Quantus Takes Aim at Bitcoin’s Quantum Problem
QTC is now tradable through NEAR Intents, giving the quantum-resistant L1 its first real liquidity test against Bitcoin and Zcash.
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Bitwise Is Pitching NEAR to Wall Street as an AI Bet
Bitwise's NRR, the first U.S. spot NEAR ETF, drew $35.5M on day one. Hunter Horsley and Sal Ternullo explain the demand and NEAR's AI-first pitch.
CryptoPunks Are Heating Back Up
CryptoPunks sales are surging, and the collection's grails are selling for millions again. Here's everything you need to know.
Derive V3 Wants to Be the Engine of Onchain Options
Can Derive V3, an Ethereum-native rebuild, help the protocol take on Deribit?
What Was Revealed at Robinhood's HOOD Summit
Robinhood launched greater abilities for agents, the rollout of perpetuals in the U.S., and the debut of their social feed, all while dealing a blow to Lighter in the short term.
NEAR Stopped Bitget's Hackers Without Breaking Privacy
Bitget's hackers tried to push $50M+ through NEAR Intents and got turned away.
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States Pull Ahead in Prediction Market Fight
Federal courts are increasingly backing state gaming laws over prediction markets as the fight heads toward the Supreme Court.
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Inside IMD, Ethereum's New AI Swarm Experiment
A new kind of AI workforce is ascending in the Ethereum ecosystem, replete with experimental tokenomics. Here's why it matters, and how you might consider the trade.
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New NFT Cathedrals Are Going Up Everywhere
If you've tuned out NFTs during the memecoin era, you may be missing today's non-fungible resurgence.
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ZEC and NEAR Are Eating the Blue Chips' Bid
BTC:ETH::ZEC:NEAR! How Zcash and NEAR are drawing capital away from Bitcoin and Ethereum.
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This is Not Bitcoin’s Cycle
Last cycle mainstreamed Bitcoin. This one may belong to Zcash and alts with real revenue, buybacks, and newly opening U.S. markets.
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Inside Robinhood's Onchain Endgame
Robinhood sees blockchains upgrading markets, with tokenized assets, perps, and AI agents at the center of its next phase.
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The CFTC Extended a Crypto Compliance Win to the Whole Industry
The CFTC just gave every wallet and DeFi interface the same legal shield it gave to Phantom.
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The SEC Just Opened a Legal Lane for Tokenized Stocks
The SEC's new Innovation Exemption lets permissioned AMMs trade tokenized, rights-bearing U.S. stocks for the first time.
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Circle's Arc Mainnet Goes Live
The USDC issuer just launched its own Layer 1, arriving to an arena already fielded by Tether and Stripe.
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Clarity's Vote Failed. Now What?
CLARITY's latest Senate push failed after an ethics deal revived hopes, leaving crypto's path to lasting U.S. rules unclear.
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The Standard Reserve Is Building a New Kind of Bank Onchain
The Standard Reserve turns bank charters into soulbound NFTs and monetary policy into code.
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Robinhood Chain Hidden Gems? 5 Tokens We're Watching
Highlighting a handful of Robinhood Chain tokens on our radar right now.
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Variational Is Quietly Climbing the Perps Leaderboard
Still in private beta, Variational is already moving billions via its RFQ model.
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Fearing Frontier Labs, Longing Inference Markets
A suspicious OpenAI encounter highlights growing distrust around AI data, and why Venice and onchain inference markets may benefit.
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AMC CEO Blasts Robinhood Stock Tokens as AMC Shares Rally
AMC’s fight with Robinhood Stock Tokens sent CINEMA soaring, alongside the actual AMC stock, showing how tokenized stocks can be guerrilla marketing machines for public companies.
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The Stock-Paired Memecoin Squeeze Is a Lie
Why cornering a tokenized stock's supply doesn't corner the real stock.
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What EIP-7906 Would Change About Ethereum Transactions
EIP-7906 would let Ethereum accounts check what a transaction actually did and, if needed, veto malicious results.
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Ripe Brings Old School DeFi Farming to Robinhood Chain
Ripe Protocol is bringing classic DeFi liquidity mining back on Robinhood Chain.
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Permissionless Prediction Markets Go Live on Hyperliquid
Anyone with 500K HYPE can now launch their own prediction markets on Hyperliquid.
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Crypto's New Dividend Metric to Watch
Holders revenue tracks which crypto protocols actually pay their holders.
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Why Solana Wants Less Inflation, Faster
Solana's SGP-0002, which looks set to pass, would double the SOL disinflation rate and cut the path to 1.5% terminal inflation to under 3 years.
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What to Expect from Kinetiq's Upcoming Hyperliquid L2
Hyperliquid’s first L2 is nearing launch. Here’s what Elysium could mean for DeFi, spot markets, and Kinetiq’s growing role in the ecosystem.
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Coinbase Enters the Tokenized Stock Wars
Coinbase Tokenized Stocks just went live on Base, running on the new B20 standard. Here's what to expect.
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Recapping the Week in AiFi
Stripe, AWS, and Alipay all just made major moves in agentic payments.
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The Debasement Trade Returns
Bitcoin’s breakout revives the debasement trade as Treasury buybacks, AI spending and Japan fuel bets on looser policy ahead.
