On September 7, the total daily network fees for Tron’s Super Representatives, who are the block producers, fell to $5 million. This figure marks the lowest level in over a year, down from a robust $13.9 million just before the implementation of lower fees.

Tron Gas Fees: A Strategic Adjustment

The recent adjustment in Tron gas fees came after the network adopted Proposal #789, which aimed to decrease transaction fees. The proposal, which went live on August 29, was voted in by the Super Representative community. The community member, GrothenDI, who introduced the proposal, argued that reducing transaction fees would support the sustainable and healthy growth of the Tron ecosystem.

According to on-chain data, average gas fees on Tron have decreased by 60% following the proposal, which cut the energy unit price from 210 sun to 100 sun. In the Tron network, gas fees are transaction costs measured in its smallest unit, sun. With one TRON (TRX) equivalent to 1 million sun, this reduction is significant.

Impact on Tron Revenue

Despite the drop in Tron revenue following the fee reduction, the blockchain still maintains its lead among layer-1 chains in terms of overall revenue. Data from Token Terminal shows that, over the past week, Tron captured 92.8% of total revenue among layer-1 networks, outpacing rivals like Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain, and Avalanche.

In the last 90 days, fees generated from transactions on Tron have totaled $1.1 billion. Although Ethereum has historically led revenue generation with $13 billion over the past five years, Tron follows with an impressive $6.3 billion.

GrothenDI projected that cutting gas fees to 100 sun could potentially lead to an additional 12 million transfers from users, emphasizing the proposal’s long-term benefits.

While the immediate impact on revenue is evident, the reduction in Tron gas fees is part of a broader strategy to boost user engagement and transaction volume on the network, ensuring its competitive edge in the blockchain landscape.

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Simultaneously, TRON unveiled its Q2 2025 earnings report, which showcased strong growth across several key indicators. The firm’s market capitalization soared by 17% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) to $26.5 billion, and revenue leaped by 20.5% QoQ to reach $915.9 million. These figures are multi-quarter highs, indicating increased institutional interest in TRON and its growing adoption amidst mixed sentiments in the broader crypto market.

As the blockchain industry evolves, TRON’s aggressive expansion strategy combined with its sound fundamentals seems to place the company in a favorable position among both retail and institutional investors. By achieving a double milestone – a market debut and impressive Q2 results – TRON is clearly stating its intention to be a leading force in the sector.

The Q2 report from TRON underscores a deflationary trend in TRX supply, coupled with robust network growth and dominance of stablecoins. The TRX’s circulating supply dropped from 95.0 billion to 94.8 billion tokens, suggesting an annualized inflation rate of roughly -1.8%. Although this represents a slight increase from Q1’s -1.6% inflation rate, it nonetheless indicates deflationary pressure on TRX, strengthening its value proposition amidst general market uncertainty.

The report also reflected healthy network growth during the quarter. The number of daily average transactions increased by 12.6% QoQ, from 7.7 million to 8.6 million. Simultaneously, daily active addresses grew by 5.9% QoQ from 2.4 million to 2.5 million. These statistics suggest increased user engagement and growing utility across the TRON ecosystem.

Stablecoin activity remains a key contributor to the network’s success. TRON’s stablecoin market cap skyrocketed by 22.2% QoQ, from $66.2 billion to a record-breaking $80.9 billion. Tether (USDT) maintains its dominance, making up 99.2% of the stablecoin supply on TRON. By the end of Q2, the USDT market cap on TRON stood at $80.3 billion, a 22.2% increase from the previous quarter. Notably, TRON now accommodates 50.6% of all circulating USDT, highlighting its leading role in stablecoin activities.

Despite recent market volatility, TRON (TRX) has shown resilience post its strong Q2 performance, maintaining stability above critical support levels. As per the latest 8-hour chart, TRX is trading at $0.3163, a 0.48% rise on the day. TRX experienced a minor pullback after hitting a local high near $0.34 earlier this month, but has since stabilized and is currently consolidating within a narrow range.

