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CASHCAT alone generated roughly $98M of the $560–570M total, but a Morpho-driven TVL crossing $100M in week one is the more durable signal for the new Layer-2.
Permissionless rails meet a retail-grade brand: in week one, an unlisted cat token outgrew the chain's RWA ambitions in market cap and volume.
Record DEX volume pairs with ~200K daily active addresses and a meme-coin launch wave, suggesting retail-driven throughput, not just one whale's flow.
The pitch lands as the network is barely five months live and still ranked outside the top 80 by activity, framing retail-driven meme trading as the wedge product for institutional rails later.
Twelve weeks of selling left no place to hide, with L2 down nearly 25%, DePIN close behind, and even defensible Layer 1s erasing a quarter of value.
The $3B drop in stablecoin supply looks small in percentage terms, but it lands alongside Bitcoin's 14% Q2 slide, a 52% collapse in Ethena's sUSDe, and a 45% haircut to Arbitrum's stablecoin…
A retail-broker-built L2 is the first credible signal that Wall Street's bridge to public chains has shifted from custody pilots to owning infrastructure itself.
The brokerage-to-DeFi leap is the bigger read than any single product: a Wall Street brand is now shipping its own L2 plus a 7% lending yield, and HOOD jumped 5% on the day.
The plan would retire remaining elliptic-curve dependencies, add Falcon-512 signatures, and ship migration tooling for live contracts, positioning Starknet ahead of peers still hashing out quantum…
John Egan frames throughput and finality, not fees, as the metric that decides whether AI-to-AI commerce runs on-chain at all.
Two block-production halts inside 48 hours, traced to one shared bug, but the chain's integrity held and no funds were lost. The remediation list is the part builders will read.
Two block-production halts in 36 hours land just ahead of Coinbase's L2's planned Beryl upgrade, putting the network's reliability narrative under fresh scrutiny.
It's the second major outage for the Coinbase-backed Ethereum layer-2 in under a year, and the root cause still hasn't been named, putting the network's reliability thesis back under the microscope.
Another appchain calls it: maintaining a rollup costs millions a year, and Sophon's team decided building the app is the better bet than running the chain underneath it.
The arrangement lets Optimism run Ink's production stack while the Ink Foundation redirects engineering capacity to ecosystem growth and new financial products.
When Layer 2 fees fall below the cost of executing on the L1 itself, the original scaling thesis stops paying out, and dozens of rollups are left searching for a reason to exist.
If validator yields compress, the trade is staker income for protocol solvency: EIP-7702 and native L2 interoperability get paid for in real time.
The dollar loss was small, but the flaw class is the same one behind $340M in cross-chain bridge hacks already this year, and the root cause was a prover signing key left exposed on GitHub.
A flaw in Taiko bridge's source-signal proof validation is the likely root cause, per Blockaid. With block production frozen and a withdrawal advisory in place, every bridged dollar is now a…
Beryl compresses Base's standard withdrawal window from seven days to five and ships B20 as a precompiled — not contract-based — token standard aimed at regulated issuers.
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