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Token unlocks are events when blockchain projects release previously restricted tokens to the market. These events are carefully planned to manage market impact and volatility. Often, these token unlocks lead to notable price movements. Here are three major token unlocks scheduled for the upcoming week 1. Berachain (BERA) Unlock Date: February 10 Number of Tokens to be Unlocked: 12.98 million BERA Current Circulating Supply: 107.48 Million BERA Berachain is a layer‑1 blockchain that hosts an EVM‑identical execution environment and a novel consensus mechanism called Proof‑of‑Liquidity (PoL). Berachain’s execution layer is identical to Ethereum’s Virtual Machine (EVM), meaning it uses the…

Panama City — In a major leap forward for Bitcoin DeFi, Velar has officially launched Velar PerpDex, the first decentralized perpetuals exchange built directly on Bitcoin infrastructure. Running on the Stacks Layer 2, Velar PerpDex brings leveraged trading to Bitcoin holders—without compromising custody or decentralization. —Now live at perpdex.velar.com, the platform debuts with the sBTC-USDh trading pair, powered by USDh, the first synthetic Bitcoin dollar developed by Hermetica. Additional trading pairs will be introduced gradually, allowing users to open long and short positions on a wider range of assets within the Bitcoin ecosystem. A New Chapter for Bitcoin DeFiPerpetual futures…

While speculations around potential XRP adoption by most banks in Japan remain unconfirmed, such a development could massively impact XRP. Notably, due to its impressive features, several proponents have identified XRP’s potential to improve the traditional finance scene. Amid these discussions, speculation about its adoption by Japanese banks emerged. But how realistic are these expectations, and what would it mean for XRP’s price if Japan’s banking sector integrated it to a certain extent? Speculation of Widespread Adoption SBI Holdings, one of Japan’s largest financial institutions, has been a major supporter of Ripple and XRP. The company has integrated Ripple’s technology…

Ethereum gaming metaverse platform The Sandbox will launch its Alpha Season 5 on Monday, March 31, bringing a number of new game experiences tied to major franchises. The six-week gaming event will introduce over 40 new games from an array of brands and franchises, including Jurassic World, Teletubbies, Atari, Attack on Titan, Terminator: Dark Fate, and Hellboy. As Decrypt previously reported, the season’s flagship experience, Jurassic World: Dinosaur Preserve, invites players to manage a dinosaur sanctuary, offering a blend of conservation simulation and adventure inspired by the film franchise. “Alpha Season 5 marks the beginning of a new era for…

Bitcoin (BTC) is often praised as the most decentralized cryptocurrency by its supporters, but the truth could be something else. Onchain data shows that only two Bitcoin mining pools mined over 51% of all BTC in the last three years. Here is why it matters and could raise a centralization alert for the leading blockchain network. Finbold retrieved this information from mempool.space, a Bitcoin data aggregator and block explorer, gathered directly from an observer node. Essentially, this data ranks Bitcoin mining pools per their mined blocks against the total blocks mined in a certain period. In the last three years…

BounceBit, a pioneer platform for CeDefi infrastructure and RWA integration, has partnered with Centrifuge, a prominent company strengthening asset managers in managing, tokenizing, and distributing funds on-chain. The collaboration aims to integrate the Janus Henderson Anemoy Treasury Fund ($JTRSY) into the portal of BounceBit to increase the tokenized treasury products’ availability for users. The platform revealed this development on its official social media account. BounceBit partners with @centrifuge to expand RWA offerings.The Janus Henderson Anemoy Treasury Fund (JTRSY), powered by Centrifuge, invests exclusively in short-term US Treasury Bills.It seamlessly fits into our RWA infra, bridging Western innovation with Asian liquidity.…

AI tokens, cryptocurrencies that leverage blockchain technology and artificial intelligence for their operations, have gained immense popularity since mid-last 2023. Today’s Metrics shared by Phoenix Group provided a list of top AI agent projects based on social activity. TOP #AIAGENT PROJECTS BY SOCIAL ACTIVITY$INJ $FET $AIXBT $SWARMS $AITECH #AI16Z #VIRTUAL $NEUR $ORAI #GRIFFAIN pic.twitter.com/V4oxayR0Dn — PHOENIX – Crypto News & Analytics (@pnxgrp) February 8, 2025 Top AI crypto tokens based on social activity According to the data, Injective (INJ) emerged at the top. The project boasts a tremendous 7.7k engaged posts and an astonishing 899.6k social interactions, indicating the rising…

Gunzilla Games, the studio behind crypto battle royale shooter Off the Grid, announced Tuesday that it had acquired the long-running Game Informer print magazine and online publication, months after it was shut down by its previous owner GameStop. But why would a crypto game studio purchase a shuttered video game magazine and bring it back from the dead? In an interview with Decrypt, Gunzilla Games Director of Web3 Theodore Agranat called this move “very crucial” to the studio’s long-term plans— and one that could benefit Off the Grid gamers in the future. Game Informer is back! The entire team is…

On Friday, Bitcoin’s computing strength rocketed to an all-time peak of 862 exahash per second (EH/s), shattering the prior benchmark of 852 EH/s set when February kicked off. Bitcoin’s Network Muscle Flexes On March 28, the network’s aggregate processing velocity had climbed to 862 EH/s, edging past the earlier milestone by a decisive 10 EH/s. Data from hashrateindex.com, tracking seven-day simple moving averages (SMA), reveals that as of 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time, the system now hums at 857.77 EH/s—maintaining a steady, formidable rhythm in the wake of its latest feat. Bitcoin’s total hashrate over the last 12 months. Source: hashrateindex.com…

The CryptoQuant Network Activity Index for Bitcoin has dropped by 15% since its peak in November 2024, which is the lowest level in over a year. The index is now 3,760, hence its weakest performance since February 2024. Reduced RUNES Protocol Usage and Transactions Most of the sharp decrease in activity can be blamed on a major drop in Bitcoin transactions. From the September 2024 historical peak of 734,000 daily transactions are now at 346,000; this represents a sharp drop of 53%. One of the main reasons for this is the reduced activity of RUNES protocol which otherwise has seen…