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Dragonfly led the Series A with Bain Capital Crypto and Coinbase Ventures joining, as Variational pushes past $200B in lifetime volume and launches perpetual futures on gold, silver, copper and WTI…
The CEX duo still dominates volumes, but the share of perpetual futures open interest sitting on DEXs has nearly quadrupled since early 2025 — a structural shift in where leverage now lives.
The HYPE token jumped 20% to $58.60 on the day Hyperliquid's fully diluted valuation passed Solana's — a crossover built on $12.6M weekly protocol fees, not narrative.
Two on-chain moves in 48 hours — a Galaxy-linked wallet buying $8.8M and a fresh address pulling $29.87M off Coinbase — point to accumulation rather than distribution.
The raise backs a thesis most perp DEXs have avoided — sourcing liquidity from real market makers and commodity desks, not just crypto LPs — with Bain Capital Crypto and Coinbase Ventures joining…
Variational, an Arbitrum-based derivatives venue, has closed a $50 million Series A round led by Dragonfly Capital…
The total real-world asset (RWA) tokenization market has crossed $38 billion, according to fresh data from Token…
L2Beat rebuilt the Lighter L2 proof stack from source — including its L1 verifier — so users can withdraw even if the sequencer goes dark or turns hostile.
The integration removes the usual bridge-and-wrap step that kept idle XRP off-chain: cold-storage holders can now sign twice on the XRPL and route straight into on-chain yield.
An Ethereum user paid 89 ETH, equivalent to roughly $190,530, in transaction fees for a single on-chain operation. The…
The share move from 2.9% to 8.0% looks small in absolute terms, but it was carved almost entirely out of spot — a structural re-routing of retail flow onchain, not a CEX bleed.
A pair of crypto wallets opened coordinated 10x leveraged long positions on $PEPE at the same time, accumulating a…
On-chain data from HypurrScan shows whale address 0xde42 sold 50,000 $HYPE tokens worth approximately $2.41 million…
The market maker's first serious DeFi product lands in a curator-architecture lane already crowded by Morpho and Steakhouse — but Wintermute's OTC balance sheet is a distribution angle neither can…
The headline is a 24-hour $5.78B print and a fresh weekly record — but the real story is that Solana's perps stack is now absorbing flow at a scale that puts it in the same conversation as…
The bill's headline digital-asset market structure looks set to clear, but the DeFi provisions were rewritten hours before the vote — and the industry is still parsing what that means.
The launch turns non-custodial, no-identity-check token swaps into a five-endpoint Bearer-auth REST integration — and lets every partner keep 0–4% of the spread as USDT.
A compromised admin key let the attacker mint 1,000 unauthorised eBTC and launder proceeds through Tornado Cash — the latest in a string of mega-exploits now totaling hundreds of millions across DeFi.
Ostium's institutional-grade data link comes as equity perps have already carved out 20% of the $75B RWA perps market — and signals Nasdaq is building a deliberate onchain strategy, not a one-off bet.
The integration turns Tempo from a payments rail into a full-stack finance platform — letting corporates park idle stablecoin balances in curated lending markets without leaving the network.
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