Crypto Pills

BitGo files for an initial public offering, revealing $4.2 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025 and $90 billion in digital assets held on its platform. The filing underscores the custodial and infrastructure provider’s growing scale and positions the company for broader capital access as it expands its institutional crypto services.

Vitalik Buterin argues that simplifying decentralized finance into low-risk, widely usable products could anchor Ethereum’s sustainable fee generation, similar to how search powered Google’s business model. He points to safer yield and utility primitives as a way to grow usage and revenue while maintaining Ethereum’s values and minimizing systemic risk.

FTX prepares to pay out $1.6 billion to creditors this month as part of its ongoing bankruptcy process. The planned distribution progresses recovery efforts for claimants of the collapsed exchange while the broader wind-down and court-supervised proceedings continue.

Asian stablecoin initiatives challenge assumptions that U.S. dollar-pegged tokens will indefinitely dominate digital settlement. Projects centered on regional demands promote local-currency pegs and cross-border rails to diversify liquidity, improve payments efficiency, and reduce foreign-exchange frictions, while navigating regulatory and interoperability hurdles in key markets.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko warns that Bitcoin should transition to quantum-resistant cryptography by 2030 to mitigate potential vulnerabilities in existing signature schemes. He frames the timeline as a security imperative and calls for proactive planning to safeguard the network’s integrity against future quantum threats.