2025/10 Crypto Archive: DeX Trends, Airdrops, and Token Launches

When you look at Decentralized Exchange, a peer-to-peer platform for trading crypto without a central authority. Also known as DeX, it is the backbone of modern crypto trading, letting users swap tokens directly from their wallets. In October 2025, DeXs saw a spike in volume not because of hype, but because real users started using them for daily trades—swapping stablecoins, farming yield, and jumping on early-stage tokens before they hit big exchanges.

airdrop, a free distribution of crypto tokens to wallet holders as a reward or incentive. That month, over 40 new airdrops dropped across Layer 2 chains like Polygon zkEVM and Arbitrum Nova. Most weren’t just giveaways—they required simple actions: bridging a small amount, using a new DeX interface, or holding a specific NFT. People who paid attention got tokens that later traded for hundreds of dollars. Meanwhile, token launch, the first public release of a new cryptocurrency project’s native coin. saw a shift: fewer flashy ICO-style launches, more organic rollouts tied to live DeX liquidity pools. Projects like ChainGuardians and NebulaSwap launched with locked liquidity and no team tokens, building trust from day one.

What made October 2025 different? It wasn’t about big names or influencers. It was about tools getting better. Users could now track airdrop eligibility across 15 chains in one dashboard. DeX aggregators started showing real-time slippage and fee comparisons. And for the first time, a majority of new token launches included clear, readable whitepapers—not just Discord links and memes.

If you were watching, you saw how the market started rewarding transparency over hype. The best opportunities weren’t in viral tweets—they were in the quiet updates on DeX analytics pages, in the wallet addresses that got early access, in the projects that didn’t promise moonshots but delivered working code. Below, you’ll find every post from this month that broke down what actually mattered: which airdrops paid off, which DeXs had the lowest fees, and which token launches were worth your time.