Long-Term Scarcity Narrative: Auctions masked inflation via locks; unlocks pressured price. Combined with 2025 supply cap and potential burns, DOT shifts deflationary. Investment thesis strengthens. Ecosystem expansion hits inflection, with Agile Coretime enabling boundless scaling and mass Web3 onboarding.
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Chainlink's core function in Web3 is as a tamper-proof oracle system that supplies external data to smart contracts, enhancing their functionality beyond on-chain limits. It serves as an essential infrastructure for secure Web3 services. The potential for DApp support is vast: by enabling API connectivity via Functions, developers can create DApps that incorporate Web2 data seamlessly, such as weather-based farming insurance or stock-linked DeFi protocols. This integration lowers entry barriers, accelerates development, and could lead to hybrid apps blending blockchain with traditional tech, expanding Web3's utility.
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Bitcoin-Specific TrendsFor Bitcoin, post-2024 halving block rewards dropped to 3.125 BTC, halving revenue, but prices hitting $122,000 in July 2025 drove per-block earnings to $380,000. Energy costs now average $35,000-50,000 per BTC mined, per Barchart models, with ROI timelines of 10-24 months for efficient ASICs like Antminer S21 at $0.05/kWh. Hashprice fell to $0.049/TH/s by April 2025, per Cointelegraph, tightening margins amid 77% hashrate growth to 921 EH/s. Forecasts predict stable profitability if BTC holds $100,000+, but small operators risk obsolescence as difficulty hits 123T.
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