Crypto Airdrops Hit $85B: User-Acquisition Playbook Reshaped
Hyperliquid alone carries 28% of total airdrop value, and 2024 alone delivered $49.6B, proof that token drops now rival venture funding as a go-to-market lever.
Sector-wide market analysis: dominance, liquidity, on-chain flows, whale activity, and exchange in/outflows.
Hyperliquid alone carries 28% of total airdrop value, and 2024 alone delivered $49.6B, proof that token drops now rival venture funding as a go-to-market lever.
The crypto industry's biggest campaign-finance war chest is deployed, and the read on whether it shifts the regulatory floor matters more than the dollar number itself.
The put-to-call ratio fell to 0.52 from 0.76 in a month, even as HSBC calls Wednesday's Fed outcome the least certain in four years and large call strikes sit exposed at expiry.
BTC stability below the June $58K selloff floor has not lifted the rest of the market: 47 Nasdaq 100 stocks trade above their 50-day averages, while only 29 of the top 100 coins do, even with the…
Only 150 unique VCs wrote checks in July, an all-time low outside the 2020 trough. Capital isn't leaving crypto; it's consolidating into fewer, more selective funds.
The setup would be the first cycle-level confirmation out of the 2022 bear, but the right shoulder is still incomplete and a lower-high rejection remains the live alternative.
A wave of venture-funded Web3 companies is running out of runway while tokenization, custody, and settlement infrastructure migrate into the same banks that once watched from the sidelines.
The setup is symmetrical: $1.05 support below, $1.10 to $1.20 resistance above, and a spot ETF decision that could break either side of the range into a sharp move.
South Korea's eighth trading halt of 2026, an 8% KOSPI drop led by semis, dragged Bitcoin under $64K for the third time this week and put roughly $100M of leveraged crypto positions into the bid in a…
On-chain tokenization capitalization hit $32.2B on July 24, up 12.3% since the start of the month and past its prior April peak, putting the narrative ahead of every other major sector.
BitMEX invented the perpetual swap. The venue that made that product is closing in September while spot volumes hit a 25-month low, and analysts say only well-capitalised, MiCA-ready venues will…
Compared with 09:00 UTC on 27 Jul, CoinGecko's top-10 membership was unchanged as of 09:00 UTC on 28 Jul. Lower ranks…
A federal court just told a state it can't ban what the CFTC already regulates, handing Kalshi and Polymarket a structural win that other states are watching closely.
James argues the federal bill, as drafted, would preempt New York's BitLicense regime and hand oversight to the SEC and CFTC, leaving consumers with weaker guardrails than current state law provides.
The preliminary injunction runs until a final merits ruling and leans on federal preemption under the Commodity Exchange Act, putting every other state considering similar bans on notice.
The league wants event-contract language narrowed so any market that mirrors traditional sports betting falls under gambling rules instead of CFTC oversight.
The AI model pegs a $64,500 base, a $140K–$180K central case, and a $200K–$250K ceiling if institutional demand accelerates, with $60K as the hard line that would require real macro tightening to…
GOP plans to force the vote even without the seven Democratic votes needed for 60, betting a public 'no' is more useful than another delay while Bitcoin and Ethereum keep building regardless.
Bitwise data shows on-chain activity up and gas costs down across ETH, SOL and AVAX, even as each token sits more than 50% below its year-ago price.
The target still implies roughly 275% upside from a Buy rating, so the cut is a recalibration, not a downgrade; refinancing $105M of debt through 2027 at lower rates reshapes the bull case.