Spot Volume Falls 5.1% as Derivatives Rise 4.2% in June
The split tells the story: retail-style spot flow cooled across the board while derivatives venues absorbed the risk migration, with Deribit's 26.6% jump leading the move.
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The split tells the story: retail-style spot flow cooled across the board while derivatives venues absorbed the risk migration, with Deribit's 26.6% jump leading the move.
Public admission is rare from a Layer-2 founder; the real read is where resources are flowing now: trading infra, payments, and AI agents.
Democrats now want the bill to ban presidents from sponsoring or profiting from digital assets, a demand Trump can't sign without effectively cutting himself off from a sector he dominates.
The headline grabber is the $150M cat-coin launch on Robinhood's new layer-2; the structural question is what happens to retail when a regulated broker's brand wraps a permissionless chain.
The chain now sits behind only Solana and BNB in 24-hour on-chain trading volume, ahead of Base, Ethereum, Hyperliquid and Arbitrum.
The move marks another consumer-facing wedge for Solana DEX liquidity, routing collectible-card demand through Jupiter's swap layer rather than a traditional auction house.
A zeroed oracle signature was the entire vulnerability: one byte in the wrong place let a single attacker borrow against collateral the system could not price, draining the Bonzo money market on…
The roadmap pairs a Q1 2027 tokenized gilt pilot with calls to upgrade payment rails, framing tokenization as core financial plumbing rather than a crypto side project.
OCC trust bank approval marks legitimacy, but USDC supply has shrunk $7B since March while a 140-firm consortium launches a rival stablecoin that could commoditize the sector.
A wallet tagged to the U.S. government shifted 140.214 $BTC ($8.79M) into Coinbase Prime, the largest deposit from that address in roughly four years and a fresh reminder that seized coins re-enter…
Weekly on-chain recap: stablecoin supply turns positive for the first time in weeks, DEX spot volume recovers modestly while perps keep cooling, and corporate ETH accumulation from Bitmine offsets a…
Basel III drove a 40–50% drop in bank SME lending, then another 12% since 2023, leaving a €39B annual shortfall now filled by floating-rate non-bank debt that punishes borrowers when rates rise.
The bill's last realistic window is closing fast: updated Senate text is due this week, but developer protections, ethics rules, and the 60-vote threshold still haven't been resolved.
L2Beat called the project "clearly absurd" and flagged the token as "heavily manipulated," yet RAIN still ranks as Arbitrum's largest TVS asset at roughly $2.6B, above USDC and ETH.
The tool puts hard numbers behind co-location decisions for HFT firms, market makers, and MEV searchers racing against hundreds of milliseconds across chains and centralized exchanges.
A narrow window before the August recess, a missing GOP vote, and a market-structure bill the industry has been waiting on for two years all collide in the next two weeks.
The eight-week ETF outflow streak broke and spot selling collapsed to 53 BTC a day from June's 2,000. The bid is returning, but derivatives traders, not spot buyers, are driving the rebound.
The BitClub Network took in $722M from investors between 2014 and 2019, so the DOJ move to dismiss without trial is the final twist in a seven-year saga that never produced a verdict.
Roughly a fifth of global oil transits Hormuz, so a blockade flips the risk-off switch on crude, equity volatility, and any crypto pair that tracks risk appetite in real time.
A direct presidential nudge on market-structure legislation reframes the regulatory timeline for the entire US crypto industry, from token classification to exchange registration.