DeFi
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Value distribution came to $1.9 billion distributed in Q3, though total revenues have yet to beat 2021 heights
With tBTC under the hood, Acre abstracts bridging and converts non-BTC rewards to bitcoin
The $200M Sharplink plan combines staking, Eigencloud AVS rewards and partner incentives under qualified custody
The project’s ICO page showed more than $150 million in bids at $3 billion FDV
With 10Y Treasury yields falling below 4%, Spark is moving $100M into Superstate’s crypto carry fund
Companion “Wallet” software now includes an “Enterprise Multisig” built on Safe, but adds on-device clear signing
As AI reshapes the demand for infrastructure, Bitcoin miners are reinventing themselves as energy-first compute providers
From The DAO to Mango Markets, a documentary puts the spotlight on whether immutability should trump intent
Praise from EF leaders, warnings from skeptics — and a community deciding whether this is a threat or a forcing function
ZachXBT says $3 million worth of XRP from a crypto user in the US was laundered through Huione-linked OTC venues
Marketplace to allocate 50% of token supply to the community and use half of the launch revenue for SEA buybacks
Longtime Ethereum developer developer Dankrad Feist announced he will join Tempo
DePIN startup’s raise combines equity from Framework Ventures and project financing from Turtle Hill
Protocol says a USD synthetic is coming, rounding out DEX and lending
Stablecoins are blockchain’s “ChatGPT moment” says Citi analyst Sophia Bantanidis at DAS London
Bitcoin miners are up more than 150% this year as investors re-rate them as energy infrastructure providers
The new Rootstock Institutional unit aims to connect professional investors to Bitcoin-native yield and liquidity strategies anchored in BTC’s security layer
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