1. Looking Back at 2025: 18 Major Milestones in the Cryptocurrency Industry

As 2025 draws to a close, Golden Finance, in this moment of bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new, launches the series “Looking Back at 2025.” Reflecting on the year’s progress in the crypto industry, we also hope that in the new year, winter will dissipate and the stars will shine brightly. In 2025, the crypto industry has written many milestone events, with policies gradually becoming clearer, driving large-scale institutional entry, while also accompanied by hacker attacks, market surges and crashes. Below is a chronological summary of the major industry events worth noting throughout the year. Click to read

2. Ethereum Foundation: The Evolution Path and Future Challenges of Ethereum

Ethereum has grown from an experimental small network into a key component of global infrastructure. It settles billions of dollars daily, coordinates thousands of applications, and supports the entire Layer 2 (L2) ecosystem. Click to read

3. Post-Election: How Prediction Markets Will Accelerate Again in 2025

During the 2024 US election, prediction markets successfully entered the mainstream view — the election odds on platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi appeared alongside traditional polling data, becoming an alternative indicator of election sentiment. Ultimately, these prediction markets’ forecasts of election results far exceeded the accuracy of traditional polls. Click to read

4. Former SEC Legal Advisor Analyzes Key Elements of RWA Compliance

The SEC’s changing attitude towards cryptocurrencies is promoting the development of RWAs, but jurisdiction and profit restrictions still constrain compliance models. Ashley Ebersole, Chief Legal Officer of Sologenic, pointed out that the main limiting factor for real-world assets (RWAs) has always been regulatory involvement rather than technology, and this dynamic is undergoing significant change in the United States. Click to read

5. The Night Before the Dollar’s Major Devaluation: Bitcoin Awaits the Final Trigger

Last week, the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates to a target range of 3.50%–3.75% — this move has been fully digested by the market and was largely expected. What truly surprised the market was the Fed’s announcement to purchase $40 billion worth of short-term government bonds (T-bills) each month, which quickly earned some people the label of “Lite Quantitative Easing (QE-lite)”. Click to read