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OKX's X Layer network has introduced Exchange OS, a protocol upgrade that opens the exchange's core trading…
The upgrade pushes core exchange functions — matching, margining, liquidation, settlement, risk — down to the protocol layer, letting anyone spin up spot, perps, or outcome markets on shared…
The venture, fronted by Andrew Cuomo, will operate as a US-registered broker-dealer and FCM, extending ICE's digital-asset push from Bakkt and a $2B Polymarket stake into the spot equities stack…
The pitch is that machine-speed money needs machine-speed adjudication: Genlayer's consortium wants to be the dispute layer every agentic commerce stack routes through when a deal breaks.
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.
The two-sided design, builder-side listings and agent-posted tasks settled in stablecoins, turns OKX into a payments rail for autonomous work, not just a listing board.
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.
Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain platform powering smart contracts, DeFi, NFTs and dApps. Learn how ETH works, its key use cases, and why it remains a leading force in crypto.
Intents let crypto users declare an outcome instead of signing a transaction. ERC-7683 standardizes that promise across chains like Ethereum, Uniswap, and Across.
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.
ETH Q1 hit record users and cratered fees while BTC bled under a hawkish Warsh. The on-chain story and the tape finally disagree.
Bitcoin headlines scream bear market while institutional ETH quietly stacks reserves, and the gap between the narrative and the flows has never been wider.
Compound is the lending protocol that helped invent DeFi yield. Deposit assets, earn interest set by an algorithm, or borrow against them. Here is how it works.
The Lightning Network lets you send Bitcoin instantly and cheaply by moving most payments off-chain. Here is how it works, what it solves, and its limits.
Sparkassen opening BTC and ETH to millions of deposants is the slow-burn story of the week, and the tape barely noticed.
1inch routes your swap across many DEXes to find the best price. Here is how the aggregator works, what 1INCH does, and where the real risks live.
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.
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.
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.
Mt. Gox handled most of the world's Bitcoin trades — until it lost 850,000 BTC and collapsed. Here is how it happened, and what it taught crypto.
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TheBlock
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Marco De Santis
Sofia Almeida
Ethan Brooks