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Robinhood Chain Becomes Crypto's Top Chain by Organic Revenue

Robinhood Chain's protocol revenue just topped every major chain but incentivized Canton.

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Strategy Snaps Its Bitcoin Pause as Bitmine's ETH Buying Streak Continues

Strategy and Bitmine now own more than 4% of Bitcoin and Ethereum's supply, respectively, after fresh buys.

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DefiLlama Introduces Universal Token Ratings Dashboard

A new rating system for crypto tokens is live on DefiLlama, built with Forgd across roughly 40 scoring inputs.

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Ethena Fee Switch Vote Ties ENA Buybacks to USDe Growth

Ethena's fee switch vote comes with a proposed USDe-tied revenue ladder.

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Bitcoin Fields Its First Quantum-Safe Transaction

A new scheme called QSB used Bitcoin's own legacy rules to lock a transaction against Shor's algorithm.

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Grayscale's Zcash ETF Begins Trading on NYSE Arca

Grayscale's $ZCSH offers spot ZEC exposure, though its holdings sit outside Zcash's shielded privacy tech.

Galaxy Unveils Crypto-Backed Line of Credit Service

GalaxyOne's new credit line lets retail users borrow cash against crypto's majors.

Coldcard Ships Deeper Security Fix Following Bitcoin Heist

Coinkite's new firmware adds hand-entered entropy and stricter transaction checks to its Coldcard wallets.

Bitcoin Nears $80K as Crypto Rally Stretches to a 3rd Straight Day

Crypto's latest rally has BTC near $80K, ETH outpacing it at +28% on the week, and HYPE hitting a fresh ATH.

Base App Unveils Hyperliquid-Powered Perps

Base App users can now trade perps with up to 50x leverage via Hyperliquid.

Nethermind Drops LayerZero Verifier Role, Joins Chainlink

Another major LayerZero verifier just defected to Chainlink.

SEC Proposes "Regulation Crypto Assets" Framework

The SEC just proposed rules that would let crypto startups raise up to $75M without full registration.

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Treasury Proposes Rules for How GENIUS Act Stablecoin Licensing Works

Treasury's new GENIUS Act proposal would put a due-diligence duty on exchanges that list stablecoins.

Stripe Is Acquiring AI Router OpenRouter for +$8B

OpenRouter's founder built OpenSea, then built "Stripe for AI." Now Stripe is buying the company in a massive deal.

Ansem Debuts Launchpad and the z500 Onchain Index

A new Solana launchpad and onchain index from trader Ansem builds atop the $ANSEM token.

Justin Drake: The EF Is Moving Away From Poseidon for Ethereum L1

Justin Drake says off-the-shelf hashes can now match Poseidon inside zk-proofs.

Ether.fi Unveils Major Revamp of Its Neobank

Ether.fi's latest neobank upgrade wants to replace your bank account.

Polymarket Acquihires Turf's Sports Prediction Team

Months after first partnering together, Polymarket has welcomed Turf's entire team aboard.

Anthropic Signs Huge Data Center Deal With Bitcoin Miner Riot Platforms

A big data center lease just sent Riot Platforms shares soaring, after Bloomberg named the undisclosed tenant as Anthropic.

Senate Pushes Clarity Act Vote to September

Ethics disputes and stalled negotiations have pushed the Clarity Act's Senate vote to September.

Circle's Arc Names Its Founding Validators Ahead of Mainnet Release

Arc, Circle's institutional blockchain, goes live September 16th with a validator cohort built from TradFi giants.

Mastercard and Visa Continue Advancing Their Stablecoin Ambitions

The biggest card companies are taking different paths to the same goal: dominating the rails beneath stablecoins.

Coldcard's RNG Bug Has Reportedly Compromised As Much As 2,000 BTC

A weak RNG in Coldcard wallets has cost users an estimated +$100M worth of BTC in less than a week.

BlackRock Unveils Two New Tokenized Treasury Funds on Ethereum

Two new BlackRock funds, BSTBL and BRSRV, are extending the asset manager's push into onchain finance.

Ethereum Institutional Closes Ecosystem Funding Round With +100 Backers

Ethereum Institutional locks in +100 ecosystem backers to accelerate institutional Ethereum adoption.

The Ethereum Foundation Welcomes Its Newest Board Member

The Ethereum Foundation adds privacy and security advocate pcaversaccio to its board.

Lido Rolls Out Biggest Core Upgrade Since V2

Lido's new Core upgrade adds ETH-backed operator bonds and validator consolidation to ease congestion and boost accountability.

Ondo Finance Unveils the Ondo Network

Ondo Finance launches its Ondo Network days after its Oasis Pro Markets arm won SEC clearance for tokenized U.S. equities.

Bitmine Added ETH While Strategy's BTC Lull Continues

Bitmine's ETH treasury topped 5.78M tokens worth $11.3B, while Strategy's BTC stack went untouched again.

Morpho's Fixed-Rate Lending Protocol Midnight Nears

Morpho Midnight exits beta within days with fixed-term lending, multi-market offers, and a deliberately cautious rollout.

Ethereum Researcher Francesco D'Amato Departs EF for Ethlabs

One of the EF's most versatile protocol researchers just left for Ethlabs, saying serious protocol work now has "a credible shot" outside the Foundation.

Visa Unveils Stablecoin Platform With OUSD at Its Core

Visa's Stablecoin Platform packages OUSD access, wallet infra, and treasury integration for institutions entering crypto.

DTCC Executes First Live Trades With Tokenized Wall Street Assets

Wall Street's $114T clearing backbone just executed real production trades with tokenized securities.

Galaxy Debuts GOFR to Pipe Institutions Into DeFi Credit

Galaxy's new managed lending program gives institutions one blended DeFi borrowing rate without having to go through crypto wallets.

Ethereum Foundation Privacy Team Spins Out as EthSystems

Ex-Ethereum Foundation privacy researchers have launched EthSystems, a for-profit firm building privacy tech for institutional Ethereum adoption.

Sablier Is Winding Down Development of Its Token Streaming Protocol

Ethereum's OG money-streaming platform is closing up shop, though its smart contracts will live on.

Jupiter Partners with Collector Crypt on New Pokémon Card Gacha

Jupiter just teamed with Collector Crypt to launch onchain gacha packs to its millions of users.

Strategy's New MSTR Sale Pushes Its Cash Reserves to $3B

Strategy held its 843,775 BTC steady last week while stacking dollars via MSTR.