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Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. It’s 2025, and nearly half of the world still doesn’t have adequate extreme weather alert systems. Seriously, some parts of the world are pretty much completely left in the dark—that’s according to the World Meteorological Organization. Such statistics should worry everyone. As storms grow more violent and unpredictable (yes, the rise in greenhouse gases has increased the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events), the ability to forecast and act on severe weather isn’t a luxury—it’s a requirement for survival. And it’s not like we don’t have the technology; the tools are there. It’s our systems that fail us, fail the millions of people left behind, and web3 has a chance to make a real impact there. You might also like:Transitioning to a divine economy: A vision for a new civilization | Opinion No data, no defense When we talk about weather data, the consequences of missing or delayed forecasts are very real. In 2024, devastating floods swept through Chad, displacing families, washing away homes, and affecting millions of people. The country’s meteorological systems were not sufficient. At the height of the crisis, nearly 80% of the country’s weather stations were offline.  With so little real-time data to go on, emergency planners and local officials were left guessing. The warnings came too late, which resulted in a catastrophic loss. But this is something that can happen again if nothing is done—WMO data shows that more than 50% of the radar stations that currently operate across Africa are unable to produce accurate enough data to predict weather patterns for the coming days or even hours. This isn’t just unfair, it’s dangerous. The limits of centralized forecasting For many years, weather forecasting services have relied on centralized hardware such as satellites and radar stations. While these systems have saved lives, they’re still very limited by geography, budgets, and other factors. These systems can’t always reach the local level fast enough, especially in emergency situations. In many countries, especially those with stretched resources, large parts of the population are simply beyond the reach of the existing infrastructure.  Current forecasting systems also tend to prioritize countries that already have robust systems.  The rest of the world, where climate often hits the hardest, is asked to adapt without the same level of information or tools. For example, Africa, a continent of 1.5 billion people, has the world’s least developed weather and climate observation network with fewer stations operating to global basic standards than Germany, according to the World Meteorological Organization. So, what can be done to tackle this? Decentralized solutions There’s another way to think about weather infrastructure—decentralized weather networks take a very different approach. Instead of building a few nodes to cover large areas, they deploy thousands of inexpensive sensors at the community level. This approach leverages the decentralized physical infrastructure networks model, which rewards people and communities with tokens for setting up real-world infrastructure. This infrastructure can include sensors gathering data in real time: from temperature and humidity to rainfall and more. That data is shared across a distributed network and used to improve forecasts, identify patterns, and alert people about the emerging risks. The beauty of these systems is that they don’t need to replace anything. They complement the existing methods. They fill in the gaps and help to strengthen the overall forecast. They can also operate independently when larger systems fail and give communities the tools they need to generate their own data—and act on it. Time to change the status quo Skeptics will say decentralized systems are too new to be trusted. While there may be some work to be done in decentralized networks becoming more widespread, the answer isn’t to dismiss the model. It’s to invest in it. To make it part of the solution. Dismissing the whole idea is short-sighted. Climate adaptation is a global challenge, and if the current systems don’t reach the people who need them the most, then it’s time to build systems that do. The alternative—sticking with what we have—isn’t working. Centralized systems are already struggling to keep up, especially in the places that need them the most. In many parts of the world, weather stations are broken, and the data simply doesn’t come in fast enough. Meanwhile, the weather gets more unpredictable by the season. Act now, before the next disaster The tools already exist; what’s missing is the mindset shift. We need to recognize that centralized systems can’t do this alone, and that communities deserve better. People and rural communities can and should be part of the solution. We can’t wait for the next devastating flood, historic cyclone, or life-changing drought to remind us that something is broken. The early warnings are already here. We need to act on them now. Read more:Streamlining sustainability with decentralized data | Opinion Ting Peng Ting Pengis the head of ecosystems at SkyX, a blockchain-powered weather network. Ting is a blockchain communications specialist with over seven years of experience in the industry. At SkyX Network, she leverages her expertise to articulate how decentralized infrastructure can solve real-world problems like inadequate weather monitoring systems. With a Master’s in Corporate Communication and deep knowledge of blockchain technology, Ting offers valuable insights on how decentralized networks can address critical global challenges where traditional systems fall short.

