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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.
The headline number is Monad's near $621M in TVL, but the comparable story is Stable's threefold jump off a tiny base, a reminder that growth rankings reward chains still early in liquidity discovery.
CoinGecko's top 10 sat unchanged at the 09:00 UTC snapshot on 16 Jul, but the action in the mid-cap band told a clear…
Nansen flags a supply-side signal running five times the weekly average, but informed wallets are net sellers and Hyperliquid smart-money stays short, keeping the bid in question.
The first Bank of Korea hike in over three years is the macro anchor, while a $2.4M LayerZero wallet breach and Summer.fi shutdown put DeFi risk back on the table.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A hypothetical Stripe-Advent takeover of PayPal would put two of the largest payment rails under one roof, and a Polygon Labs executive argues that concentration is what finally pushes mainstream…
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.
The $300B+ Nasdaq-100 ETF becomes the largest TradFi fund to issue a tokenized share class, deepening Wall Street's conviction that onchain rails belong in mainstream portfolio plumbing.
Wall Street's largest wealth manager bringing digital-asset rails in-house reframes the institutional custody race, and tightens the gap between TradFi balance sheets and on-chain credit markets.
The volume split shows where the next cycle's on-chain liquidity is actually settling: Solana still leads DEX activity by a wide margin, with the Robinhood chain now a credible runner-up.
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.
The leadership swap is a quiet admission that Base's socialfi experiments never found product-market fit, with the L2 now doubling down on trading, stablecoin payments, and AI agents.
Coins leaving Binance typically signal accumulation, but XRP is still 70% below its all-time high and order flow has stayed seller-controlled since the $2.00 print earlier this year.
DTCC processes real equity, ETF and Treasury trades as blockchain tokens on its production rails, with JPMorgan, Goldman, BlackRock and Vanguard among two dozen participants, ahead of an October…
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