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GameFi merges blockchain technology with the gaming industry, enabling Play-to-Earn (P2E) and "Play-to-Own" economies. Through decentralized assets, players have true ownership of in-game items as NFTs. In 2026, the sector has matured into High-Quality AAA Gaming experiences with seamless on-chain integration. Explore this tag for insights into Web3 gaming guilds, metaverse infrastructure, and how blockchain is redefining player incentives and virtual economies in the 2026 gaming landscape.

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Tapzi Rises Among the Best Crypto Presales of 2025 — With Bitcoin Hyper in the Mix

Tapzi Rises Among the Best Crypto Presales of 2025 — With Bitcoin Hyper in the Mix

Tapzi’s skill-based GameFi presale is winning attention in 2025, with real gameplay, solid tokenomics, and 3× early ROI potential—analysts call it a 100× contender.

Author: Blockchainreporter

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This $0.0035 New Crypto Stands Out

This $0.0035 New Crypto Stands Out

The post This $0.0035 New Crypto Stands Out appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Crypto News As investors hunt for the best altcoins to buy now for October, PEPE is down 31% and FLOKI is down 40%, showcasing meme coins lose momentum. Meanwhile, Tapzi leads as a promising contender. Meme coins that powered portfolios through 2024 are stumbling in October 2025. PEPE trades at $0.00000754, down 31% year-to-date, while FLOKI hovers near $0.0000745 after sliding 40% from January highs. Whale selling pressure and thinning liquidity have pushed both tokens into bearish territory. Investors who rode the speculation wave now face a difficult question: stay with hype-driven assets or pivot to projects with tangible revenue models? Tapzi, a skill-based gaming platform on BNB Smart Chain, has emerged as an answer for those seeking utility over volatility.​ The presale has sold over 81 million tokens from a 150 million allocation, representing 54% completion. Unlike meme coins that rely on social buzz, Tapzi generates value through player-funded prize pools and staking mechanics. Games like Chess and Checkers reward skill, not speculation. With tokens priced at $0.0035 ahead of a $0.01 launch, early participants position for a 185% markup before public trading begins, making Tapzi one of the best altcoins to buy now for explosive Q4 returns.​ Key Takeaways PEPE fell 31% YTD to $0.00000754 while FLOKI dropped 40% as whale selling and weak technicals pressure meme coins downward​. Tapzi sold 81M tokens at $0.0035 presale price ahead of $0.01 launch, offering 185% markup to early investors via skill-gaming platform​. Web3 gaming market projected to grow from $25B in 2024 to $125B by 2032 as Tapzi targets first-mover advantage in competitive GameFi​. Meme Coins Face Structural Headwinds PEPE dropped 25% over the past week following whale liquidations exceeding 1.5 trillion tokens. Trading volume surged to $927 million as holders exited positions during a broader market correction. The token…

Author: BitcoinEthereumNews

2025/10/16

Whales Dump PEPE as Investors Move Into Pepenode Presale

Whales Dump PEPE as Investors Move Into Pepenode Presale

The post Whales Dump PEPE as Investors Move Into Pepenode Presale appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Pepe coin, one of the most recognizable meme coins in the cryptocurrency space, is currently navigating a difficult phase marked by sharp declines and shaken investor confidence. Following the recent liquidation events across the broader market, the token’s momentum has weakened considerably. Once boasting a market capitalization above $11 billion, it has now fallen to around $3 billion. This sharp drop was mainly fueled by large holders and smart money investors trimming their positions, reportedly offloading more than 1.5 trillion $PEPE tokens between September 26 and last Friday, a clear indication that they were anticipating a price downturn. Top 100 Pepe whale holdings over the past month. Source – Nansen Such heavy selling pressure has fueled uncertainty, prompting retail investors to de-risk and seek safety amid volatile market conditions. With major meme coins like Dogecoin and Shiba Inu also posting weekly losses, it’s clear that the entire meme coin sector is enduring a widespread cooldown rather than an isolated correction. Historical data shows that Pepe has experienced major rallies during specific “meme seasons,” such as in February and December of 2024, where it recorded 10x and 3x surges respectively. However, the current market lacks the same euphoric retail participation and liquidity inflows that previously drove those gains. This article discusses the Pepe price prediction and Pepenode presale insights shared by crypto analyst and trader Jacob Crypto Bury, whose full analysis is available in the video below or on his YouTube channel. Pepe Price Prediction From a technical standpoint, Pepe coin’s price structure reflects a market struggling to regain momentum. The token has declined over 34% in the past month, with analysts observing consistent rejection around key resistance zones, particularly near the $0.00000120 level. If the price continues to fail in holding this region, further downside pressure could emerge, leading to…