Disclosure: The views and opinions expressed here belong solely to the author and do not represent the views and opinions of crypto.news’ editorial. 2025 was supposed to be the year of mass adoption. The Trump administration was billed as the first pro-crypto US government, and Bitcoin (BTC) reached an all-time high of $106,000. Despite this, the first quarter of the year has been characterized by stumbling financial markets in the face of impending trade wars and global political instability. Crypto, which has broadly positioned itself as a hedge against such concerns, has struggled in-step with traditional markets too. You might also like:Mass crypto adoption requires transparency and education | Opinion Some may argue that this is a sign crypto isn’t meeting the tantalizing use case for cryptocurrency: a decentralized alternative that operates 24/7, unbound by the decisions of any single government, fund, or corporate actor. But while crypto has also struggled in-step with traditional markets, it has also shown resilience, on an upward trajectory in Q2, amid BlackRock’s investment in tokenized futures, and a multitude of emerging crypto ETF products.  However, we can concede that rather than taking full advantage of this moment, the uncomfortable truth is that crypto is still stuck in the blocks. Despite the clear product-market fit, today’s ecosystem remains a playground for enthusiasts and fund managers, with more proofs-of-concept than actual scalable infrastructure that you could reasonably expect the average Joe to use. Global DeFi is a long way off. Crypto isn’t ready Consider the scale of what’s at stake: the top five global asset managers oversee $30 trillion in assets. If they tokenized just 10% of their portfolios, crypto’s current market cap would double overnight, transforming the industry from a niche experiment into the backbone of mainstream finance. The question is how to onboard such a wealth of capital. Up until now, we have had institutional experimentation: hedge funds swooping in for fast gains with minimal capital. This is not real adoption; it’s still just “playing.” In crypto’s supposed breakthrough year, the industry has been passing time with memecoin mania and neatly packaged ETFs, endless speculative trading fueled by retail hype. It should have been building for mass adoption; it is imperative to not just encourage institutions to onboard, but ordinary people, too. For DeFi to become mainstream, it needs retail investors who can act independently of institutional capital, with their vast numbers depegging it from the whims of policy and elite capital markets. If crypto fails to do this, or turns to the task too late, we will simply be left with “alt-Fi”: a speculative market for the same old investors to trade on a new generation of tech.  The talk of a return to fundamentals is promising; it squares us back with the original goal of building a unified network capable of seamlessly tokenizing, managing, and programming global assets. Within such a structure, not only would institutions lend the weight of their liquidity, but billions of everyday users could finally access a financial system without friction, gatekeeping, or mediation. By focusing on onboarding users to intuitive interfaces, backed up by hyperscalable L1s and robust infrastructure, DeFi could build the foundation for mainstream adoption and move past enthusiastic experiments towards a refuge from increasingly volatile global markets. The road to success So, how do we get there? DeFi needs three things to reach the critical inflection point for mass adoption: a UX that can streamline complex actions into manageable, intuitive systems, a backend that can sustain the demands of a global user base, and a legislative landscape that can enable innovation to flourish. Utility The biggest obstacle to mass adoption is currently UX. DeFi’s complex interfaces, or even lack of interfaces, make it unusable at times for a non-specialist user. Many premier asset holders are unable or unwilling to maximize their portfolio, with complex bridges, staking, and swap mechanisms acting as both a barrier to trust as well as ability. Interventions with AI-based projects that act upon users’ expressed goals (“swap assets cheaply”), and wallets with human-readable transactions instead of cryptic hashes, will make DeFi as intuitive as PayPal, and drive user onboarding to the moon. And once billions can engage without friction, demand will force infrastructure, both technical and legislative, to catch up fast. Infrastructure But of course, DeFi needs the pipes to work. It is not enough to build usable interfaces: the backend has to support them. When billions of users arrive, DeFi has to be ready. Next-gen L1s like Solana (SOL) and Aptos (APT) claim thousands of transactions per second, but Solana’s struggles under high demand during the $TRUMP episode exposed limits to both testing and scaling. Testing should be undertaken in real-world conditions with accurate transaction metrics like swaps per second (SPS). Increased focus on scaling solutions like state sharding and parallel processing will boost throughput while preserving decentralization. These innovations are necessary if we are going to get to true scalability: one million SPS is the goal. This is where we need to be to support DeFi at the global scale. Inflection point These impending UX and L1 improvements are just the lock gates opening: once intuitive systems and scalable networks are in place, capital will arrive in floods. The premise of DeFi isn’t a hard sell; everyone knows TradFi is only serving the few. The future of finance, a universal asset layer, needs accessible systems for everyday users and reliable infrastructure for the big players to act. This applies to the legislature as much as infrastructure. The legislative sandboxes recently announced for crypto exchanges in the US are fundamentally important: when demand improves, DeFi will reach an inflection point, one that it must be ready for, and the legislative trial period will have to be over; systems must already be in place to support it.  Conclusion The current economic turbulence could be the catalyst crypto needs, making blockchain’s value proposition increasingly compelling. Yet without scalable solutions ready to handle massive capital inflows, this opportunity could slip away: the inflection point is looming. However, once the capital and user base are there, and the safety nets are in place, the dominoes will fall. Investors and institutions will have the confidence they need to enter the market in a meaningful way, and their customers soon after. But to get there, L1 innovators must prioritize fundamentals now, crafting systems for institutions and everyday users, or DeFi will miss this historic wave. Following a roadmap for intuitive UX, hyperscalable L1s, and legislative clarity, DeFi can build the unified network it promised and avoid the trap of “alt-Fi” that lies waiting in the wings.  Read more:AI is the missing link for mass adoption of blockchain investments | Opinion Dan Hughes Dan Hughesis the founder of Radix, a community-driven layer-1 making DeFi transactions transparent and safe through breakthrough asset-oriented technology. He is a 13-year industry veteran, whose introduction to crypto came after he read Satoshi’s whitepaper and realised that Bitcoin could never be the foundation for global DeFi. Nevertheless, Dan is committed to the original values of crypto and is consciously building for global adoption through hyperscalable, developer-friendly blockchain architecture and an empowering user experience. Dan began his career as a games developer on entertainment titles for PC’s and consoles, progressed to mobile technology, where he was one of the first to develop applications for NFC technology and contactless payment services such as mobile wallets. After leaving this space, he discovered the digital currency movement, whereupon he started the Radix project.

距离该加密货币交易所倒闭已过去近三年，FTX 资产于美国东部时间 2 月 18 日上午 10 点开始偿还债权人款项。 据该房地产最大债权人团体代表 Sunil Kavara 称，FTX 本周开始向债权人分配资金，首先发放的是金额低于 50,000 美元的“小额债权”。 2024 年 10 月，经过多年的法庭诉讼，美国破产法官批准了 FTX 的重组计划。BitGo 和 Kraken 被选为还款合作伙伴，而法院裁定债权人可以根据自己的意愿以稳定币形式获得付款。 卡瓦拉表示，第一阶段的偿还金额将达到 12 亿美元，其中 8 亿美元将由 FTX 支付。FTX 计划向债权人总共分配约 130 亿美元，但该资产管理公司计划保留其中约一半的资金用于偿还有争议的债权。 你可能还喜欢：加密货币骗局：FTX 债务索赔欺诈导致 560 万美元被盗 据 Kavara 称，小额债权偿还包括欠已倒闭的加密货币交易所原始用户的 4 亿美元，其中债权购买者占另一半。 此次初始还款活动涵盖了约 460,000 名潜在索赔人中的约 162,000 项索赔。如先前报道的那样，该流程还包括向巴哈马用户付款。 今日 FTX 还款：索赔第一次分配：2025 年 2 月 18 日，美国东部时间上午 10 点索赔金额约为 8 亿美元，其中 12 亿美元需要支付预计允许索赔 46 万，其中约 16.2 万大约。50% 原始持有人：4 亿美元50% 索赔买家：4 亿美元— Sunil (FTX 债权人冠军) (@sunil_trades) 2025 年 2 月 18 日 FTX 由前加密货币大亨 Sam Bankman-Fried（又名 SBF）于 2019 年 5 月创立。到 2021 年，Bankman-Fried 的初创公司已成为最大的数字资产交易所之一，并被视为赵长鹏的币安和美国 Coinbase 的竞争对手。 2022 年底，媒体报道揭露了 FTX 资产负债表中的重大差异，SBF 帝国随之瓦解。随后的争议使 Bankman-Fried 的运营陷入瘫痪，导致该交易所申请第 11 章破产。 不久之后，FTX 所在地巴哈马当局逮捕了 Bankman-Fried 并将其引渡至曼哈顿。 经过短暂的审判，法官以欺诈和其他刑事指控判处 SBF 25 年监禁。Bankman-Fried 辩称存在司法偏见，并要求重新提起诉讼。据报道，他的父母还向唐纳德·特朗普办公室寻求总统赦免。 阅读更多：用户报告在 Abstract Chain 上因 Cardex 漏洞损失六位数