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TCRs Will Rise Again
Token curated registries might be crypto's most underrated primitive again. Why TCRs deserve a second look in 2026.
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Why Stripe Wants OpenRouter
Stripe’s OpenRouter deal reveals a bigger bet on inference markets, agentic payments, and stablecoins as the rails for machine commerce.
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EtherFi's Bet Against Crypto's Casino Economy
Neobanking is a $300B industry. Here's why EtherFi's CEO thinks that's the opportunity crypto casinos are ignoring.
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CFTC Walks the Prediction Market Tightrope
This week, the CFTC defended prediction markets from state intervention while tightening oversight as the industry scales.
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Gnosis Chain Just Made the First Move Toward the Ethereum Economic Zone
The Ethereum Economic Zone was just a vision in March. Today, Gnosis Chain has moved to become the first implementer.
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The Pump vs. Fomo Rivalry
The battle for the memecoin trenches is on as Pump.fun and Fomo vie for dominance.
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Bitcoin's Ordinals War Reaches Its Verdict
A weekend soft fork aimed at restricting NFTs on Bitcoin collapsed after two blocks.
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Evolving Lighter's Technical Architecture, Together
Inside the crowdsourced AI challenge that’s made Lighter’s ZK prover over 5x faster in three days.
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Breaking Down Ethereum's New Issuance Debate
EIP-8363 would cap Ethereum's staking ratio by burning issuance past 50% staked. Here's where the debate around this proposal stands today.
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Kalshi's Exchange for Everything
Kalshi is using prediction markets and regulated perps to build an exchange where nearly any asset, event, or financial risk can trade worldwide.
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What Does the Ideal Hardware Wallet Look Like?
Considering cold wallets post-Coldcard. What foundations would make a hardware wallet virtually impossible to exploit?
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HIP-4 Must Get Ready for the Midterms
HIP-4 permissionless deployments are live on testnet. Hyperliquid should make sure they get to mainnet by the midterms.
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Inside Uniswap's Land Grab on Robinhood Chain
Uniswap has facilitated $12.8B on Robinhood Chain in a month. How v4 hooks and a new Launches tab are pushing it beyond just liquidity.
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Memecoins Are Trading Against Stocks Now
Stock-paired memecoins are Robinhood Chain's newest meta.
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Sportsbooks Are Building the Prediction Markets They Once Fought
Sportsbooks are using federal exchanges to offer sports contracts in states where their own books are banned.
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Zcash Trades Trust for Proof
Zcash's Ironwood upgrade is live, replacing the wounded Orchard pool with a formally verified successor.
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While Some Crypto Firms Collapse, Others Are Buying
MoonPay, Circle, and Kraken all acquired infrastructure this month, but for very different reasons.
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A Beginner's Guide to Fake World Assets
Fake World Assets is Ethereum's breakout NFT gacha. Here's how it works, how to play, and what to watch out for going forward.
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The SEC Puts DeFi Vaults on Notice
Hester Peirce's new vaults and lending statement draws the line at human discretion.
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DeFi's Due Diligence Super Tool
Transparency doesn't equal legibility, so Herd is turning DeFi vaults into something humans can actually audit.
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The Buy ETH, Sell Gold Trade?
A look at the stretched ETH/gold ratio and how traders can express the long ETH, short gold bet onchain.
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Morpho Midnight and the Rate DeFi's Been Missing
Morpho Midnight is aimed at powering the fixed-rate, fixed-term lending DeFi needs for institutions.
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Ethereum Is Building Reunification Machinery
Ethereum outsourced scaling to L2s. Now native proof verification and fast finality can bring them back into the fold.
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The Stablecoin Logic of Stripe's PayPal Bid
PayPal in the front, Tempo in the back?
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JTX Is Jito's Bid to Become Solana's Front Door
Do trades fill better on Solana than on Coinbase? JTX's new Good Trade feature puts that to the test on every order.
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CLARITY Advances as Its Political Path Narrows
The CLARITY Act cleared Senate Banking, but an unresolved ethics fight, a departing White House negotiator, and a shrinking calendar threaten its passage.
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Who Sent This Bot? The Web Needs an Answer
AI agents are getting blocked alongside crawlers because websites can't tell them apart, so the race is on to build an ID layer for the agent economy.
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DeFi's Big Robinhood Chain Winners
Memes lit the fuse on Robinhood Chain, but DeFi's blue chips are also catching the upside as picks and shovels.
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Inside x402's Breakout Traction
Inference routing and premium data are working for x402. Content monetization could be what makes it essential if Cloudflare's gateway proves it can scale.
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Robinhood Chain's Unexpected Meme Meta
Robinhood built its L2 for serious onchain finance, but degens had other plans.
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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 build-versus-replenish loophole explained.
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Ethereum's Third and Ultimate Form Is Taking Shape
Nearly every major piece of Ethereum is slated for transformation.
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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 to scale.
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Open USD Is Coming for Circle's Margins
The newest major stablecoin consortium is offering businesses a better deal than Circle has. Will Circle be fazed?
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Solana’s Venice is Loading
The case for confidential compute on Solana amid the ANSEM frenzy has an interesting setup forming for Arcium's token.
