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Former Multicoin co-founder Kyle Samani predicts that in the next 18 months, advancements in the microstructure of the Solana on-chain market will surpass any other period in cryptocurrency history. Notable expectations include:Alpenglow: A major upcoming consensus mechanism upgrade for Solana, representing one of the largest protocol-level changes in Solana's history.ACE (Application Controlled Execution): Application controlled execution is a key innovation in Solana's core roadmap.MCL (Multi-Concurrent Block Production): Future upgrades for Solana will allow multiple leaders to propose blocks simultaneously, significantly increasing throughput and reducing latency, while improving transaction inclusion times and censorship resistance.PropAMMs (Proprietary Automated Market Makers): Deployed privately by professional market makers/institutions, using real-time price oracles to update quotes and actively manage liquidity, typically not accepting permissionless deposits.Aggregators: Aggregators like Jupiter and Dflow aggregate liquidity from multiple DEXs, AMMs, PropAMMs, etc., to find the optimal execution path for users, providing the lowest slippage and best prices.Conditional liquidity: Prevents market makers from being front-run, allowing them to offer tighter spreads, ultimately resulting in better trade prices and deeper liquidity.Overall improvements to SVM and the scheduler: Including optimizations for compute units, asynchronous program execution (APE), scheduling algorithm upgrades, etc., making programs run faster, more resource-efficient, and supporting higher concurrency.

ChainCatcher news, Virtuals announces the launch of a new launch model, Unicorn. Compared to the previous Genesis model, Unicorn no longer solely pursues fairness but emphasizes early belief and long-term value. Each Unicorn project starts with a low valuation, allowing early participants to gain asymmetric returns. The founding team only receives funding when the project actually grows, ensuring responsibility and long-term development.The launch process includes the creation phase, early trading phase, and a transparent team allocation mechanism, with anti-bot measures and ecological airdrop rewards for VIRTUAL holders and active community members. The Unicorn model will gradually replace the Genesis points system, with the reward mechanism shifting from points to VIRTUAL staking and ecological activities. Each Unicorn Launch will allocate 5% of the total supply to true community members: 2% to VIRTUAL stakers; 3% to active participants in the Virtuals ecosystem.

ChainCatcher news, according to financefeeds, Falconedge is a new hedge fund consulting firm spun off from the UK hedge fund Falcon Investment Management, which has now completed pre-IPO financing and plans to implement an ambitious Bitcoin treasury strategy, using almost all of the upcoming IPO proceeds to build a Bitcoin treasury.Falconedge CEO Roy Kashi stated, "By adopting Bitcoin as the company's primary reserve asset, Falconedge bets that BTC will become the cornerstone of institutional finance in the next decade." Falconedge's IPO is expected in September.

ChainCatcher news, Cycle Network officially launched the UniCall section on the UnicornX platform, with an intraday peak increase of 294.47%.It is reported that Cycle Network announced a strategic investment from Diamond Hands Capital Unicorn Verse, providing support for Cycle Network's secondary market and its subsequent development. Cycle Network will focus on advancing its core business: building a "VisaNet" in the cryptocurrency field, providing efficient, secure, and seamless settlement and trading experiences for various blockchain assets, while further enhancing multi-chain settlement capabilities and ecological layout.

ChainCatcher news, Cycle Network officially announced a strategic partnership with UnicornX. After becoming the latest project of Unicall, the market capitalization of $CYC reached a new high, with an intraday peak increase of 294.47%, and FDV exceeding 100 million USD.Recently, Cycle Network completed a strategic upgrade, aiming to become the "VisaNet of seamless connections in the crypto space," further enhancing its multi-chain settlement capabilities and ecological layout.UnicornX is not only a DEX but also a hub for integrity-driven projects and resources. With the support of the liquidity strategic investment institution UnicornVerse, it provides acceleration channels for projects at different stages through flagship features UniCall and XCall. Since the launch of UniCall, projects that have gone live on UniCall have achieved an average growth rate of +507.3%, aiming to reshape the trust mechanism in Web3 and become the core hub for singularity exchanges and long-term growth.

ChainCatcher news, Bitget on-chain trading has recently launched projects showing an upward trend. Among them, UNICORN reached a maximum increase of 1066% after its launch, LuckyCoin reached 921%, and H reached 405%.Bitget on-chain trading aims to seamlessly connect CEX and DEX, providing users with a more convenient, efficient, and secure on-chain trading experience. Users can directly use their Bitget spot account (USDT/USDC) to trade popular on-chain assets. Currently, it supports popular public chains such as Solana (SOL), BNB Smart Chain (BSC), and Base.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, researchers at Cornell Tech have released an innovative technology application case called "Liquefaction."This technology allows users to temporarily control blockchain assets held by others, such as Bored Ape NFTs, under specific conditions without actually owning them. In the demonstration, users only need to pay about $2 to temporarily use an NFT worth $50,000, but they cannot perform actions like selling.The research team pointed out that this technology could impact the security models of various blockchain applications, including DAO voting, airdrops, and loyalty points.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, CEX.io CEO Oleksandr Lutskevych pointed out that the optimism in the cryptocurrency market has structural support. Data shows that under the dual impact of the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike in May 2022 and the LUNA collapse, the traditional stock market's fear and greed index plummeted by 82% to 4 points, while the cryptocurrency market index only fell by 62% to 8 points. During the global tariff policy adjustment in April 2025, the stock market sentiment index dropped sharply by 80%, hitting a three-year low, while the cryptocurrency market's decline was 59%.The market resilience stems from differences in investor structure: long-term holders (LTH) of Bitcoin control over 65% of the circulating supply, accumulating more than 300,000 BTC during the macro fluctuations from March to April 2024. This group views short-term volatility as noise and focuses more on Bitcoin's fixed supply and anti-inflation properties. Although the smaller proportion of short-term holders (STH) is easily influenced by sentiment, their selling pressure is offset by the accumulation trend of LTH.On-chain indicators support market health: Bitcoin's 1% order depth reached $500 million at the end of the first quarter, and cyclical indicators like the Pi Cycle Top have not yet reached top signals. Analysts believe that the unique volatility of the cryptocurrency market has reshaped investor expectations— a 20% pullback in the traditional market indicates a bear market, while in the crypto space, it may represent a healthy correction.