Foresight News takes you through this week's hot topics and recommended content:
01 CryptoPunks Acquisition
《Yuga Labs Lets Go of CryptoPunks, Is the Next Stop for NFT Blue Chips a Museum?》
02 Believe Ecosystem Explodes
《Believe Ecosystem in Full Swing, Who Will Be the Next Wealth Myth?》
《Believe Must-Have Tools: Token Radar, Data Dashboard, and Identifying High-Frequency Rug Pull Dev》
03 MapleStory Launches Strongly
《MapleStory NXPC Launches Strongly, Will Korean Big Factories Revive Chain Game Business?》
04 Bear Chain Mining
《Bear Chain Gold Mining Guide: A Fragrant Mine with Over 200% Annual Yield》
05 Project Observation
《Ecosystem Airdrop, Stablecoin Creation, Issuing Own Coin... Exploring Sui Game Machine's "Tricky Operations"》
《Gold Panning Manual | How to Layout Ethereum Privacy L2 Breaker Aztec?》
06 Industry Survey
《Bitwise Chief Investment Officer: Why Diversify Crypto Asset Allocation?》
《How Do Crypto Project Founders Choose Suitable VCs?》
《Continuous Macro Positive Stimulus, Is Ethereum Finally Going to "Stand Up"?》
(The rest of the translation follows the same approach, maintaining the structure and translating all text while preserving any specific terms or names as specified in the initial instructions.)MapleStory Universe is a virtual world ecosystem built on the foundation of the super IP MapleStory. Since its establishment in 2022, NEXON has invested $100 million and led the development process, constructing the main game MapleStory N and NFT trading platform on Avalanche C-Chain, with a game ecosystem centered on dual tokens (governance token NXPC and in-game token NESO), NFT and token exchange mechanism, and contribution reward mechanism, and launched the MapleStory N pre-download on May 8, 2025.
As a classic MMORPG with over 250 million cumulative players and total revenue of $5 billion globally, its massive user base and mature economic system lay the foundation for this game's blockchain transformation. Such games naturally possess a deeply immersive gameplay framework and highly complex virtual economic system, where players often invest in character development, equipment accumulation, and social relationship building over cycles of years or even decades, and this long-term stickiness provides a stable user base and value precipitation scenario for blockchain transformation.
04 Bear Chain Mining
With Bitcoin standing above $100,000, the Altcoin market is heating up again. The emerging public chain Berachain's token has been rising for 3 consecutive days from its bottom of $2.7, reaching a high of around $4.7. If you have a portion of BERA that you don't plan to sell short-term and want to earn higher returns, this article will help you explore some effortless earning methods.
《Bear Chain Gold Mining Guide: Super Profitable Mine with Over 200% Annual Yield》
Currently, Infrared has released a points program to incentivize user participation before token launch. The official stated that token issuance may occur in Q3, so contributing to Infrared's liquidity proof vault, providing liquidity for key trading pairs on decentralized exchanges (such as Kodiak and BEX), and staking iBGT and iBERA can earn points and potentially receive official airdrops.
Users can directly stake BERA on the Infrared website, receiving wrapped token iBERA. BERA is staked to the validator network, generating staking rewards. iBERA can be used for liquidity on decentralized exchanges, lending, or as collateral, continuing to earn staking rewards while generating other income. Notably, Infrared currently does not support unstaking, so users can only wait for the official function to be launched.
Building liquidity pools not only earns transaction fees but also generates significant interest income. For example, on DEXs like Kodiak and BEX, building WBERA-iBERA pools offers annual rates over 50%. Additionally, participating on Infrared provides a 1.5x points multiplier.
Users can earn substantial returns through gradual liquidity pools, such as the iBGT-iBERA pool earning 1.04% transaction fees and a 127.91% annual yield in HONEY. The iBERA-BERA pool transaction fee income reaches 1.41%, with relatively low HONEY yield of 44.76%.[The translation continues in the same manner for the remaining text, maintaining the specified translation rules for specific terms.]
