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Archie Royce
April 25, 2025
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Beyond the Hype 🎯
Spend five minutes in any boomer‑heavy finance forum and you’ll hear the greatest hits:
“Bitcoin is Monopoly money.”
“Web3 is just beanie babies for nerds.”
Adorable. But numbers have this rude habit of ruining a good prejudice. Today, crypto spits out millions in real, government‑approved dollars—daily. How? Three shiny, very different money machines.
Stablecoins 💲
While CNBC argued about the Fed’s next sneeze, stablecoin issuers built private mints that would make the Treasury jealous.
Tether (USDT): ± $18 million every 24 hours
Circle (USDC): Roughly $6 million, aka “lunch money” for Tether
Each token is theoretically backed by a dollar parked in Treasury bills humming along at ~5%. Holders get stability; issuers get the yield—tens of billions multiplied by 5 percent equals Niagara Falls, but with cash instead of water.
Cheat‑code takeaway: Your USDT is basically a fee‑free checking account. For Tether, it’s a bond portfolio that never calls in sick.
Blockchains & dApps 💼
Blockchains charge tolls every time you press “send.” Ethereum, Bitcoin, Solana, Tron, and BNB rack up $300 K+ per day each just keeping the lights on. Nice. But the real jackpot is the toppings layer: decentralized apps.
Daily DeFi Dynamo Board
Rank | dApp | Chain | Daily Fees | Protocol Cut* |
1 | Jupiter | Solana | $2.64 M | $672 K |
2 | Pump | Solana | $2.24 M | $1.57 M |
3 | Uniswap | Multi‑chain | $1.82 M | LPs grab all |
4 | Jito | Solana | $1.82 M | $72 K |
5 | Hyperliquid | Own chain | $1.55 M | $1.55 M |
Protocol revenue = the slice that flows to treasuries or token holders. Some projects wine‑and‑dine liquidity providers; others keep the whole pie. Read the menu before ordering.
Solana’s dApps alone rake in $4.3 million per day—about four times Ethereum’s haul—thanks to dirt‑cheap gas and a user experience that doesn’t feel like filing taxes.
Cheat‑code takeaway: dApps are no longer freshman‑year projects. They’re fully audited, revenue‑spitting businesses you can stalk on‑chain in real time.
Wallets 💰️
That cute browser wallet? It’s charging rent.
Phantom: ~$500 K each day
MetaMask: A modest $80 K (someone buy them coffee)
Every swap you click drops coins in the tip jar. In Web3, whoever owns the on‑ramp owns the cash funnel.
Cheat‑code takeaway: Even the “free” parts of crypto run profit centers, sometimes out‑earning mid‑tier exchanges. Surprise!
The Cash Map 🗺️
Crypto’s revenue engines now cover:
Base chains: Global toll roads.
Stablecoins: Money‑market funds with cooler logos.
DEXs & trading suites: 24/7 fee factories.
Liquid‑staking platforms: Earn yield and secure the network.
Wallets: Monetizing your front door to Web3.
So next time someone quips that crypto “doesn’t create value,” flash these stats like VIP wristbands. No, it doesn’t guarantee your Lambo—but it does prove the industry is already cash‑flow positive and growing acne‑level fast.
Do a little homework on who shares revenue (and who hides it under the mattress), and you can navigate this digital Wild West with a lot more swagger—and maybe an extra comma or two in your portfolio.
The Great Stampede? 🐃
For decades, the financial safety dance looked the same: panic → buy Treasuries → toss in some gold → pretend everything’s fine. But now? That playbook is in the shredder. Global investors are stampeding out of U.S. bonds and into assets that don’t come with a Fed press conference and a side of existential dread.
Gold is having a glow-up — up 6% since April 2. Cute. Bitcoin? It’s up 12%. For a so-called “risk asset,” that’s like a bungee jumper floating upward.
Flight to Neutral 💸
U.S. capital markets used to be the Switzerland of global finance: neutral, strong, maybe a little smug. Not anymore. Money’s now fleeing to truly neutral assets — not tied to any government’s fiscal mood swings or debt ceiling fan fiction.
Gold is the classic: shiny, silent, no earnings calls.
Bitcoin is the remix: hard-capped, borderless, and now getting invited to the serious-asset table — with Wi-Fi.
In 2020, a tech stock sneeze gave Bitcoin pneumonia. Now? Nasdaq stumbles, and Bitcoin shrugs, sips espresso, and keeps climbing. Wall Street is starting to notice. And nothing motivates Wall Street like missing out.
