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A roughly 83x monthly jump, peaking at $5.6B on June 22, shows sports catalysts can pull retail capital into event contracts faster than any other category this cycle.
Kalshi alone grew 87% MoM to $31.5B, and the World Cup is pulling the second-highest prediction-market month on record after the 2024 US election cycle.
The EU perps launch is the headline, but the layered product rollout across lending, AI trade execution, tokenized equities and a proprietary L2 points to a broker that is rebuilding itself as a…
Allied with Visa, Mastercard and Coinbase, the 140-firm Open USD coalition is targeting USDC's incumbent liquidity, but network effects, not roster depth, decide the winner.
The BitMEX co-founder argues real DeFi needs no permission. He frames the Clarity Act debate as a referendum on whether the industry is still building for the world, or just for Wall Street.
If the structure holds, it lets stablecoin platforms keep paying users without handing banks the passive-rewards carve-out Congress is now negotiating.
An Arbitrum-based L2 from a US retail giant flips the switch with Uniswap live day one, while 24/7 stock tokens, Robinhood Earn, and crypto agentic accounts queue up behind it.
The brokerage-to-DeFi leap is the bigger read than any single product: a Wall Street brand is now shipping its own L2 plus a 7% lending yield, and HOOD jumped 5% on the day.
The Türkiye-based platform is reframing itself as a multi-product investment app, layering DEX perpetuals and prediction markets on top of its CEX license.
Seven unlocks dominate the month, with RAIN alone worth $785M. If even a slice hits the open market, July is a structurally heavy tape for the named names and their segments.
The escrow refill is a routine scheduled release from Ripple's December 2017 cryptographic escrow, not a market-moving event, but it does reset the monthly unlock clock for traders who model XRP…
The monthly escrow lock is procedural, not new supply: 300M XRP returns to the program that releases 1B a month and reinvests unallocated tokens.
A wallet-native prediction market sidesteps the friction of opening a separate account, while Chainlink's oracle layer lets World resolve markets and pay out within the same session rather than…
Wall Street bank maps the current drawdown against three prior BTC cycles and lands on late October as the historical analog for a low; the value-accrual filter on what comes next is the part…
The EU's MiCA framework takes effect July 1, and OKX is putting its global managing partner on camera to explain what stablecoin issuers and exchanges actually have to do to stay compliant.
The bank is calling Morpho a dual-play on DeFi lending and onchain banking infrastructure, with a 37x DeFi expansion by 2030 underwriting the bid for roughly 33x upside on MORPHO.
The $403K bad debt was small, but the failure mode is one DeFi can't stop hitting: manipulating a protocol's view of a price rather than the price itself, this time through a tokenized Google share.
A $60 forecast from a top-tier bank is the rare TradFi-issued price target on a DeFi lending protocol, and a meaningful legitimizing signal for Morpho Vaults as the venue eyes deeper institutional…
Swartz's merchant-bank model pairs liquid yield strategies with active protocol incubation across Ethereum, Canton, Solana, and StarkNet, a structure the institutional RWA market has been missing.
The reveal matters less for the product itself than for what it shows about Phantom's distribution play: a Phantom-native venue using Chainlink oracles and Phantom's own CASH stablecoin shows the…
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