High-Yield Wealth Management in Stablecoin Clothing
Flash-Crash in 8 Minutes – the xUSD Story On 4 Nov 2025, Stream Finance’s “interest-bearing stablecoin” xUSD collapsed from US$1.00 to US$0.12, wiping out 88 % of its market-cap in one afternoon.Trigger: A 4× leveraged delta-neutral book built on opaque off-chain positions lost US$93 m during the 11 Oct crypto rout.After-shock: Within seven days > US$1 bn fled every “yield-bearing stablecoin” tracked by StableWatch—an exodus equal to a mid-size city-bank run.Mirror of 2008 – Packaging Risk as...
High-Yield Wealth Management in Stablecoin Clothing
Flash-Crash in 8 Minutes – the xUSD Story On 4 Nov 2025, Stream Finance’s “interest-bearing stablecoin” xUSD collapsed from US$1.00 to US$0.12, wiping out 88 % of its market-cap in one afternoon.Trigger: A 4× leveraged delta-neutral book built on opaque off-chain positions lost US$93 m during the 11 Oct crypto rout.After-shock: Within seven days > US$1 bn fled every “yield-bearing stablecoin” tracked by StableWatch—an exodus equal to a mid-size city-bank run.Mirror of 2008 – Packaging Risk as...
2025 Token Buyback Round-up: Over US$1.4 Bn Spent, Top-10 Projects Account for 92 %
Market Snapshot: $1.4 Bn and Counting Token-buyback spending in 2025 has already topped US $1.4 billion, with the ten largest programmes capturing 92 % of the outlay. The surge signals that “buy-and-burn” has moved from marketing gimmick to core treasury policy—though the crypto community is still arguing about whether it actually creates lasting value. --- The Heavyweight: Hyperliquid’s $644 M War-chest Hyperliquid’s insurance-fund wallet leads the pack, pouring $644.6 million into HYPE buyb...
2025 Token Buyback Round-up: Over US$1.4 Bn Spent, Top-10 Projects Account for 92 %
Market Snapshot: $1.4 Bn and Counting Token-buyback spending in 2025 has already topped US $1.4 billion, with the ten largest programmes capturing 92 % of the outlay. The surge signals that “buy-and-burn” has moved from marketing gimmick to core treasury policy—though the crypto community is still arguing about whether it actually creates lasting value. --- The Heavyweight: Hyperliquid’s $644 M War-chest Hyperliquid’s insurance-fund wallet leads the pack, pouring $644.6 million into HYPE buyb...
From 10-Cent Drop to $8,390 Airdrop: What’s Next for Plasma?
1. The Airdrop Heard Round Crypto On 25 Sep 2025 Plasma’s main-net beta went live and the native token XPL was airdropped to every pre-deposit user—no matter if they had wired one dollar or ten thousand. The uniform payout was worth $8,390 per wallet, turning a symbolic 10-cent registration into an overnight four-figure wind-fall. Half the eligible addresses claimed inside the first three hours; in total 25 million XPL (0.25 % of genesis supply) were given away. Price discovery was immediate:...
From 10-Cent Drop to $8,390 Airdrop: What’s Next for Plasma?
1. The Airdrop Heard Round Crypto On 25 Sep 2025 Plasma’s main-net beta went live and the native token XPL was airdropped to every pre-deposit user—no matter if they had wired one dollar or ten thousand. The uniform payout was worth $8,390 per wallet, turning a symbolic 10-cent registration into an overnight four-figure wind-fall. Half the eligible addresses claimed inside the first three hours; in total 25 million XPL (0.25 % of genesis supply) were given away. Price discovery was immediate:...
The Rise of Bitcoin DeFi: Infrastructure Arms Race and the Coming Explosion
1. From Digital Gold to Yield-Bearing “Platinum” For fifteen years Bitcoin was the world’s most valuable parking lot—you parked, you prayed, you waited. In Q3-2025 the lot sprouted toll booths:BTCFi TVL ↑ 2 200 % YoYLombard community sale 14× oversubscribed, 21 340 wallets, 132 countries.Babylon’s first staking epoch filled 24 000 BTC ($1.5 bn) in 100 minutes—Ticketmaster-level FOMO.The Ferrari is finally leaving the garage.2. Staking 1.0 – Native, Non-Custodial, Liquid BabylonScript-level ti...
The Rise of Bitcoin DeFi: Infrastructure Arms Race and the Coming Explosion
1. From Digital Gold to Yield-Bearing “Platinum” For fifteen years Bitcoin was the world’s most valuable parking lot—you parked, you prayed, you waited. In Q3-2025 the lot sprouted toll booths:BTCFi TVL ↑ 2 200 % YoYLombard community sale 14× oversubscribed, 21 340 wallets, 132 countries.Babylon’s first staking epoch filled 24 000 BTC ($1.5 bn) in 100 minutes—Ticketmaster-level FOMO.The Ferrari is finally leaving the garage.2. Staking 1.0 – Native, Non-Custodial, Liquid BabylonScript-level ti...
Will Japan’s 20 % Crypto Tax Cut Ignite a New Wave of Buying?
Headline Reform: 55 % → 20 % At the closing session of Japan WebX 2025, Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP) lawmaker Katayama Satsuki—chair of the Upper-House Budget Committee—confirmed that Tokyo is preparing to re-classify BTC, ETH and other mainstream tokens as “financial instruments” instead of “payment methods.” If the shift clears the Diet, the headline tax rate on crypto gains will fall from up to 55 % (progressive “miscellaneous income”) to a flat 20 %, matching equities. Katayama’s timeli...
Will Japan’s 20 % Crypto Tax Cut Ignite a New Wave of Buying?
Headline Reform: 55 % → 20 % At the closing session of Japan WebX 2025, Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP) lawmaker Katayama Satsuki—chair of the Upper-House Budget Committee—confirmed that Tokyo is preparing to re-classify BTC, ETH and other mainstream tokens as “financial instruments” instead of “payment methods.” If the shift clears the Diet, the headline tax rate on crypto gains will fall from up to 55 % (progressive “miscellaneous income”) to a flat 20 %, matching equities. Katayama’s timeli...
