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Written by William M. Peaster • Today • 3 min read Robinhood Chain's Unexpected Meme Meta Robinhood built its L2 for serious onchain finance, but degens had other plans.... Analysis 0 0

Written by David Christopher • 1 day ago • 4 min read How Strategy Can Sell Billions More in Bitcoin Strategy sold $216M in Bitcoin to fund dividends but still reports full $1.25B reserve capacity. The... Analysis 0 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 days ago • 5 min read Ethereum's Third and Ultimate Form Is Taking Shape Nearly every major piece of Ethereum is slated for transformation. ... Analysis 1 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 6 days ago • 5 min read Robinhood Just Revealed Lighter's Master Plan Robinhood's integration marks the first Lighter Domain, and a preview of how the zk perps DEX plans ... Citizen-only Analysis 1 0

Written by David Christopher • 1 week ago • 4 min read Open USD Is Coming for Circle's Margins The newest major stablecoin consortium is offering businesses a better deal than Circle has. Will Ci... Analysis 1 0

Written by David Christopher • 1 week ago • 5 min read Solana’s Venice is Loading The case for confidential compute on Solana amid the ANSEM frenzy has an interesting setup forming f... Citizen-only AnalysisOpinion 1 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 1 week ago • 3 min read The Case for a Second Ethereum R&D Lab Making ETH inevitable and scaling Ethereum to the world. Ethlabs's co-founders sat down with Bankles... Analysis 0 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 1 week ago • 3 min read Will SOL Keep Outperforming? SOL outperformed everything in crypto today. Here's why Solana's bull case is improving.... Citizen-only Analysis 1 0

Written by David Christopher • 1 week ago • 5 min read Fomo Is Leading the Charge for Social Trading's Next Wave Fomo just raised a major funding round to take its social trading vision to the next level. Opportun... Analysis 2 0

Written by David Christopher • 1 week ago • 4 min read Is Strategy's Bitcoin Machine Breaking Down? Strategy's structure runs on Bitcoin, MSTR common stock, and STRC preferred, and right now all three... Analysis 0 0

Written by Bankless • 2 weeks ago • 3 min read The Ethereum Foundation Reveals New Structure The Ethereum Foundation just announced its biggest organizational overhaul in years.... Analysis 1 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 weeks ago • 3 min read Ethlabs Is the Latest Group Fighting for Ethereum's Future Former Ethereum Foundation researchers have launched Ethlabs, an independent org set on making Ether... Analysis 2 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 weeks ago • 4 min read Why CME Is Really Suing the CFTC Over Perps CME wants Kalshi's Bitcoin perp reclassified as a swap, not banned. That distinction reveals what's ... Analysis 0 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 weeks ago • 3 min read How Re Is Turning Reinsurance Into a Stablecoin Yield Source Onchain capital is entering one of finance's oldest and most opaque markets: reinsurance.... Analysis 1 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 weeks ago • 3 min read Can MegaETH's MOSS Fix Crypto's Wallet Mess? MegaETH is replacing wallet juggling with MOSS. The team explains the system on the latest Bankless ... Analysis 1 0

Written by David Christopher • 3 weeks ago • 4 min read The Research You Were Never Going to Read Coinbase joins an expanding list of fintechs using agents to make their platforms greater than the s... Analysis 2 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 3 weeks ago • 3 min read Self-Repaying Loans All Grown Up: A Look at Alchemix V3 Alchemix, one of DeFi's OG protocols, recently shipped its biggest rework yet.... Analysis 1 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 3 weeks ago • 5 min read A New Kind of Stablecoin Is Brewing on Ethereum What if stablecoins didn't use dollars or liquidations?... Analysis 1 0

Written by David Christopher • 3 weeks ago • 5 min read Crypto's Formal Verification Moment Formal verification looks like crypto's best shot at becoming real financial infrastructure.... Analysis 2 0