By leveraging blockchain technology, people can create new forms of currency like Bitcoin; build programmable networks for transferring real-world assets, such as Ethereum and Solana; develop innovative applications like DeFi and DePin; or construct middleware services for other blockchains, like Chainlink. Additionally, blockchain technology has given rise to traditional enterprises supporting the crypto economy, such as Coinbase, Circle, and Marathon Digital.
However, if you recognize blockchain as a universal technology and are optimistic about its future prospect of gradually moving various assets on-chain, historical experience suggests that diversified allocation of crypto assets is the better choice. You might consider building an investment portfolio that includes multiple crypto assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and Chainlink.
Lastly, I want to share a piece of data that still impresses me, even after years of working in ETF and cryptocurrency industries: Over the past 20 years, actively managed US stock funds underperformed the benchmark index 97% of the time.
Just as VCs conduct due diligence on investment projects, founders should also conduct due diligence on potential investors. The primary task of a VC is to increase the company's chances of success. VCs can achieve this goal through various methods, and determining how each investor can effectively support their startup should be the core of founders' due diligence. If I were in the founders' position, I would screen VCs according to the following criteria. Recommended reading:
《How Can Crypto Project Founders Choose Suitable VCs?》
Brand: Obtaining support from "first-tier" venture capital firms usually (at least in the short term) enhances the company's brand. This provides direct help in recruiting talent. The brand halo effect is slightly less significant when hiring the first 10 employees, but becomes crucial in attracting talent at or after the A-round financing stage. Given that early-hired employees have a huge impact on the company's development trajectory and culture, founders' ideal approach is to attract these talents from their personal network.
Knowledge and Insights: Do investors have referenceable experience that can provide useful advice to entrepreneurs? Are they particularly good at identifying factors that influence the market or business?
Background Check on Investors: These investigations should cover successful companies in the VC's portfolio, as well as those near or already bankrupt. It's important to understand how investors are as partners in successful and stressful situations. Ideally, these references are from companies that have also collaborated with the potential investors.
Check Conflict Risks: Does the institution have a history of investing in mutually competing companies? More importantly, have they invested in any companies that could theoretically compete with yours?
The total cryptocurrency market value has rebounded by over 2%, approaching $3.4 trillion. With Altcoins collectively rising, Bitcoin's market dominance has dropped to 61.60%, the Altcoin season index has risen above 29, and the fear and greed index has climbed to 74, representing greed. During the same period, the S&P 500 erased its year-to-date decline, and the Nasdaq rose by over 1%. US crypto stocks simultaneously rose, with Coinbase rising over 24% to $257.90, stimulated by the positive impact of being included in the S&P 500; MicroStrategy rose over 4.13% to close at $421.60. Recommended reading:
《With Continuous Macro Positive Signals, Is Ethereum Finally Going to "Stand Up"?》
Following the "mutual tariff reduction" consensus reached at the US-China Geneva talks on May 9th, the Trump administration further announced on the 13th the removal of export restrictions on AI chips imposed during Biden's term, causing chip stocks like Nvidia and AMD to rise over 5% pre-market, indirectly driving the valuation recovery of crypto market risk assets. "This is the most constructive policy combination since the 2024 G20," Bitwise's Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan noted, "Expected improvement in cross-border capital flows, and Bitcoin's 'digital neutrality' is being re-priced by the market."
However, any rise based on policy compromise requires caution about the black swan of protocol breakdown. Before the Federal Reserve's June monetary policy meeting and the July tariff impact data, maintaining respect for "Trump-style policy fluctuations" might be wiser than chasing intraday highs. After all, Wall Street analysts' speed in modifying economic and market predictions can't keep up with the Trump administration's "dramatic face-changing".
Reviewing the cryptocurrency and US stock trends from early April to now, Trump's statements have had a massive market impact: After Trump said "now is a good time to buy" on April 9th, he announced a partial tariff suspension hours later, causing BTC to rebound nearly 25% that month, and US stocks to surge over 16%.
