Ordinals' Legacy Outshines 2023 Hype Cycle
With @MagicEden shutting down bitcoin support, people are saying ordinals and runes are dead. maybe. but after making ep 2 of our Bitcoin DeFi docu series, I get that even if they never come back, it doesn't really matter -- their contribution to bitcoin was bigger than the 2023 hype cycle. video here: https://t.co/CmkudwxfRF
Aave Thrives Only When All Stakeholders Collaborate
The way I see this, Aave is a result of all its parts. Like a cake, you can argue it's 80% flour, 20% eggs, 10% sugar, 5% butter, 1% baking powder, but take away any of its components, and there's...
DeFi Lending and Crypto VC Leaders Dominate Timeline
all of ct timeline consumed with who built more of the biggest defi lending protocol who started one of the biggest crypto vcs
The Bitcoin Renaissance Legacy : Beyond Digital Gold Ep. 2
The video examines the 2023‑2024 Bitcoin Renaissance, a brief but transformative period when new protocols—Ordinals, BRC20 tokens and later Runes—re‑imagined Bitcoin as a data‑availability layer rather than merely a payment ledger. Central to this shift was the 2021 Taproot activation,...
Interactive Brokers Taps Coinbase for ‘Perpetual-Style’ Crypto Futures
Interactive Brokers (IBKR) has launched nano‑sized Bitcoin and Ethereum futures by partnering with Coinbase Derivatives, offering both monthly‑expiry and perpetual‑style contracts. The new products give IBKR’s 4.5 million clients access to crypto derivatives previously limited to specialist exchanges. This follows IBKR’s...
Balancer DAO Caps Recovery Bounty at 10% After $128M Exploit
Balancer DAO approved a proposal (BIP‑908) to allocate up to 10% of any recovered assets as a bounty for the November exploit that siphoned roughly $128 million from its V2 pools. The vote achieved a 158% quorum, though only nine votes...
Kaito and Polymarket Unveil 'Attention Markets'
Kaito and Polymarket have introduced "Attention Markets," a hybrid offering that blends Kaito’s attention‑measurement technology with Polymarket’s prediction‑market platform. The new product aims to quantify cultural narratives and emerging trends across AI, finance and entertainment. Prediction‑market activity has surged 850%...
Robinhood Launches Public Testnet for Ethereum Layer 2 Blockchain
Robinhood has launched a public testnet for Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 network built on Arbitrum that already holds over $2.3 billion in total value locked. The testnet gives developers access to tools, documentation, and testnet‑only assets such as tokenized stocks,...
Rebuilding Global Payments with Stablecoins | Circle & USDC with Nikhil Chandhok
Circle chief product officer Nikhil Chandhok explains how USDC is being built into a global payments platform that moves money instantly and with regulatory certainty. The discussion frames stablecoins as the most viable crypto use case, with USDC now circulating...
Aptos-Based Perp DEX Merkle Trade Shutters Business
Merkle Trade, the leading Aptos perpetual futures DEX, announced it will wind down operations, disabling new positions on Feb 6 and closing all positions by Feb 10. The platform, which processed nearly $30 billion in cumulative volume, will redeem its MKL token without...
Aave Delegate Platform Proposes Pausing Three L2 Deployments Citing Weak Revenue
Aave's governance delegation platform has proposed pausing its V3 deployments on three underused Layer 2 networks—zkSync Era, Metis and Soneium—due to minimal user activity and revenue. The three chains together generated under $1,600 in fees over the past 30 days, while...
Perp Pioneer BitMEX Launches Hyperliquid Copy Trading
BitMEX has launched Hyperliquid Copy Trading, letting its users automatically replicate the positions of top traders on the leading perpetual futures DEX, Hyperliquid. The feature executes trades on BitMEX, supports up to five copied traders, and includes basic risk‑management tools...
Aave’s GHO Stablecoin Supply Hits $500M
Aave’s native stablecoin GHO crossed the $500 million market‑cap threshold in early February, marking a 245% increase since the start of 2025. The circulating supply stayed above half a billion while holder numbers rose to roughly 23,000, up about 300% year‑to‑date....
