The virtual asset market continues to show a volatile pattern, with major virtual assets exhibiting different trends. Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) remain on an upward trajectory, while Solana (SOL) has experienced a strong surge, attracting market attention. Meanwhile, Ripple (XRP) has gradually risen due to expectations of increased usage within the Japanese financial system.
Bitcoin is currently trading in the 12,772,000 KRW range, up 1.63% over the past 24 hours amid ongoing institutional investor interest. Notably, the derivatives market is expanding significantly, with an expected scale of approximately trillion this year. This indicates increasing institutional participation. Analysts believe that the US GENIUS Act and Europe's MiCA regulations are factors boosting market confidence.
Ethereum is trading at 4,270,000 KRW, up 1.18%. Although lacking independent upward momentum, it is following Bitcoin's trend and showing an upward movement.

No one believes the cry of "The wolf is coming." I usually tune out Peter Schiff's words; they go in one ear and out the other. He constantly criticizes Bitcoin as a scam, nitpicks over high-performing tech stocks, and always pours out pessimistic tones. The market often regards him as a "broken clock." But some things must be acknowledged. This time, Schiff is right. The current market situation is unfolding according to his predictions.
Gold and silver prices are soaring. This cannot be simply attributed to speculative hype. It is a terrifying warning to the core of our economic system and a silent scream from the market.
Let's think rationally. Investors around the world are selling what are considered the safest U.S. Treasuries as if they were throwing away broken shoes. Abandoning interest-paying bonds and fleeing into the interest-free "non-yielding assets" of gold—such a phenomenon is happening. This is a paradox that capitalism's logic cannot explain. This is投

Article by: Glendon, Techub News
The governance storm at Aave has lasted over two weeks and continues to escalate. It has become a highly watched governance event in DeFi and the entire crypto industry. The debate over whether Aave Labs or the DAO should control Aave's sovereignty is no longer limited to fees and branding but has also sparked industry-wide deep reflections on the limits of decentralized governance. So, what is the current state of this governance dispute?
Aave Labs vs. DAO Sovereignty
Before diving into the latest developments of the governance event, let's briefly review the background:
Aave Labs is the developer of the Aave protocol and the core builder of its main products, responsible for frontend interfaces, new feature development, and technical upgrades; Aave DAO is the decentralized governance group

The cryptocurrency market continues to decline, with Bitcoin and Ethereum both experiencing significant drops. Large whale transfers and increased market risk aversion have intensified volatility. Recently, a 90 billion KRW leveraged liquidation also caused a sharp price decline. At the same time, the advancement of regulatory policies in various countries has not immediately improved the short-term situation.

DeSpend reconstructs consumption value through Web3 technology, shifting consumers from the end of the value chain to the starting point of value creation. Through "consumption as mining," consumers earn DSG tokens, achieving asset appreciation and promoting behavioral incentives. This breaks the value asymmetry between users and platforms in traditional e-commerce models, forming a fair and sustainable business ecosystem.

HCL Software announces the acquisition of business intelligence platform Jaspersoft for $240 million and the acquisition of AI data analytics startup Wobby for $5.3 million to enhance data intelligence capabilities. These acquisitions will integrate Jaspersoft's technology into HCL's Actian platform, improving data visualization and analysis efficiency, and further expanding its influence in the AI and BI fields.

The domestic stock market declined slightly, with the KOSPI index falling 0.21%, and individual investors net selling over 700 billion KRW; the KOSDAQ index decreased by 0.47%. The Korean won against the US dollar depreciated, and international gold prices and domestic gold prices also declined.

It is reported that Snowflake Inc. (SNOW) is advancing the acquisition of Observe, a cloud-based observability platform company. If the deal is completed, the scale is expected to reach approximately $10 billion (about 1.44 trillion KRW), making it the largest startup acquisition in Snowflake's history.
Observe provides real-time detection tools for issues such as latency or server failures, and helps engineers analyze problems through an integrated chatbot. Existing solutions mainly offer SQL-based analysis functions, while Observe's feature is its proprietary language OPAL, which enables functions focused on time series analysis. This allows the platform to track log errors during specific periods or perform comparative analysis with previous periods.
Notably, Observe also addresses security threat detection within the Snowflake environment and aims to reduce infrastructure costs.

Bitcoin is currently trading at approximately 125.8 million KRW, down 0.47% from the previous day. Analysts point out that its growth trend is similar to that of traditional financial markets, and the future outlook is optimistic. Market adjustments are seen as part of the long-term trend, with positive changes expected after the general election. Some altcoins are performing strongly, and the market is viewed as a potential buying opportunity.

The Messari Research Institute, a global cryptocurrency research organization, pointed out in a recent report that the role of Starknet in the Bitcoin-centric decentralized finance ecosystem, known as "BTCFi," is rapidly expanding. In particular, Starknet is accelerating the development of a comprehensive self-custodied economic system that goes beyond simple staking or bridging platforms, covering lending, borrowing, yield strategies, and even real-world expenses.
The total value locked in Starknet has increased from $155 million to nearly $310 million over the past six months, nearly doubling. This is the result of increased bridging of Bitcoin, stablecoins, and native token STRK staking. Especially, lending protocols like Vesu are supplementing staking platforms, attracting users who want to leverage their held BTC as collateral to generate yields. The Messari Institute stated that these platforms offer incentives of up to 100 million STRK.

New challenges in redefining the value of synthetic stablecoins have emerged. According to a recent report released by Messari Research, Falcon Finance has proposed a new evolution of stablecoin protocols with its dual-token system and sophisticated risk management framework. The project combines the stability of traditional finance with the flexibility of decentralized finance, aiming not only to maintain a dollar peg but also to include revenue-generating structures, making it highly attention-grabbing.
Falcon Finance consists of two main tokens: USDf, a synthetic dollar backed by over-collateralization to maintain the dollar value, and sUSDf, which accumulates earnings. According to Messari Research, USDf uses a dynamic over-collateralization rate adjusted based on the volatility of the collateral assets, aiming to maintain a 1 USD value, and employs delta-neutral hedging and multi-exchange arbitrage strategies to ensure the stability of the peg. Notably, stablecoins are minted on a 1:1 basis, while non-stablecoins and RWAs are subject to their inherent risks.

For a long time, the "adoption" of Web3 has been simplistically understood as two things:
Waiting for the next bull market or relying on more user education.
But reality is proving that neither of these are true solutions.
Real Web3 adoption has never been the result of "persuasion," but rather a natural choice after the system itself is reliable, user-friendly, and trustworthy enough.
This is precisely the core perspective from which IDN Network views the implementation of Web3.

1. Adoption doesn't start with users, but with the system


There is a long-standing misconception in the Web3 industry:
As long as applications are innovative enough and traffic is large enough, users will stay.
But the truth is quite the opposite.
Users don't care about "chains," "protocols," or "architecture"; they only care about three things:
Whether it can be used stably
Whether the rules are clear and predictable