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With $10B of Bitcoin options set to expire June 26 and 80% out of the money, derivatives are now setting spot prices — and the same shift is reshaping equities, prediction markets, and tokenized…
The same bot that once consumed 7% of Ethereum gas in a single day lost its working capital to an attacker who exploited a careless token approval — a reminder that MEV profit is one phishing-style…
The list captures post-TGE attention, not necessarily sustained demand — RE and O booked triple-digit gains the same week they debuted on the aggregator's rankings.
The bot credited with ~70% of Ethereum's sandwich attacks lost more to its own approval logic than the typical sandwich victim loses in a year — a cautionary flip for machine-speed traders on both…
The attacker converted the full haul to ETH and routed 1,000 of it through Tornado Cash within hours — a textbook MEV-operator exit and a reminder that the bots eating Ethereum's mempool aren't…
The 30% exposure of AlphaUSDC Delta V2 to the frozen market turns a single collateral venue's liquidity crisis into a broader DeFi contagion test, with $8M in USDC already deployed and a…
Encrypted balances hid the shortfall for a week — the real cost is the absent monitoring layer and a $770K recovery window Axelar has declined to act on.
If basic smart contract reviews drop from weeks-long engagements to on-demand calls, the standard of care shifts too — and skipping one could read as negligence.
The yes-or-no contracts won't be event-style like Kalshi or Polymarket, but they slot a top US brokerage directly into the same wagering lane — and signal TradFi is comfortable moving closer to…
Selig's Bankless remarks signal Washington may rewrite decades-old exchange rules to let 24/7 on-chain derivatives venues register in the US — if investor protections and disclosures are met.
A single auditor report used to certify a DeFi protocol. As AI gets sharper at finding bugs, multi-agent systems that cross-check code are becoming the new floor — not a nice-to-have.
The lawsuit argues perps should be swaps, not futures — and the legal read is that CME has both the procedural and substantive advantage heading into a likely injunction fight.
Chief Counsel Taylor Lindman — a former Chainlink lawyer now inside the SEC's Crypto Task Force — frames tokenized stocks, DeFi protocols, and AI agents as the live edges of the agency's next rule…
Aave still holds 46.5% of the $20.4B outstanding — but the sector has shed $14.9B in active loans since January as leverage drains out of the largest protocols.
Pump.fun's quarterly revenue dropped 36% while Collector Crypt's doubled — same chain, same quarter, opposite trajectories, and CARDS is now the liquid proxy traders are reaching for.
The first major US broker-led entry into event-based trading sidesteps political and sports contracts — a regulatory and reputational hedge that may shape how TradFi giants enter the space.
TVL down 11% QoQ yet still $38B, DEX volume off 24%, but tokenized commodities jumped 60% — Citi flags record derivatives trading against spot ETF flows that haven't caught up.
STRC and SATA sold off as leverage liquidations cascaded, and the CEO's own framing — not the dollar move — is the signal that investors should sit with.
A seven-day leaderboard led by Aerodrome (+26.6%) and Kaito (+18.2%) confirms that the growth in project count is now matched by active trading flows, not just registrations.
STRC and SATA both cut roughly 10% from par before rebounding — but the intraday round-trip suggests forced selling from margined carry trades, not a real credit break, with double-digit yields…
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