Inside the Rise of Apps That Let You Pay with Crypto, Even Where Merchants Don’t Accept It
Startups are piloting pay‑on‑behalf solutions that let consumers spend cryptocurrency at ordinary merchants without altering point‑of‑sale systems. Thailand’s PlebQR routes Bitcoin Lightning payments through local partners who settle in fiat, reporting over 1,270 transactions worth roughly $21,500 with a 75 %...
Ethereum Supply Tightens With 45% of ETH Locked: Sygnum
Sygnum’s Q1 2026 Investment Outlook reports that roughly 45 % of all Ether is now locked or otherwise hard to sell, tightening the circulating supply. Exchange‑held ETH dropped 14.5 % during the quarter, while exchange‑traded funds hold about 10 % of total ETH and...
Worldcoin Surges 25% as OpenAI Considers Its Biometric Technology
Worldcoin’s native token WLD jumped 25% within minutes after Forbes reported that OpenAI is evaluating biometric verification solutions, potentially leveraging Worldcoin’s iris‑scan technology. The AI firm is reportedly building a social platform that would require users to prove personhood via...
TradeXYZ Volume and Open Interest Hit All-Time Highs
TradeXYZ, Hyperliquid’s tokenized equity platform, recorded a record $1 billion in 24‑hour trading volume, while open interest climbed to $790 million, a 200 percent rise month‑over‑month. The surge follows the November “growth mode” upgrade that cut fees by over 90 percent, propelling daily volumes...
Kansas Lawmakers Propose State-Run Bitcoin and Digital Assets Reserve Fund
Kansas Senate Bill 352 would create a state‑run Bitcoin and Digital Assets Reserve Fund, allowing the treasurer to claim unclaimed crypto assets and credit 10% of each deposit to the general fund while keeping the principal separate. The bill updates...
Fogo Launches Public Mainnet After Binance Token Sale
Fogo, a Solana‑compatible Layer 1 blockchain, launched its public mainnet on Jan 15, 2026, featuring 40‑millisecond block times and over 1,200 TPS with more than ten dApps live at launch. Its native FOGO token opened at around $0.053, giving a market cap near...
KAITO Plummets as X Bans InfoFi Rewards
X’s head of product Nikita Bier announced a ban on rewarding users for InfoFi posts, sending the KAITO token down 17% to $0.56 within minutes. The decision also forced the 157,000‑member Kaito Yapper community and other InfoFi projects like Cookie...
Starknet Partners with NEAR to Bring STRK to Solana
Ethereum L2 Starknet has launched its native token STRK on the Solana blockchain through a cross‑chain integration with NEAR Intents. The NEAR Intents protocol lets users receive STRK directly in Solana wallets without a traditional bridge, using a solver‑based execution...
Bitcoin Fails to Hold Above $97K as Rally Cools
Bitcoin slipped below the $97,000 threshold on Jan. 15, hovering around $96,035 as the broader crypto market steadied after two days of rally. Total market capitalization dipped to roughly $3.34 trillion, a 0.8% decline, while most top‑10 assets traded flat except for...
Buterin Calls for Ethereum Updates to Ensure Blockchain Outlasts Its Developers
Ethereum co‑founder Vitalik Buterin urged the network to become self‑sustaining, coining a "walkaway test" that measures resilience when core developers step back. He argues the protocol should remain usable and secure without constant upgrades, relying on stable core rules. To...
Clone-X NFTs Soar 200% as Nike Sells RTFKT
Nike quietly sold its NFT studio RTFKT, now rebranded as Artifact, triggering a sharp rebound in the Clone‑X collection. After a year‑long shutdown that drove the floor price to a 99.7% low of 0.07 ETH, the floor jumped to 0.3 ETH—a 200%...
