Bitcoin L2s face reality check as Botanix shuts down
Botanix's shutdown is a single datapoint, but the TVL gap — Ethereum near $39B versus Bitcoin onchain DeFi under $5B — frames what the rest of the L2 sector is now openly admitting.
Botanix's shutdown is a single datapoint, but the TVL gap — Ethereum near $39B versus Bitcoin onchain DeFi under $5B — frames what the rest of the L2 sector is now openly admitting.
More than 50,000 Club World Cup tickets have already shipped with onchain rights, and secondary-market turnover has crossed $15M — a rare real-world deployment that Ava Labs and FIFA are trying to…
Squid has integrated Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin into its cross-chain routing layer, letting users swap into and out of…
Spot ETH has reclaimed $1,700 and is pressing $1,800, but the long-term moving average overhead and a thinning of one of its loudest bid sources are keeping the rebound in check.
Backpack has put a tokenized version of SpaceX on its Solana-based trading platform, billing the move as the biggest…
Exodus and Ondo Finance have jointly launched a tokenized markets platform on Solana, giving users access to more than…
Consensys CEO Joseph Lubin frames the ZK pivot as the unlock for ETH at $10,000, arguing scaling the base layer is the precondition for everything else Ethereum wants to be.
Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin has put a concrete timeline on one of the network's most ambitious long-term goals: a…
The bounce is mechanical, not structural: SOL is still 11% under its 20-day EMA with all major moving averages pointing down, and ETF outflows keep the bearish tilt alive until flows reverse.
A top-tier VCs Bitcoin L2 couldn't cover infra costs — its own framing of the shutdown is a candid read on where BTC DeFi liquidity actually sits in 2026.
182 days after QT ended, the OTHERS/BTC chart sits at a long-term trendline with its 20-week moving average crossing above the 50-week — the same setup that preceded the 2020 altcoin breakout.
The $13B synthetic BTC market is a small slice of bitcoin's $1.25T float, but Circle is pitching institutional trust built on USDC's $75B footprint — directly at Coinbase's cbBTC.
cirBTC lands as a fully reserved, Circle-issued wrapped Bitcoin — a direct competitor to WBTC and the first on-chain asset beyond USDC on Circle's stack before Arc Network goes live.
A JPMorgan, BofA and Citigroup-led push through The Clearing House targets 24/7 onchain bank money by H1 2027 — a direct bid to keep deposits from migrating to USDC and USDT.
Spinning out of GMX's Solana branch was the easy part — running nearly 90 perpetuals markets on pooled liquidity, with Chainlink oracles and an RWA pipeline, is the actual bet.
Ether.fi has allocated $100 million to a Plume Network real-world asset vault, opening a new yield channel for its…
A wallet identified by the address prefix 0x293a, inactive for three years, received 10,000 ETH roughly an hour ago and…
Base and Arbitrum now hold more than 80% of L2 DeFi TVL, while smaller chains like Linea, Starknet and Mantle watch bridge deposits slide — operators say the winners will be chains tied to a real…
Blockchain security platform Immunefi reports that DeFi exploit losses have fallen 74% from their 2022 peak, marking…
The market-cap gap is still ~38x in Solana's favor, but HYPE's perps volume and fee capture have structurally outgrown what a pure L1 should be earning on-chain.