Orbs V5 launches as L3 hybrid to cut DeFi gas costs
V5's Committee Sync decentralizes Orbs' execution layer across Ethereum and Arbitrum — the upgrade lands after the protocol cleared $14B in cumulative DEX volume since V4.
V5's Committee Sync decentralizes Orbs' execution layer across Ethereum and Arbitrum — the upgrade lands after the protocol cleared $14B in cumulative DEX volume since V4.
The fee war has now started in HYPE products — and Grayscale's 0.29% undercuts 21Shares' 0.30% and Bitwise's 0.34%, with staking rewards layered in to widen the spread against passive rivals.
TON's +60.7% jump sits on a recent 6x fee cut, while Sui's gas-free stablecoin transfers and Base's rollup momentum did the same work for the runners-up.
A 0.29% sponsor fee beats the 0.30%-0.34% range already on offer from Bitwise and 21Shares — and the launch lands the same week the CFTC opened the door for US-listed perpetual futures.
WSJ profiling lands the same week Hyperliquid's HYPE token crossed a $14B market cap — the platform is now routing weekend BTC, oil, and pre-IPO exposure that CME can't.
FalconX's Joshua Lim says HYPE liquidity now rivals ETH on heavy days — capital is leaving range-bound majors for altcoin vol, pre-IPO perps, and tokenized stocks, with Hyperliquid's $800M 2025…
Block's phased rollout puts USDC in the hands of 15M users on day one and the rest by week's end — a 60M-user distribution pipe that pulls Circle's stablecoin onto Solana, Ethereum, Polygon and…
It's the first US-dollar stablecoin issued by a nationally chartered bank to sit inside a retail banking app — and the next leg is FDIC-insured tokenized deposits plus a Bullish exchange hookup.
SoFi, the $53 billion U.S. national bank, has launched what it claims is the first stablecoin ever issued by a…
The upgrade pushes core exchange functions — matching, margining, liquidation, settlement, risk — down to the protocol layer, letting anyone spin up spot, perps, or outcome markets on shared…
The leg up is driven by $19B in NEAR Intents volume and a celebrity nod from Arthur Hayes, but the June dynamic resharding upgrade is what could turn a 90% monthly run into something structural.
Liquidity has not just rotated between rollups — it has bled out of the segment, with five of six major L2s shedding between 18% and 97.7% of their TVL and bridge hacks adding another $1.83B in…
Santiment's latest GitHub activity rankings for crypto Layer 2 networks put Aztec at the #1 spot, with Starknet and…
Bitwise's NEAR ETP is pulling fresh inflows, Hayes tagged the token as part of crypto's 'holy trinity' of altcoins, and a June resharding upgrade lands as the L1 leans into AI and privacy narratives.
Aave V3 deployed on X Layer roughly a week ago, and the chain's TVL has tripled since — the strongest 30-day inflow among major L2s and a rare triple-digit gain outside a launch window.
Perpetual trading volume on Tron jumped 20.44% over the past week, reaching $1.206 billion — a signal that on-chain…
Zero Network, an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling protocol, has announced it is winding down operations — the latest in a…
Dragonfly led the Series A with Bain Capital Crypto and Coinbase Ventures joining, as Variational pushes past $200B in lifetime volume and launches perpetual futures on gold, silver, copper and WTI…
Syndicate Labs, a crypto infrastructure startup that spent five years building tooling for the rollup ecosystem, is…
The raise backs a thesis most perp DEXs have avoided — sourcing liquidity from real market makers and commodity desks, not just crypto LPs — with Bain Capital Crypto and Coinbase Ventures joining…