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The weekend tape was orderly on the DEX layer, but Coinbase's onchain clock now runs continuously while the underlying equities still settle on business days.
The carry channel had been shut since February; the funding rebound is reopening the cleanest market-neutral yield in crypto, with hedge funds on CME now flipping net long as the directional overlay…
Borrowers keep BTC price exposure but give up day-to-day control, and a forced sale after delinquency triggers a taxable event while the down-payment lender holds a second lien on the home.
Two prediction-market insider settlements in two months, both generated by Kalshi referrals, and the second lands the same week the Ninth Circuit knocked Kalshi back in its Nevada preemption fight.
The number matters less than its staying power: persistent deposits and activity would turn a fast inflow into a durable adoption signal.
The Bank for International Settlements is putting its institutional weight behind tokenized bank deposits as the legitimate on-chain money rail, signalling a sovereign ceiling for stablecoins.
The real bottleneck holding back institutional RWA flow is T+1 redemption, not demand; protocols that collapse settlement cycles into a single auction are already shifting the constraint from…
Coming from a former BitMEX CEO with a track record of calling cyclical turning points, the call could pull flow back into ETH while cooling late-stage Hyperliquid momentum.
Most of the $6.4B in open interest was written against a sub-$70K backdrop before the 20% rally, so the post-expiry positioning distribution is what traders will read next.
Combined with buying out early sellers and ending monthly investor unlocks, the proposal compresses ENA's supply overhang and gives holders a direct claim on USDe revenue.
DFDV is positioning itself as the cleanest equity vehicle for leveraged SOL exposure, and traders are buying in: shares jumped 12% on the buy, outpacing SOL itself over the past month.
Tokenized-equity perp volume grew from $85B in January to $470B by June. Bybit's options layer hands retail the same 24/7 toolkit Wall Street gets only nine hours a day.
The pivot widens Ethena's collateral universe from $2.5T of crypto to $120T of equities, but the test is whether USDe can rebuild to the $7.5B threshold for ENA buybacks before the new trade gets…
An opposing April ruling involving New Jersey leaves federal courts divided, raising the prospect that the Supreme Court will decide who can regulate event contracts.
Security firms linked the suspected drain to illiquid MAMO collateral manipulation, with WELL down around 13% and MAMO off roughly 9%.
South Korea's Mirae Asset is putting 1,500 trillion won in client assets behind a four-pillar push into crypto, stablecoins, real-world assets and security tokens, with profitability targeted by 2027.
Stripping 10,000 lines of unused bridge code is housekeeping; the AI-only audit on lending V1.1 stress-tests whether specialised models can replace human reviewers.
Forward guidance is out, so every CPI and labour print between now and the September decision now reprices Bitcoin on its own, with no Fed hand-holding to soften the move.
Open interest on XRP keeps climbing 14.8% even as Binance taker volume prints -$96M, meaning fresh positions are arriving but picking the short side against the two-week rally.
A Trump nod to bring Hyperliquid onshore in compliance adds a regulatory tailwind on top of the doubled 29.3M HYPE stash.
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