longer driven by one-off events, but by continuous demand for onchain prediction markets. This is early product-market fit. When liquidity spreads across multiple categories instead of clustering around a single catalyst, it signals a transition from hype to a sustainable market.

Drift turned into one of the largest Solana exploits, over $285M drained after a multi-sig compromise that let the attacker take admin control.

The exploit itself was an orchestration: fake collateral (CVT), oracle manipulation, then cross-margining into real assets like SOL, ETH, BTC and JLP.

The result is $DRIFT down 20% and ~130K ETH already bridged out, which means this is now a liquidity event.

Where the failure happened? Not in DeFi logic, but in key management and oracle assumptions. My view is that this pushes the market further toward stricter oracle design, isolated collateral models, and institutional-grade key management.

Spot CEX volume dropped to $986B in March, the lowest in 24 months and down ~59% from the October peak.

What matters is the persistence: 4 out of the last 5 months have been down, and this is happening across every major exchange.

My read is that this is a structural shift, not just a slow market. Capital is rotating away from spot into perps, on-chain venues, and yield-bearing instruments, while retail activity is clearly cooling.

Crypto stocks have been bleeding.

Down 40–60% over the last 6 months, basically trading like mid-cap alts, while even L2 tokens are holding up better than $COIN and $CRCL.

Market is pricing growth, and these names are failing that test.

Open interest on trade.xyz hit a new ATH at $1.7B, and the trajectory matters as much as the number.

Since early 2026, OI has expanded aggressively with only brief pullbacks, showing consistent capital inflow rather than short-lived spikes.

Rising open interest at this scale reflects growing demand for leveraged exposure and more active positioning, not just passive flows. Lliquidity compounds, and once it reaches this level, it starts attracting even more capital by default.

Allora’s research shows that not all AI tasks should be weighted the same on-chain.

Classification works better with aggressive weighting toward top models, while regression still benefits from aggregation.

The coordination layer stays the same, only the weighting adapts. It is the way decentralized intelligence scales, by improving signal selection, and it directly fits use cases like prediction markets where picking the best model matters most.

RLUSD reached ~$1.2B in circulating supply, already exceeding total value locked on Avalanche by roughly $465M.

For a relatively new stablecoin, that scale is not trivial, it shows how quickly distribution can compound when backed by an established network like Ripple.

Monad pushed to a new TVL high, with steady growth since launch even in a risk-off market.

Flows are clearly supported by incentives like Momentum, but the fact that capital is still rotating in while broader activity is slowing stands out.

Morpho and Steakhouse are doing the heavy lifting here, which tells me this is not just mercenary liquidity, but targeted deployment into yield strategies. Add the potential $30M buyback from Category Labs, and you get a reflexive setup where liquidity and narrative reinforce each other.

NEAR hit ATH in weekly active users, pushing toward ~20M WAU after a steady multi-year climb.

What stands out is the disconnect. User activity is expanding aggressively, while market attention remains elsewhere. A classic case where distribution is being built before pricing catches up. This kind of user base becomes one of the strongest signals of long-term network value.

Solana DEX flow has basically turned into a duopoly.

PumpSwap is pushing ~$51B weekly and Meteora ~$20B, while everything else is fighting over scraps, together barely ~15% of volume.

Meteora’s steady climb is not random. Liquidity is consolidating because the memecoin explosion fragmented the long tail, and capital is now clustering where execution and depth actually hold.

Hyperliquid pushed $203B in 30-day perp volume, already surpassing several mid-tier CEXs and closing in on MEXC.

This is parity, an on-chain venue now competing directly with centralized exchanges on execution scale.

Perps are becoming the entry point for DEX dominance, and once liquidity reaches critical mass, the distinction between CEX and DEX starts to disappear for traders.

Ethereum cycles are demand-driven.

2017 was ICO capital formation, 2021 was DeFi and NFTs, and now the market is being anchored by stablecoin settlement and RWAs.

What stands out is that each cycle moves closer to real economic activity. We went from speculative fundraising to financial primitives, and now to actual payment rails and tokenized assets. This shift lowers reflexivity but increases durability, meaning slower hype cycles, but stronger long-term value capture for Ethereum.