2025 February Crypto Trends on The Blockchain DeX Center

When you look at decentralized exchange, a peer-to-peer platform for trading crypto without a middleman. Also known as Dex, it is the backbone of modern crypto trading, letting users swap tokens directly from their wallets. In February 2025, Dex platforms saw a surge in volume as more traders moved away from centralized services after recent regulatory moves. This wasn’t just a small uptick—it was a shift in how people think about control over their assets. If you’re trading crypto, you’re likely using a Dex, whether you realize it or not.

crypto airdrops, free token distributions to wallet holders as part of a project’s marketing or community-building strategy exploded in number this month. Projects like ZetaChain, Mercurial, and NovaLend dropped tokens to early users, liquidity providers, and even people who simply followed their social channels. These weren’t random giveaways—they were strategic moves to bootstrap user bases before mainnet launches. Many of these airdrops required you to interact with specific smart contracts, which meant understanding how to approve transactions safely. If you missed out, you weren’t late—you just didn’t track the right signals.

token launch, the moment a new cryptocurrency becomes available for trading on a decentralized exchange events became more frequent and more chaotic. Unlike last year, where most launches were tied to big VC-backed projects, February’s launches were mostly community-driven. Some flopped fast. Others jumped 300% in hours. The key difference? This time, many had live testnets running for months before launch, and their tokenomics were published openly. You could see the vesting schedules, team allocations, and liquidity locks. That transparency made it easier to spot scams—or find the next big thing.

What you’ll find in this archive

This collection brings together every guide, update, and analysis we published in February 2025 about how to navigate this fast-moving space. You’ll find step-by-step breakdowns of how to claim airdrops without getting hacked, real-time tracking of new token launches across major Dexes like Uniswap V4 and PancakeSwap v3, and deep dives into the market data that showed which chains were gaining traction. We didn’t just report numbers—we showed you what they meant. Why did Arbitrum’s daily volume spike? Which new stablecoin pair got the most liquidity? Who was dumping early and why?

These posts aren’t just history. They’re a playbook. If you’re planning your next move in March or beyond, February’s patterns still matter. The tools you used then, the wallets you trusted, the alerts you set up—they’re still relevant. The crypto market doesn’t reset every month. It builds on what came before. This archive gives you the full picture of what happened when the market was quiet, before the next hype cycle started. You don’t need to guess what worked. You can see it.