Seizing Venezuela’s $60B Bitcoin Undoes Kleptocratic Theft
About Venezuela's BTC stash: Whatever crypto the U.S. can prise from the hands of a regime built on repression and theft, the better. That money was extorted from Venezuelan citizens, coerced through sanctions-evasion schemes, and used to prop up a kleptocracy. Before...
The Rise of the Fan Economy | Consumer Crypto | Avalanche Ecosystems Ep. 4
The episode explores how blockchain is powering a new “fan economy,” where tickets, loyalty points and creator payments move on‑chain. Using Avalanche’s fast, low‑fee network, a handful of startups are building consumer‑facing apps that aim to replace legacy ticketing and...
Lighter Users Report Withdrawal Issues After Perp DEX Launches LIT Token
Lighter, a leading Ethereum Layer‑2 perpetuals DEX, launched its native LIT token early Thursday, prompting a surge of withdrawal requests that stalled the platform. Users reported a “Too many L2 Withdrawals” error and the exchange has not issued a comment....
NIGHT Jumps After Charles Hoskinson Backs XRP DeFi Integration
The NIGHT token jumped more than 11% after Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson touted its role in expanding private DeFi to XRP and other blockchains. Midnight, a privacy‑focused partner chain to Cardano, positions NIGHT as the native asset for confidential transactions....
Daycare Fraud Journalist Tokenizes Content on Base
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong publicly backed journalist Nick Shirley’s creator token $thenickshirley on the Ethereum Layer 2 Base, sparking immediate market attention. The token launched on Dec. 28, quickly reaching a $9 million market cap before tumbling 66% to $3 million the next day. Despite...
Crypto Markets Rally Ahead of Holidays
Crypto markets nudged higher on Dec. 22 as investors positioned ahead of the Christmas break. Bitcoin rose 2.5% to $90,125 and Ethereum jumped 3.2% to $3,060, lifting the total market cap to $3.13 trillion, up 2% in a day. Altcoins SKY and...
LEO Surges as Bitfinex’s Fee Cut Highlights Exchange Competition
Bitfinex announced a blanket removal of maker and taker fees across spot, derivatives, margin, OTC and tokenized securities, prompting its native LEO token to jump 11% to $7.40. The fee‑free move comes as the exchange, once a top‑15 volume player,...
SEC Commissioner Peirce, Crypto Experts Say Privacy Is Key to Crypto Adoption
The SEC Crypto Task Force’s sixth roundtable, led by Commissioner Hester Peirce, spotlighted a surging demand for privacy‑preserving tools as crypto adoption accelerates. Peirce argued that existing financial‑surveillance rules are outdated and risk stifling on‑chain innovation. Experts, including StarkWare’s Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos,...
J.P. Morgan Launches Tokenized Money Market Fund on Ethereum
J.P. Morgan Asset Management launched the My OnChain Net Yield Fund (MONY), a tokenized money market fund on Ethereum, on Dec. 15. The private‑placement vehicle holds only U.S. Treasury securities and repurchase agreements, offering qualified investors on‑chain access to dollar‑denominated yields....
Momentum's Vision: Trading Anything, Anywhere on Sui
Momentum’s founder Wendy Fu outlines a bold new positioning for the protocol: evolving from a simple decentralized exchange (DEX) on Sui into a full‑stack financial operating system that lets users trade any asset—crypto, securities, or tokenized real‑world items—from anywhere. The...
JellyJelly Rockets 120% on App Store Release
JellyJelly, a Solana‑based “internet capital markets” memecoin launched by Venmo co‑founder Iqram Magdon‑Ismail, jumped 120% in the past 24 hours after being released on the Apple App Store. The surge lifted the token’s price to $0.085 and its market capitalization to...
Yearn Finance Suffers $9 Million Exploit
The yETH exploit is the third hack of a Yearn Finance product since 2021.
More than Wrappers | RWAs on Avalanche | Ecosystems, Ep.3
The video outlines Avalanche’s expanding role as a foundational layer for real‑world asset (RWA) tokenization, highlighting recent milestones such as the migration of all deed records for Bergen County, New Jersey—the largest U.S. county‑level blockchain deed project—to Avalanche, and a partnership...
