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While many tokens have trailed Bitcoin in 2025, overshadowed by buzzy new crypto treasury startups, the broader altcoin market has been mounting a comeback since mid-June. DeFi protocols are expanding their offerings, mobile-first crypto is heating up, and battle-tested primitives are being forced to prove their worth! Whether you’re hunting the next moonshot or dodging the next rug, these five tokens are worth paying attention to in the month ahead. Today we dive into the biggest winners, the hardest losers, and the wild catalysts behind this month’s most explosive altcoin stories.

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Last week at EthCC, my co-host Nick and I presented our findings from a year of hosting Apps No Entrees — a Bankless show where we spotlighted crypto-native apps you could use daily. The talk struck a chord with the audience, eager to learn about apps they could actually use rather than just infrastructure they might build upon. After testing over a hundred apps, we realized that crypto has finally shifted — moving past infrastructure obsession into an era where it's the apps that actually matter. Through our analysis, we've seen three core catalysts primarily enabling this shift and three distinct archetypes of apps that retain users better than others. I share these with you today in the hopes that if you've been eager to build an app but haven't known where to start, these examples will energize you and provide a path forward. 👇

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As you might have noticed, I have been a bit more tempered in my stance on $ETH lately. The decline of ETH’s relative valuation has caused it to lose investor confidence, and when ETH aspires to be internet money, confidence is key. The reasons behind ETH’s lagging performance have been the subject of debate for years now. Many of these issues plaguing ETH's relative valuation have been outside of its control – Gary Gensler, Michael Saylor, etc. (Gensler is gone, and ETH treasury companies have finally arrived; some external problems will just fix themselves.) But today, I want to shine a light on the challenges that are firmly under the Ethereum community’s control, because Ethereum has plenty of agency over many of the reasons why it has lagged the market for 3+ years. These are the problems we should focus our energies upon to reinvigorate potential ETH buyers.

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💹 Tokenized Markets: Stocks Meet Chains While Robinhood's tokenized stock announcement certainly grabbed headlines, I’d attribute as much excitement around tokenized stocks to BackedFi, which launched xStocks the same day, allowing people to buy popular stocks like $SPY, $NVDA, and $TSLA on Solana. Most at EthCC still felt these announcements were just half-measures. Yes, we can trade tokenized AAPL, but we’ve had this before. Real excitement will come when we can borrow against these and plug them into yield strategies. So, right now, we're in an awkward intermediate phase — progress without integration. Outside of tokenized stocks though, people were generally excited about tokenization — particularly for commodities. Given uranium’s recent performance, Uranium Digital came up across multiple conversations as did continued interest in tokenized gold.

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2️⃣ Bank Charter Bonanza Multiple crypto-focused firms are now in the process of applying for U.S. banking charters to establish their own depository institutions. Stablecoin issuer Circle kicked off the announcement cycle on Monday with a statement that it had formally submitted an application to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish “First National Digital Currency Bank, N.A.” By Wednesday, Ripple (issuer of RLUSD) and Erebor (a crypto-focused bank backed by Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, and Peter Thiel) had both announced their own applications with the OCC for national bank charters. OCC license recipients could act as custodians for their own reserves, strengthening the quality of their stablecoins by mitigating the risk of a future depeg stemming from a bank run (as seen during the 2023 collapse of SVB). Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse also indicated that his firm had applied for a Federal Reserve Master Account, which would give it the ability to hold interest-bearing bank reserves directly with the Fed.

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1️⃣ Robinhood Tokenized Securities Online stock brokerage Robinhood dove into the deep end of blockchain technology with what is perhaps the greatest real-world asset tokenization push to date at EthCC in Cannes on Monday. Amid a keynote address packed with new feature launches, one defining development stood out from the bunch: the launch of tokenized securities and pre-IPO stocks through Robinhood Europe. These instruments will be initially issued on the Arbitrum L2, but similar to crypto-native exchanges like Coinbase, Robinhood intends on launching a proprietary L2. This chain will eventually serve as the home for Robinhood’s tokenized stock offerings.

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In this episode, Isaiah Taylor, co-founder of Valar Atomics, emphasizes the pivotal role of energy as the foundational currency of civilization. He argues that overcoming energy constraints can unlock limitless creativity and innovation. Isaiah shares his journey from high school dropout to nuclear innovator, advocating for nuclear fission and modular reactors as key solutions for sustainable energy. He envisions a future with abundant energy impacting daily life, enabling entrepreneurs, and facilitating space exploration. Isaiah underscores the need for innovative thinkers to bring nuclear energy into the mainstream, inspiring optimism for a transformative future.

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Picture this: you, a hammock, a cold drink, and a surprise airdrop landing in your wallet. With the Bankless Airdrop Hunter, summertime delight is closer than you think... Bankless is constantly covering new airdrops, and each month, we send a list of crypto’s hottest airdrop opportunities directly to subscriber inboxes. Over 150 promising airdrop opportunities are available in the Airdrop Hunter, our comprehensive hub of airdrop alpha shared exclusively with Bankless Citizens!

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Time.fun is an onchain "time marketplace" on Solana. On the platform, creators, builders, influencers, etc. can create markets for their time and earn when people redeem their time tokens. On the flip side, users can acquire these time tokens and use them to get special access to their preferred experts. This access can come via 1-on-1 direct messages, video calls, group chats, gated livestreams, and service auctions. Plus, you can just hold and speculate on these tokens, too. For example, if you bet Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko's time is going to stay in high demand, you can buy his time tokens to long that demand.

