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GameSquare, a Nasdaq-listed company, has followed SharpLink Gaming’s lead by announcing a $100 million Ethereum treasury strategy, resulting in a 58% surge in its stock price. The move highlights growing institutional interest in Ethereum as a treasury asset, driven by strong demand, ETF inflows, and ecosystem growth. As of Tuesday’s close, GAME stock was at
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Dogecoin has made its way back into the spotlight as investor sentiment heats up following 21Shares’ filing for an ETF with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This has rekindled optimism in the memecoin’s numbers, driving a sharp uptick in trading activity. Marketers are now keen about the price movement due to key technical indicators suggesting further bullish potential, even as a large token unlock event looms.
Dogecoin is presently trading at $0.2368, with a 2.98% surge in 24 hours, +37.56% in the past week, and +43.74% over the last month. The memecoin’s market cap now stands at $35.27 billion, a 29.2% rise, even as 24H volume dipped by 13.73% to $2.72 billion.
The price spike triggered over $14 million in short liquidations, confirming a head-and-shoulders breakout, as evident on the charts. Moreover, a bullish flag pattern now instills hope of an upward trajectory. On an optimistic note, DOGE price could target $0.28 next, followed by $0.30. However, between May 12–19, nearly 95.9 million DOGE tokens could be unlocked, introducing uncertainty and the potential for sharp price swings to $0.21.
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The ETF filing by 21Shares, alongside technical breakouts and heavy short liquidations, has fueled bullish momentum.
The unlock of nearly 96 million DOGE tokens may cause high volatility as supply increases.
The price of 1 Dogecoin (DOGE) at the time of press is $0.2368, with an intraday change of +2.98%
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Dogecoin has made its way back into the spotlight as investor sentiment heats up following 21Shares’ filing for an ETF with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This has rekindled optimism in the memecoin’s numbers, driving a sharp uptick in trading activity. Marketers are now keen about the price movement due to key technical indicators …
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin believes that the direction of blockchain applications often mirrors the intentions and ethics of their creators. He cites that projects like Pump.fun are derived from bad social philosophy.
In a recent discussion, he highlighted how the impact—positive or negative—of crypto projects is shaped by the values driving their development.
Buterin praised a handful of decentralized applications that align with Ethereum’s long-term vision. These include Railgun, Farcaster, Polymarket, and the messaging app Signal.
On the flip side, he criticized platforms such as Pump.fun, Terra/Luna, and the collapsed FTX exchange, describing them as harmful examples of what not to build.
“The differences in what the app does stem from differences in beliefs in developers’ heads about what they are here to accomplish,” Buterin explained.
Railgun stood out as a key example. While it offers privacy features similar to Tornado Cash, it goes a step further by implementing Privacy Pools.
This system—co-developed by Buterin—allows users to stay anonymous while still proving their funds haven’t come from illicit sources.
Other projects Buterin praised include Farcaster, a decentralized social network protocol, and Polymarket, a crypto-based prediction platform.
In the past, he noted that tools like Polymarket could move beyond betting on elections and serve as useful mechanisms for improving decision-making in governance, media, and even scientific research.
Meanwhile, projects like Pump.fun—designed for launching memecoins on Solana—received harsh criticism.
Previously, the Ethereum co-founder had warned about schemes that prioritize hype over substance, such as Terra/Luna and FTX. He has also consistently urged the crypto space, especially DeFi, to build with ethical intent and long-term utility in mind.
To explain his views on Ethereum’s unique development path, Buterin compared it to C++, a general-purpose programming language.
Unlike C++, Ethereum is only partially general-purpose. Many of its core innovations, like account abstraction or the shift to proof-of-stake, rely heavily on developers’ commitment to Ethereum’s broader mission.
“Ethereum L1 is not quite in that position: someone who doesn’t believe in decentralization would not add light clients, or FOCIL, or (good forms of) account abstraction; someone who doesn’t mind energy waste would not spend half a decade moving to PoS… But the EVM opcodes might have been roughly the same either way. So Ethereum is perhaps 50% general-purpose,” Buterin said.
Buterin furthered that Ethereum apps are around 80% special-purpose. Because of this, the ethical framework and goals of the people building them play a critical role in shaping what the network becomes.