Written by David Christopher • 3 weeks ago • 5 min read The Hyperliquid Altcoin That's Getting Interesting Again Kinetiq dominates liquid HYPE staking but its core business is shrinking. Its new Launch platform co... Citizen-only Analysis 0 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 3 weeks ago • 4 min read The Future of Perps in America CFTC Chairman Mike Selig maps the new U.S. perpetuals frontier on Bankless.... Analysis 0 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 1 month ago • 4 min read Why Crypto Bled and Bounced A 32 BTC sale, a Zcash scare, a hot jobs report, and a flush that wiped billions. Then Saylor bought... Analysis 0 0

Written by David Christopher • 1 month ago • 3 min read Rotten Apples in the Orchard Zcash patched a critical privacy pool bug that could have enabled fake ZEC, though it can't prove, a... Analysis 3 0

Written by David Christopher • 1 month ago • 4 min read Venice's Plan to Take on OpenAI Venice's two-front bet to rival OpenAI and Claude: win consumers with private, uncensored, aggregate... Analysis 2 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 1 month ago • 4 min read Getting Started with Monster on MegaETH A look at Monster on MegaETH, a slick, simple platform for ripping tokenized Pokémon cards.... Analysis 1 0

Written by David Christopher • 1 month ago • 3 min read Is LIT the Most Underpriced Perps Bet in Crypto? Will Price and Delphi's Flip make the case that LIT is underpriced for what Lighter has built.... Analysis 0 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 1 month ago • 3 min read Tacit: A New Take on Confidential Bitcoin DeFi Confidential tokens, an anonymous mixer, a private AMM, and trustless wrapped BTC, all on the Bitcoi... Analysis 2 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 1 month ago • 3 min read Can Zcash Make Privacy Normal? A coin built for the shadows is scaling into the light.... Analysis 0 0

Written by David Christopher • 1 month ago • 5 min read Eigen's Darkbloom Turns Idle Macs Into a Private AI Network Eigen Labs just launched Darkbloom, which stitches idle Apple Macs into a private inference network.... Analysis 2 0

