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CryptoQuant's Ki Young Ju flags a structural shift: gold, oil and equity contracts now outpace most altcoins on Binance's USDT-margined book, turning crypto venues into RWA rails.
The Continuous Clearing Auction format is the real story under the hood: uniform clearing price across blocks is built to defuse bot sniping, not just to ship a launch UI.
The bounce off $59K is real, but funding rates have flipped negative and put-call skew shows a 25-point premium for downside protection. Bears are driving price action, not bulls.
The social analytics platform extends beyond Web3 to score AI creators on content, distribution, and topic reach, signalling a broader convergence of Web3 and AI influence metrics.
The structure is a revolving USDC line that lives entirely onchain, with Maple's lenders backing the credit and Kraken routing OTC borrowers into it.
MemeCore (M) shed 38 ranks on CoinGecko's top-100 between 24 Jun and 25 Jun at 09:00 UTC, sliding from rank 28 to 66 on…
A fresh wallet, no history, no obvious label: the kind of address that usually means accumulation rather than rotation, and the size lines up with quiet institutional accumulation rather than retail…
The popular theory that spot gravitates to the strike where options buyers lose the most is failing in real time, with BTC stuck near $61,700 against a $72,000 max pain target on Friday's record…
Hyperliquid's SPCX perps let traders price a private-market thesis with crypto leverage, and over $50M in liquidations shows the speculative capital is real even before any SEC filing exists.
The platform's public leverage tape lets anyone watch high-conviction blow-ups in real time, and the cascade is starting to drive its own short-term setups.
Kalshi and Polymarket already cleared a category worth $130B+ in annual volume; Meta's edge is 3.56 billion daily users, yet its Reality Labs burn and Libra collapse mean the same scale that makes…
The jump from $22B to a reported $40B in a single funding cycle reflects prediction markets' shift from niche crypto rails to a sports-betting volume machine that has nearly 4x'd year-over-year.
A successful Q3 close would push Kalshi's valuation lead over crypto-native Polymarket to roughly 2.7x, while CEO Tarek Mansour floats an IPO no earlier than 2027.
The split is structural, not a lull: Solana's Leader schedule can't guarantee cancellations ahead of fills, so market makers widen perps while spot spreads tighten to near-CEX levels.
A stealth API layer sits between fintechs and DeFi protocols, letting wallets and asset managers offer yield products without building their own onchain plumbing.
The raise pairs a TradFi heavyweight with a crypto-native lead, and lands at the exact moment institutional capital needs clean onchain data to deploy.
The survey lands as Congress weighs the Predicting Our Predictions Act and Kalshi/Polymarket battle state-by-state over which platforms stay live.
Kalshi's first billion-dollar open interest print arrived the same week Polymarket's World Cup-driven volume tripled, a signal that event-contract retail demand is now flowing through both regulated…
The raise, led by Kraken's parent, lands as prediction markets are being repriced on the back of Kalshi's $22B valuation and a flood of sports-betting liquidity into the segment.
A $3,500 target by 2030 puts the bank in the bullish corner of DeFi, but the real driver is a $2.7T thesis that tokenized RWAs and stablecoins rewire credit markets.
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