Author: BitcoinEthereumNews

2025/10/16

Best Altcoins To Buy Now As PEPE & FLOKI Lose Steam: This $0.0035 New Crypto Stands Out

Best Altcoins To Buy Now As PEPE & FLOKI Lose Steam: This $0.0035 New Crypto Stands Out

Meme coins that powered portfolios through 2024 are stumbling in October 2025. PEPE trades at $0.00000754, down 31% year-to-date, while […] The post Best Altcoins To Buy Now As PEPE & FLOKI Lose Steam: This $0.0035 New Crypto Stands Out appeared first on Coindoo.

Author: Coindoo

2025/10/16

Ethereum's "Second Curve" of Growth: TradFi and AI Enter the Market Simultaneously, and a Trillion-Dollar Settlement Layer Surpassing the EVM Quietly Takes Shape

Ethereum's "Second Curve" of Growth: TradFi and AI Enter the Market Simultaneously, and a Trillion-Dollar Settlement Layer Surpassing the EVM Quietly Takes Shape

On September 3, Etherealize, which calls itself "the institutional-grade product, BD, and marketing department of the Ethereum ecosystem," disclosed a $40 million financing round. In addition to the lead investors from Electric Capital and Paradigm, more noteworthy is the direct participation of Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation. To some extent, this investment symbolizes the Ethereum community’s firm support for a professional and institutional development path. In fact, it also sends a clear signal that Ethereum’s growth logic is shifting from “capacity expansion” to the spillover and integration of the “application layer”. If we look back, we will find that from the DeFi wave in 2020-2021, to the subsequent CeDeFi practice, and then to the accelerated integration into TradFi today - Ethereum's innovation in traditional finance is constantly "survival of the fittest." The development of Ethereum is moving from the "infrastructure construction period" to the "application explosion and ecological reconstruction period", and the trillion-dollar "second curve" is taking shape. 01. After the expansion, the new growth engine is switching As we all know, the main theme of Ethereum's development has always been "scaling". With the maturity of L2 Rollup solutions such as Arbitrum and Optimism in recent years, and the gradual advancement or implementation of basic protocols such as Danksharding and EIP-4844, Ethereum's basic computing power and throughput have been significantly improved, especially the L2 ecosystem has built a solid "execution layer" foundation. It can be said that after years of exploration, Ethereum has initially solved the problem of "usability", but what is more difficult is to answer the next question - who will use it and how will it be used? After all, the challenges facing Ethereum have never been as severe as they are now: On the one hand, high-performance public chains such as Solana and Sui are eroding the on-chain market with their “faster and cheaper” positioning; On the other hand, traditional Web2 giants such as Visa, Stripe, Paypal, Robinhood and even Fidelity are also launching their own public chains or integrating decentralized clearing and settlement systems to improve their Crypto/TradFi layout; Looking back over the past five years, at the application level, Ethereum is undoubtedly a hotbed of innovation and almost the best "composable on-chain financial laboratory." From DeFi, NFT to DAO, GameFi, and SocialFi, it has supported the entire Web3 experimental wave. However, innovations at this stage are primarily targeted at Web3 native users and are essentially still limited to the "self-circulation of on-chain capital." In other words, while funds circulate and protocols are stacked on-chain, real-world assets, institutions, and users remain on the sidelines. Web3, while logically self-consistent, struggles to align with the demands of the real financial world. In this competitive landscape, Ethereum's technological leadership is no longer a defensive moat. To continue its growth, it must address a more ambitious question: how can it transcend the boundaries of Web3 itself and become a truly global asset settlement layer? The new growth comes from outside of Web3 – the computing power demand of AI and the settlement demand of traditional finance, which simultaneously push it into a new cycle: The most typical example is the wave of RWA (real-world assets) tokenization - traditional financial institutions such as banks, securities companies, and fund companies are actively trying to move assets such as bonds, stocks, and fund shares onto the blockchain to achieve on-chain clearing and real-time settlement (further reading "Ethereum Narrative Shift: From World Computer to World Ledger, Is an On-Chain Central Bank About to Emerge?"). At the same time, as the monopoly of AI models and data intensifies, the AI industry is eager for a neutral and trusted settlement layer to solve core pain points, including model and data ownership confirmation, decentralized computing verification, and protection against centralized risks. In short, AI needs a globally verifiable computing layer to price trust, and blockchain itself is naturally adapted to this demand of AI. Of course, to support demands like TradFi and AI, Ethereum must undergo comprehensive upgrades in terms of performance, privacy, and modularity. 