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.
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...
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...

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....
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...

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....

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...
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...

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...
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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...
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...

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...

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...

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,...

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,...
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...
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...
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...

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...

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....
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...

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...
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...
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...
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...
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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...
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...
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...
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...

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...

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...
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...

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...

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...
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...
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...