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The Kelp DAO bridge exploit did not just steal $292 million. It triggered the largest infrastructure migration in DeFi history, and the math shows LayerZero may never recover the lost ground. On April 18, 2026, an attacker forged a cross-chain…
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Arthur Hayes has proposed allocating roughly 20% of Flop Network’s FLOP token supply to testnet participants over 10 years as part of a self-funded decentralized computing network for artificial intelligence agents. Arthur Hayes said in an Aug. 19 Substack article…
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Interstice Digital has launched a non-custodial cross-chain swap engine with FalconX that connects the Canton Network with Ethereum, Solana, and Robinhood Chain while using FalconX to supply liquidity. Interstice Digital said in an Aug. 18 announcement that the engine lets…
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Galaxy Digital slashed its passage odds to 10%. Polymarket fell from 82% to under 20%. The bill that was supposed to give the $2.28 trillion industry a permanent regulatory framework is running out of calendar, votes and political goodwill. Here is what went wrong and what replaces it if it fails.
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Compound named a new leadership team and approved a milestone based $52 million program to build institutional lending and RWA products.
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Neynar is seeking a new operator for Farcaster and Clanker less than seven months after acquiring the decentralized social protocol.
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Neutrl has suspended minting, redemptions, and other protocol functions while it assesses an unspecified reserve issue affecting roughly $53.7 million of NUSD in circulation. Neutrl pauses redemptions during reserve assessment Neutrl said in an Aug. 13 X post that it…
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Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says revenue-linked token buybacks could lift crypto valuations, as DeFi protocols expand fee-funded burns.
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You can prove you are over 18 without revealing your birthday. You can prove you have enough money for a transaction without revealing your balance. You can prove a computation was performed correctly without revealing the inputs. Zero-knowledge proofs make…
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Ethereum can process roughly 15 transactions per second. That is less than a single Starbucks checkout line. Rollups are the technology that lets Ethereum handle thousands of transactions per second without sacrificing the security that makes it valuable in the…
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Most people who trade on decentralized exchanges do not realize they are acting as their own market makers. Intent-based DEXs flip this model. Instead of interacting with a liquidity pool directly, you sign a message describing what you want, and…
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Smart contracts are powerful, but they are also blind. They cannot see prices, read weather data, or verify that a payment arrived in a bank account. Oracles are the infrastructure that connects blockchains to the outside world, and the security…
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Most traders assume depegs are slow. They are not. Inside the 30 second window where arbitrage bots, liquidation cascades, and oracle lag collide to turn a minor price slip into a systemic event. The popular explanation of a stablecoin depeg…
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Telegram trading bots let users buy and sell tokens directly from a chat interface. This guide explains how they work, which bots dominate the market, and what risks come with handing a bot your private key.
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RWA deposits across DeFi reached $7.4 billion as tokenized asset trading and collateral use grew despite declines in broader crypto activity.
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Flare’s FXRP token has been approved as collateral in an institutionally curated Morpho vault on Ethereum, letting XRP holders borrow Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin without selling. It is the first time an XRP-based asset has been accepted in a major on-chain…
