Your Hodl Digest just dropped, fresh from the trenches— keeping track of crypto without us is like going on a road trip without GPS.
Sure, you might still get somewhere, but you’d miss every epic detour, trending token, and regulatory speed trap we caught along the way.
Top Gainers & Top Losers
Top Gainers
- Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL): Surged by a staggering 94.55%, now trading at $1.70.
- Pudgy Penguines (PENGU): Increased by 23.68%, reaching $0.01055.
- Monero (XMR): Gained 20.77%, priced at $276.56.
Top Losers
- Ethena (ENA): Dropped by 15.80%, now at $0.3107.
- Ondo (ONDO): Declined by 11.48%, trading at $0.9037.
- Uniswap (UNI): Fell by 10.99%, priced at $5.27.
Meme of the Week
Robinhood’s Crypto Revenue Doubles to $252 Million in Q1 2025 Ahead of Bitstamp Acquisition
Robinhood just dropped its Q1 earnings, and let's be honest: it's a flex. Crypto revenue doubled to a clean $252 million—so much for everyone thinking Binance and Coinbase own the playground.
Robinhood Markets, Inc. Q1 2025 Earnings Call https://t.co/HFwb6GXlcF
— Robinhood (@RobinhoodApp) April 30, 2025
And trading volume? Up 28%, hitting $46 billion. Impressive, sure, but even more satisfying when you remember the SEC dropped its investigation recently. Apparently, Robinhood’s lawyers are just as good as its marketers.
CFO Jason Warnick couldn’t help but brag about disciplined expenses and aggressive buybacks, which sounds exactly like someone who's just proved the skeptics wrong.
But hey, credit where it's due. Robinhood didn't just dodge bullets this quarter; it actually thrived—without drama, without exaggeration!
Base Beats Arbitrum, Escapes Vitalik Buterin’s List of Layer-2 Networks Doomed to Fail
Coinbase’s Base just pulled ahead of Arbitrum, finally claiming the top spot as Ethereum's favorite scaling solution.
A staggering $557 million boost in total value locked put Base ahead by over $710 million, leaving Arbitrum to settle for second place.
Even Vitalik Buterin acknowledged Base leveling up to Stage 1, finally ditching the full-on "training wheels." Sure, there’s still a safety council, but at least it's not run entirely by Coinbase's internal Slack channel anymore.
And Jesse Pollak, Base’s creator, couldn’t resist a little victory lap, dropping the classic "it's still day one" line. Humble-bragging aside, he knows exactly what he just accomplished.
So congrats, Base—you're officially off Buterin's hit list of doomed rollups, have your place among the big leagues.
Sam Altman’s eye-scanning crypto project World launches in US
Sam Altman’s "World" just landed stateside, rolling out its eyeball-scanning crypto scheme in the tech-friendly neighborhoods of Atlanta, Austin, LA, Miami, Nashville, and San Francisco.
World promises to verify you're human, which honestly sounds less dystopian than it probably is. They scan your eyes with their fancy Orb device, and congrats, you've got yourself an airdrop of some crypto tokens and a World ID.
World is live in the USA. Verify your World ID in six key cities now. pic.twitter.com/cju65pn7L7
— World (@worldcoin) May 1, 2025
Of course, privacy concerns had kept World away from the US until now. But thanks to a suddenly crypto-friendly administration, those pesky regulatory fears vanished overnight.
But don’t get too excited—the token's still down over 90% from its peak, trading around a dollar these days.
Final Take
Robinhood crushed earnings, Coinbase’s Base leapfrogged Arbitrum, and Sam Altman’s "World" finally brought its eyeball-scanning crypto act to the U.S.—busy week for crypto hype.
Robinhood reminded skeptics it's more than just meme stocks, doubling its crypto revenue as the SEC backed off. Coinbase’s Base graduated from blockchain kindergarten, knocking Arbitrum off its Ethereum throne, much to Vitalik's approval.
HODL Team
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