Crypto news from yesterday hasn’t been without drama from DEXs, privacy apps to Bitcoin predictions.
Here’s a look at all that took place yesterday!
DEX Volumes Explode to Record Highs as Memecoin Mania Takes Over
Turns out that decentralized exchanges (DEXs) have officially stolen the spotlight from their centralized rivals, hitting an all-time high market share thanks to wild memecoin speculation.
According to fresh data from CoinGecko, DEX-to-CEX spot trading volume ratio has more than tripled over the past five years, smashing through to a stunning 37.4% peak in June 2025.
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Research analyst Yuqian Lim pointed to absolute explosion in memecoin trading and a surprise volume surge on PancakeSwap as the two major drivers of this surge.
For years, giants like Binance and Coinbase dominated with slick interfaces and deep liquidity. However, this data proves decentralized platforms have finally leveled up, pulling traders in droves with better incentives, lower trust assumptions, and pure memecoin chaos.
Vitalik Drops $1.5M in ETH on Ultra-Private Messengers – Major Crypto News for Privacy Fans
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin just made waves again in the crypto news cycle by donating 128 ETH (roughly $760,000 each) to two radically private messaging apps: Session and SimpleX Chat.
In a widely shared X post, Buterin gave a direct shout-out to Session and SimpleX for leading the charge and urged everyone to download and actually use them.
Both apps are built from the ground up to avoid any central identifiers. Session runs on a decentralized onion-routing network, while SimpleX skips global user IDs altogether.
This ensures that even if someone seizes the servers (there barely are any), they can’t tell who’s talking to whom or when. Privacy advocates are calling this one of the biggest crypto news wins for real digital anonymity in years.
Tom Lee Backpedals on $250K Bitcoin Call as “Maybe” Replaces Bullish Certainty
Tom Lee, the BitMine chairman retracted his previous Bitcoin prediction and told CNBC on Wednesday that his famous $250,000 Bitcoin year-end target is now just a tentative “maybe.”
Lee, who had confidently stuck to the $250K call from early 2024 all the way through October, softened dramatically on live television.
“I think it’s still very likely that Bitcoin is going to be above $100,000 before year-end, and maybe even to a new high,” he said.
The pivot instantly became headline crypto news, with traders joking that Lee’s January 2018 prediction of $125K by 2022 finally came true… in October 2025, only three years late.
