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Edge on event contracts is migrating from retail to desks with faster infrastructure; the Fed's July 29 hold, with 87% priced on Kalshi, is the first test of whether that flywheel holds at scale.
Payward's partnership with GTN moves tokenized stocks past their US-only phase into Asian and European blue-chips, putting xStocks in direct competition with Robinhood and Coinbase for the next leg…
The attacker netted under $1M, but the mechanism (an unguarded oracle write with no liquidation delay) is the real warning for every BTC-collateralized lending book.
The 606,091 HYPE position was bought near $30 five months ago and is now worth $36.5M, with Multicoin already depositing most of it for sale while staking out the rest.
The on-chain record is brutal: $1 in fees in the past 24 hours, a fully diluted valuation down over 99% from peak, and a developer that raised nine figures while generating almost nothing.
BitMine now gives public-market investors a direct equity proxy for Ethereum staking yield, but the structure that produces that yield also locks the firm into a long-dated validator contract.
The Binance founder's framing is the standard adoption-gap thesis, but the friction points he names (on-ramps, stablecoin yields, RWA coverage) are the same ones the sector has been working on for…
The 113-coin cohort is a graveyard with a median return of -95.7%, but HYPE and ONDO are the outliers proving the model can still work when it works.
Median allocations lost 70-99% across UNI, APT, OP, ARB, APE, STRK, and DYDX within months. Hyperliquid's HYPE is the lone outlier, up roughly 35x since claim day.
Roughly 5% of all stablecoin float now sits on a chain that was a rounding error in the sector two years ago, with Circle, Tether and Paxos all leaning in.
CMC's top 10 sat untouched between the 15:00 UTC snapshots on 20 Jul and 21 Jul 2026, but the mid-cap tape told two…
Roughly two-thirds of Polymarket addresses finished in the red on the tournament contract, but 54 wallets captured nearly 60% of all profit, putting prediction-market concentration in the same league…
Direct Morpho access inside the main app turns DeFi yield into a brokerage-native product instead of a separate wallet workflow.
Equities, commodities, indices, and crypto perpetuals settle on a layer-2 that puts a US broker's rails behind a DEX orderbook, blurring the line between on-chain perps and traditional prime…
The launch extends Jito's MEV infrastructure into a full self-custodial venue, folding tokenized real-world assets into the same surface as spot Solana tokens.
Midnight moves fixed-rate credit to the protocol layer instead of stacking it on variable-rate markets, where every existing fixed-rate DeFi book has lived so far.
A fresh wallet quietly seeded with $14.6M USDC and immediately levered up on MU stock perps, the kind of sized, one-shot entry that often fronts a larger thesis.
The headline number is TVL, but FalconX argues the real differentiator is tokenized real-world assets, not the memecoin volume that drives 80% of on-chain activity today.
The bill is the first comprehensive federal framework for digital assets and would split oversight between the SEC and CFTC; passage is now odds-on into the Senate’s early-August vote window.
The derivatives stack is doing the work: $125M added to XRP open interest in a week, futures volume running 7.2x spot, and spot XRP ETFs quietly closing in on $1B AUM.
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