Ethereum Dominates 2025: DeFi TVL Surpasses $99 Billion, Stablecoin Volume Reaches $18.8 Trillion

Ethereum’s DeFi TVL exceeded $99 billion, over nine times larger than the next Layer 1, demonstrating dominant network adoption in the decentralized finance world. Ethereum reported strong growth in the decentralized finance (DeFi) and stablecoin space in 2025. This was mainly because lower transaction costs and the expansion of the infrastructure contributed to greater use […]

The highway analogy: Vitalik Buterin’s plan to scale Ethereum 1000x

Vitalik Buterin argues that working on increasing Ethereum’s bandwidth will potentially provide infinite scalability rather than working on reducing latency. In a recent commentary on Ethereum’s future, Vitalik Buterin discussed a significant pivot point: the network should prioritize increasing bandwidth (capacity to process data) over reducing latency (speed of transaction processing). His core argument rest […]

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum has solved the Blockchain trilemma

Buterin sees Ethereum’s progress as a structural shift, not a performance adjustment, and points out that live code is already reshaping the network. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin declared this weekend that the blockchain trilemma, the long-held belief that a network cannot simultaneously achieve decentralization, security and scalability, has been solved. His statement marks a crucial […]

Crypto funds will rake in $47.2 billion by 2025, but Bitcoin is losing ground

XRP and Solana posted massive triple-digit growth in 2025, while Bitcoin-focused crypto investment funds struggled. Digital asset investment products ended 2025 with total global inflows of $47.2 billion, slightly lower than the record of $48.7 billion in 2024. The year started on a positive note, with $671 million raised last Friday alone. This pushed total […]

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum made progress in 2025, must decentralize in 2026

Vitalik Buterin emphasized that Ethereum’s next phase relies as much on decentralization as it does on technical upgrades. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has urged the Ethereum community to remain vigilant against centralization. This comes as the network celebrates the major technical achievements achieved by 2025. Decentralization and usability In a New Year’s message shared via […]

Ripple’s (XRP) Next Big Move, Ethereum’s (ETH) Prospects for a Strong Year, and More: Bits Recap January 2

Here are the possible paths for XRP, ETH and BTC. Ripple’s native token has had a volatile week, with its price fluctuating between $1.80 and $1.90. The question now is whether the bulls can take control and make a decisive move higher. Ethereum (ETH) and Bitcoin (BTC) have also experienced significant turbulence, and some analysts […]

Ethereum’s price remains stuck, but developers are building at a record pace

Even as ETH struggles below $3,000, developers are surging as record contract deployments indicate organic growth, driven by rollups, stablecoins, RWAs, and wallets. Ethereum has registered a major uptick in developer activity despite lagging performance on the price side. The network deployed a record 8.7 million smart contracts in a single quarter, according to a […]