02. New Roadmap: Multi-pronged Progress in zkVM, AI, and Privacy To address these new demands, the Ethereum community and the Foundation are already advancing several key strategies. The following are the routes that are currently more public and widely discussed in the industry. The first is zkVM (zero-knowledge virtual machine), which is not only a technical extension of L2 expansion, but also a disruptive reshaping of the Ethereum mainnet's functions. For example, the Ethereum Foundation is currently promoting the mainnet-level zkVM architecture, which will replace repeated execution of transaction verification with zero-knowledge proof (ZKP), thereby greatly improving throughput and security. The core logic of zkVM lies in transforming the trust model. Traditional Ethereum relies on all nodes to replay transactions to reach consensus. The biggest advantage of zkVM is that it will enable verification nodes to no longer replay all transactions, but only need to verify proofs, greatly reducing synchronization and execution costs. Under this new architecture, the Ethereum mainnet is expected to completely become a "computational settlement layer," focusing on verifying ZK proofs and anchoring the final state, while L2 becomes an efficient "execution layer," enabling Ethereum to completely evolve from a blockchain to a globally verifiable computing layer. Just last month, Vitalik Buterin retweeted and praised the minimal zkVM proposed by Ethereum developers for streamlining Ethereum: optimized for XMSS aggregation and recursion, compared to Cairo, leanVM minimizes commitment costs with its four-instruction ISA, multi-linear STARKs, and logup lookups. Another clear signal is that on September 15, the Ethereum Foundation established the artificial intelligence team "dAI", which is committed to building a decentralized AI ecosystem. This also means that Ethereum is no longer just passively "used by AI", but actively "combined with AI". The core mission of the dAI team is to invest resources in defining the standards, incentives, and governance structures for AI models on the blockchain. This includes model credibility: how to ensure the transparency of AI model training data, how to use ZK technology to prove the integrity of model reasoning, and the development of new standards. For example, to better serve the AI ecosystem, the community is promoting new standards such as ERC-8004 and x402: ERC-8004: aims to build a "composable and accessible" decentralized AI infrastructure layer, allowing developers to easily build and integrate AI model services; x402: Dedicated to defining a unified on-chain payment and settlement standard to ensure efficient, atomic micropayments when users access AI models, store data, or use decentralized computing services on-chain. Through these efforts, Ethereum is trying to define the underlying protocol and settlement mechanism of decentralized AI, positioning itself as the "value settlement and trust layer of decentralized AI." In addition, in order to accommodate the trillions of assets in TradFi, Ethereum must resolve the contradiction between privacy and compliance, and its privacy roadmap has begun to be layered to meet the needs of different groups. Among them, institutional privacy and compliance (TradFi's core demand) focuses on exploring compliant privacy solutions on L2/L3. This means that institutions can conduct encrypted transactions and clearing on the chain, and at the same time provide auditable and verifiable transaction records to specific regulators (such as auditors and regulatory agencies) through zero-knowledge proof or permission control mechanisms, thereby protecting business secrets while meeting regulatory requirements. Personal privacy (Web3 user protection) solves the problems of MEV (miner extractable value) attacks and leakage of personal transaction data at the protocol layer through account abstraction (AA) and privacy-enhancing technologies on L2 (such as private transactions), ensuring that users' on-chain behavior is protected. These three routes - universality (zkVM), application boundaries (dAI/new standards) and compliance (privacy) - together constitute Ethereum's core "second curve" strategy for AI and TradFi needs. 03. What if the “Second Curve” transition is successful? Just like the DeFi wave from 2020 to 2021, the subsequent CeDeFi practice, and the latest major strides into TradFi, Ethereum's approach to innovating global finance has always been "survival of the fittest." Therefore, Ethereum’s current “super evolution” is not easy, but once the leap is successful, its ecology and status will be completely reshaped. First, Ethereum will be upgraded from an "application platform" for Web3 native users to a "computing power and financial infrastructure platform" for the world's mainstream economies. Its position in the global financial system will be more solid, becoming the de facto "global value settlement layer." As a result, more and more high-value businesses (such as institutional-grade RWA, AI model verification, and decentralized data markets) will choose to be deployed directly on Ethereum or its zk-native structure, forming a huge liquidity pool and trust guarantee. Then the L2/Rollups ecosystem will evolve into a "collaborative network". They will no longer be "independent public chains" fighting each other, but will be more deeply connected with the main network zk layer, focusing on providing different execution environments (EVM, ZKVM, privacy customization, etc.). Ultimately, sub-ecosystems such as underlying stablecoins, privacy protocols, data oracles, and AI model markets are expected to rise and provide the necessary "middleware" for institutions and AI. Overall, the emerging “second curve” of Ethereum marks its leap from a “cryptocurrency computing layer” to a “global trust and settlement layer”—no longer just a paradise for speculators, but rapidly transforming into an indispensable financial primitive in the global economic infrastructure. After all, the AI industry needs its trusted neutrality, and traditional finance needs its efficient compliance. ZKVM, the AI team, and the privacy roadmap are Ethereum's combined punch to meet these two trillion-dollar needs. Please believe that the best times are yet to come.

