ETH L2 TVL Hits Two-Year Low as Optimism, Base Lead Drop
Optimistic rollups still dominate the L2 stack, but aggregate TVL is back to early-2023 levels, suggesting capital rotation out of L2s while Ethereum mainnet holds the bid.
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Optimistic rollups still dominate the L2 stack, but aggregate TVL is back to early-2023 levels, suggesting capital rotation out of L2s while Ethereum mainnet holds the bid.
Wall Street veteran reframes crypto's defining contract as plain futures without expiry, arguing ADL and high leverage are exchange choices, not features of the product itself.
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Crypto's two biggest near-term catalysts are slipping: a 36% priced rate-hike probability is double last week's read, and the market-structure bill gets pushed past this week as nominations and…
Svanevik is rebuilding the analytics platform around execution, betting the next leverage cycle belongs to autonomous agents and that the on-chain perp book already looks broader than the sector name…
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Charles Schwab's multivariate model says CLARITY odds explain only 4.3% of BTC's daily moves, suggesting a delayed bill is already priced and only passage itself can spark a real institutional…
If enacted, the framework opens a legal channel for retail crypto trading under Bank of Russia supervision and could pull volumes out of the offshore venues that currently dominate.
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…
The case marks a sharp escalation in SEC enforcement: executives at a crypto exchange are now personally in the regulator's crosshairs for concealing a nine-figure theft from their own users.