2025 Onchain Fees Soar to $19.8B: Who’s Paying for These Blockchains?

1kx, in its recently published H1 2025 Onchain Revenue Report (fancy, right?), has some spicy details: application-layer fees are up a cool 126% year-over-year. Meanwhile, blockchain-layer fees have taken a slight dip. Users, being the troopers they are, paid $9.7 billion in onchain fees during the first half of 2025. That’s the highest H1 total on record. It’s almost like the blockchain is the new mall-except instead of buying shoes, you’re buying transaction rights.

Bitcoin’s Fall: Fed Cuts, Trump-Xi Truce, and the Death Cross 🚨📉

Two forces, like twin wolves howling in unison, drove Bitcoin’s descent. First, the Federal Reserve’s 0.25% rate cut, a move so predictable it might as well have been written in the stars-or at least in the tea leaves of Wall Street analysts. For what is an expected event but a prelude to betrayal? Investors, ever the opportunists, bought the rumor and sold the reality, their wallets clinking with hollow triumph. 🛍️

Mastercard’s $2 Billion Bet: Is Zerohash the Next Big Crypto Deal?

Zerohash, for those unfamiliar with its arcane workings, is a Chicago-based marvel. It offers fintechs, brokers, and merchants the infrastructure to weave the mystical threads of crypto, stablecoins, and tokenization into their very businesses. They provide APIs that bring compliant custody, conversions, and payouts into a single, elegantly spun tapestry of digital finance.

Bitcoin’s Bumpy Ride: Short-Term Chill Before the Long Haul 🚀🤔

In the latest episode of ‘Market Wizards and Wizards of Market,’ BeLaunch, the clairvoyant of cryptocurrency predictions, says Bitcoin’s current move is precisely as expected-like a soap opera plot only with more dollar signs. It’s entered the “pause to refresh” phase, probably because it’s been running hot, hot, hot. This isn’t weakness, it’s just a natural cooling-off-think of it as a market-wide eye roll after yet another meteoric rally.