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Despite multiple attempts to dethrone the leading memecoin from its position in the crypto market, Dogecoin remains one of the top ten digital assets. As of May 2025, DOGE ranks 8th on CoinMarketCap, surpassing Cardano and Tron in market capitalization.

Amid an unstable macroeconomic environment and frequent political shifts, May 2025 has been marked by an unexpected and powerful trend: most altcoins show growth that outpaces Bitcoin's performance.

For decades, gold has traditionally been regarded as the primary safe-haven asset — a "harbor of safety" for investors during economic instability.

According to CoinMarketCap, Dogecoin (DOGE) is one of the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, with a market capitalization of over $33 billion. This makes it not just a meme coin but one of the most significant digital assets on the market.

As of May 2025, Solana ranks among the top five largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, with a market capitalization of $94.2 billion.

Since the explosive growth of the crypto industry in 2021, the digital asset market has undergone significant changes. Along with massive popularization and rising capitalization came oversaturation.

In recent years, the real estate market has been undergoing a digital transformation, with tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) emerging as a key catalyst for this shift.

The USDC token, or USD Coin, remains the second-largest stablecoin by market capitalization after Tether. According to analytics platforms, in January 2025, the total transaction volume involving this stablecoin exceeded $20 billion.

The decentralized finance (DeFi) market provides various options for generating income from cryptocurrencies without the need to go to third-party organizations like CEX exchanges and identify yourself.

New decentralized protocols empowering the DeFi market emerge every month, but only a handful of them rank high in terms of total blockchain value (TVL).

File security and availability are critical aspects of digital systems.

BNB Chain regained its position and re-established itself among the top five blockchain platforms in the crypto market after losing its place to Solana in 2024 amid the rapid growth of its ecosystem.

Having appeared before Ethereum, XRP remains one of the leading altcoins in the cryptocurrency market in terms of capitalization.

Tether dominates the stablecoin market: with a capitalization of $144 billion as of April 2025, the USDT token ranks third in cryptocurrencies after Bitcoin and Ethereum. At the same time, Tether accounts for more than 60% of the capitalization of the entire stablecoin market.

After the rapid growth that began in the third quarter of 2024, many cryptocurrencies have undergone a correction: even some major altcoins, such as Ethereum and Dogecoin, have collapsed by more than 50% since January 2025.

At the beginning of 2025, the cryptocurrency market was under powerful pressure — the bitcoin rate fell sharply due to geopolitical instability, hacker attacks, and the United States' macroeconomic decisions.

Despite the release of the notorious Market in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) bill and the banning of stablecoin, Tether remains the leading asset in its segment and continues to increase its position.

In a new cycle in which the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (BTC), and some altcoins such as Solana (SOL) have updated their all-time high (ATH), the second most capitalized cryptocurrency and leading altcoin Ethereum failed to even come close to it.

Tron is one of the leading and most liquid blockchain ecosystems in the decentralized finance market (DeFi), ranking among the top five networks by total blockchain value (TVL), which exceeds $5 billion as of April 2025.

The decentralized finance (DeFi) market has changed significantly over the past five years. While decentralized exchanges dominated in the early days, the focus shifted to protocols that provide lending services, liquid staking, and the issuance of stablecoins.

Cryptocurrency requires a special approach and a long study. However, to use it at a basic level, beginners only need to follow a few simple rules that will help avoid basic mistakes and unnecessary losses.

By providing protection against inflation and control by third parties such as banks and other financial institutions, bitcoin is becoming one of the most suitable assets for creating a long-term strategic reserve.

Blockchain ecosystems are evolving and newer, more performant, scalable and functional solutions are emerging in the cryptocurrency market.

Tether is the leading stablecoin in terms of capitalization, which is over $144 billion as of April 2025, with Tether accounting for over 62% of the capitalization of the entire stablecoin market, which is $231 billion according to data for the same period.

In 2024, Solana has become one of the leading blockchain ecosystems and for a few months even ranked fourth in CoinMarketCap's market capitalization ranking.

CeDeFi (Centralized Decentralized Finance) is a hybrid approach that combines the strengths of centralized (CeFi) and decentralized (DeFi) finance. It seeks to integrate DeFi's transparency and innovation with CeFi's security, scalability, and regulatory compatibility.

For any Web3 ecosystem like BNB Chain to grow, high-demand decentralized applications such as DEX exchanges, blockchain games, and metaverses must be in high demand.

For the first time in the project’s 18-year history, BestChange CEO Denis Malkov shared the project’s history.

The period of the second major "cryptozyme", which took place from 2021 to 2023, also affected the Non-Fungible Tokens market, as a result of which most NFT collections, including well-known ones, almost completely lost their value.

Smart contract functionality, first introduced in the Ethereum blockchain platform, enabled the creation of autonomous applications that eventually became the foundation of the decentralized finance (DeFi) sphere.

The Decentralized Finance Marketplace (DeFi) has pioneered the creation of entirely new Web3 ecosystems. In its earliest stage of development, DeFi's focus was on standard financial services such as trading and lending.

Game Finance (GameFi) or "game finance" has become one of the most essential and fastest-growing areas in the blockchain industry. According to the April 2025 CoinGecko monitoring service, the game finance market is estimated at nearly $10.5 billion, of which about $6 billion is accounted for by P2E

One of the crypto industry's main challenges remains the blockchain network's fragmentation. Many large blockchains, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Solana, have a closed ecosystem separated from other networks.

Decentralized exchanges (DEXes) have become an integral part of the decentralized finance (DeFi) market: new trading platforms in the crypto industry appear almost every day.

Cryptocurrencies have provided new opportunities for handling virtual assets: thanks to them, any user can perform transactions independently using the blockchain without intermediaries such as banks.

In 2025, cryptocurrencies finally ceased to be a niche tool for enthusiasts and became part of the strategic portfolio of major corporations and banks. This is confirmed by both market data and forecasts by key industry participants.

Scammers take away crypto users' assets in many ways, from rag pools to fake tokens, and the damage from such attacks can reach tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars.

As the decentralized finance sector evolves, new concepts emerge in the DeFi market to support specific global initiatives. One such trend has become regenerative finance, whose key role is to improve the environment.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain have become the key technologies of the 21st century, so it is not surprising that both developers and users are becoming increasingly interested in the mutual integration of these areas.

Last year was no less important for the crypto market than 2017 and 2021, with Bitcoin and many major altcoins hitting all-time highs (ATH) and new platforms beginning to emerge to expand cryptocurrency options.

Undoubtedly, the first blockchain protocol, Bitcoin, which introduced the possibility for each user to participate in the issuance of virtual currency, has become one of the main and most discussed phenomena of the XXI century. Well, the process of emission was called "mining".