TRX trading remains bullish, staying above the 50-day ($0.3084), 100-day ($0.2935), and 200-day ($0.2840) moving averages. This suggests strong medium- and long-term momentum. The recent rebound from the 50-day MA indicates that buyers are actively defending short-term support zones, bolstering the overall uptrend. A breakout above the $0.32–$0.325 zone might signal a move towards retesting the $0.34 high. A failure to stay above the 50-day MA could trigger a retest of the $0.30 psychological level. For now, the bias remains cautiously bullish.

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IREN, which trades on the Nasdaq stock exchange, reported a record-high monthly revenue of $68 million in June. Additionally, the company recorded a peak hardware profit of $51 million. IREN operates data centers for Bitcoin mining, AI cloud services, and other computing uses solely powered by renewable energy, as per the company’s website.

“We achieved several noteworthy milestones in the past month,” said co-founder and co-CEO Daniel Roberts. “Not only did we record another month of peak revenues, but we also executed an oversubscribed convertible note offering, hit our self-mining target of 50 EH/s, transitioned to U.S. domestic issuer status, and more than doubled our AI Cloud business with the procurement of next-generation NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.”

BitFuFu, another Nasdaq-listed firm, disclosed an all-time high total hashrate and power capacity under management of 36.2 EH/s and 728 MW, respectively. The company also reported holding 1,792 BTC, valued at approximately $193.7 million, as of June 30. “June was the most productive month of 2025, with 445 Bitcoin mined due to the continued expansion of our mining fleet,” said BitFuFu Chairman and CEO Leo Lu.

Despite these high points for IREN and BitFuFu, Bitcoin’s monthly revenue slightly dipped between May and June. Data from The Block’s Data Dashboard showed an 8.6% decrease from May’s $1.52 billion to June’s $1.39 billion. Meanwhile, MARA, another crypto mining company, recorded a big win in May this year, increasing the second-largest publicly traded Bitcoin treasury to 49,179 BTC, worth approximately $101 million.

The Block, an independent media outlet delivering news, research, and data, reported these developments. As of November 2023, Foresight Ventures is a majority investor of The Block. However, The Block continues to operate independently to deliver objective, impactful, and timely information about the crypto industry.

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With its ability to process hundreds of thousands of transactions, Timeboost has particularly found favour in high-frequency DeFi trading, accounting for 20-30% of daily DEX volume on Arbitrum. Traditionally, Arbitrum chains process transactions on a First-Come, First-Served (FCFS) basis. However, this has proven to have limitations, especially as MEV hunters frequently overwhelm the network with transactions to ensure their inclusion, leading to network congestion and inefficiencies.

To address this issue, Offchain Labs launched Timeboost, a system that allows MEV hunters to bid for transaction priority. Timeboost alters the FCFS principle by implementing a sealed-bid, second-price auction to govern its “express lane”. This not only enables chain owners to capture MEV revenue and mitigate network spam but also ensures faster block times while shielding users from front-running and sandwich attacks.

While Timeboost helps to control spam and congestion, it also serves to generate value for the Arbitrum ecosystem. Nevertheless, there are concerns about possible centralization risks, as the monetization of sequencer revenue may discourage the decentralization of the sequencer.

As an Ethereum Layer-2 scaling solution, Arbitrum generates income through several mechanisms, Timeboost being one of them. It imposes Layer 1 transaction fees on users to cover the cost of relaying transaction data to the Ethereum mainnet for security and finality. Additionally, there are Layer 2 fees that cover the operational costs of running the Arbitrum network, which includes computation and storage on the Layer 2 chain. All surplus L1 fees and L2 fees, after covering Ethereum costs, are directed to the Arbitrum DAO treasury. Presently, the Arbitrum DAO treasury possesses approximately 3.5 billion ARB tokens, valued at approximately $1.3 billion.

