Decentralized finance — DEXs, lending, yield strategies, on-chain derivatives, and tokenized real-world assets.
The test is whether a bankruptcy-remote SPV, qualified custody, and first-loss retention can give institutional capital a reason to underwrite crypto-collateralized loans at scale.
Three straight quarters of decline have now wiped out 56% of liquid staking's peak capital, signaling a deeper DeFi liquidity drain rather than a routine cooldown.
Eleven of the index's 20 constituents traded green in the latest session, with AAVE and SOL setting the pace while ETH and NEAR lagged.
The firm's fourth fund doubles down on its crypto roots while formally broadening into AI and robotics, a signal that top-tier venture capital still sees crypto-native deal flow as a viable anchor…
Borrowing against tokenized gold without selling the underlying ounce mirrors BTC-collateralized lending and turns XAUT into a productive, not just store-of-value, asset.
Kalshi alone holds $1.2B of the total, a 91.9% monthly jump, as the FIFA tournament pulls retail and event-driven flow into a category still finding its legs.
Twelve of the 15 protocols Grayscale tracks trade at single-digit revenue multiples. Clearer market-structure rules could pull banks and asset managers onto public chains, and that revaluation case…
A week of project-level pivots across L2s, perps, and prediction markets, headlined by Sophon's Base migration and Berachain's BGT fork.
BSC took DEX flow, Tron took stablecoins, Bitcoin took collateral, Base took L2 activity, and Hyperliquid took perps. Ethereum's dominance is being chipped away, market by market.
Backed by BlackRock and Coinbase, Securitize lands on Wall Street as Standard Chartered projects tokenized assets will hit $2.7T by 2030.
The refund pledge buys goodwill, but a third-party vendor breach, repeated phishing incidents, and a federal marketing investigation now converge on the prediction market at the same time.
As of 09:00 UTC on 27 Jun, CoinGecko's top-100 delivered a sharp internal contradiction: DeFi lending blue-chip AAVE…
Nearly $30B is tokenized, yet only $2.47B sits inside DeFi, and the share of users chasing Pokemon and baseball cards is climbing fast.
The UK becomes the first major Western market to let regulated investment funds natively issue and track ownership on public chains, a structural shift the rest of European asset management will now…
A single-account swing across two long-shot soccer outcomes turned roughly $9.5M in stake into an $8.47M one-day PnL on Polymarket's sports markets.
The wallet was seven days old and held a single position: a 1x leveraged short on 139.58M $ESPORTS that turned a $3.9M deposit into a $5.6M unrealised gain.
The injected code sat on the site frontend rather than in Polymarket's core contracts, but the read for prediction markets is harder: vendor risk now sits inside the user-trust boundary, not outside…
Two fresh large-wallet withdrawals from Coinbase Prime and FalconX landed in the same hour, a buy-the-dip signal worth more than the headline price drop suggests.
A $60M-raised ZK L2 folding its native chain to live as a product studio on Base signals the infrastructure layer is consolidating and the application layer is where new teams are now spending.
Payward (Kraken's parent) is reportedly circling a 15% stake at a $385M valuation. Kulechov's rejection reframes the fight: Aave's founder wants M&A offers benchmarked to AAVE's FDV, not its…
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