DeFi
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Friday saw dramatic crypto market activity in the hours after President Donald Trump threatened a new flare-up in US-China trade tensions.
Speculation about a DAT company steering Ethereum overlooks its governance: messy and resistant to corporate capture
Jupiter’s ecosystem will gain a native stablecoin, JupUSD, built with Ethena Labs’ infrastructure and backed by USDtb and USDe
Pipe’s testnet has delivered 60+ PB of data across ~290,000 Point of Presence (PoP) nodes
Gnosis is betting that openness — not ownership — will define the future of onchain money
The Guidestar team, led by Alex Nezlobin, will join Uniswap Labs to enhance automated market maker design and smart order routing
More than 75 million U.S. Galaxy owners gain integrated Coinbase One access through Samsung Wallet, with global rollout planned
The perp DEX verifies matching and liquidations with custom zero-knowledge circuits and keeps user assets on Ethereum
Global fiber network goes live as SEC clears 2Z token for utility use
FG Nexus teams with Securitize to bring its Nasdaq-listed equity onchain, offering tokenized stock trading through Ethereum
New appointments aim to coordinate privacy projects across Ethereum, advancing cryptographic tools and secure scaling
The defense argues DOJ is criminalizing open-source code and violating First Amendment protections in landmark crypto case
EF report maps eight factions within the ecosystem, warning that short-term pragmatism is eclipsing the protocol’s founding vision
Phantom expands its wallet into a money app, powered by Bridge’s CASH stablecoin and Visa-backed payment integration
Robinhood explores overseas expansion as regulators debate whether contracts are financial products or gambling bets
Layer-2 zk rollup rolls out staking and incentives to lure wrapped bitcoin for holders in search of yield
The self-styled web3 “operating system” launched its token, on Ethereum, but third-party dapps and AnomaPay are not yet live
Fusaka testnet activations begin next week with a 60M gas limit bump in tow. Meanwhile, Ethereum core devs gear up for Glamsterdam’s first devnet
The open-source marketplace reshapes Solana block building while boosting JitoDAO revenue and inviting new challengers
Zeus’s BitcoinKit is unveiled in its latest epoch to empower BTC-native apps on Solana
A planned $100M Ether.fi sleeve and a $47M pufETH buy from Puffer signal DAT treasuries shifting toward long-horizon, policy-driven allocations