Blog•Jan 6, 2026
Carrot Offers High DeFi Yields on Solana
Carrot is a Solana‑based yield‑aggregating DeFi protocol that issues the CRT token, which accrues returns from stablecoin strategies on platforms such as Kamino, MarginFi, and Jupiter Lend. Users deposit stablecoins, the protocol reallocates them across these strategies, and CRT holders earn passive yield without lock‑up periods, though a 0.05% redemption fee applies. The platform also offers Turbo Tokens, allowing leveraged exposure to supported assets without liquidation risk. With roughly $24 million in TVL, Carrot remains a small‑cap player in a rapidly growing Solana DeFi ecosystem.
By Lark Davis
Blog•Jan 6, 2026
Carrot Offers High DeFi Yields on Solana
Carrot is a Solana‑based yield‑aggregating DeFi protocol that issues the CRT token to represent deposits and automatically harvest yields from stablecoin strategies across platforms such as Kamino, MarginFi and Jupiter Lend. The protocol offers no lock‑up periods, a modest 0.05 % redemption...
By Lark Davis
Blog•Jan 3, 2026
Crypto Pumps. Dump Next?
Crypto total market cap surged past $3.03 trillion, snapping a three‑month downtrend and hinting at a shift toward altcoins. Ethereum broke above $3,100, posting its first 50‑day SMA close in months and targeting $3,500. Memecoins added roughly $3 billion in value, led...
By Lark Davis
Blog•Dec 30, 2025
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....
By Camila Russo
Blog•Dec 30, 2025
Get High Yields on ETH and Stables With Fusion
Fusion, IPOR’s on‑chain yield‑optimization platform, aggregates DeFi strategies into composable vaults across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Avalanche and other chains. Users deposit ETH or stablecoins and the protocol automatically allocates capital to lending, looping, carry trades and arbitrage, while earning Fusion...
By Lark Davis
Blog•Dec 29, 2025
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....
By Camila Russo
Blog•Dec 29, 2025
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...
By Camila Russo
Blog•Dec 26, 2025
Folks Finance – A Quiet DeFi Rebuild
Folks Finance, originally launched on Algorand, has completed a V2 upgrade and expanded to multiple EVM‑compatible chains, positioning itself as a cross‑chain capital‑efficiency platform. The protocol now holds roughly $80 million in TVL and has introduced its native FOLKS token, whose...
By Lark Davis
Blog•Dec 24, 2025
Crypto.com to Hire In-House Market Maker for Prediction Markets
Crypto.com announced it will build an internal market‑making team to support its new prediction‑market offering, hiring a quant trader to trade contracts tied to sports outcomes. The firm emphasized that the in‑house market maker will not use proprietary data or...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 23, 2025
Earn Set-and-Forget Yield on YO Protocol
YO Protocol, a cross‑chain yield‑optimization platform, now manages $62.31 million in total value locked and offers up to 7.22% APY on stablecoin deposits. The protocol issues yield‑bearing yoTokens such as yoETH, yoUSD, and the forthcoming yoGOLD, which will earn yield on...
By Lark Davis
Blog•Dec 23, 2025
Justin Sun’s Locked WLFI Tokens Lose $60 Million in Value: Bubblemaps
Justin Sun’s locked World Liberty Financial (WLFI) tokens have lost roughly $60 million in paper value since September, after the project blacklisted 272 wallets for security concerns, including one tied to Sun. The blacklist freezes Sun’s holdings, preventing any movement of...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 22, 2025
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...
By Camila Russo
Blog•Dec 22, 2025
Bitcoin’s Demand Boom Is Fading: CryptoQuant
On‑chain research firm CryptoQuant says Bitcoin’s demand boom is fading as the third wave of spot demand rolls over. The rally, driven by U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs, the presidential election outcome, and corporate treasury purchases, has lost its catalysts, eroding...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 19, 2025
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,...