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As detailed in the firm’s Q1 Earnings Report, the Bitcoin strategy contributed a substantial 88% to its revenue, amassing a total of 877 million Japanese yen ($6 million). Metaplanet’s strategic and consistent accumulation of BTC has secured its position as the 11th largest public company in terms of bitcoin holdings worldwide, and the leading entity in Asia.

Since the beginning of the year, Metaplanet has added 5,034 BTC to its balance sheet, a 3.9x growth, bringing its total to 6,796 BTC. These purchases were enabled by a moving-strike warrant program, allowing the company to issue equity without setting a fixed discount or strike.

By May 10, the hospitality giant had executed 87% of the program, raising 76.6 billion yen ($524.8 million) and emerging as the largest public equity issuer in Japan. With the funds raised, Metaplanet is on track to achieve approximately 68% of its short-term goal of 10,000 BTC, with a cost basis of 13.27 million yen ($90,929) per BTC.

Despite a temporary unrealized loss on its BTC position due to fluctuating market prices, bitcoin’s recent rally has completely offset the losses. The firm reported unrealized BTC gains of 13.5 billion yen ($92.5 million) as of May 12.

Metaplanet’s Q1 report represents the strongest financial results in its two-decade history. The company’s core operating metrics and Bitcoin treasury key performance indicators (KPIs) have also set new records. Encouraged by the success of its Bitcoin treasury strategy, Metaplanet is advocating for other companies to consider adopting Bitcoin, offering its capital strategy as a model.

“Our results speak for themselves: we don’t set targets to feel safe—we set them to exceed them, quarter after quarter. The global feedback loop between capital markets and Bitcoin is just beginning. Metaplanet intends to be its premier conduit,” the company stated.

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Revenue for KULR increased by 40% year-on-year to reach $2.45 million, a rise largely attributed to robust product sales. However, net losses escalated to $18.81 million from $5 million in the same quarter of the previous year. This was mainly due to mark-to-market adjustments on its bitcoin holdings since the end of December, as per the company’s statement.

On May 15, KULR announced that it had grown its bitcoin holdings to 716.2 BTC ($74.4 million) after its latest purchase of $4 million at an average price of $94,403. This was an increase from its total of 668.3 BTC as of March 25. The company’s total holdings were obtained at a cumulative cost of $69 million, indicating a paper gain of $5.4 million. So far this year, the company reported a 197.5% BTC Yield, a measure it uses to monitor bitcoin growth relative to fully diluted shares, funded via surplus cash and its at-the-market equity program.

“2025 is a transformational year for KULR, and the transformation is well on its way,” said Michael Mo, KULR CEO. “With over $100 million in cash and bitcoin holdings on our balance sheet at present and virtually no debt, we are well capitalized to grow our battery and AI Robotics businesses. Our future capital market activities are geared towards turbocharging our bitcoin acquisition strategy, thereby establishing KULR as a pioneering BTC-First Bitcoin Treasury Company.”

More and more firms are attempting to mimic Strategy’s (formerly MicroStrategy) bitcoin acquisition playbook, including Semler Scientific, Metaplanet, Twenty One, and Nakamoto, among others.

Shawn Canter, KULR Chief Financial Officer, added, “We are proud to put up another same quarter over quarter positive beat. We extended our streak of record trailing-twelve-months revenue, and we continue to demonstrate our leadership as a bitcoin treasury company.”

Despite these developments, KULR’s entry into bitcoin mining and its blockchain-based supply chain initiative went largely unnoticed. The company recognized its first mining revenue in the quarter, Canter confirmed during KULR’s earnings call.

“For the first quarter of 2025 versus the first quarter of 2024, product revenue was up 89%, service revenue was down 8%, and we recognized our first bitcoin mining revenue of $250,000,” he said.

