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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. 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.

KiloEx, a decentralized perpetuals trading platform backed by YZi Labs, was exploited for approximately $7.4 million in a cross-chain attack. The attack was first flagged by blockchain security platform Cyvers Alerts on Apr. 14 at 7:30 PM UTC. The company reported that a wallet funded via Tornado Cash carried out a number of dubious transactions on Base, Taiko, and BNB Chain (BNB). A price oracle access control vulnerability was reported to be the root cause. The stolen funds include USD Coin (USDC), which may be blacklisted by issuers. 🚨7M HACK ALERT🚨Our system has detected multiple suspicious transactions involving @KiloEx_perp across several chains.An address funded via @TornadoCash has executed a series of exploitative transactions on the $BNB, $Base, and $Taiko chains — accumulating approximately $7M in… pic.twitter.com/od4UTsSrXs— Cyvers Alerts (@CyversAlerts) 2025 年 4 月 14 日 KiloEx 随后确认了该漏洞，并敦促相关协议和平台将攻击者的钱包列入黑名单，并宣布立即暂停平台活动。平台表示，正在采取措施，启动桥接协议，防止进一步损失。KiloEx 还宣布将启动赏金计划，并发布全面的事后分析报告。 安全事件公告：KiloEx Vault 漏洞亲爱的 KiloEx 社区成员，我们很遗憾地通知您，KiloEx Vault 已被利用。攻击者的钱包地址为：0x00fac92881556a90fdb19eae9f23640b95b4bcbdWe urge all partner protocols and platforms to…— KiloEx (@KiloEx_perp) April 14, 2025 You might also like:Morpho Labs 加密货币黑客攻击事件受阻，白帽黑客利用前端漏洞拦截 260 万美元 在随后的更新中，该团队表示正在与区块链安全公司 Seal-911、SlowMist 和 Sherlock 以及 BNB Chain 和 Manta Network 等网络合作，调查并追回被盗资金。据报道，这些资产通过 zkBridge 和 Meson 进行桥接。 区块链安全公司 PeckShield 的进一步分析估计损失约为 750 万美元，其中 Base 损失 330 万美元，opBNB 损失 310 万美元，BSC 损失 100 万美元。 该公司证实，操纵的价格预言机允许攻击者以 100 的 ETH/USD 价格开仓，然后立即以 10,000 的虚高价值平仓，在一次交易中净赚数百万美元。 @KiloEx_perp 协议今天遭到黑客攻击，损失约 750 万美元（基础资产 330 万美元、opBNB 310 万美元、BSC 100 万美元）。The protocol is now paused! Our initial analysis on one exploit tx indicates a price oracle issue. And the hacker exploits it to create a new position with initial given…— PeckShield Inc. (@peckshield) April 14, 2025 The KiloEx exploit adds to a growing trend of DeFi hacks. In Q1 2025, $1.64 billion was stolen, making it the worst quarter ever for cryptocurrency exploits, according to Immunefi’s Q1 2025 report. While centralized finance platforms lost $1.5 billion in two attacks, DeFi protocols lost $106.8 million in 38 incidents. Read more:Zilliqa CEO steps down two months after X-Bridge exploit

比特币继续成为人们关注的焦点，专业资本管理公司创始人兼首席执行官安东尼·庞普里亚诺 (Anthony Pompliano) 在最近接受 CNBC 采访时概述了对加密货币的长期乐观愿景。 比特币 (BTC) 价格近期跌至 76,000 美元，目前徘徊在 85,000 美元左右，Pompliano 对比特币在全球金融格局中的地位进行了评估，将其与黄金进行了比较，并暗示了未来机构和政府的主要发展。 2025年伊始，比特币下跌约10%，而黄金则上涨20%。但庞普利亚诺很快指出了一个关键趋势：一年内，两种资产均上涨了约35%。他指出，这种背离并不罕见。 “黄金通常会引领这些上涨行情，但没人真正知道为什么会这样，”庞普利亚诺说道。“我的猜测是，很多央行和机构投资者要么没有获得批准购买比特币，要么不习惯在这种地缘政治不确定的时刻涌入比特币。然而，我们观察到，当黄金价格上涨时，央行和机构投资者往往会在地缘政治不确定时期青睐黄金。” 他补充说，通常当黄金价格在 100 天左右上涨时，比特币不仅会“赶上”，而且“由于波动性更高，往往会上涨得更猛烈”。 您可能还喜欢：投资者考虑下一步关税举措，股市和加密货币有望上涨 ETF 和主权财富基金买入 最显著的变化之一是投资者如何投资比特币。庞普利亚诺指出，现货比特币ETF的使用日益增多，不仅是散户投资者，主权财富基金也纷纷加入。 庞普利亚诺强调了一家未公开的主权基金最近披露的一项被忽视的信息，即通过ETF投资比特币。这表明，机构投资者“希望获得价格敞口，但又不想面临自主托管带来的监管和地缘政治风险”。 美国正在准备战略比特币储备吗？ 庞普利亚诺讨论了最近与总统数字资产顾问委员会执行董事博·海因斯（Bo Hines）对话的细节。要点是什么？据报道，美国政府不仅对持有被没收的比特币感兴趣，还可能积极寻求收购更多比特币。 “他们会尽可能多地购买比特币，”庞普利亚诺说。 虽然购买比特币的方式仍在争论中，无论是通过出售重估黄金还是利用关税收入，但他证实，一个跨部门工作组正在积极探索最佳途径。如果最终确定，这一举措可能为围绕比特币的全新地缘政治布局奠定基础。正如庞普利亚诺所说：“其他国家可能通过挖矿获取比特币；而美国可能会直接购买。” 您可能还喜欢：关键美元数据达到 2006 年水平：这会提振比特币和山寨币吗？