By Camila Russo
Blog•Dec 19, 2025
5 Lessons I Learned in 2025
Anthony Pompliano shares five takeaways from 2025, urging investors to challenge consensus narratives and focus on market structure rather than hype, as illustrated by the tariff panic and Bitcoin’s volatile rally. He highlights that despite sensational "fear porn," fundamentals like...
By Anthony Pompliano
Blog•Dec 19, 2025
Premium Investor Report #489
The Premium Investor Report #489 outlines Lark’s modest portfolio adjustments, adding small‑cap equities like NextEra Energy, Teradyne, Duolingo and STRC while only increasing exposure to Solana on the crypto side. A deep‑dive affirms Aave’s continued dominance as the primary liquidity...
By Lark Davis
Blog•Dec 19, 2025
Polymarket Resolves Issues After Polygon Network Disruption
Polymarket confirmed that a recent disruption on Polygon’s PoS network temporarily halted trades, deposits, withdrawals, and data feeds. The issue originated from faulty RPC nodes, though the underlying blockchain continued to produce blocks without a full halt. Polymarket restored all...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 18, 2025
Bitcoin Remains Trapped in ‘Fragile Range’: Glassnode
Bitcoin has slipped 13% year‑to‑date, wiping out the gains it posted earlier in 2025. Glassnode’s on‑chain analysis says the cryptocurrency is trapped in a “structurally fragile” range, with persistent overhead supply and rising loss realization weighing on price. The asset...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 17, 2025
How the Crypto Market Structure Law Would Expose that Trump’s WLFI Isn’t DeFi
Since September 2024, Donald Trump’s sons and the Witkoff brothers have launched WLFI, a DeFi‑branded platform backed by the $3.52 billion WLFI token and the $2.7 billion USD1 stablecoin. The USD1 stablecoin was used to settle a $2 billion Abu Dhabi MGX investment into Binance,...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 16, 2025
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,...
By Camila Russo
Blog•Dec 16, 2025
Earn Double Digit Stablecoin Yield on Neutrl
Neutrl, a newly launched DeFi protocol, issues the synthetic stablecoin NUSD and lets users stake it for sNUSD, earning double‑digit yields. The platform employs market‑neutral strategies—OTC purchases and perpetual futures arbitrage—to generate returns, and currently holds just under $185 million in...
By Lark Davis
Blog•Dec 16, 2025
Bitcoin’s Bear Flag Rhymes with Last Cycle
Bitcoin has slipped below its 50‑week simple moving average, echoing the 2021 cycle and now displaying a classic bear‑flag formation. The chart suggests a 12‑week consolidation similar to last cycle, with a potential retest of the 50‑week SMA around $101,000...
By Lark Davis
Blog•Dec 16, 2025
PayPal Launches PYUSD Savings Vault on Spark
PayPal has introduced the PYUSD Savings Vault on the Spark DeFi lending protocol, directly linking its dollar‑pegged stablecoin to SparkLend. The vault routes 90% of deposits into yield‑generating strategies while retaining 10% for instant withdrawals, and issues spPYUSD tokens to...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 15, 2025
Special Invitation for Pomp Letter Subscribers to Bitcoin Investor Week
The episode announces Bitcoin Investor Week, a February event in New York gathering top investors, CEOs, and policymakers to discuss Bitcoin’s growing role in institutional finance, corporate balance sheets, and personal portfolios. It emphasizes that despite volatility, institutional inflows and...
By Anthony Pompliano
Blog•Dec 15, 2025
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....
By Camila Russo
Blog•Dec 15, 2025
Aevo Loses $2.3 Million in Exploit Targeting Ribbon Vaults
Aevo, the rebranded Ribbon Finance decentralized exchange, suffered a $2.3 million exploit in its legacy Ribbon Decentralized Options Vaults. The breach was traced to an oracle misconfiguration after a recent upgrade that left USDC at 8‑decimal precision while other assets moved...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 15, 2025
Jump Crypto’s Firedancer Goes Live on Solana Mainnet
Jump Crypto’s Firedancer validator client has officially launched on the Solana mainnet after three years of development and more than 100 days of continuous testnet operation. During testing the client produced over 50,000 blocks without major incidents, demonstrating its stability....
