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Every month of 2026 has bled DeFi TVL, with $70B now anchoring the sector and TRON and Hyperliquid the only top-10 chains to add value this year.
The same address sold 3,065 ETH at a $380K loss two weeks ago and has been loading HYPE ever since, with holdings now worth $30.93M.
The Mini-S&P 500 contracts are the first products under the new suite, live now on Interactive Brokers and rolling out to Charles Schwab in the coming months.
When Layer 2 fees fall below the cost of executing on the L1 itself, the original scaling thesis stops paying out, and dozens of rollups are left searching for a reason to exist.
The Binance founder's back-to-back posts are a rare live read on a venue that has refused identity checks: the praise is real, the legal warning is louder.
The OCC-cleared contracts land as prediction markets keep pulling capital from sportsbooks and crypto books, with Interactive Brokers live at launch and Schwab on deck.
Aave is bank-sized, but $2.9T in US corporate loans is the addressable market DeFi still can't underwrite without Goldfinch-style blowups.
The economist who called the 2008 crisis is co-authoring USAFi, a tokenized version of his own Nasdaq-listed Atlas America Fund, scheduled to launch under Dubai's VARA in Q3 2026.
The points-first design insulates Meta from US prediction-market licensing while it learns the market, and leaves the door open to a future real-money product the moment a clearer regime lands.
The exploit is a KelpDAO incident, but the structural story is the $3B rotating to Chainlink's CCIP as DeFi projects dump LayerZero for cross-chain messaging.
The growth lands as TradFi heavyweights from BlackRock to Franklin Templeton push deeper into tokenized treasuries and money-market funds, and the exchange is now positioning itself as the default…
The subsidy is the bet: Solana is paying high-volume traders to populate order flow before on-chain markets can prove the activity survives without the incentive.
The world's largest social platform owner is greenlighting an in-house prediction product, a direct signal that forecasting is being recategorised as core consumer infrastructure, not a DeFi sideshow.
A points-based product from a platform with billions of users could move prediction markets from a crypto-native niche into mass consumer apps, and accelerate the regulatory reckoning the sector is…
If Meta ships a points-based version first and a real-money follow-up later, it would drag a still-niche category into the feed of every Instagram and Facebook user on earth.
A Super Bowl-style spot during the world's most-watched sporting event is a marketing bet, not a product one, and it lands as US regulators are still circling the category.
Prime never scaled beyond a narrow credit book, and the vote reflects a DeFi credit market that has thinned out rather than expanded since the 2021–2022 on-chain lending boom.
The regulator and the rails aren't ready, but Wall Street is shipping tokenized funds anyway, and BNY's ETF chief is flagging a quieter problem: hundreds of lookalike ETFs already trade in…
Project Pangea cuts FX settlement from T+2 to near-instant by letting European and Korean banks stay on Swift while swapping euro- and won-pegged stablecoins atomically on a neutral L1 ledger.
The third-largest 24-hour liquidation event in crypto perps, behind only BTC and ETH, signals leverage built fast as private-market exposure went on-chain.
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