Layer-2 rollups, data-availability layers, sidechains, and throughput milestones.
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…
Coinbase's stablecoin-as-a-service play lands its first paying customer, putting the exchange in direct competition with Paxos, Stripe's Bridge, and Anchorage for branded token issuance.
The total real-world asset (RWA) tokenization market has crossed $38 billion, according to fresh data from Token…
L2Beat rebuilt the Lighter L2 proof stack from source — including its L1 verifier — so users can withdraw even if the sequencer goes dark or turns hostile.
The share move from 2.9% to 8.0% looks small in absolute terms, but it was carved almost entirely out of spot — a structural re-routing of retail flow onchain, not a CEX bleed.
The headline figure is the year-to-date growth — RWA market cap is up ~44% since January, with stickier-than-typical liquidity turning the chain-share race into a multi-year positioning battle for…
Ostium's institutional-grade data link comes as equity perps have already carved out 20% of the $75B RWA perps market — and signals Nasdaq is building a deliberate onchain strategy, not a one-off bet.
The deal closes one month after South Korea's Digital Asset Basic Act proposal and locks in joint work on a won-pegged stablecoin, blockchain remittances and tokenized securities between a top-five…
Four products including Kraken Bitcoin have already swapped LayerZero cross-chain rails in the wake of the Kelp DAO attack, and a $2.57B combined TVL is the real signal of how much weight is moving.
The bridging capital model turns the slow primary-market redemption window into a near-instant secondary exit, with LPs earning receipt tokens on the spread between primary and secondary pricing.
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