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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…
Internal team wallets were the only target — no user funds hit — but the pause puts a hold on every cross-chain message until the post-mortem lands.
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.
Coinbase Ventures-backed Router posted a $677 day in bridge volume against a $56,600 market cap; the post-mortem calls bridging economics structurally inverted, a read that applies to most of the…
The Coinbase Ventures-backed cross-chain bridge had four years and a $4.1M raise but could not escape thinning bridge economics and capital's flight toward AI.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Decentralized options bring traditional option contracts on-chain. Here is how protocols like Opyn and Lyra work, what they offer and the real risks.
Celestia sells data availability, not execution. Here is what it actually does, which rollups use it, and why TIA's 8% inflation has split the community.
Solana DeFi runs on a fast, low-cost chain with notable reliability trade-offs. Here is how the major protocols fit together and where the real risks hide.
A $15M Bitcoin security consortium forms the same week a cross-chain bridge is drained twice. The ledger tells a story of two very different on-chain maturities.
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.
Aptos shipped its mainnet, but daily activity is still a fraction of Solana's. Here is what actually lives on the chain, who uses it, and where the risks sit.
Chainlink is the decentralized oracle network that brings off-chain data into smart contracts. Here is what it does, what LINK is for, and what to weigh.
Flare is a Layer-1 built to give non-smart-contract chains like XRP and DOGE a DeFi life, anchored by an oracle system that looks nothing like Chainlink and a real airdrop history.
A practical compliance map for US-to-Mexico USDC corridors, covering state licensing, MiCA CASP registration, the FATF Travel Rule, and the real audit hot spots.
Hyperliquid runs a fully on-chain central limit orderbook for perps. Here's how matching, funding, and liquidations actually work under the hood.
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