Written by David Christopher • 1 month ago • 5 min read Is DeFi's Security Model Broken? Is all of DeFi unsafe for now amid the specter of AI tools, or is that too pessimistic?... Analysis 2 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 months ago • 3 min read Can Crypto Save the Internet? Bots are strip mining the open web. Cloudflare's CEO thinks x402 and stablecoins are the solution.... Analysis 3 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 months ago • 4 min read Why HYPE Is Running Hyperliquid is up big YTD and just hit a new ATH. Here's what's behind the run.... Analysis 2 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 months ago • 3 min read The Art of Making Onchain Objects Last InfiNFT had the right answer to decentralized storage in 2020. Now, Forever Library is taking up the... Analysis 1 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 months ago • 2 min read Ethereum Is Going to Bat for Privacy Protocols Devs are removing the structural obstacles facing Ethereum's privacy protocols.... Analysis 0 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 months ago • 3 min read V1 CryptoPunks Just Got Their Marketplace Back V1s can now trade through the original 2017 contract without wrappers.... Analysis 2 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 months ago • 7 min read How USDC Wins the Hyperliquid Deal Tether dominates Binance, but Coinbase just installed USDC on Hyperliquid. The battle for stablecoin... Analysis 1 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 months ago • 3 min read Ethereum's Wikipedia for Smart Contracts A look at 'Ethereum History,' a grassroots archive working to contextualize the earliest deployments... Analysis 1 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 months ago • 3 min read Venice Amidst the Inference Shift Cerebras' IPO marked AI's shift from training to inference. Venice's ecosystem, with tokens like DIE... Analysis 1 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 months ago • 3 min read How to Build Your Own NFT Record on Ethereum Catalog is a new tool on PND that lets artists curate a record of their Ethereum NFTs. ... Analysis 4 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 2 months ago • 4 min read How Papertrade Turns Liquidations Into Ownership A new perps exchange pioneers one of crypto’s strangest and most innovative trading mechanisms yet... Citizen-only Analysis 1 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 months ago • 5 min read How Congress Wants to Grade Crypto Decentralization The long-awaited crypto market structure bill aims to get crystal clear on what decentralized crypto... Analysis 1 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 months ago • 4 min read Plugging Hyperliquid into Your AI Stock Trading Stack Tokenized AI stocks landing on Hyperliquid are opening the door to automated perp and spot strategie... Citizen-only Analysis 1 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 months ago • 1 min read The NFT Recovery Continues NFT markets haven't been this hot in over a year.... Analysis 5 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 2 months ago • 4 min read Crypto Exchanges Lean Harder Into Prediction Markets Amid tough retail trading volumes, crypto exchanges are getting more aggressive with prediction mark... Analysis 3 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 months ago • 6 min read The Week Solana Brought Google to x402 Pay.sh shows x402 moving from unauthorized API wrappers toward native integrations, with Google Clou... Analysis 1 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 months ago • 4 min read How to Play Stomp on MegaETH Want a fun gateway into MegaETH? Consider Stomp, a slick new onchain monster battler. ... Analysis 4 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 2 months ago • 3 min read The Top Airdrop Hunts of May 2026 This month, we're looking for early airdrop opportunities on the blazing fast MegaETH network.... Citizen-only Analysis 3 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 months ago • 5 min read Can Congress Get CLARITY Across the Line? Senators resolved one key dispute, but fights over developer protections and ethics rules could thre... Analysis 3 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 months ago • 3 min read Uniswap V4 Hooks Are New Terrain for Onchain Collectibles Hook-based collectibles via Uniswap V4 offer a new format for onchain creatives. ... Analysis 4 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 2 months ago • 5 min read A New Era of Mass Surveillance Is Taking Shape As tech-driven surveillance capabilities scale exponentially, the U.S. government is pushing through... Analysis 6 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 months ago • 5 min read Breaking Down Hyperliquid’s Prediction Play The HIP-4 upgrade brings “outcome markets” to the much-hyped exchange, adding binary trading alo... Citizen-only Analysis 6 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 months ago • 5 min read Agents and x402 Make DeFi Safer When used properly, agents can shrink DeFi’s attack surface while helping users react to live risk... Analysis 3 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 months ago • 2 min read The Cryptoart Community Is Salvaging Foundation's Art Onchain infrastructure doesn't go dark when a company does.... Analysis 5 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 2 months ago • 5 min read Tracking Down Safer Yields in DeFi DeFi just got reminded that yield doesn’t matter when the system breaks down. Here are five onchai... Citizen-only Analysis 1 0

Written by David Christopher • 2 months ago • 4 min read Can MEGA Defy the Bear Market? MegaETH's MEGA token is launching into a tough market, but real usage and novel design could give it... Analysis 3 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 2 months ago • 3 min read Are NFTs Back? The NFT market cap is at its lowest since summer 2021, yet top Ethereum collections are surging.... Analysis 2 0

Written by Jack Inabinet • 2 months ago • 3 min read Where Aave’s Exploit Recovery Effort Stands Recovery efforts have stabilized Aave after the KelpDAO exploit, but governance delays and legal ris... Analysis 4 0

Written by David Christopher • 3 months ago • 4 min read Who Authorized This? The Gray Area of x402 x402 needs native integrators to succeed. Unauthorized wrappers could turn potential partners into a... Analysis 1 0

Written by David Christopher • 3 months ago • 5 min read AI Rewrites the DeSci Equation AI is collapsing drug discovery costs, expanding what DeSci communities can fund and explore.... Analysis 4 0

Written by William M. Peaster • 3 months ago • 2 min read Solving Crypto's Frontend Problem What if a frontend couldn't be hijacked by design? A look at the move toward decentralized browser t... Analysis 5 0

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