Token Buybacks Can't Fix Weak Valuations, Ansem Warns
Ansem's read: HYPE and PUMP both repurchase tokens, but only one has held a trust premium, and the FDV gap shows it.
Token Buybacks Can't Fix Weak Valuations, Ansem Warns
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WuBlockchain
Edel Oracle Pays $24M on Future-Priced Tokenized Stock
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Edel Oracle Pays $24M on Future-Priced Tokenized Stock
The exploit hit Edel but the bug lives in credit markets built on tokenized equities, where 1:1 stock backing is meaningless if the wrapper, vault and exchange rate can be manipulated.
CryptoSlate
Trump Teleprompter Operator Faces Insider Trading Probe on Kalshi
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Trump Teleprompter Operator Faces Insider Trading Probe on Kalshi
The case tests the CFTC's authority over prediction-market insider trading as political-event contracts draw billions in volume and a celebrity-adjacent defendant.
TheBlock
Hyperliquid Lists CXMT Pre-IPO Perpetual via HIP-3
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Hyperliquid Lists CXMT Pre-IPO Perpetual via HIP-3
Trade[XYZ] deployed the contract with a $5 reference, not the RMB 8.66 IPO price, and a 20% discovery bound and internal oracle govern the mark until CXMT starts trading.
Multicoin invests $1.75M in Hyperliquid perps DEX Trasia
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Multicoin invests $1.75M in Hyperliquid perps DEX Trasia
Multicoin takes its first position in the Hyperliquid ecosystem via a sole-investor check into Trasia, a perps DEX co-founded by ex-partner Mable Jiang targeting Asian traders.
Keyrock Buys BlockFills Trading Assets for $3.25M
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Keyrock Buys BlockFills Trading Assets for $3.25M
The price is small, but the deal ships BlockFills' institutional client book, derivatives team, and CIMA + FCA licenses into Keyrock just as institutional crypto demand picks back up.
CoinDesk
CXMT Whale Opens 2x Long With 5M USDC on Hyperliquid
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CXMT Whale Opens 2x Long With 5M USDC on Hyperliquid
The position size is unusual for a token this thin, but the leverage is modest and the liquidation price sits so low that the trade reads more like a high-conviction directional bet than a…
Lookonchain
MoonPay acquires YC-backed Glide in sixth 2026 deal
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MoonPay acquires YC-backed Glide in sixth 2026 deal
Glide is MoonPay's sixth acquisition of 2026, and the onramp giant is absorbing a four-person team that built crypto-native deposit rails for fintechs and neobanks.
BTC Top Call Strike Slides From $80K to $70K
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BTC Top Call Strike Slides From $80K to $70K
The open-interest rotation from $80K to $70K keeps the $60K put as the most popular downside bet, framing a tighter $60K-$70K corridor that dealer-gamma hedging looks set to cap from above.
Fresh Wallet Shorts $CXMT With $10M USDC on Hyperliquid
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Fresh Wallet Shorts $CXMT With $10M USDC on Hyperliquid
The size of the deposit relative to the open position signals either a large directional bet on a thin altcoin or a wallet preparing for staged adds into a soft tape.
Polymarket Bitcoin Markets Show Manipulation, Study Finds
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Polymarket Bitcoin Markets Show Manipulation, Study Finds
The paper identified 821 likely manipulators netting $8.2M from five-minute BTC contracts, with the cost falling on retail traders who traded against the spoofed prints.
Ostium Exploit Drains $23.75M USDC, Swapped for 12,084 ETH
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Ostium Exploit Drains $23.75M USDC, Swapped for 12,084 ETH
The attacker converted the full haul into 12,084 ETH at ~$1,966 and routed most of it through Tornado Cash, the laundering pattern that keeps drawing OFAC's attention.
Whale Opens $3.37M Leveraged Long on AKE via Aster DEX
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Whale Opens $3.37M Leveraged Long on AKE via Aster DEX
Three fresh wallets, 3M USDT in fresh deposits, and a leveraged long sized at 4.73B AKE tokens: the structure of the trade reads more like a directional bet than a hedge.
Perpetual CFDs bring crypto's 24/7 model into regulated markets
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Perpetual CFDs bring crypto's 24/7 model into regulated markets
RWA-linked derivative volume hit roughly $300B in June across Binance, Hyperliquid and OKX. Pepperstone's perpetual CFD product carries that mechanic onto ASIC and FCA rails.
Pepperstone adds 24/7 perpetual CFDs tied to RWA funding rates
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Pepperstone adds 24/7 perpetual CFDs tied to RWA funding rates
The regulated broker's perpetual CFDs route crypto-style funding rates through a familiar overnight swap, targeting a market where weekend volumes already cleared $20B in June.
Hyperion Drops Felix and Native, Puts 500K HYPE Into Skew Bond
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Hyperion Drops Felix and Native, Puts 500K HYPE Into Skew Bond
The third-party HIP-3 builder swap points to Skew becoming the operating perps venue tied to Hyperion's HYPE-denominated treasury, with revenue share layered in.
Base Pivots to Trading, Payments, AI for 2026 Roadmap
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Base Pivots to Trading, Payments, AI for 2026 Roadmap
Jesse Pollak admits the social-and-content-coins bet was a detour. The 2026 priorities (perpetuals, tokenized stocks, stablecoin rails, AI-agent payments) put Base back in the L2 infrastructure race.
Ostium oracle exploit drains $18M from Arbitrum RWA protocol
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Ostium oracle exploit drains $18M from Arbitrum RWA protocol
The attacker weaponized a registered forwarder and future-dated oracle reports to mint artificial trading profits, draining the OLP Vault before the team froze trading.
Ostium halts trading after $18M vault exploit
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Ostium halts trading after $18M vault exploit
An onchain attacker drained an estimated $18M from Ostium vaults before the protocol halted trading, the latest in a string of DeFi derivatives incidents testing offchain risk engines.
Ostium Exploited for $18M in Arbitrum Oracle Attack
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Ostium Exploited for $18M in Arbitrum Oracle Attack
The attacker used Ostium's own Gelato-run price automation against it, forging future-dated oracle reads to extract an $18M USDC payout. It is the second major oracle hit in a week.