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 12, 2025
Premium Investor Report #487
Lark Davis' Premium Investor Report #487 provides a brief portfolio update, a deep dive into Cardano’s new Midnight privacy protocol, and a detailed stock analysis of Firefly Aerospace (NASDAQ:FLY). The Midnight layer leverages Cardano’s UTXO model with zero‑knowledge proofs to...
By Lark Davis
Blog•Dec 12, 2025
Midnight on Cardano: Rational Privacy With Real-World Rails
Cardano has launched Midnight, a privacy‑first smart‑contract network that adds zero‑knowledge execution to the platform while preserving Cardano’s UTXO determinism. The chain introduces a "rational privacy" model, letting developers set visibility rules per contract and per call, and offers a...
By Lark Davis
Blog•Dec 12, 2025
Hex Trust to Launch Wrapped XRP Across Multiple Chains
Hong Kong‑based digital‑asset custodian Hex Trust announced the launch of wWRP, a wrapped version of XRP that will be issued across multiple blockchains. The token is fully backed 1:1 by XRP held in segregated, insured custody accounts, with minting and...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 11, 2025
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...
By Camila Russo
Blog•Dec 10, 2025
Bitcoin Briefly Pops Following Fed Rate Cut, Optimistic 2026 Outlook
The Federal Reserve cut its target funds rate by 25 basis points to 3.5‑3.75%, marking the third easing move of 2025 and drawing three dissenting votes. Bitcoin briefly surged to $94,607, its highest since November, before settling at $92,523, up...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 10, 2025
Premium Investor Report #486
The Premium Investor Report #486 highlights the upcoming Fed rate decision, noting an 89.9% probability of a 25‑basis‑point cut that is already largely priced in. Technical analysis shows the S&P 500 holding above a falling‑wedge resistance line with no immediate trade...
By Lark Davis
Blog•Dec 10, 2025
SEC Chair Atkins Says Most ICOs Are Outside Securities Regulators’ Purview
SEC Chair Paul Atkins told the Blockchain Association that most initial coin offerings fall outside the SEC’s jurisdiction and are better regulated by the CFTC. He cited his four‑category token taxonomy, noting that three categories—network tokens, digital collectibles, and digital...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 10, 2025
$300 Million Shorts Liquidated as Crypto Rallies Ahead of FOMC Meeting
Crypto markets rallied sharply on Tuesday as Bitcoin surged 5% to a $94,601 intraday high and Ether jumped 9.7% within two hours. The rally triggered more than $300 million in short liquidations, primarily in Bitcoin and Ether positions. Traders were betting...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 9, 2025
Get Yield From HELOC RWAs With PRIME on Kamino
Kamino, a leading Solana DeFi protocol, has introduced PRIME, an RWA‑backed token that delivers 8% APY from U.S. home‑equity loan pools. The token’s value appreciates rather than increasing supply, and users can amplify returns to roughly 22% APY through Kamino’s...