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Network Growth 📈 Unichain currently holds ~$1.3B in total locked value (TVL) across DeFi and stablecoins, up 41% over the last month to rank fourth across all Ethereum rollups. Further, for L2s, it ranks third in total user transactions according to L2Beat, up 42% in the month of June, and processing 2.2% of total weekly DEX volume — fifth among all chains overall. Of its $1.3B in TVL, $860M accounts for DeFi while the rest ($440M) comes from stablecoins, all of which are strongly concentrated around a set of lending protocols and their third-party curator vaults.

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Online stock brokerage Robinhood dove into the deep end of blockchain technology with what is perhaps the greatest real-world asset tokenization push to date. Beginning today, Robinhood Europe investors can access American capital markets through tokenized U.S. stocks, ETFs, and pre-IPO opportunities (including OpenAI and SpaceX). These instruments will be initially issued on the Arbitrum L2, but similar to crypto-native exchanges like Coinbase, Robinhood intends on launching a proprietary L2. This chain will eventually serve as the home for Robinhood’s tokenized stock offerings.

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2️⃣ Ledger Axes Nano S Anger erupted across Crypto Twitter this week after the community noticed a May Ledger announcement. The hardware wallet provider will no longer support the Nano S. The Nano S Plus remains fully supported. First launched in 2016 and pulled from shelves in 2022, the Ledger Nano S remains crypto's best-selling hardware wallet. The policy change means Ledger won't accept new application submissions, feature enhancements, or app updates for the Nano S. Nano S users can still send, receive, buy, sell, and access assets. But their wallets won't receive new Ledger features or upgrades — including improvements to usability and security. Notably, the Nano S is the only Ledger device incompatible with Ledger Recover. This optional multi-party key recovery service was compared by some in crypto to a pre-installed backdoor.

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1️⃣ Dinari Tokenized Stocks In a Reuters interview released Thursday, public markets platform Dinari confirmed it secured a broker-dealer license to issue tokenized stocks in the United States. According to FINRA's "BrokerCheck" report, Dinari's license took effect on June 20, 2025. This enables the San Francisco startup to offer tokenized "dShares" through American stock brokerages and fintech apps in the coming months. The launch is subject to final SEC coordination. This makes Dinari the first company cleared to issue tokenized stocks for American investors. Dinari recently announced its $12.6M Series A raise in May, co-led by HackVC and Blockchange Ventures. Crypto-native exchanges Coinbase and Kraken are also seeking SEC permission to sell tokenized stocks to U.S. users.

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Kraken is cooking up something addictive, designed to bring retail into the crypto payments game – the Krak App. Krak is a global money app built for instant sending, digital rewards, and full flexibility. With Krak, users can send over 300 digital assets in seconds and free of charge to residents of 110 countries. According to Kraken, this payments app is designed to fix the outdated norms of legacy finance by blending crypto technology with the exchange’s trusted network of banking relationships and payment partnerships.

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I scored 21/25 in Flag Frenzy by @mikadoe.eth! Can you beat my score?

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Prediction markets have become a defining technological innovation of this market cycle, and venture capitalists are now chomping at the bit to get their foot in the door. This week, Polymarket and Kalshi – two leading prediction market platforms – were reported to be scoring nearly $400M in fresh funding, securing respective reported $1B and $2B valuations from leading venture capital firms including Founders Fund and Paradigm. While equity upside in these companies is restricted to private market participants, almost anyone can experiment with these platforms by placing bets on real-world events for the chance to profit from correctly predicting the future.

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With growing concerns around surveillance and data exploitation, the crypto space has recently accelerated efforts to integrate privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) into its core infrastructure. Blockchains are radically transparent by design and while the crypto industry has long valued privacy methods — coin mixers or privacy-based tokens — it has also struggled to expand what can be private – beyond simple DeFi and payments – without siloing that privacy to specialized networks. With blockchains increasingly used for AI training and institutional finance, applications using alternative cryptographic techniques are becoming popular. Four technologies in particular are catching steam: Multi-Party Computation (MPC), Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), and Zero-Knowledge Transport Security Layer (zkTLS).

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Crypto options are rapidly emerging as one of the most powerful tools in a trader's arsenal. They unlock advanced strategies, risk management capabilities, and asymmetric return profiles that simply aren’t possible with spot HODLing or perpetual futures alone. Whether you’re looking to generate yield on your stack by selling calls, hedge downside risk with puts, speculate on price swings with leveraged positions, or construct risk-defined positions, the unmatched flexibility of options stands ready to help you outperform the market.

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1️⃣ Tether Wallet Plans? Tether is working on an open-source wallet development kit (WDK), and Ardoino hinted it may release its own branded wallet later this year. The goal? A multichain, fee-optimized wallet that can automatically route transactions to cheaper chains and is designed with emerging markets and machine users in mind. That last point is key. Ardoino envisions a future where AI agents use wallets natively, like your smart fridge holding USDT and buying groceries for you. To prepare, Tether is building infrastructure for noncustodial wallets that work for both people and machines, from $30 smartphones to industrial IoT.

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2️⃣ JPMorgan Digital Dollar JPMorgan – the investment banking, asset management, and private wealth subsidiary of America’s largest bank – took a major step into the cryptocurrency world this week with the release of JPMD (a tokenized bank deposit) on Base. JPMD is available to approved institutional clients as part of a blockchain pilot program by digital asset arm Kinexys. Kinexys executive Naveen Mallela confirmed the pilot program with Bloomberg and told the outlet that a fixed amount of JPMD tokens will be transferred to crypto exchange Coinbase in the coming days. Compared to stablecoins, which will be prohibited from making interest payments to holders under the proposed GENIUS Act, tokenized bank deposits may serve as the yield-bearing payments alternative in a regulated blockchain future.

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