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On April 6, 2025, veteran US President Donald Trump fueled the economic competition between the globe’s two greatest economies by imposing a blanket 50% tariff on all imports from China.
Dubbed as “Liberation Day,“ the action was designed to bring new life to American manufacturing, but instead set off a financial chain reaction that spilled well outside of conventional markets right into the center of crypto.
The initial response was pandemonium in all financial markets worldwide. The MSCI Asia-Pacific Index dropped more than 3%, and the Shanghai Composite plummeted by 4.7% an indication of serious investor nervousness in China. European markets were not immune either: Germany’s DAX and the UK’s FTSE 100 fell under the weight of dented export expectations.
On the other side of the Atlantic, American indices plummeted. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 600 points, while the NASDAQ dipped close to 2.5%. The hardest hit were semiconductor and electronics firms depending heavily on Chinese production. Fear drove investors into havens, driving gold to a 12-month high and sending U.S. Treasury yields down.
The crypto space, which many at one time praised as a hedge against macro dislocation, wasn’t immune. Bitcoin (BTC) dropped close to 9% in the first 48 hours after the news. Ethereum (ETH) followed suit, dropping more than 8%. Risk sentiment had well and truly turned, and the digital asset market, inextricably linked to global investor sentiment, was subjected to sharp liquidation.
Asia-specific tokens such as NEO (baptismally referred to as the “Chinese Ethereum”) and VeChain (VET), which is associated with larger Chinese logistics and supply chain companies, experienced gruesome declines falling 12% and 15% respectively. Even US-preferred instruments were not exempt: Solana (SOL) fell by 10%, most of its drop coming courtesy of its extreme vulnerability to DeFi and institutionality trading.
While it was Layer-1 blockchains that bore the bulk of the blow, stablecoins were not spared either. Tether (USDT) redemption volumes spiked, particularly on Asian exchanges such as Binance and OKX, indicative of a flight to cash. Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) such as Uniswap and PancakeSwap, on the other hand, experienced major volume declines, indicating that retail investors were taking liquidity out of the market instead of trading the dip.
For one, crypto remains a speculative asset class. During periods of uncertainty, speculative assets are the first to be dumped. Second, big institutionals now control a significant proportion of crypto volume. These institutions play macro strategies—when fear increases, their capital reverses and moves to safer bets such as cash, gold, or short-term government bonds.
Worsening the situation further were early rumors of capital controls in Hong Kong and Singapore two key crypto hubs. Speculation that regulators might restrict crypto transactions to control capital flight led to further panic, especially among investors based in Asia.
As Bitcoin struggled, gold shone again. The Gold Shares (GLD) ETF recorded its largest one-day inflow in half a year. U.S. manufacturing ETFs experienced fleeting optimism, but most high-growth technology stocks particularly chipmakers such as Nvidia and TSMC got hammered.
In the cryptocurrency universe, those with lesser geographic and trade exposure performed better. Chainlink (LINK), which is decentralized in its oracle infrastructure, lost less than most, and some investors predicted that utility-based tokens would provide more stability in macro-driven routs.
The tariff drama is more than politics it’s a stress test of the old and new economy. It demonstrated to us that crypto isn’t this digital island nation that is in some way proof against real world events. Whenever systemic risk beckons, any asset be it fiat, gold, or crypto adapts.
It also reshaped the narrative around Bitcoin’s “digital gold” thesis. While it has outperformed in some local crises (like inflation in Argentina or sanctions on Russia), in a globally synchronized panic, Bitcoin failed to serve as a safe haven. That doesn’t diminish its long-term value proposition, but it’s a reminder: we’re not there yet.
While the world grapples with this latest kick in the teeth of the U.S.–China dynamic, investors and crypto fans will have to reset expectations. Volatility is the new normal, yet in that chop is opportunity.
Builders will redouble efforts on decentralization. Regulators will catch up on how essential good crypto standards are. And investors if smart will learn to hedge risk, control emotions, and diversify better.
After all, Bitcoin was the product of a crisis. Perhaps this one will be the crucible out of which fresh innovation emerges once more.
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On April 6, 2025, veteran US President Donald Trump fueled the economic competition between the globe’s two greatest economies by imposing a blanket 50% tariff on all imports from China. Dubbed as “Liberation Day,“ the action was designed to bring new life to American manufacturing, but instead set off a financial chain reaction that spilled …