Following 2024's record growth, institutional adoption, and regulatory shifts, Bitwise's @Matt_Hougan and @RasterlyRock shared 2025 predictions on trends shaping digital assets' future. Here's a summary: 👇
1️⃣ BTC, ETH, and SOL Will Reach New Highs
After 2024 gains of 128%, 62%, and 130%, respectively, Bitwise predicts the majors will keep surging to hit:
• Bitcoin: $200K
• Ethereum: $7K
• Solana: $750
2️⃣ Bitcoin ETFs Will Continue to Thrive
Spot Bitcoin ETFs, with a record-breaking $31.7 billion inflows in 2024, can draw more in 2025, as major wirehouses and institutional investors boost market growth.
First off, bookmark this thread to come back later and play on your own time 🔖
Now let's dive into @wmpeaster's list 👇
☁️ @RealmsEternum
Eternum is a new onchain massively multiplayer online game (MMO) arriving on @Starknet in Q4 2024. It combines elements from 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) and real-time strategy (RTS) games in a dynamic, fully onchain world with a player-driven economy.
The big idea? Players navigate an endless hexagonal map, forging alliances or rivalries, gathering resources, and battling for control in a strategic struggle for dominance. With an emphasis on diplomacy and resource management, Eternum will require players to balance cooperation and competition to succeed.
Each player starts with a Realm they can expand and develop, using resources that can even be converted into tokens for trading via $LORDS. The game also introduces “Hyperstructures” as high-stakes strategic targets — constructing these can bring victory but risks enemy attacks, making defense crucial.
Zooming out, Eternum is built to be composable, meaning it’s wide open to modding and expansions by the community thanks to the Dojo onchain game engine. The title also uses the onchain gaming stack of @cartridge_gg, featuring tools like session keys and Paymaster support for streamlined UX.
Keep in mind, too, that Eternum’s launch will just be one prong in the larger vision of Realms World, an interconnected ecosystem for onchain games on Starknet.
Realms World aims to operate across two layers: a flexible public layer for game creation and mods, and a stable core layer, which serves as a “digital physics” layer with governance-controlled standards. This layered design will allow multiple games, like Eternum, to coexist, share states, and interact in unique ways, so keep an eye out for the experiments to come here.
Ethereum is pursuing a rollup-centric scaling roadmap
Where do appchains fit into the vision?
.@uniswap's recently announced Unichain has reignited debate about when it's appropriate for an application to launch its own chain and is a perfect case study for appchain feasibility...
So now, let's answer the question: are appchains here to stay?
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If you hold the "Based Introduced" NFT, you can claim the new $BASED token on @base 👇
When the testnet of Base was first launched in February 2023, the Layer 2's team released a free commemorative NFT mint, "Base Introduced"
The open edition was collected more than 485k times by over 370k wallets, making it one of the most widely distributed NFTs ever!
Of course, Base hasn't released a native token or announced any official plans to yet, but demand for exposure to Base and its growing community is significant right now.
Enter @GSkrovina who is using the Base Introduced NFT as a proxy for creating an unofficial Base token