Author: PANews

2025/10/16

Pepe Price Prediction: Whales Dump PEPE as Investors Move Into Pepenode Presale

Pepe Price Prediction: Whales Dump PEPE as Investors Move Into Pepenode Presale

Pepe coin, one of the most recognizable meme coins in the cryptocurrency space, is currently navigating a difficult phase marked by sharp declines and shaken investor confidence. Following the recent liquidation events across the broader market, the token’s momentum has weakened considerably. Once boasting a market capitalization above $11 billion, it has now fallen to […]

Author: The Cryptonomist

2025/10/16

Starknet, Alpen Labs Build Bitcoin DeFi Bridge

Starknet, Alpen Labs Build Bitcoin DeFi Bridge

The post Starknet, Alpen Labs Build Bitcoin DeFi Bridge appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Key Notes The Starknet Foundation has awarded a grant to Alpen Labs to accelerate the development of a shared verifier for the broader Bitcoin ecosystem. Glock technology uses garbled circuits and claims up to a 1000x reduction in on-chain verification costs compared to previous models like BitVM. The initiative aims to unlock BTCFi use cases, such as native staking and borrowing, without relying on less secure wrapped assets or multisig setups. Starknet is collaborating with Bitcoin BTC $110 614 24h volatility: 1.8% Market cap: $2.21 T Vol. 24h: $73.91 B research firm Alpen Labs to build a highly secure, trust-minimized bridge connecting the two networks. The partnership, confirmed on October 15, aims to unlock advanced decentralized finance (DeFi) capabilities for native Bitcoin holders directly on the Starknet platform. 1/ Wrapped BTC paved the way, but it’s time for the next evolution. Together with @AlpenLabs, we’re building the most trust-minimized bridge possible between Bitcoin and DeFi. No honest majorities. No wrappers. Just pure, verifiable BTC on Starknet 🧵 pic.twitter.com/a1bWzrgZgW — Starknet (BTCFi arc) (@Starknet) October 15, 2025 A New Security Model to Protect Bitcoin This initiative moves away from traditional bridging models that often introduce significant security vulnerabilities. According to details in the project’s announcement and technical whitepaper, many existing solutions rely on trusted multisignature setups where signers could collude to steal funds. To avoid this, Glock uses a two-party computation protocol based on garbled circuits. This design allows for complex verification without revealing private inputs from either chain, removing the need for trusted intermediaries. Starknet’s Strategy to Become a Bitcoin Hub The collaboration is a key part of Starknet’s stated commitment to scaling Bitcoin, a plan first detailed in March 2025 as part of its broader “BTCFi on Starknet” initiative. Furthering this goal, the Starknet Foundation awarded a grant to…

Author: BitcoinEthereumNews

2025/10/16

7 Reasons Why Tapzi Might Be the Best Crypto to Buy Right Now (2025 Edition)

7 Reasons Why Tapzi Might Be the Best Crypto to Buy Right Now (2025 Edition)

