💰 Top 10 Chains by Fees: Oct 2024 vs Oct 2025

Blockchain fee dynamics shifted dramatically over the past year, showing which networks adapted, and which lagged:

#HYPE Hyperliquid: Fees soared 1,600% ($2.4M → $41M) after HIP-3 enabled permissionless perpetuals and fee cuts drove record trading volume.

#BNB BNB Chain: Jumped 977% ($3M → $32.3M) amid the ongoing memecoin season.

Base: Rose 317% ($767K → $3.2M), driven by rapid user growth.

#BTC Bitcoin: Fees collapsed 73% ($11.4M → $3.1M) as Ordinals and Runes activity faded, slashing on-chain use and miner revenue.

#ETH Ethereum: Dropped 48% ($42.1M → $21.6M) as users moved to faster, and lower-cost L2s.

#SOL Solana: Declined 34% ($10M → $6.6M) as memes cooled off.

📊👀 #RWA Sentora: This chart shows how RWA value is currently distributed. Private credit leads at $17.5B, and US Treasuries are a sizable $8.3B.

👨‍💻 #ETH tops the charts as the №1 ecosystem for new developers in 2025, according to Electric Capital.

From January to September 2025, Ethereum attracted 16,181 new developers & Solana was right behind with 11,534 new devs.

#SOL’s growth has been driven largely by its high-performance DeFi and consumer app activity.

Solana and Ethereum price correlation sits at 0.96, which means investor sentiment and market flows are nearly identical across both ecosystems.

👍 #PYUSD Paxos said they minted PYUSD 300 trillion by mistake but then burned it and minted PYUSD 300 million. theblock

🇰🇷 #BNB Binance completes acquisition of Gopax, paving the way for a return to South Korea. theblock.co

👀 #ZK #BNB Binance Will Support the ZKsync Era (ZK) Network Upgrade & Hard Fork - 2025-10-20 binance ZKUSDT: 0,03738 #Binance #Support

🇺🇸 #RWA SEC Chairman Atkins said at the DC Fintech Week conference that cryptocurrencies and tokenization are the "number one job" for the SEC. theblock.co

📊 Santiment: after Trump's threats of 100% duties for China, gold rallied while stocks fell and BTC fell ~11%. One could argue that BTC's fall is still in the "overreaction" range.

📊 Santiment: the most discussed tokens on social media:

- #PYUSD - since mistakenly minted 300 trillion PYUSD;
- #ETH - large Ethereum Foundation deposits to DeFi vaults, institutional supply and demand dynamics, price forecasts, and ETF inflows surpassing Bitcoin;
- #BTC - due to extensive discussions about BTC's market dominance, its comparison to altcoins and gold, and its perceived value as safe money versus speculative assets;
- #MON - upcoming airdrop.

📊 Open interest in CME futures on #BTC, #ETH, #SOL, #XRP reached $28.3 billion, surpassing Binance's $23 billion and Bybit's $12.2 billion.

🔍🐳 Whale Transactions:

1. In the last 7 hours, 3 new wallets, likely Bitmine, have received 104,336 ETH ($417 million) from Kraken and BitGo.
Despite the market crash, Bitmine founder still predicts #ETH will reach $10,000 by the end of the year.
2. LAB bought back >20.9 million #LAB ($2.35 million) on Binance Alpha, Bitget, and PancakeSwap in the last 30 hours;
3. a new wallet has #LINK for ~$17M from Binance.

📝 #ETH Bitwise Invest: 95% of all ETH held by public companies (4% of total supply) was acquired in Q3 alone. cointelegraph

💸 Better Payment Network, a steblicoin payments company, has received an initial $50 million funding round led by YZi Labs. theblock.co

💸 Nasdaq-listed Zeta Network raised $230M in a private sale, with investors paying in #BTC or #SolvBTC. cointelegraph

💰 Bitfarms plans to raise $300 million by issuing unsecured convertible bonds maturing in 2031. theblock.co #mining

👍 #XRP CEO of Ripple said at DC Fintech Week that cryptocurrency companies should receive the same benefits as traditional financial institutions, subject to the same laws and regulations.
Also stated that the SEC is unlikely to abandon its policy on cryptocurrencies after Atkins or Trump leaves office. cointelegraph

🇺🇸 #TRUMP FT: Trump and his family have earned >$1 billion in pre-tax profits from cryptocurrency this year. Biggest earnings: #TRUMP and #MELANIA brought in $427m, sale of #WLFI brought in $550m.

😱🤑 Fear&Greed Index for #BTC and #ETH

💸 #BTC Over the last 24 hours, ~$445 million worth of contracts have been liquidated, of which longs have liquidated ~$287 million and shorts ~$158 million.

🇺🇸💰 Kraken buys Small Exchange for $100 million to launch a derivatives trading platform in the US. theblock.co

🔝 DEX Aggregators by Trading Volume in the last 30 days

📊🤔 #BTC CQ: Currently, sentiment is in the extreme bearish zone, similar to stress points seen in l2024,2025 investors are defensive, participation low and risk appetite depressed despite relatively stable BTC prices around cycle highs.