根据韩国金融服务委员会的最新公告，韩国计划逐步允许企业开始加密货币交易。 2 月 13 日，香港证监会发布新闻稿，概述了分阶段解除禁止机构参与虚拟资产交易市场的禁令。今年年初有报道称，韩国正在考虑解除机构加密货币交易禁令。 在该计划的第一阶段，当局将允许执法机构、非营利组织、学校公司和大学出售比特币 (BTC) 和以太坊 (ETH) 等加密货币。这将用于套现目的，这些实体将在今年上半年获准在虚拟资产交易所使用这些服务。 韩国随后将推出一项试点计划，为约 3,500 家上市公司和企业提供加密货币买卖服务。该计划预计将于今年下半年上线，并将为根据该国《资本市场法》注册的专业投资者提供数字资产交易服务。 你可能还喜欢：CEX.IO 为英国客户提供现货交易 自 2017 年政府实施限制以来，一直禁止公司和其他专业实体进行加密货币交易。此举旨在解决投机、洗钱和市场操纵问题。 根据证监会的说法，该国《虚拟资产用户保护法》的颁布和实施为用户提供了关键的保护措施。 同样值得注意的是，全球趋势是其他国家允许企业进入和参与数字资产市场。监管机构指出，对区块链相关投资和服务的需求也意味着当地市场必须转变。 韩国金融监督院计划成立一个由相关组织参与的工作组，以期发布内部控制标准的监管框架。金融监督院、韩国银行联合会和数字资产交易所联盟（DAXA）将协助制定加密货币交易指南。 FSC 指出，与交易所和行业专家等市场参与者的合作对于企业进军虚拟资产市场的路线图也至关重要。 你可能还喜欢：韩国交易所主席表示，韩国必须批准加密货币 ETF，否则可能会落后

索拉纳整个周末呈上涨趋势，积极捍卫 200 天移动平均线。 Solana (SOL) 连续三天上涨，达到 210 美元的高位，为 2 月 5 日以来的最高水平。目前仍比 12 月的最高水平低约 30%。 Solana 的缓慢复苏很可能是因为其部分生态系统代币的反弹。Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) 较本月最低水平上涨了近 30%。同样，Popcat (POPCAT) 代币较 2 月份的低点上涨了 80% 以上。 其他表现最好的 Solana meme 币是 ai16z、Cat in a dogs world 和 Comedian，涨幅超过 10%。根据 CoinGecko 的数据，所有代币的市值在过去 24 小时内上涨了 7.3%，达到 119.8 亿美元以上。这些 meme 币的市值超过 250 亿美元。 你可能还喜欢：尽管在 Crypto.com 上市，Berachain 仍大幅下跌 Solana 生态系统蓬勃发展，已成为今年最成功的加密项目之一。TokenTerminal 数据显示，Solana 今年的收入超过 2.82 亿美元，成为继 Tether、Tron 和 Jito 之后加密行业第四大参与者。 过去几年中，其 DEX 网络（如 Raydium、Meteora、Orca 和 Jupiter）的市场份额持续增长。 还有迹象表明，美国证券交易委员会将批准现货 SOL ETF。此次批准的几率已跃升至 85%，投资者预计特朗普的 SEC 将与之前的有所不同。 Solana价格分析 Solana 图表 | 来源：crypto.news 日线图显示，上周随着大多数加密货币暴跌，SOL 价格触底至 190 美元。这是一个重要的水平，因为它处于 200 日指数移动平均线。 多头正在捍卫低于这一水平的走势，因为这将是空头的胜利，并表明价格将进一步下跌。多头和空头力量指标在过去两天连续上涨。 跌破 200 天移动平均线将面临跌破 169 美元的风险，即双顶形态的颈线 265 美元。双顶是市场上非常流行的看跌信号。 因此，短期 SOL 价格预测目前是中性的。如果跌破 169 美元，将确认进一步下跌，而如果代币突破 265 美元的关键阻力位，将确认明显的看涨突破。 此举将证实 VanEck 最近的预测，即比特币价格将跃升至 520 美元。 阅读更多：