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The proposal is the cleanest cut Aave has made in years: a single governance vote retires 50 low-adoption assets, 21 matured Pendle PTs, and six chain deployments in one stroke.
Prices barely moved on the day, yet roughly 90,000 traders got cleared: leverage underneath flat tape tells you positioning was the trade, not direction.
If the contracts weren't touched, the question is how the keys, servers, or operational layer were, and whether LP recovery hinges on a counterparty the protocol doesn't control.
Event contracts pulled $156M versus $100M from crypto trading, a 38% YoY slide in token revenue, while overall net income climbed 48% to $573M.
The mechanic only fires after a token bonds, so the lift is behavioural, not structural — and it tells you something about how Solana memecoin creators price the path to Raydium.
Perps volume is migrating to chains built for speed, but Ethereum's deeper bet is becoming the settlement and collateral layer that backs them.
When a top-tier US bank starts calling the death of banker hours, the signal isn't crypto-native, it's an institutional one: tokenized funds, stocks and ETFs are pulling mainstream investors onto…
A burn-and-mint model extends Circle's CCTP playbook to any participating issuer, betting that pre-funded liquidity pools cannot keep up with 350+ tokens and 30+ chains.
A snapshot of eight marquee VC-backed protocols returns a stark ratio: $6.3B in cumulative funding against roughly $471K in annualized revenue, a 13,000-year payback on current run rate.
Bullish's Chris Tyrer and Tram Doman argue the systemic-risk fear is real, but it is born from how a venue handles defaults under stress, not from the no-expiry contract itself.
Volume hit a record while revenue dropped 30% quarter-over-quarter, a split that reads as growing platform utility outpacing monetization, not shrinking demand.
BNY is shifting core ownership record-keeping for one of Wall Street's largest back-office functions onto chain, with BlackRock, Baillie Gifford and Dreyfus lined up as launch clients.
The incentive layer pairs with a registry model that lets LPs deploy once and price across fragmented pools, with BNB Chain as the first co-incentive partner.
The speed of the ramp, not the absolute number, is the signal: brand and distribution are starting to out-weigh network specs as the moat for new L1s and L2s.
The Uniswap founder is pushing back on the read that protocol-level fees cut into LP earnings, arguing the math is additive, not subtractive, and that LP share per swap is unchanged.
A 54-point collapse from the February peak of 82% captures how the legislative calendar has slipped past three promised windows, leaving market-structure clarity for crypto squarely in a slow-motion…
Gold perps alone peaked at $7.77B in daily volume on Binance; the new European-style options, settled in USDT through ADGM-regulated Nest Exchange, layer on top of that demand with retail capped at…
Audiera's BEAT posted the largest single-session rank gain on CoinGecko's top-100 between 28 Jul and 29 Jul at 09:00…
The bipartisan letter lands while the CFTC weighs whether event-contract venues like Kalshi and Polymarket fall under federal jurisdiction, a fight state regulators say belongs to them, not…
Brian Smith of the Jito Foundation argues perps are the on-ramp for trillions of dollars of TradFi flow, and that Solana is losing the gateway race to Hyperliquid despite shipping the better…
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