Earnings Cliff Ahead? ⛰️
Corporate profits are facing rate hikes, softening demand, and a consumer base finally realizing that “Buy Now, Cry Later” was less of a strategy and more of a cry for help. When profits drop, fund managers scramble for assets that aren’t bleeding — and Bitcoin’s looking surprisingly stain-resistant.
Fiat Fatigue
The dollar’s not dethroned, but the cushion’s wearing thin. Countries are building payment systems that skip the dollar entirely. Investors are asking: “If fiat goes flaky, what doesn’t?”Size Matters
Gold’s a $20 trillion behemoth. Bitcoin? Still a modest $1.5 trillion. So when sentiment flips, gold nudges up. Bitcoin, on the other hand, launches like a SpaceX rocket — minus the explosions.
Join the Party 📦️
Imagine 500 hedge fund CIOs watching Bitcoin outpace every “safe” asset they own. Day one: denial. Day five: FOMO. Day ten: compliance teams rushing to set up Coinbase accounts before lunch. Wall Street can’t underperform for long — they have bonuses to justify and egos to soothe.
And when Bitcoin rises, the whole crypto caravan tends to follow — income tokens, AI tokens, meme coins that sound like inside jokes. Yes, even the weird ones.
The Takeaway 🎫
I’ve been monitoring the financial markets since people thought mullets were a personality. Never have I seen the world ditch U.S. equities, the dollar, and Treasuries all at once. This isn’t a tweak in the matrix — it’s a full-blown rewrite.
Could Bitcoin tank? Sure. Volatility is part of the charm. But when the world’s rebalancing and you’re still clinging to cash like it’s 2010… maybe the risky move is doing nothing.
Because maybe — just maybe — the fad isn’t Bitcoin.
COIN SPOTLIGHT 🔍️
Follow the Revenue 💴
Crypto markets are growing up. We’re shifting from the “vibes and vibes alone” era — where all it took was a slick meme and a dream — to something shockingly rational: fundamentals. Yep, people are finally asking, “But… does anyone actually use this thing?”
Welcome to the new frontier: the revenue era.
Because here’s the truth: more usage means more revenue. More revenue means more value captured by the token. So if you’re looking for strong projects to invest in, follow the cash flow — not just the Twitter hype.
Below are the top 5 revenue-generating crypto apps from March, all of which have investable tokens (and actual business models — imagine that). Let’s dive in.
Hyperliquid ($HYPE)
Onchain perpetuals let you trade the price movements of crypto assets without owning the assets themselves. Think of it like betting on Bitcoin’s rollercoaster without actually buying a ticket.
And Hyperliquid is the king of this hill, pulling in a jaw-dropping $42 million in March — and making up nearly 58% of all onchain perp trading volume.
Translation: it’s eating everyone’s lunch, breakfast, and maybe their snacks too.— $42.05M in March Revenue
PancakeSwap ($CAKE)
March on its own? Meh. Nothing wild. But Q1 as a whole? All-time high in volumes. That’s a big deal for this DeFi veteran.
PancakeSwap keeps cooking even in a quieter market. Investors might yawn at one month’s numbers, but the long-term chart is starting to look like it’s had one too many energy drinks.— $22.73M in March Revenue
Jupiter ($JUP)
Jupiter’s playing the long game. In March, it kicked off its first month of token buybacks — locking up 50% of revenue for three years.
That means $9.86M in March alone went into buying and locking up $JUP — reducing supply, increasing scarcity, and giving holders a compelling reason to pay attention.
It's like the project read a macroeconomics textbook and said, “Let’s make this fun.”— $19.71M in March Revenue
MakerDAO/Spark ($MKR)
Even with markets doing their best impression of a deflating balloon, $MKR is up over 20% in recent months. Meanwhile, many big-name tokens are down double digits.|
How? Steady fundamentals and reliable revenue from real-world assets and DeFi lending. Maker has quietly been turning into DeFi’s boring, money-printing uncle — and it turns out, boring is the new sexy.— $12.98M in March Revenue
Uniswap Labs ($UNI)
Uniswap the protocol did nearly $59M in fees in March — but here’s the kicker: Uniswap Labs (the creators) only earn from trades done through their own interface.
Even so, they still took home a cool 17% cut, totaling nearly $10 million.
The protocol lets anyone build on top of it, which is great for decentralization… and a little less great for Labs' revenue. But hey — almost $10M for one month of interface revenue? We’ll take it.— $9.89M in March Revenue
So What’s the Play? 💹
In a market that’s finally prioritizing actual business models, tokens tied to high-usage, high-revenue projects are looking less like speculative punts and more like venture investments.
You want fundamentals? Follow the revenue.
STAGE RIGHT 🎬️
NOTABLE QUOTES 📚️
“Money doesn’t change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that’s all.”
— Henry Ford
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