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Tether Reports Q1 Profit Over $1B

Stablecoin giant Tether reports a large Q1 2025 profit and says it now holds nearly $150 billion in assets including $5.6B in excess reserves. Plus the top news, stats, and reports in the digital asset ecosystem.

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Ryan Allis
May 07, 2025

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Issue Summary: Welcome back to Coinstack, the weekly newsletter for institutional crypto investors and industry insiders. We review the top news, stats, and reports in the digital asset ecosystem for our 320k weekly subscribers. This week, Tether passes the $1B in quarterly profit mark, a Clanker employee was outed as Velodrome thief, Vitalik wants to make Ethereum ‘as simple as Bitcoin’, the Arizona governor vetoes bitcoin reserve bill, and big new investment rounds come from dao5 ($222M) and Dinari ($12.7M).

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💵 Weekly Crypto Fundraises & Deals

Here are all the crypto fundraises we heard about this week, ranked by size…

  1. Dao5, an investment firm with an aim to nurture institutional interest in cryptocurrencies, has raised $222M, led by multiple investors

  2. Dinari, a fintech platform that tokenizes U.S. equities on blockchain, offering 1:1 backed dShares for global investors with API-driven access, instant settlement, and regulatory compliance, has raised $12.7M in a Seed funding round, led by Hack VC, Blockchange Ventures

  3. ZAR, a platform that leverages mobile money agent networks to facilitate cash-to-stablecoin conversions for users in emerging markets, integrating with web3 apps via an SDK for onramp/offramp functionality, has raised $7M in a seed round, led by a16z crypto

  4. Fleek, the Agentic Cloud platform, offering developers, creators, and brands everything needed to build, manage, and monetize AI agents and virtual influencers, has raised $5M in a Public token sale, led by unknown investors

  5. Gata, a decentralized AI data infrastructure project, has raised $4M in a seed funding round, led by unknown investors

🗞️ Crypto News Recap: The Top 5 Stories

Welcome back to This Week in Crypto… everything you need to know in one scannable format. Here are the top 5 stories of the week…

  1. Tether Reports Over $1B in Q1 2025 Profit: Tether notched a profit in excess of $1 billion in Q1 2025 including $149B in assets and over $5.6B in excess reserves.

  2. ⚖️ Clanker Employee Outed as Velodrome Thief: Clanker, an AI agent launchpad on Coinbase’s Ethereum Layer 2, Base, has announced the departure of developer Proxystudio, who has been identified as a previous member of the Velodrome Finance team responsible for a $350,000 theft.

  1. 🧑‍💻 Vitalik Buterin wants to make Ethereum ‘as simple as Bitcoin’ by 2030: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin believes that the blockchain’s long-term resilience and scalability hinge on making it simple, like Bitcoin. In a blog post on May 3, he described how “Ethereum 5 years from now can become close to as simple as Bitcoin.”

  1. ⚖️ Arizona governor vetoes bitcoin reserve bill, calling crypto 'untested investment': Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has blocked a bill passed recently by the state's legislature that would have allowed the state's treasurer and retirement systems to invest up to 10% of their funds in virtual currencies such as bitcoin.

  1. 🚀 Kraken powers new crypto trading venture for Europe's second-largest neobank bunq: Bunq, the second-largest neobank in Europe after Revolut, is venturing into crypto trading, enabling users to invest in digital assets directly from the banking app — powered by crypto exchange giant Kraken.

  1. ⚖️ Nasdaq files to list 21Shares Dogecoin ETF, signaling mainstream crypto acceptance: Nasdaq has filed a 19b-4 form with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to support the listing of a new 21Shares Spot Dogecoin (DOGE) Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF), according to an April 29 filing.The proposed fund would offer investors passive exposure to Dogecoin’s price without engaging in speculative trading activities like leverage, derivatives, or other financial arrangements.

💬 Tweet of the Week

Source: @tokenterminal

📊 Key Stats of the Week

Here are the most important and interesting stats in crypto this week...

1. We enter the week coming off of more than $3.4B of inflows into digital asset investment products, the highest of 2025 and the 3rd largest ever.

Once again BTC dominated with $3.2B of inflows, while ETH had just $183M, pushing its YTD total to $398M. This is particularly interesting because the Pectra upgrade will go live this week, unlocking significantly better UX and network performance. My sense is that the market is not fully aware of the impact of these upgrades, rather than viewing it as a sell the news event.

Source: @DavidShuttleworth

2. Fiat-backed stablecoins hit new records once again in April. Average supply reached $218B, growing by 2% month-over-month and 8% YTD. Meanwhile, monthly transaction volume surpassed $720B, also a new record.

Total supply has now grown in 19 consecutive months.

Tether.io USDT holds 71% marketshare while Circle USDC climbed to 28% (from 22% in January).

Source: @DavidShuttleworth

3. Farcaster, a decentralized social media protocol, recently hit ~900k total users, and just crossed 100k funded wallets. The team is focused on increasing funded wallets, as they believe earning onchain dollars is the viral mechanism that will attract new experiences on the platform. To do so, Farcaster is now free to use moving forward, and the team is increasing USDC rewards, which are currently $25k/week. At FarCon, Coinbase also launched its new beta wallet, which is a Farcaster client that is expected to accelerate protocol and user adoption.

Source: @DavidShuttleworth

4. On the Apr. 18, the social application Rodeo switched from ETH to USD for rewards and fees. Since the transition, daily post volume has surged threefold — climbing from a low of around 800 posts per day to over 2,400 daily posts at peak, with the trend still accelerating. Rodeo also crossed the 6M total mints since launch — the average post was minted +18 times.

Source: @OurNetwork

5. Safes are the most widely adopted smart accounts across Ethereum and Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) chains — they securing nearly $53B in assets and powering consumer apps like Brahma and Worldchain. In April 2025 alone, Safes accounted for 73% of all smart account transactions and captured 54% of total market share. Since 2024, they've processed over $630B in transaction volume — including $31B in April and $300B in stablecoin transfers alone.

Source: @OurNetwork

📝 Highlights from the Top Crypto Reports

Here are the top highlights from the best crypto research reports this week…

About the Author: OurNetwork, aims to help you understand crypto like never before by harnessing the power of onchain data & analytics. This is an excerpt from the full article, which you can find here.

📝 Editor’s Note:

Welcome to OurNetwork’s latest edition covering onchain culture.

In these issues we explore the less financial, more intangible sides of the crypto space. These applications are especially important as projects battle to make crypto relevant to everyday users, rather than those in the proverbial trenches.

This issue specifically features contributions covering two major players in the onchain social space, as well as consumer applications and key infrastructure.

Let’s get into it.

– ON Editorial Team

📈 Lens Chain and Lens V3 Launched Less than Four Weeks Ago as New Trends for SocialFi Emerge

Lens is a purpose-built platform for social finance (SocialFi), including chain, protocol and storage. Since its Apr. 4 launch, users have bridged more than 1M GHO, the decentralized stablecoin, to Lens Chain. Lens protocol, a set of primitives designed for social applications, has been live since 2022. GHO, backed by deposits in Aave, is the gas token on Lens Chain — users can also use GHO to collect and tip on Lens.

GHO adoption on Lens Chain has surpassed adoption on Ethereum's mainnet by more than a multiple of six. Total GHO holders on Ethereum mainnet are 4.3k at time of writing, while on Lens Chain there's 27k holders. This strengthens the case for stablecoins' use as gas tokens, a trend which would further GHO's adoption.

There have been more than than 100k transacting addresses on Lens Chain's first weeks.

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