MegaETH to Refund USDm Pre-Deposits After Multisig Chaos
MegaETH announced it will reimburse users who placed pre‑deposits for its USDm stablecoin after a malfunctioning bridge transaction. The team described the incident as a "sloppy" execution involving a compromised multisig process that left funds stranded. Refunds are slated to...
Crypto Course for Women Sparks Unexpected Controversy
Wow never would have thought an educational course on crypto for women would be controversial but here we are.
Only the Biggest DAT Companies Will Survive, Bitwise Execs Warn
Bitwise executives warned that the digital‑asset treasury (DAT) sector is entering a survival‑of‑the‑fittest phase. According to the firm’s CIO, most DAT providers will either be forced to trade their holdings at a discount or exit the market entirely. Only the...
Beware Romanticizing LATAM Crypto Adoption Post-Devconnect
After Devconnect I see many were (rightly) seduced by Buenos Aires and so there's the temptation to romanticize: 1. crypto adoption in the "global south" 2. life in latam 1/x
How Flare Is Unlocking REAL DeFi Utility for XRP in 2025
The video examines how Flare Network is positioning itself as the bridge that finally gives XRP substantive DeFi utility in 2025. While XRP has enjoyed headline‑making speculation around institutional adoption and potential ETF approval, its native ledger lacks native smart‑contract...
Celebrating Women of Web3: Community, Collaboration, Inspiration
One of the best moments of the week, women of web3 dinner 💕 Thanks for organizing @AvaLabs @vanyapestana and letting me tag along :) So great spending meaningful time with @HannaSchiuma @maggielove_ @manasilvora @amandacassatt @dee_centralized and many other power ladies https://t.co/VwcggTPk1T
Tokenize Everything: Robert Leshner’s Vision for On-Chain Finance
Robert Leshner, co‑founder of Compound and now head of Superstate, outlines his vision for a fully tokenized financial system where real‑world assets—stocks, bonds, and commodities—are brought on‑chain and made composable with DeFi protocols. He argues that while early DeFi relied...
Midnight Ice Cream in Buenos Aires, Paid with Stablecoins
✅ Buenos Aires 12am ice cream run ✅ Pay with stablecoins three different ways @gnosispay @minipay @TryPeanut City where ice cream never sleeps, using money that never sleeps https://t.co/13uK8pP0ub
PayPal Stablecoin Supply Jumps 22%
PayPal’s PYUSD stablecoin surged 22% in market capitalization over the past week, adding $625 million of new tokens since Nov 10 and raising its Ethereum‑based supply to $2.38 billion, roughly 70% of the total. This rapid growth positions PYUSD as the sixth‑largest stablecoin...
Dollar Obsession Fuels Argentina’s Crypto Boom
This is amazing — an add for Stranger Things in Buenos Aires, translation: “When we met 11 (stranger things character), the dollar was at 14 (it’s now at 1,400) - it was a year of strange things” Shows just how ingrained...
Infura Expands Decentralized Infra Network to EigenLayer Following AWS Outage
Infura is extending its Decentralized Infrastructure Network (DIN) onto EigenLayer, turning its large‑scale RPC and API marketplace into an EigenLayer Autonomous Verifiable Service backed by restaked ETH. The move adds economic accountability—stakers earn rewards for uptime and lose stake for...
Is DYOR Dead? Building a Safer Web3 with Alex Katz
In this interview, Virginia Valenzuela talks with Alex Katz, CEO of Kerberus, about why the traditional "Do Your Own Research" mantra no longer protects users against sophisticated Web3 threats such as address poisoning, malware, and AI deepfakes. Katz explains Kerberus’s...
Starknet Token Outperforms as TVL Climbs
The post highlights Starknet’s STRK token rally—up 40% in the past month and 26% in a day—despite a 96% drop from its launch price and upcoming token unlocks. It attributes the surge to a 200% rise in TVL, driven largely...