Base ecosystem hits 745 projects, $125B market cap milestone
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.
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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…
The intraday cascade in both preferreds looked like a solvency event, but Cole frames it as forced selling from leveraged holders — and credits strong intraday buying at the lows for the recovery.
Deribit flow into out-of-the-money puts hit strikes from $61,500 to $52,000 over a 48-hour window — a hedge trade that also reads as a directional bet while a hawkish Fed, persistent ETF outflows and…
The pitch to bankers comes six weeks after a $1B Series F at a $22B valuation, with annualized revenue doubling since March and May monthly volume hitting $16.8B — even as state-level lawsuits pile…
The $30M annual core-dev bill is colliding with EF spending cuts and the expiry of the Client Incentive Program — a structural gap, not a quarterly blip.
The batch includes PAXG, OSMO, LDO, and AMP alongside DeFi and infrastructure names — broad, multi-sector exposure for Korea's deepest liquidity venue.
The setup the consensus is ignoring — Grayscale's framing of the Clarity Act, Morgan Stanley's spot ETH and SOL ETF amendments, and a macro stack (PMI, copper/gold, Russell 2000) quietly aligning the…
The fee beats Grayscale's 0.15% Mini ETH Trust and Franklin Templeton's 0.19% SOEZ, and the staking-enabled structure — with Figment, Galaxy, and Coinbase Canada as providers — mirrors the playbook…
Above $100, the instrument funds bitcoin buys; below it, the ATM goes quiet and the company defends the dividend instead — a structural signal on the cost of leverage in the Strategy flywheel.
ERCOT's new "Batch Zero" process tackles a 438,000 MW connection queue — and a handful of Texas-campused miners are already positioned to absorb the wave, with stock moves and signed hyperscaler…
A $300M-valuation startup pitching joint CFTC-SEC oversight for single-name equity perps arrives just as the agencies are harmonizing their rules and CME is suing over the very approvals that would…
The order lands as Mashinsky already serves 12 years for fraud — the lifetime ban and registration strip are the regulatory bookend, not a fresh sentence.
Fairshake deployed its largest single-race outlay yet — over $10M — to help Trump-endorsed Rep. Barry Moore win the Alabama GOP Senate primary, part of a $193M war chest the crypto PAC is wielding…
The $2B-a-month Base-native venue is using the offshore perp trajectory as its strategic compass — a fragmented market of coexisting venues arbitraged by the same pro desks, not a winner-take-all…
The Consensys founder frames the next leg as institutional — Wall Street capital meets AI-driven on-chain agents, with a warning not to trust those agents with real money yet.
The trades land a day after Coinbase launched tokenized U.S. equities and rolled out an AI advisor — moves Benchmark calls a step from crypto venue to broader onchain financial infrastructure.
The payoff cleaned up the capital stack but cut preferred-stock dividend runway by two-thirds — and a debt-free competitor paying daily dividends now sits next door as the cleaner trade.
The 0.2% Digital Asset Tax Act takes effect January 2027 and targets crypto brokers in a way no other state taxes stocks or bonds — industry lawyers say it will trigger geoblocking and capital flight.
Katana CEO Matt Fisher argues the next phase of DeFi lending isn't about pulling users on-chain — it's about making the protocol layer invisible inside cards, apps, and exchanges that already own the…