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Bitcoin layer-2s face a bear-market reality check
Botanix's shutdown has raised an uncomfortable question for Bitcoin builders: Does the market actually want programma…
Polychain and Coinbase-backed Satori Finance DEX winds down citing ‘unfavorable market conditions’
Satori raised $10 million in a May 2022 seed round led by Polychain Capital with participation from Coinbase, Jump an…
Circle Launches cirBTC On Ethereum As New 1:1 Bitcoin-Backed DeFi Asset
Circle has launched cirBTC on Ethereum, entering the wrapped Bitcoin market with a 1:1 backed asset aimed at institut…
Crypto’s security nightmare won’t be solved by ordinary audits
Without an update to the current auditing infrastructure, the crypto space will likely continue to suffer significant…
Hyperliquid's $10B open interest coincides with growth in equity-linked markets: Talos
Hyperliquid’s $10 billion open interest milestone shows growing demand for onchain equities and commodities trading…
Zama, Morpho and Steakhouse launch first ‘confidential DeFi yield’ vault on Ethereum
Zama, Morpho and Steakhouse launch the first confidential DeFi yield vault on Ethereum, letting firms earn yield with…
Legacy Aztec Connect Contract Drained Of $2.1 Million Three Years After Shutdown
A legacy Aztec Connect contract was exploited years after shutdown, while current Aztec infrastructure remains unaffe…
Humanity Protocol Plans New H Token After $36 Million Key Compromise
Humanity Protocol is restructuring its H token after a $36 million exploit, but the incident appears tied to compromi…
Solstice’s Ryan Day on why sustainable DeFi yield depends on business fundamentals, not token incentives
Crypto yield has always carried a credibility problem. The same market that learned to demand proof after incentive-h…
Hyperliquid, Uniswap and Worldcoin buck crypto slump as traders chase AI, DeFi trends
A handful of tokens continued their run while bitcoin and the rest of the crypto market stalled after the early week …
Bitcoin DeFi’s demand problem is becoming harder to ignore
The Layer 2 had uptime, transactions and integrations, but BTCFi demand is moving through wrappers and institutions. …
Squid adds Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin for cross-chain swaps
Cross-chain platform Squid has integrated Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin, allowing users to swap into and out of RLUSD acr…
Bitcoin DeFi demand concentrated in small-but-deep pockets, Rootstock exec says
DeFi liquidity is down, with total value locked dropping from roughly $180 billion to $70 billion in less than a year.
Standard Chartered’s $100 Uniswap call exposes the open DeFi problem Wall Street may need to solve
The reported $100 UNI target hinges on tokenized assets leaving closed rails for liquid, composable markets. The post…
Reports Say Standard Chartered Sees UNI At $100 As RWA Thesis Builds
Reports citing Standard Chartered research say UNI could reach $100 by 2030, but the forecast should be treated as an…
KRWQ taps Chainlink to bring tamper-proof reserve data to world’s largest KRW stablecoin
The integration enhances transparency and trust, potentially boosting institutional adoption and liquidity in the DeF…
Bitcoin is being packaged for income investors, but the yield comes with a trade-off
Bitcoin's protocol rewards miners through block subsidies and transaction fees, leaving holders who sit on coins with…
Deprecated Aztec Connect Contract Exploited For $2.19M, SlowMist Says
SlowMist says a deprecated Aztec Connect smart contract was exploited for $2.19 million, highlighting the risks left …
Standard Chartered says Uniswap’s UNI token could surge 40x to $100 by 2030
Standard Chartered Bank has initiated coverage of Uniswap and forecasts its UNI token could rise 40x to $100 by the e…
‘Let’s just put it in an ETF’ is the worst outcome for bitcoin, says Trezor exec
Trezor Chief Commercial Officer Danny Sanders said simplifying self-custody remains one of bitcoin's biggest onboardi…
Congress moves to rebuild crypto crime task force after DOJ dismantled its dedicated crypto team
The bill avoids market regulation while trying to rebuild federal coordination for hacks, tracing, and victims. The p…
Tokenization could push DeFi assets to $2.7T by 2030: Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered forecasts assets locked in decentralized finance will reach $2.7 trillion by 2030, driven by token…
Bybit launches first regulated institutional vault for fixed income products
Bybit's regulated vault could accelerate institutional adoption of crypto by merging traditional finance strategies w…
Aztec Connect’s abandoned smart contract exploited for $2.1M
The Aztec Connect platform was deprecated in March 2023, but the immutable smart contract still held over $2 million …
Bitcoin mining difficulty drops 10% in second-largest negative adjustment of 2026
The cut hands surviving miners roughly 11% more bitcoin per unit of active hashrate, but all-in production economics …
Morpho Secures $175 Million Round Led By Paradigm, a16z And Ribbit
Morpho raised $175 million in a new financing round.
SEC Proposes Reg NMS Rule Changes That Could Affect Tokenized Stock Trading
The SEC proposed rescinding Regulation NMS Rules 611 and 610e.
Crypto’s next billion-dollar hacker may move at superhuman speed
Anthropic’s new Claude Fable 5 puts powerful cyber tools behind safety filters. DeFi, already hit by more than $840…
Aave Proposal Moves To Add Circle Wrapped Bitcoin As Collateral
Aave Labs has proposed onboarding Circle Wrapped Bitcoin to Aave V3 and V4 Core on Ethereum, but the listing still ne…
Sky Governance Proposal Seeks To Double USDC PSM Buffer To $800 Million
BA Labs has proposed doubling key Sky stablecoin system parameters as USDC reserves rise to 4.13 billion.