2025 was the year institutional investors entered the crypto market in earnest. With clearer regulations and a more mature landscape, institutions began treating digital assets as strategic holdings due to their return potential and diversification benefits. EY’s 2025 survey reported that 83% of global institutional investors planned to increase their digital asset allocation within the year.
Large caps are still running the market. The Top-10 dominance has stayed elevated all year, meaning most capital remains parked in BTC and the major L1s. Top-50 and Top-100 are rising as well, showing capital consolidation rather than rotation into small caps. $BTC $ETH $BNB
Interesting fact: more than 90% of all BTC bridge aggregation volume now flows through Rango. Volume is up 84.9% QoQ to ~$943M, transactions up 57% to 1.8M, and daily active addresses up 54%. Solana drives over half of transaction count, while Ethereum leads in notional volume. $BTC #BTC
Ripple is expanding RLUSD beyond Ethereum and the XRP Ledger into major Layer 2 networks using Wormhole’s NTT standard. This move brings RLUSD to environments where real on-chain activity happens: lower fees, faster settlement, and deeper DeFi liquidity. By using native token transfers, RLUSD avoids wrapped tokens and fragmented liquidity while keeping a single, compliant supply. This is not a marketing play. It’s an infrastructure decision. Ripple is positioning RLUSD as a regulated, multichain settlement asset for the next phase of blockchain finance. #Ripple #RLUSD #xrp $XRP
A public company just turned Ethereum into a treasury asset. BitMine Immersion (BMNR) now holds 3.97 million ETH as a long-term balance-sheet position, pushing total crypto and cash holdings to $13.3B. #ETH #Ethereum #BinanceSquare $ETH
Artemis: Solana is #1 in Usage KPIs in 2025 > Solana is #1 in MAU at 98M (~5x Base MAU) > Solana is #1 in Transactions at 34B (18x $BNB ) > Solana is #1 in Trading Volume at $1.6T (1.7x $ETH ) > Solana is #1 in Application Fees at $5B (2x ETH) > Solana is #1 in Revenue at $1.5B (2.4x $TRX )
Leading TradFi institutions — Robinhood, BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and WisdomTree — have now tokenized more than $800M worth of assets. This includes stocks, U.S. Treasuries, EU government bonds, real estate, ETFs, and commodities. Traditional markets are steadily moving real-world assets on-chain at scale.
Exor Board Unanimously Rejects Tether’s Proposal to Acquire Exor’s Controlling Stake in Juventus > Exor reaffirms its previous, consistent statements that it has no intention of selling any of its shares in Juventus to a third party, including but not restricted to El Salvador-based Tether
Tether Submits Proposal to Acquire Juventus Football Club
> Tether has submitted a binding all cash proposal to Exor to acquire its entire stake in Juventus FC.
> Subject to regulatory approvals, Tether intends to make a public offer for the remaining shares at the same price, fully funded with its own capital and supported by a long term commitment to the club
After the market correction, Aave is the only DeFi protocol (excluding LST/LRT platforms) still holding over $10B in TVL. Years of liquidity building and a strong track record have become a moat that competitors can’t easily replicate.
A European bank just went live on Ripple’s blockchain payment rails.
AMINA Bank, a FINMA-regulated Swiss bank, is the first in Europe to adopt Ripple Payments in production, enabling near-instant cross-border transfers using blockchain instead of legacy correspondent banking.
This move bridges fiat and stablecoins, cuts settlement time from days to seconds, and brings compliant, institutional-grade crypto payments directly into the European banking system.
The message is clear: blockchain payments are becoming core banking infrastructure, not an external experiment. #Xrp🔥🔥 $XRP
A European bank just went live on Ripple’s blockchain payment rails.
AMINA Bank, a FINMA-regulated Swiss bank, is the first in Europe to adopt Ripple Payments in production, enabling near-instant cross-border transfers using blockchain instead of legacy correspondent banking.
This move bridges fiat and stablecoins, cuts settlement time from days to seconds, and brings compliant, institutional-grade crypto payments directly into the European banking system.
The message is clear: blockchain payments are becoming core banking infrastructure, not an external experiment. #Xrp🔥🔥 $XRP
Circle Receives Conditional Approval from OCC for National Trust Charter
> Circle has received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a national trust bank, First National Digital Currency Bank, N.A. $USDC #USDC✅
Tether Submits Proposal to Acquire Juventus Football Club
> Tether has submitted a binding all cash proposal to Exor to acquire its entire stake in Juventus FC.
> Subject to regulatory approvals, Tether intends to make a public offer for the remaining shares at the same price, fully funded with its own capital and supported by a long term commitment to the club
Ripple Payments Sees First European Bank Adoption with AMINA Bank
> Ripple has announced a new partnership with AMINA Bank to support near real time cross-border payments for AMINA Bank’s clients using Ripple Payments.
J.P. Morgan executed a real corporate debt issuance on a public blockchain.
A $50M commercial paper deal was tokenized, settled on Solana, and paid in USDC, with buyers like Coinbase Institutional and Franklin Templeton.
This wasn’t an announcement or a test environment. It was a live transaction showing how debt issuance and settlement can move from legacy systems to programmable, on-chain infrastructure.
The signal is clear: institutional finance is starting to migrate to public blockchains.$SOL