Zapper Shuts Down After 7 Years of DeFi Tracking
Zapper joins Nifty Gateway, Leap, and Botanix in a 2025-2026 wave of crypto shutdowns; the orderly wind-down lands Aug. 3, removing a portfolio tracker that once served 2M monthly users.
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Zapper joins Nifty Gateway, Leap, and Botanix in a 2025-2026 wave of crypto shutdowns; the orderly wind-down lands Aug. 3, removing a portfolio tracker that once served 2M monthly users.
The throughput target is a stated moonshot, but the near-term story is the price slippage: BNB trades at 2024 lows while the chain reorients its roadmap toward AI workloads.
The fine is half the story. The 24/7 live support mandate and a ban on future safety claims reshape how Cash App can market itself to the unbanked users it was built for.
A short, directionless remark from Musk, but one that lands as a read on the broader AI cycle from the operator shaping much of the infrastructure build-out behind it.
The release lands weeks after the Grok 4 launch and signals Musk's intent to keep a faster release cadence than the lab's bigger competitors, with the model positioned for both consumer X users and…
The alert suggests the monitor overseeing Binance's $4.3B plea deal is over, which would let the exchange stop sharing documents without breaching the agreement.
The card lets users either spend digital assets directly or borrow against them without selling, landing in a market where crypto's role as a hedge against peso volatility keeps deepening.
The proposed Perpetuals.com deal would unwind most of the operating business that bought $750M of WLFI tokens earlier this year, after shares collapsed 90% and the family's token exposure fueled a…
The crypto-native firm's fourth vehicle doubles as the clearest signal yet that top crypto VCs are now operating as generalist frontier-tech funds, with Framework and Haun making the same pivot.
A sitting CFTC chairman publicly drawing a hard line against a US central bank digital currency is the sharpest policy signal yet that the federal pivot is permanent, not partisan.
The push pairs influencer deals, MLB and CNN/CNBC partnerships, and a CFTC-supervised sports app, betting that mainstream visibility can offset a 2020 settlement and a 2024 CEO home raid.
A 14-day run of net selling from the largest spot BTC ETF issuer just broke, and the flip is the real story: the largest institutional bid on the tape is back online, not the size of the two-day haul.
The $5.4B YTD ETF outflow was concentrated in a six-week MSTR-driven flush, not a structural exit, and 45% of long-term holder supply already sits at a loss, a level associated with prior cycle…
The Common Supervisory Action gives national regulators a shared template to grade CASPs on operational resilience, putting custody governance, key management, and incident response under coordinated…
The launch reframes one of crypto's largest native VCs as a frontier-tech firm with crypto as one vertical, not the only one. Watch the overlap thesis next.
The flow tells two stories at once: stronger miners are borrowing against their coins to fund AI buildouts, while stressed peers are forced sellers.
The governing-group exit is more consequential than the dollar figure: one of Cardano's three founding entities is stepping away from the coalition designed to coordinate treasury-funded…
Tokenization specialists Dinari and tZERO are bundling issuance, custody, clearing and settlement into one regulated stack, betting broker-dealers will move first on blockchain-based stocks.
A purpose-built chain for AI agents settling trades in under 50ms positions BNB to compete in the onchain-AI race where latency, not throughput, is the product.
The pitch is unflattering to single-model stacks: when every task has a different optimal model, the value migrates from the model to the layer that picks it.