Finance Redefined: Ether Supercycle Debate, Circle's Reversibility Plan, and Aster's Trading Surge

This week in decentralized finance (DeFi) saw a heated debate on whether institutional adoption could trigger an extended "supercycle" for crypto assets, potentially breaking historical four-year patterns. Meanwhile, stablecoin issuer Circle is exploring transaction reversibility, a move that challenges core crypto principles. Additionally, perpetual decentralized exchanges (DEXs) hit a new trading volume record, largely propelled by the platform Aster.