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On November 29, 2024, a perpetual futures exchange called Hyperliquid distributed 31% of its total token supply to users who had traded on the platform. There was no venture capital allocation to dilute the drop. There was no points program…
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In the summer of 2020, a governance token called COMP turned decentralized finance inside out. Compound, a lending protocol on Ethereum, began distributing COMP tokens to anyone who lent or borrowed on the platform, and within weeks, hundreds of millions…
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In April 2024, a single on-chain vote moved $165 million from Uniswap’s treasury into a two-year grants program. No CEO signed off. No board convened. A collection of token holders, pseudonymous and scattered across every time zone, debated the proposal…
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Binance Research says DeFi TVL fell $43.4 billion in H1 2026 as L1 values and Layer 2 activity contracted while prediction markets grew.
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Every guide says a liquidity lock means safer. On launchpads paying creator fees, the lock is the scam’s revenue engine. What it does and does not cover.
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Uniswap founder Hayden Adams says v4 protocol fees are added to existing LP rates after governance activated fees across seven chains.
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Psalion launched a $50 million Singapore VCC fund for seed-stage blockchain projects and disclosed a $4 million Beezie round.
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Upbit adds MORPHO and EUL to its KRW market, delays Euler trading by two hours, and limits deposits and withdrawals to Ethereum.
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Odos Protocol has announced plans to shut down its decentralized exchange aggregator, giving users until July 30 to withdraw assets from the platform. According to a Thursday announcement posted on X, the project will discontinue operations and has asked users…
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Odos closes all services July 30, giving social-login wallet users days to transfer assets or export keys; the ODOS token stays onchain too.
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Crypto venture funding has reached $1.2 billion in July even as DeFi investment has fallen to its lowest quarterly level since late 2023. CryptoRank data shows that investors completed roughly 25 funding rounds in July as of July 20, keeping…
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Spreadefi faces scrutiny as users assess trust, transparency, and DeFi platform credibility. As the decentralized finance (DeFi) space has evolved, users have gotten a lot more careful about which platforms they trust with their digital assets. After a long line…
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1inch co-founder Anton Bukov says he was fired in 2025 and has left operations to launch Second Tier while retaining a 50% ownership stake.
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ARK Invest challenges a16z’s view that TradFi will favor controlled blockchains, arguing institutions will increasingly adopt DeFi rails.
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Morpho restored its app and API after a suspected AWS CloudFront outage caused partial disruption, with no onchain failure reported.
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Hyperion DeFi has committed 500,000 HYPE tokens to support institutional perpetual futures listings on Hyperliquid through a new agreement with Skew Technologies. According to a Wednesday press release, the Nasdaq-listed company will deploy the tokens under Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 permissionless listings…