Despite a significant announcement from energy firm VivoPower, XRP is trading at $2.29, down 1.1% in the past 24 hours and over 4% for the week. The token is displaying signs of consolidation and is has ranged between $2.24 and $2.47 in the past seven days. The trading volume for XRP (XRP) reached $2.16 billion, up 6% in the past 24 hours.  Derivatives data from Coinglass shows a 20.2% spike in volume to $3.95 billion, while open interest dropped 0.95% to $4.78 billion, indicating mixed sentiment among leveraged traders. The latest price action follows a major announcement from Nasdaq-listed energy firm VivoPower. On Wednesday, May 28, the company announced it had raised $121 million in a private share offering led by Saudi Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Abdulaziz Al Saud. VivoPower says it will use most of the proceeds to establish an XRP-focused treasury reserve, making it the first publicly traded firm to adopt such a strategy. The offering involved 20 million shares sold at $6.05 each, slightly above the stock’s previous closing price. You might also like:XRP price nears four-month low as death cross looms against Bitcoin Following the news, VivoPower shares spiked 26% before settling around $6.75, still up 11% on the day. The move drew praise from XRP insiders, including former Ripple board member Adam Traidman, who has joined VivoPower as Chairman of the Board of Advisors. “We are honored to be leading this capital raising for a company that will be the first in the world to execute an XRP-focused treasury strategy,” said Prince Abdulaziz. Kevin Chin, VivoPower’s Executive Chairman, emphasized a shared long-term vision with the XRP community.  Despite the announcement, the token failed to pick up steam. XRP’s technical indicators suggest a short-term neutral-to-bearish bias. Now in neutral territory and lacking any clear momentum, the relative strength index stands at 46. The moving average convergence divergence has also turned slightly bearish.  XRP price analysis. Credit: crypto.news The majority of moving averages are flashing sell signals, particularly the 10–30 EMAs and SMAs. The longer-term averages, such as the 100- and 200-day SMAs, remain above the current price levels, indicating that the bullish sentiment hasn’t entirely subsided. If XRP can recover the $2.40 resistance level with more volume, it might retest the upper end of its weekly range at $2.47 and possibly break higher in a bullish scenario. In the short term, a push above that might pave the way toward $2.60. However, XRP may return to the $2.10 support level if selling pressure increases and the price falls below $2.24. With organizations like VivoPower entering the market and investors’ attention now turning to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s pending rulings on XRP ETFs, XRP remains a token to keep an eye on. Read more:XRP forecast indicates $3.50 next, Unilabs leads Q2 gains

Crypto lender Genesis Global Capital has filed two lawsuits against its parent company, Digital Currency Group, and CEO Barry Silbert, seeking to recover over $1 billion in allegedly improper transfers made while Genesis was insolvent. According to a May 20 report by Bloomberg Law, Genesis accuses DCG and insiders of “self-dealing, fraud, and mismanagement,” claiming they funneled funds to themselves through reckless lending practices and deceptive financial disclosures. The complaint, partially redacted, seeks the return of 1 million digital assets worth approximately $2.1 billion to repay creditors. The Delaware suit alleges DCG and its affiliates, including Grayscale Investments, enriched themselves at the expense of Genesis customers by misleading the market about the lender’s financial health. In a separate lawsuit filed the same day in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, Genesis seeks to claw back over $1 billion in transfers made in the year leading up to its bankruptcy in January 2023. These include $448 million to DCG, $136 million to DCG International, and $101 million to HQ Enhanced Yield Fund, among others. Genesis also wants to recover $34 million in tax-related payments it says were fraudulent. You might also like:U.S. Senate advances GENIUS Act in major step toward stablecoin regulation The filing claims these transactions occurred amid 2022’s crypto market turmoil, which included the collapse of Terra-Luna, Three Arrows Capital, and FTX. According to reports, Genesis was already insolvent by the end of 2021 and owed $14 billion in unpaid loans.  The legal team for Genesis argues that DCG insiders knew about the lender’s growing risks but did nothing about them. To protect DCG from Genesis’ financial consequences, they allegedly transferred assets internally instead. Genesis filed for Chapter 11 protection in January 2023 and completed its restructuring in August 2024, distributing roughly $4 billion in cash and crypto to creditors. That plan, which DCG opposed, included a $2.2 billion payout to Gemini Earn users and uncapped recoveries based on current asset prices. Both lawsuits seek to hold DCG responsible for its alleged involvement in Genesis’ demise and boost creditor recoveries.  Read more:Strategy adds $765m in Bitcoin, holdings top 576,000 BTC amid treasury shift