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CoinMarketCap's top-100 snapshot at 15:00 UTC on 05 Aug shows a clear split between 04 Aug and 05 Aug: hard-money…
The contraction signals weaker speculative demand, while Murad’s memecoin-only portfolio lost roughly 85%, falling from a $67M peak to around $10M in one year.
A stablecoin and yield-infrastructure cluster quietly gained ground on CoinGecko's top-100 as of 09:00 UTC on 05 Aug…
Three years into RWA tokenization living on slide decks, the world's largest asset manager wired $311 billion of regulated money-market exposure onchain with JPMorgan, dragging institutional cash…
Money market funds are yield-bearing, which makes this a different class of tokenization bet than the holding-only experiments that came before. Ethereum is the chain BlackRock chose to ship at scale.
The 30-day no-liquidation window is the structural concession: standard crypto-backed loans routinely force-sell positions on short-term BTC volatility, and Binance is carving out retail-friendlier…
Sentora's institutional risk signoff, not the dollar figure, is the real milestone: it gives XRP holders their first Ethereum-native borrowing market backed by an underwriter, not just another bridge…
Kalshi still leads the prediction-market space at ~59% of open interest, but its share fell from ~62% as Polymarket quietly climbed to ~41%, fueled by capital rotating out of smaller books.
The team is winding down its native chain but keeping the DeFi Kingdoms brand alive while it scouts a new home, leaving the JEWEL, xJEWEL and other native assets in limbo.
Deribit just settled $9.6B in monthly options, leaving Bitcoin's next downside magnet at the $60,000 strike, less than 5% below the weekend's open, with ETF flows sidelined until Monday.
Batch and Permission Delegation return with bug fixes after being pulled for critical flaws; the upgrade also ships Confidential MPT, Sponsored Fees, and Dynamic MPT to court institutional…
While CoinGecko's top 10 sat frozen between the 31 Jul and 01 Aug 09:00 UTC snapshots, the DeFi blue-chip band…
The $46M in ETH staking revenue was the entire cushion. After losing roughly $8.2B on the treasury below cost, the AI-data-center pivot now sits behind a collateral wall of forced ETH sales.
The cull reframes Aave's chain-expansion playbook: V3 deployment isn't free real estate anymore, and the threshold for staying live on a network is now quarterly revenue, not launch-day optics.
Bernstein backs the long-term strategy while flagging weak execution in newer lines; Mizuho flags Robinhood as the rising mainstream venue for retail crypto trading.
Perps dominate with $200B+ daily volume and brutal margin efficiency, but funding-rate exposure and exchange insurance-fund blowups remain the hidden costs traders say most users underprice.
A watchlist of testnet, points, and retroactive campaigns currently open for drophunters who want to lock in activity before future token allocations close.
The headline number is volume, but the read is composition: prediction markets are absorbing a year-round sports calendar now, not just isolated tournament weeks.
For a DEX best known as a swap venue, moving into lending is the bigger story: it turns Uniswap into a place to park assets, not just route them, and routes that flow straight through Morpho's vaults.
Supply pressure stacks across mid-cap alts, with one $641M cliff-event dwarfing the rest and setting up textbook dilution risk into thin books.
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