DappRadar DAO Newsletter - July 2025

The first six months of 2025 are now behind us, and we may argue that June was a turbulent one for the DappRadar community. But despite rocky roads, we keep moving forward. The future is onchain, the future is decentralized, and we keep building towards this longterm vision. In June we stepped into RWA territory, updated our Portfolio, promoted the AI Trust Layer among the brightest minds in the industry, and we moved our RADAR liquidity to the future of decentralized finance.

Product

During the month of June, the development team kept working on our first iteration of AI agents. But, when it comes to tangible product releases, we’ve also been busy. First of all we welcomed Space ID domain names, allowing users to use their Space ID NFT as their user name on DappRadar.

In addition, we launched the RWA Narrative Page. We will expand on this page, while it serves as a nice way to discover trending projects in the field of tokenized real-world assets. Side note, we’ve also been testing different names for the narrative page, so you may see some changes there in the near future.

While lastly, we’ve done a complete upgrade for our Portfolio page. Utilizing new services, we now offer a portfolio page with a faster loading time for both tokens and NFTs. Moreover, the Portfolio supports 7 chains at the moment, with more on the horizon. This is just a first step for our portfolio page, and the team will expand its functionality and services throughout the remainder of the year.

Reports & Media Mentions

As you may be aware, reports have become a pivotal part of our media outings. While plenty of blockchain companies rely on our data to justify investments or measure success, dapp developers don’t talk enough about their onchain data. Thankfully the media do enjoy the data we provide, and therefore our reports find success.

In June, we recorded a total of 722 media mentions. This is a 21% drop from May. This puts the month of June on par with the numbers measured in March 2025, January 2025, and November 2024. With the summer heating up, it wouldn’t be unexpected to see a slight drop in media mentions in July and August.

The impact of the reports is clearly visible in the chart below. We see peaks in the number of media mentions on June 6, June 12/13 and June 27.

Keep in mind that we published the May Industry Report on June 5, while the gaming report for that month went live on June 12. By the end of the month @saragher22 also published a report about AI agents, which went live on June 26. The impact of reports on our media mentions is crystal clear.

With the report about AI Agents, we try to highlight features from our own product while also positioning DappRadar as a leader in the AI space. The World’s Dapp Store already offers various data points relevant for AI dapps, and we expect to expand on this in the near future.

Events, campaigns and marketing

Throughout June, our Head of DAO has hardly seen his own bed. @vandynathan has been living from suitcases, and meeting with industry peers. Honestly, he may be late with sending me the outline of the DAO Newsletter, but I forgive him. He’s been working his balls off in the past weeks.

In the second week of June, he was in Paris for Proof of Talk. This Web3 networking event became a breeding ground for collaboration, inspiration and innovation. Directly after that, he travelled to Berlin for the EigenLayer Hacker Village, bringing the DAO and the DappRadar Trust Layer for AI Agents under the attention of some of the brightest minds in the Web3 industry. It should come as no surprise that this event happened at the same time as the Berlin Blockchain Week, which Nathan of course attended.

Now we’re entering the third week of June, and Nathan travelled to Istanbul. There he met with @ayseguls, our Senior Communications Manager. Together they manned the booth at the Istanbul Blockchain Week where they strengthened existing connections, and expanded the DAO network with potentially new partners, friends and service providers. It was here in Istanbul that Nathan evangelized the Trust Layer, a source of trust for everybody and every agent engaging with (other) AI agents.

But, after the events in Istanbul, the month of June didn’t end yet. Nathan hurried to the airport and took a plane to Nice, pronounced like it’s the daughter of your aunt and uncle. Yes, that’s nice at this time of the year.

He joined the City of Oz, the first popup village with a focus on AI and Web3. Now that’s something that fits perfectly with the efforts from DappRadar DAO. At this bootcamp for developers, researchers, founders, and Nathan, he got the opportunity to discuss ideas, brainstorm and build together with some of the smart minds in this industry. This bootcamp happened at the same time as EthCC in Cannes, so you may guess where Nathan went next.