Mo added, “We are getting increasingly entrenched into the Bitcoin and blockchain ecosystems. We expect our share prices to appreciate with our bitcoin treasury strategy and our growing businesses. Our mining arrangement is another way to accumulate BTC at a favorable cost basis with less dilutive capital market activities in the future. We expect to increase our BTC yield and returns.”

KULR also unveiled its blockchain-based supply chain initiative in the first quarter. The initiative aims to enhance transparency and security by recording product data and test results on a distributed ledger. Each product’s metadata will be minted as an NFT on a custom rollup to the Coinbase-incubated Ethereum Layer 2 network Base, enabling verifiable ownership transfers and secure tracking throughout the supply chain.

Apart from its bitcoin and blockchain strategies, KULR also secured a $6.7 million space tech grant, entered the U.S. robotics market with German Bionic, and expanded its aerospace footprint with new NASA-compliant battery deployments and a partnership with AstroForge on its asteroid mining missions during the first quarter.

According to TradingView, KULR’s stock is currently trading down around 10% on Friday at $1.33.

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Nevertheless, Bitdeer’s Q1 net income exceeded $400 million, primarily powered by gains on convertible notes and warrants given to stablecoin issuer Tether in 2024. This revenue plunge comes amidst Bitcoin miners’ expanding pursuits beyond Bitcoin mining and a shift towards supplying high-performance computing (HPC) for AI applications.

“As we expand self-mining and progress on our ASIC [mining hardware] roadmap, we are also forwarding plans for U.S.-based HPC and AI infrastructure,” stated Matt Kong, Bitdeer’s Chief Business Officer.

Despite these efforts, Bitcoin miners face challenges adapting post-Bitcoin network’s April 2024 halving event, which halved mining revenue. Bitdeer is countering dwindling mining revenue by selling its in-house, energy-efficient Bitcoin mining hardware. However, sales are yet to compensate for the mining income loss.

The company is augmenting self-mining activities, utilizing mining hardware to amass Bitcoin. Bitdeer anticipates its self-mining hashrate will reach 40 exahashes per second (EH/s) by the close of 2025, as revealed in its earnings release. Hashrate is an indicator of the computational power safeguarding the Bitcoin network.

“With our SEALMINER mining rigs swiftly coming off the production line and abundant global power capacity available, we expect to see swift growth in our self-mining hashrate,” Kong added.

As of March, Tether held a 21% stake in Bitdeer, according to US regulatory filings. Bitdeer is reportedly investing in its US expansion to hedge against potential trade wars escalation.

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The firm’s crypto trading volume experienced a colossal 400% year-on-year growth, reaching a staggering $70 billion. This is in contrast to the year’s earlier quarters where trading volumes had dipped to $36 billion in Q1, $21.5 billion in Q2, and $14.4 billion in Q3. Equity trading volume also saw a significant increase, with a 154% rise to $423 billion.

Robinhood’s revenue from transactions skyrocketed by 200% from the previous year to $672 million. This was majorly driven by crypto trading, which contributed $358 million (a 700% increase) and equities which added $61 million (a 144% increase). The company also expanded its crypto asset offerings in the U.S. by seven and introduced Ethereum staking in the EU during Q4.

In a statement in December, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev disclosed that although the firm had considered holding Bitcoin, there were no immediate plans to maintain a BTC reserve. However, the company hinted at introducing futures trading for Bitcoin, oil, and gold in the upcoming month.

Assets under the company’s management (AUM) surged 88% year-on-year to $193 billion, driven by continuous net deposits and heightened valuations of stocks and cryptocurrencies. The AUM represents the total value of all equities, options, cryptocurrencies, and cash in user accounts, minus any dues from users.

Robinhood reported Q4 diluted earnings of $1.01 per share, a significant jump from last year’s $0.03 per share. The company’s quarterly revenue came in at $1.01 billion, slightly above the anticipated $944 million.

