Share this article
Why Academics Love Bitcoin – and Crypto
For academics, bitcoin, and more broadly crypto, is an exciting space where the ideas they write up in papers actually get built and tested.
Updated Sep 13, 2021, 9:17 a.m. Published Jun 10, 2019, 1:00 a.m.
More For You
What to know:
- As of October 2025, GoPlus has generated $4.7M in total revenue across its product lines. The GoPlus App is the primary revenue driver, contributing $2.5M (approx. 53%), followed by the SafeToken Protocol at $1.7M.
- GoPlus Intelligence's Token Security API averaged 717 million monthly calls year-to-date in 2025 , with a peak of nearly 1 billion calls in February 2025. Total blockchain-level requests, including transaction simulations, averaged an additional 350 million per month.
- Since its January 2025 launch , the $GPS token has registered over $5B in total spot volume and $10B in derivatives volume in 2025. Monthly spot volume peaked in March 2025 at over $1.1B , while derivatives volume peaked the same month at over $4B.
More For You
Every Major Bitcoin Conference Has Seen Prices Fall in 2025, Will Abu Dhabi Be Different?
Bitcoin enters the Abu Dhabi conference near $92K after a year of sell-the-news dips at major events, raising questions about another potential pullback.
What to know:
- Bitcoin enters the MENA 2025 conference around $92K, with traders watching for another event-linked correction.
- All four major bitcoin conferences this year — Las Vegas, Prague, Hong Kong and Amsterdam — coincided with short-term price drops.
- The bitcoin conference in Abu Dhabi arrives this week with bitcoin over $92,000, raising the possibility of another sell the news move.
Top Stories
