DEX Fees Plunge to $413M in Q2 2026, Down 83% From Peak
Quarterly DEX fees just printed their lowest reading since 2023, the clearest signal yet that on-chain trading monetization has stalled well below the cycle high.
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Quarterly DEX fees just printed their lowest reading since 2023, the clearest signal yet that on-chain trading monetization has stalled well below the cycle high.
Pump.fun weekly volume just cleared $5B for the first time since March, but the same sniper-and-bundler mechanics that drove the last cycle are already re-activating.
Tokenized shares of Apple, Tesla, and commodities like oil and gold are now usable as margin on a 24/7 perp venue, a structural step for real-world assets meeting on-chain derivatives.
Vanguard has been publicly skeptical of crypto since 2022; a dedicated crypto lead signals the world's second-largest asset manager is ready to engage the sector directly.
A $900 share price would value SpaceX above current private-market marks, with Citi's bull case leaning on Starlink scaling and the launch cadence.
A single private stock now drives 31% of all onchain equity trading. The bid tells you where capital is parking while it waits for direct IPO access.
The first major crypto-specific rulemaking under Chairman Atkins would exempt developers from registration during fundraising, cap exempt raise sizes, and create a safe harbor for issuers stepping…
The agenda is a wish list, not a rule, but the placement signals where the SEC wants staff time spent: rewriting the rules that govern how crypto platforms and broker-dealers handle digital assets.
Alexandre Laizet's worst-case framing matters because it divorces the drawdown from a V-shaped recovery, the assumption baked into most long-horizon Bitcoin theses.
Tether's first equity check into a major Latam venue signals that the region's real-world-asset rails, not just remittances, are the long game.
The raise values a still-young onchain rights-and-royalties stack at nine figures, with the round led by crypto-native funds that have backed infrastructure plays through prior cycles.
Gate ranks among the top CEXs for tokenized stocks. Its new Gate Stocks product gives users direct ownership of US, HK, and Korean shares, with dividends, through licensed brokers.
Gate already runs thousands of tokenized stocks; the new 'Gate Stocks' tier adds dividend rights and licensed-broker settlement across three of Asia's and North America's deepest equity markets.
The figure represents Bitcoin held in legacy address types vulnerable to a sufficiently powerful quantum computer, framing a long-tail threat still years away from capability.
Zero-commission US stock trading slots into a super-app roadmap as Gemini joins the commission-free brokerage race already anchored by Robinhood.
A nine-figure ETH transfer to a US venue is the kind of flow that reads as positioning rather than arbitrage, and CoinShares' ETP book gives the deposit a plausible desk read.
The investment turns Tether into a strategic backer of Brazil's largest regulated on-chain financial services platform, with 4.5M users and over R$2B in tokenized assets already issued.
Crypto-asset service providers are moving fast under Europe's new licensing regime; asset-referenced token issuers have not yet shown up, leaving the stablecoin side of the framework quiet.
Sheriffs shifting to neutral on Section 604 — the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act — clears a key law-enforcement holdout and tilts the Senate bill toward floor momentum.
The world's second-largest asset manager has spent years on the sidelines of crypto. Hiring a digital-assets lead for its wealth book is the first signal it is done watching.