This article explores some of the top platforms that are likely to be in the spotlight in 2025, including Lido Finance, Pendle Finance, EigenLayer, Ether.fi, Ethena, Jito, and Babylon.

In this article, we’ll take you deep into Cardano’s latest developments, key data, and network features, exploring ADA’s use cases and its role in the entire crypto economy.

Web3 network security company GoPlus recently announced that it will issue GPS tokens, and TGE details will be announced soon. The launch of GPS marks the transformation of GoPlus from a security service provider to a decentralized network. GPS tokens are designed to power all aspects of this security lifecycle: security service fees, staking rewards, and security transaction fees. Regarding token economics, the total supply of GPS tokens is 10 billion, 60.67% of which is used for ecosystem and community growth, and 39.33% is used for early contributors and private investors.

Founders Fund, the venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, is raising about $3 billion for its third growth equity fund. Founders Fund has not yet provided potential investors with an official size target for the new fund but said $3 billion would be a ballpark figure.

Coinbase International’s total trading volume last week exceeded $119 billion, a record high. The total volume for the week was 124% higher than the previous week’s total, while the daily average for the past week was 164% higher than the daily average for the previous week.

Data from the Bank of Korea showed that as of the end of November, the number of cryptocurrency investors in South Korea reached 15.59 million, an increase of 610,000 from October. This figure accounts for more than 30% of the country's total population, reflecting the increase in market activity after US President-elect Trump pledged to support the cryptocurrency industry. The rise in Bitcoin prices also contributed to the growth of this trend.

Bitcoin staking protocol Babylon disclosed in its official blog that on December 15, during the third launch of the Babylon Bitcoin Staking Protocol mainnet, an anonymous pledger pledged 10,000 bitcoins worth more than $1 billion through three transactions.

According to Barron's, citing MicroStrategy documents, MicroStrategy plans to increase the number of authorized common shares from the current 330 million shares to 10.3 billion shares, an increase of 3,000%. This proposal will be voted on at the special shareholders meeting.

HIVE Digital Technologies has invested $30 million to purchase and deploy NVIDIA H100 and H200 GPU clusters to support the rapidly growing demand for artificial intelligence. These high-performance computing (HPC) clusters will be deployed in Quebec, Canada, and will be powered entirely by renewable energy.

The current circulation of mined bitcoins has exceeded 19.8 million, and the number to be mined is about 1.1995 million. The current block reward for bitcoin mining is 3.125, and the average daily output is about 450 BTC.