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The June upgrade automates shard splits and bolts on post-quantum signing — and the bid is already in: $7M into Bitwise's NEAR staking ETP this week, with NEAR up roughly 30% to $2.25 as the top…
Virtuals Protocol is a Base-based launchpad where anyone can spin up an AI agent token. Most launchpad tokens go to zero — and the structure explains why.
Three live governance votes turn the switch on v2/v3, v4, and bridge-level fee capture, with proceeds routed into UNI buybacks rather than the treasury.
On-chain options protocols let anyone buy or sell crypto options without a broker, but volumes are still tiny compared to Deribit because liquidity provision is brutally hard.
If shipped in Hegotá, EIP-8182 would bake optional, protocol-fee-free private ETH and ERC-20 transfers into the L1 — a structural break from the mixer-era status quo.
The institutional qualified custodian route into wrapped staked ETH is now open, with Anchorage wiring Lido's wstETH directly into a custody-native workflow for the first time at this scale.
Decentralized options bring traditional option contracts on-chain. Here is how protocols like Opyn and Lyra work, what they offer and the real risks.
Chain abstraction promises one signature across any blockchain. ERC-7683 is the emerging standard that makes it work. Here is how intents, fillers, and cross-chain settlement actually fit together.
Virtuals Protocol launches AI agents as tradable tokens on Base. Most go to zero. VIRTUAL stakers capture agent revenue through VADER buybacks. Here is the actual mechanism.
ERC-4337 is an Ethereum standard that turns every wallet into a programmable smart contract, killing seed phrases and letting someone else pay your gas. Here's how it actually works.
DeFiLlama tracks over $100B locked across thousands of protocols. Here are the 10 that consistently matter, what they do, and the risks most guides skip.
DTCC tokenization, a $96M ETH ETF day, and a quiet CPI miss collide with stablecoin margin compression and a $23M RWA exploit.
Intents let crypto users declare an outcome instead of signing a transaction. ERC-7683 standardizes that promise across chains like Ethereum, Uniswap, and Across.
Both VIRTUAL and TAO trade on the AI agent narrative, but their economic models point in opposite directions. Here is how each one actually works.
ETHFI gives the protocol's governance token a fee claim, but most yield comes from active AVS selection, and slashing cuts through LRT holders first.
NEAR pairs sharded execution with chain signatures and an intents-based DEX. Here is what actually works, what is still vapor, and why DeFi activity stays thin.
Both run their own appchains with on-chain order books, but Hyperliquid's custom L1 and dYdX's Cosmos chain differ sharply on fees, validator decentralization, and token utility.
EigenLayer lets stakers re-use staked ETH to secure additional services on top of Ethereum. Here is how restaking works and what EIGEN does.
Hyperliquid runs a fully on-chain central limit orderbook for perps. Here's how matching, funding, and liquidations actually work under the hood.
Aave is one of DeFi's biggest lending protocols — a place where you can earn yield on assets or borrow against them with no bank involved. Here is how it works.
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