Perp DEX volume falls 23% in Q2 to $1.83T
The second consecutive quarterly decline leaves volume at half the Q4 2025 peak, with Hyperliquid still anchoring the sector at $620B despite the slowdown.
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The second consecutive quarterly decline leaves volume at half the Q4 2025 peak, with Hyperliquid still anchoring the sector at $620B despite the slowdown.
The pitch is unflattering to single-model stacks: when every task has a different optimal model, the value migrates from the model to the layer that picks it.
The bitcoin-treasury vehicle backed by Blockstream's CEO is renegotiating its merger with Cantor Equity Partners and dropping the $1.5B PIPE, another reminder that the SPAC-era BTC treasury playbook…
Net short positions near 138,000 contracts put yen weakness at multi-decade extremes, a structural FX dislocation that has historically pulled Japanese retail toward hard assets and crypto, with…
A single job posting at Vanguard is a strategic signal: the $8T-plus retail platform hasn't offered crypto on its platform, and a dedicated headcount is the first operational step toward adviser-led…
The Jayhawks partnership is the first major-collegiate test of the NCAA's August corporate-logo rule, and Ripple is using it to relitigate the post-SEC narrative around XRP in front of a built-in fan…
The new chain will run alongside the existing BNB ecosystem rather than replace it, betting that execution-layer rewrites and a mempool-less design can close the gap to centralized exchange speeds…
The asset class is still a rounding error against TradFi, but the compounding rate is now the story: five onchain categories are pulling real capital migration.
The new policy lands on August 1, 2026, and adds real-money prediction markets to a prohibited-products list that also tightens privacy and data-collection rules for every Chrome extension developer.
A second L1 targeting sub-50ms preconfs, no public mempool, and 100K+ TPS reframes BNB Chain as a venue built for AI agents, not just human traders.
Only the third BTC sale in Strategy's history, and the first that meaningfully tests whether management will offload bitcoin to defend dollar liquidity rather than simply topline MSTR's stack.
A $1.5B debt repayment has hollowed out Strategy's reserve just as preferred dividends climb, forcing common shareholders to absorb the burden the paper was supposed to carry.
The successor L1 pairs throughput targets already common in alt-L1 marketing with a sub-50ms preconfirmation window, a UX-focused guarantee that cuts the perceived wait for a swap or a transfer to a…
Three years of U.S. trade-secret litigation ends not on the merits but on a 5.98 million-pound London arbitration award Citadel says it cannot collect.
After June's IPO revealed a near-doubling of SpaceX's BTC stack, onchain trackers are reading tiny internal transfers as housekeeping, not a sale signal.
The treasury build mirrors MicroStrategy's early accumulation cadence, but the headline metric is the 52% Q1 mining margin: high enough to keep adding through drawdowns without selling.
The signal is policy priority at the highest level, not new funding. Xi tying his agenda directly to AI and semiconductors reframes the next five years of US-China tech competition.
Less than a year after Ripple paid $200M for Rail, its highest-profile enterprise client walks, removing USDC, USDT, DAI and ETH and reverting to ACH and wire.
Political prediction markets hit $5.7B in Q2 2026, with Polymarket near-totally dominant, yet still well short of the $7.4B election-driven peak from late 2024.
The execution-layer pitch — sub-50ms preconfirmations and 100K+ TPS — is a direct answer to Monad, MegaETH, and Solana's Firedancer, with a 200ms leader rotation designed to defuse the…