Mid-Cap Crypto Rotation: DeFi Climbs, Oracles and PoW Slip
CoinMarketCap's top 100 stayed locked at the boundary as of 15:00 UTC on 14 Jul 2026 — CRV (Curve DAO) reclaimed the…
Decentralized finance — DEXs, lending, yield strategies, on-chain derivatives, and tokenized real-world assets.
CoinMarketCap's top 100 stayed locked at the boundary as of 15:00 UTC on 14 Jul 2026 — CRV (Curve DAO) reclaimed the…
Giselle Lai reframes the institutional pitch: the prize is moving idle cash across fragmented global accounts cheaply, a use case she says will take two decades to fully mature.
A nine-figure short flush signals leveraged bears are getting crushed as the squeeze accelerates across the complex.
HMRC's carve-out exempts disposals on eligible crypto loans and liquidity-pool entries from capital-gains tax, aligning DeFi with share-loan treatment and ending the asset-swap tax trap that has…
Kalshi, Polymarket and the new Robinhood–Susquehanna JV Rothera cleared $44B between them in June, roughly 10x what US sportsbooks are projected to handle across all 104 matches.
The "no gain, no loss" treatment, effective April 2027, gives UK DeFi and lending users a long runway to rebalance wallets before the tax man steps in.
Jeff Yan frames Hyperliquid as liquidity infrastructure for all of finance, not just a perp DEX. The pitch rests on a compounding-network thesis: every platform that plugs in makes the others' books…
The deadline matters less than the math: DeFi protocols that already generate real revenue stand to inherit the first wave of institutional flow once the rulebook lands.
Federal law enforcement backing lends the Clarity Act political cover, but the four amendments reveal where frontline agencies want more teeth on DeFi oversight.
DRV is the rebrand of Lyra Finance, once a leading onchain options protocol. An Upbit listing puts it in front of South Korea's deepest retail liquidity on day one.
Two freshly active wallets quietly absorbed roughly $35M of Ether, the kind of accumulation that tightens float ahead of any spot demand shock.
A 50/50 prediction-market read frames a four-week sprint before summer recess, with Patrick Witt's framing of the bill as Ethereum's ETF moment adding the structural upside if it lands.
PUMP's $138.85M cliff alone is more than the other six unlocks combined, concentrating this week's supply pressure on a single freshly launched token trading well below its post-TGE peak.
HIP-3 built-in markets have grown from a niche experiment to nearly half of Hyperliquid's perp flow in weeks, a structural shift that pulls 24/7 equity trading onto the onchain rails.
Incidents are up but median loss per hack keeps falling, signalling attackers are shifting toward smaller or abandoned protocols while larger venues harden against AI-enabled exploits.
The promotion rewards the highest-volume Combo contract traders, betting that gamified liquidity incentives can pull active bettors onto the newer product.
The upgrade turns scattered prediction-market bets into a single marginable balance sheet, layering leverage on top of an asset class that already behaves like a derivatives book.
Tokenized stocks and RWA perps now account for one in five new CEX listings, while memecoins and GameFi listings collapse, pointing to a structural reorientation of exchange strategy around…
The chain now sits behind only Solana and BNB in 24-hour on-chain trading volume, ahead of Base, Ethereum, Hyperliquid and Arbitrum.
The move marks another consumer-facing wedge for Solana DEX liquidity, routing collectible-card demand through Jupiter's swap layer rather than a traditional auction house.