A BlackRock, half of financial history.

In 2025, gold once again became the focus of the global capital markets. COMEX gold futures prices broke through $3,200 per ounce, setting a new historical high, with an annual increase of over 20%. Meanwhile, although Bitcoin briefly surpassed $100,000 at the end of 2024, it fell into volatility at the beginning of 2025, drifting further away from the narrative of "digital gold."

On April 16, 2025, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell expressed deep concerns in a highly anticipated speech regarding the recently announced aggressive tariff policies of the Trump administration, warning that they could lead the U.S. economy into a stagflation predicament—where economic growth slows while inflation rises.

The Federal Reserve is ready to provide dollars to global central banks to address shortages, Panama allows the government to accept cryptocurrency payments, Bybit plans to terminate multiple Web3 services, and investor risk appetite is decreasing.

Crypto lobbyists also dropped a lawsuit against the IRS.

\\\"We may find ourselves in the challenging scenario in which our dual-mandate goals are in tension,\\\" said Powell of the effect of the Trump tariffs.

The other major cryptocurrency is becoming the global settlement layer for on-chain assets, says Advantage Blockchain’s Alec Beckman.

Stablecoins are \\\"perfect rails for yield distribution,\\\" the protocol\\\'s CEO and founder Ivan Kozlov said in an interview.

The essence of RWA is the mapping of real assets on the chain, but its development has always been limited by the conflicts between regulatory frameworks, asset complexity, and decentralization logic. Although current RWA protocols have achieved initial results in the tokenization of financial assets, issues such as compliance silos, poor accessibility, and lack of interoperability remain prominent. In the future, to truly realize its value release, it is necessary to break down the barriers between traditional finance and the on-chain world, and to build a more inclusive public ledger financial system.

The snowball of the OM collapse is getting bigger and bigger. Let's go back to the initial moment; who fired the first shot?

The Privacy and Verifiability Hackathon organized by the Blockchain Student Association of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) focuses on innovations in blockchain privacy and verifiability technologies. Through a 26-hour extreme challenge, it attracts developers to collaborate on privacy-enhancing methods and verifiable blockchain solutions.

According to AICoin data, stimulated by Upbit's announcement of listing WCT, the price of WCT surged over 60% in the past 24 hours, breaking the $0.5 mark and reaching a high of $0.55, setting a new record since its listing.

Here are 8 projects that have received funding and can be used to earn rewards with stablecoins, sharing with everyone.