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Crypto交易员朱一旦
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Recently, many people have been asking why RIVER has been performing so strongly during this period.
If you only look at the price trend, it can easily be mistaken for an emotional rise, but I prefer to understand it as: under changes in the macro environment, infrastructure-type assets are being repriced.
In the past period, risk appetite has warmed up, but there are not many directions that can truly accommodate large-scale funds. Purely thematic projects lack a path for realization, while the valuations of old assets are relatively high, so funds have begun to refocus on protocols that have already scaled up and possess long-term structural value.
The turning point for RIVER is that it is not just a simple stablecoin project, but rather a stable asset liquidity system from the perspective of chain abstraction. Stablecoins are no longer limited to single-chain use, but act as cross-ecosystem liquidity carriers, automatically seeking more efficient destinations. Currently, the TVL of the River protocol is close to 300 million dollars, the circulation of the core stablecoin satUSD is about 150 million dollars, and it has been deployed on more than 9 public chains, which gives it a foundation for discussions around “structural assets.”
Recently, a strategic financing of 12 million dollars was secured, backed by institutions including TRON DAO / Justin Sun, Maelstrom Fund (founded by Arthur Hayes), Spartan Group, and others, indicating a notable change in the market’s perception of its positioning.
With Coinone's launch leading to it ranking first in trading volume across the platform, as well as multiple mainstream exchanges having already launched it, with further listings expected, RIVER seems to be the “cross-ecosystem infrastructure target” chosen by capital in the current macro environment.
How the price moves is left to the market, but at least for now, the discussion around RIVER is no longer whether it can be speculated upon, but rather what position it can occupy in the future asset liquidity system.
If you only look at the price trend, it can easily be mistaken for an emotional rise, but I prefer to understand it as: under changes in the macro environment, infrastructure-type assets are being repriced.
In the past period, risk appetite has warmed up, but there are not many directions that can truly accommodate large-scale funds. Purely thematic projects lack a path for realization, while the valuations of old assets are relatively high, so funds have begun to refocus on protocols that have already scaled up and possess long-term structural value.
The turning point for RIVER is that it is not just a simple stablecoin project, but rather a stable asset liquidity system from the perspective of chain abstraction. Stablecoins are no longer limited to single-chain use, but act as cross-ecosystem liquidity carriers, automatically seeking more efficient destinations. Currently, the TVL of the River protocol is close to 300 million dollars, the circulation of the core stablecoin satUSD is about 150 million dollars, and it has been deployed on more than 9 public chains, which gives it a foundation for discussions around “structural assets.”
Recently, a strategic financing of 12 million dollars was secured, backed by institutions including TRON DAO / Justin Sun, Maelstrom Fund (founded by Arthur Hayes), Spartan Group, and others, indicating a notable change in the market’s perception of its positioning.
With Coinone's launch leading to it ranking first in trading volume across the platform, as well as multiple mainstream exchanges having already launched it, with further listings expected, RIVER seems to be the “cross-ecosystem infrastructure target” chosen by capital in the current macro environment.
How the price moves is left to the market, but at least for now, the discussion around RIVER is no longer whether it can be speculated upon, but rather what position it can occupy in the future asset liquidity system.
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