Long story short, Nathan has been spreading the word about the Trust Layer. And he got many developers excited about what we’re building. Imagine every AI agent and AI company tapping into the Trust Layer from DappRadar DAO. This is the stuff of legend in the making.

DappRadar DAO and $RADAR

During the month of June, there were no new proposals to vote on. But that doesn’t mean things were quiet in the community. HoudiniSwap listed RADAR, showing support for our vision. A bit earlier than expected, we introduced a pivot for the $RADAR token. Unfortunately OKX and Crypto.com decided to delist $RADAR because of low trade volumes, which resulted in a general sell off of our token. As a result the token price for $RADAR took a serious hit. There have been some great discussions around this topic, and we love to see people getting involved.

As a team that tracks onchain activity, we want our liquidity to be onchain as well. Of course most trading happens on centralized exchanges like OKX and Binance, and these platforms are important for discovery. But utility, actual usage of your crypto, happens onchain.

Therefore we’re pleased to have moved our liquidity to Uniswap V4. In addition we have increased that allocation on Ethereum. Furthermore, we’ve moved the liquidity on BNB Chain from ApeSwap to PancakeSwap Infinity.

Now, we have RADAR liquidity - majority owned by the DAO - in both these V4 pools. We see V4 as the foundation for the next frontier of DeFi, and we’re excited about what the future holds for RADAR, the DappRadar DAO and our community.

DappLaunch

In June we welcomed Reform DAO as a partner for DappLaunch. Projects selected into the program may tap into market making and liquidity provision services from Reform DAO. With the addition of more partners, the DappLaunch program becomes a very valuable proposition to projects looking to carve out an edge in this competitive landscape.

We can expect more partners and selections in the coming months. This may or may not come with benefits for DappRadar PRO members. That’s something that always changes case by case.

PRO membership update

Talking about PRO members, we now have 1,043 PRO members in our community. Personally I still believe we should be around 10,000 now. Perhaps the lower RADAR valuation will make it easier for some community members to become PRO.

Anyway, with 1,043 PRO members we’ve seen an increase of 5 from the previous month. Keep in mind that in May many people stepped out of the PRO membership after Trump hit the crypto industry with tariffs. It’s nice to see the PRO membership making a bit of a comeback, bringing the total amount of RADAR staked (at 15% APY) to 92.9 million RADAR on Ethereum and 25.3 million RADAR on BNB Chain. That’s a total of 118.2 million RADAR.

Don’t forget, the DappRadar PRO membership is the only high quality membership that not only empowers the community, but also lets them earn interest. Simply stake at least 30,000 RADAR and you’re ready to go and call yourself PRO!

Read more about PRO

Spreading the word

Community is a foundation, and we appreciate you a lot. Aside from your unyielding support, we’d also like to ask you to talk about DappRadar on X. If we look at the top voices on Cookie.fun, we see a couple of team members and community members. But I think we can do better.

Let’s talk about DappRadar, and follow each other. We’re the DappCabal! :joy:

Potential topics to talk about on X:

  • Dapps that are seeing an increase in UAW numbers (link)
  • NFT collections that are seeing more trading volume (link)
  • Most traded NFT collections (link)
  • Leading dapps in the AI space (link)
  • Maybe share your portfolio (link)

The thing is, no matter the topic in Web3, you can rely on DappRadar to enhance your post, article or blog with additional data. Consider us the cherry on your pie, or the whipped cream next to your apple pie (yes, that’s a thing where I am from). We’re delicious, and make everybody look better.

Let’s make sure YOU end up on this leaderboard next month!

Closing words

We covered a lot of ground in June, from launching working on our AI agents, and upgrading our Portfolio page, to Nathan spreading the word about the Trust Layer at various industry events. Despite the challenges with the $RADAR token and its delisting from OKX, we’ve successfully pivoted our liquidity to Uniswap V4 and PancakeSwap Infinity, strengthening our onchain presence. DappLaunch continues to grow with new partners like Reform DAO, and we’re seeing a healthy rebound in our PRO membership numbers. Thank you for being a part of this journey.

Let’s keep spreading the word!

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Thanks for the news letter rob =D