Stablecoins weekly transaction volumes have already exceeded Visa’s, making it the second killer app in the crypto ecosystem, besides Bitcoin.

ARK Invest presents “Big Ideas 2025” - your guide to the breakthrough technologies poised to boost productivity dramatically, to revolutionize industries, and to create long-term investment opportunities.

Ethereum and Solana are two layer-1 platforms used to power decentralised applications, and they compete with each other. Ethereum is ahead of Solana in terms of total value locked, while Solana is ahead of Ethereum in terms of daily transactions and active addresses.

2025 is the year crypto cements itself as a mainstream financial asset, driven by surging institutional adoption, macroeconomic shifts, and increasing regulatory clarity. Bitcoin’s role in multi-asset portfolios is growing, with institutional investors starting to treat it as a standard allocation rather than a speculative play.

March brought sharp volatility and broad declines across crypto markets, offset somewhat by substantial regulatory progress and increased interest in tokenized treasury funds.

Grayscale Research incorporates the Crypto Sectors indexes into its ongoing analysis of digital asset markets.