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Bad math makes headlines: real progress, a history of candlelight, and “the worst poverty analysis…ever seen”
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Despite a soft market backdrop, Solana DeFi tokens showed relative strength, with Sanctum leading the pack
by Carlos /
Anthropic researchers report that their AI agents successfully exploited 56% of vulnerable smart contracts
by Byron Gilliam /
Nearly 40% of Hyperliquid’s daily active users trade through third-party frontends rather than the native UI
by Shaunda Devens /
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BTC’s Asia-session move and Ethena’s weaker yields reflect a market adjusting to tighter yen funding and softer derivatives carry
by Shaunda Devens /
What Monad’s launch, MegaETH pre-market pricing, and the Berachain refund story say about today’s infra market
by Sam Schubert /
Prediction markets are hitting record volumes, while Neutrl opens one of crypto’s most overlooked yield opportunities
by Kunal Doshi /
Payments shift as KlarnaUSD lands on Tempo and MegaETH’s USDm rollout accelerates despite a messy predeposit
Rate cut probabilities swing back and risk assets recover, while Monad goes live and Galaxy’s investment case evolves
Traditional finance and crypto are converging. Join Blockworks, Circle, Aave Labs, and Blockdaemon as experts unpack how ETFs, tokenization, and DeFi are transforming global financial infrastructure.
Blockworks’ Digital Asset Summit (DAS) will feature conversations between the builders, allocators, and legislators who will shape the trajectory of the digital asset ecosystem in the US and abroad.
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The laws of macro investing are being re-written, and investors who fail to adapt to the rapidly changing monetary environment will struggle to keep pace. Felix Jauvin interviews the brightest minds in finance about which asset classes they think will thrive..
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Blockworks Research
Bittensor (TAO) remains the AI sector market leader with a MC of ~$3B. Recent protocol upgrades, shifting emissions mechanics, and strengthening subnet fundamentals are reshaping the outlook for TAO and the broader Bittensor ecosystem. With the first halving set to occur in mid-December 2025, conditions may be forming for the next leg of growth across both TAO and leading subnets.
by Kunal Doshi /
Blockworks Research
Equity options' $22T monthly volume—$11T in 0DTE—reveals massive demand for leveraged exposure that perpetual futures serve more efficiently via 24/7 linear exposure without theta decay. Regulatory barriers block US listing, pushing $42T annual non-US volume onchain where four models compete: Hyperliquid's HIP-3 dominates (Unit's Trade.XYZ holds 98-99% share) but faces weekend delta gaps; Ostium's peer-to-pool offers stable funding but halts on weekends; Solana's xStocks promises atomic cross-margining yet remains unrealized; Vest's dynamic offchain hedging provides protocol liquidity with adaptive weekend pricing.
by Shaunda Devens /
Blockworks Research
Decentralized AI coordination networks solve crypto's growing architectural mismatch: applications built on trustless infrastructure shouldn't depend on centralized intelligence providers. By turning model outputs into competitive marketplaces, protocols like Allora are building the permissionless intelligence layer that AI-powered DeFi and autonomous agents require.
by Daniel Shapiro /
Blockworks Research
Sui is a technically differentiated smart contract platform where an object centric architecture and full stack infrastructure are redefining what a monolithic L1 can support. Its design targets high throughput, low latency execution for fully onchain CLOBs, BTCfi, and new TAMs in gaming, robotics, and agentic AI, while keeping liquidity and composability on a single base layer. BTCfi rails via Ika and upcoming Hashi, plus native stablecoin plans with Ethena, BlackRock, and Bridge, aim to turn Sui into a BTC and stablecoin hub. DeFi primitives such as DeepBook, Bluefin, Momentum, and emerging perp venues are building on this stack to deepen leverage, liquidity, and institutional access. We see SUI as a high risk, venture style bet where team quality, architecture, and roadmap give it a credible shot at becoming a higher value execution and settlement layer if real usage scales.
by Sam Schubert /