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The Brent and WTI perpetual contracts land on a regulated venue the same week ICE and CME flagged onchain rivals as a systemic risk to benchmark oil markets.
Across 400+ managers, all sub-strategies posted positive average returns in April — a rare aligned tape where market-neutral books quietly compounded alongside directional winners.
An on-chain trader identified as 0xf01d has opened a 5x leveraged long position on 4.58 million ONDO tokens, equivalent…
Aave V3 deployed on X Layer roughly a week ago, and the chain's TVL has tripled since — the strongest 30-day inflow among major L2s and a rare triple-digit gain outside a launch window.
An oracle is the layer DeFi assumes is always there; when Pyth's mainnet feeds go dark, every perp, lending book, and liquidation engine reading them has to make a call on whether to keep trading or…
A targeted exploit on the prediction market's optimistic-oracle bridge — not its main AMM — underscores how interconnected DeFi composability keeps turning a single adapter into a system-level risk…
On-chain investigator ZachXBT has flagged a suspected exploit involving the UMA adapter contract used by Polymarket…
Japan is a top-3 prediction-market TAM and Polymarket is currently blocked there — but the path runs through a Penal Code that criminalizes habitual gambling, and Kalshi is closing the volume gap…
vBTC.b ships as a 1:1 collateralized Bitcoin asset on a Coinbase L2, with native BTC redemption and self-custody integration from day one — the bet is that real BTC collateral beats another synthetic…
Tokenized Treasuries, gold, and commodities have grown fast on-chain, but the bulk sits behind whitelists and KYC gates — a thin slice is live, lendable, or composable inside DeFi protocols.
The payments firm is now the on-ramp for regulated institutions into stablecoins, tokenized funds and onchain lending — a build-out underwritten by a high-eight-figure Decent.xyz acquisition and a…
Dragonfly led the Series A with Bain Capital Crypto and Coinbase Ventures joining, as Variational pushes past $200B in lifetime volume and launches perpetual futures on gold, silver, copper and WTI…
The CEX duo still dominates volumes, but the share of perpetual futures open interest sitting on DEXs has nearly quadrupled since early 2025 — a structural shift in where leverage now lives.
The HYPE token jumped 20% to $58.60 on the day Hyperliquid's fully diluted valuation passed Solana's — a crossover built on $12.6M weekly protocol fees, not narrative.
Two on-chain moves in 48 hours — a Galaxy-linked wallet buying $8.8M and a fresh address pulling $29.87M off Coinbase — point to accumulation rather than distribution.
The raise backs a thesis most perp DEXs have avoided — sourcing liquidity from real market makers and commodity desks, not just crypto LPs — with Bain Capital Crypto and Coinbase Ventures joining…
Variational, an Arbitrum-based derivatives venue, has closed a $50 million Series A round led by Dragonfly Capital…
The total real-world asset (RWA) tokenization market has crossed $38 billion, according to fresh data from Token…
L2Beat rebuilt the Lighter L2 proof stack from source — including its L1 verifier — so users can withdraw even if the sequencer goes dark or turns hostile.
The integration removes the usual bridge-and-wrap step that kept idle XRP off-chain: cold-storage holders can now sign twice on the XRPL and route straight into on-chain yield.
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