CEO Vlad Tenev reflected on the company’s achievements and plans in a press release, stating, “In 2024, we accelerated product development with a new platform for active traders, the launch of Gold Card, an extended UK and EU product suite, and much more. We envisage a massive opportunity ahead as we strive to empower anyone, anywhere, to buy, sell, or hold any financial asset and perform any financial transaction through Robinhood.”

In an op-ed for the Washington Post in January, Tenev urged the SEC to establish clear rules for tokenizing equity in early-stage startups. “The U.S. is finally taking crypto seriously,” he stated. “It’s time to further expand our understanding of what’s possible.”

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According to estimates from FactSet, the revenue for the fourth quarter is projected to be $1.8 billion, a considerable increase from $1.26 billion posted in Q3. Earnings per share are anticipated to have ascended to $1.99 from $0.41.

A significant factor contributing to this boost is the large crypto rally following the presidential election of Donald Trump. Analysts predict that the exchange volume could have escalated to $195.9 billion in the last quarter, up from $185.3 billion in Q3. This would be the strongest quarterly outcome since Q4 of 2021.

Analysts from Citi bank maintain a positive outlook on Coinbase, noting that the company is well-positioned to benefit as crypto potentially transitions into a new era. Despite their bullish stance, the Citi team projects Q4 revenue to be $1.7 billion, slightly below the consensus estimate of $1.8 billion.

While crypto and Coinbase experienced numerous triggers in the final part of 2024, predictions for 2025 remain uncertain due to the typically slow effect of policy changes, according to some Wall Street analysts.

Coinbase has been focusing on diversifying its revenue stream, with 50% still coming from trading fees. However, retail traders, who pay the highest trading fee, have not returned to 2021 levels, as per Kaiko’s research. As a result, transaction revenue continues to be affected.

Citi suggests that Coinbase could address this issue in 2025 by further embracing tokenization of assets, smart contract applications, and Web3, among other strategies. This evolution will be crucial for Coinbase’s growth trajectory, the bank’s analysts noted.

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The report points to an astounding 213% quarter-over-quarter increase in Solana’s Chain GDP, which essentially represents the total revenue generated through apps on its network. The figure surged from $268 million in Q3 to a staggering $840 million in Q4, with November contributing a remarkable $367 million to the ecosystem.

Key applications that fueled this revenue boom include Pump.fun, generating $235 million (a 242% QoQ increase), and Photon, which experienced an even more impressive growth of 278%, raking in $140 million. The revenue spike is majorly credited to increased memecoin speculation and a boost in AI-related cryptocurrency launches during the quarter.

Solana’s decentralized finance (DeFi) total value locked (TVL) escalated by 64% QoQ, hitting $8.6 billion and overtaking Tron in November to become the second-largest DeFi network. When expressed in SOL, the DeFi TVL showed a 28% QoQ increase, totaling 46 million SOL. The average daily DEX volume saw a colossal 150% QoQ leap to $3.3 billion, fired up by a resurgence in memecoin trading and the emergence of AI-themed tokens.

In the stablecoin arena, Solana’s market cap expanded by 36% QoQ, reaching $5.1 billion, securing a spot as the fifth-largest stablecoin market. USDC maintained its dominance, with its market cap soaring by 53% to $3.9 billion, claiming a 75% market share.

Network activity metrics revealed a robust engagement, with average daily fee payers surging by 171% QoQ to 5.1 million. The number of new fee payers saw an even more impressive increase, soaring by 189% to 3.8 million. The average daily non-vote transactions also grew by 32%, hitting 81.5 million.

Despite these achievements, staked SOL saw a 5% decrease in Q4, partly due to the FTX estate unlocking its tokens. SOL’s market cap, however, grew by 27% QoQ to $91 billion, with a high point of $120 billion in November.

As of the end of the quarter, SOL ranked sixth in terms of cryptocurrency market caps, lagging behind Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether’s USDT, XRP, and Binance Coin. Currently, SOL is trading at $199, reflecting a 22% dip over the past two weeks due to macroeconomic challenges impacting risk assets.

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