By Lark Davis
Blog•Dec 8, 2025
ZKSync Lite to Wind Down in 2026
Matter Labs announced that its original zkSync Lite layer‑2 network will be fully wound down by 2026. The zk‑rollup, launched as an early zero‑knowledge solution for payments, swaps and NFT transfers, has been superseded by zkSync Era, which adds EVM...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 8, 2025
Jupiter COO Says Vault’s ‘Zero Contagion’ Claim Was Not Fully Accurate
Jupiter’s Chief Operating Officer Kash Dhanda acknowledged that the platform’s earlier claim of "zero contagion" risk for its Jupiter Lend vaults was not entirely correct. The vaults, marketed as isolated, actually allow rehypothecation and recollateralization of deposited assets to boost...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 8, 2025
Aztec Raises $59 Million in Token Sale With Uniswap’s CCA
Aztec Network completed a $59 million public token sale using Uniswap’s newly deployed Continuous Clearing Auction (CCA) on v4. The sale attracted 16,741 participants who committed 19,476 ETH, allocating 14.95 % of the total AZTEC supply and valuing the protocol at a $557 million...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 8, 2025
Ether Supply on Exchanges Drops to Lowest Level Since Network Launch
Ethereum’s on‑chain data shows exchange balances have slipped to 8.8% of total supply, the lowest proportion since the network’s 2015 debut. The decline reflects a migration of ETH into staking, layer‑2 solutions, corporate digital‑asset treasuries and collateralized positions. By contrast,...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 5, 2025
Premium Investor Report #485
Premium Investor Report #485 by Lark Davis provides a brief portfolio update, noting modest purchases of Solana and Bitcoin. The report highlights an altcoin deep‑dive on BOB, a Bitcoin‑secured DeFi bridge that promises yield stacking without custodial risk. A detailed...
By Lark Davis
Blog•Dec 5, 2025
Stack Yield On BOB
BOB (Build On Bitcoin) is a Bitcoin‑secured network that lets users lock BTC and receive a native representation that can move across EVM‑compatible chains such as Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, and Solana. The platform uses an embedded Bitcoin light client to...
By Lark Davis
Blog•Dec 4, 2025
Solana Mobile Plans SKR Launch in January
Solana Mobile announced that its native utility token, SKR, will debut in January 2026 as the backbone of the Seeker Web3 phone ecosystem. The token will have a 10 billion supply with a linear inflation model and will release 30 percent of...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 4, 2025
Polymarket Opens US App to Waitlisted Users
Polymarket has begun rolling out its regulated U.S. iOS app to users on a waitlist after receiving a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approval order. The launch starts with sports prediction markets, marking the platform’s return following a 2022 ban...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 4, 2025
25% of Bitcoin Supply Is Underwater: Glassnode
Glassnode reports that more than a quarter of Bitcoin’s circulating supply is currently underwater, meaning holders are sitting at a loss. The on‑chain data shows the market structure echoing the early‑2022 crypto‑winter setup, with weakening demand across ETFs, spot, and...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 3, 2025
Premium Investor Report #484
The report highlights two institutional catalysts that boosted Bitcoin: Vanguard’s new crypto ETFs for its 50 million clients and Bank of America’s endorsement of modest crypto allocations for wealth‑management customers. Macro conditions appear supportive, with expectations of further rate cuts and...
By Lark Davis
Blog•Dec 3, 2025
Celestia Project Astria Network Shuts Down
Astria Network, a Celestia‑based project that built a shared sequencer for rollups, announced its shutdown on X, citing block 15,360,577 as the final block. Co‑founder Josh Bowen confirmed the decision after the team had already signaled trouble by planning to retire...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 3, 2025
Aave DAO Rethinks Multichain Expansion Strategy
The Aave DAO is evaluating a governance proposal to scale back its multichain expansion by shutting down Aave V3 deployments on zkSync, Metis and Soneium, each yielding only $3,000 to $50,000 annually. The plan also introduces a $2 million annual revenue...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 2, 2025
Yearn Recovers $2.4M Stolen in $9M Exploit
Yearn Finance disclosed that a recent exploit siphoned roughly $9 million from its vaults, but the protocol’s security team successfully recovered $2.4 million of the stolen assets. The breach was traced to manipulated oracle feeds that fed false price data to smart...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Dec 2, 2025
Coinbase Launches Instant Unstaking
Coinbase announced the rollout of an Instant Unstaking feature, allowing users to withdraw staked assets such as ETH, SOL, and ATOM without enduring the typical network unbonding periods. The service leverages a proprietary liquidity pool and charges a fee ranging...
By Laura Shin