Tapzi (TAPZI) redefines GameFi with skill-based rewards, transparent tokenomics, and $0.0035 presale price, making it 2025’s best gaming crypto pick.

Author: Blockchainreporter

2025/10/15

Chainlink jumps ~11% with bulls eyeing $24 — XYZVerse leans into oracle-driven fan voting for its $5.5M CS2 League

Chainlink jumps ~11% with bulls eyeing $24 — XYZVerse leans into oracle-driven fan voting for its $5.5M CS2 League

Chainlink’s price is on the move, gaining close to 11%, as excitement builds in the market. Attention shifts to XYZVerse, which is introducing a new way for fans to vote in competitive gaming. This twist comes as $5.5 million is set for grabs in its latest CS2 League. What’s driving all this fresh activity? Chainlink […]

Author: Tronweekly

2025/10/15

Stripe Launches USDC Recurring Subscription Payments on Polygon, Base

Stripe Launches USDC Recurring Subscription Payments on Polygon, Base

The post Stripe Launches USDC Recurring Subscription Payments on Polygon, Base appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Key Notes Smart contracts enable wallet authorization for automatic recurring debits, eliminating manual transaction approvals for each payment cycle. Bridge subsidiary applies for OCC national bank trust charter, joining Circle, Ripple and Paxos in pursuing federal regulation. Stablecoin market reaches $293 billion capitalization with $3.7 trillion monthly transfers across 29 million active addresses. Financial technology company Stripe announced on Oct. 14 that it has introduced recurring subscription payments using USD Coin USDC $1.00 24h volatility: 0.0% Market cap: $76.13 B Vol. 24h: $26.65 B for businesses in the United States. The service, which will initially run on the Polygon and Base blockchains, is designed to streamline payments for companies with recurring revenue models, such as AI platforms and other Web3 services. The new feature, according to the announcement, utilizes a smart contract that lets customers save a crypto wallet and authorize it for recurring debits, removing the need to manually sign every transaction. While this aims to simplify user experience, the security of such a mechanism will be under scrutiny, pending audits and evaluations from independent security firms. Coinspeaker has reached out to Stripe for comment on the auditing process and security measures for the new smart contracts. As part of a broader strategy, Stripe is also pursuing federal regulatory oversight. Its subsidiary, Bridge, has applied for a national bank trust charter with the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). This move places Stripe alongside other major industry players like Circle, Ripple, and Paxos, all seeking to operate within a federally regulated framework in the rapidly growing stablecoin sector. Stripe Cements Its Role in Stablecoin Infrastructure This move to simplify subscription payments is the latest in a series of initiatives aimed at building a comprehensive stablecoin ecosystem. At its New York showcase on Sept. 30, Stripe announced…

Author: BitcoinEthereumNews

2025/10/15

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