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As part of the rollout, Symbiotic unveiled two staking vaults: a $100 million LINK vault and a 20 million BARD vault

The BAGWORK memecoin creators made $169K on a 4-day-old memecoin, making it the 0.01% of creators that have earned more than $10K with Pump

At BaseCamp 2025, Jesse Pollak confirmed early discussions on a Base token, and committed to building on Ethereum

Risk Committee confirms conditions met, with governance vote to finalize Ethena’s revenue-sharing framework for ENA holders

The new Ethereum Foundation initiative aims to standardize AI-agent protocols and build a decentralized AI stack for long-term use

P2P.org launches pre-activated validators to bypass Ethereum’s sometimes multi-week entry queue.

The layer-2’s biggest release yet brings benefits — but a post-upgrade outage caused a chain reorg

Following a roundtable, the startup emerges as frontrunner, despite entries from Paxos, Ethena, and others

Tempo’s announcement reignites debates over Ethereum fast finality and whether corporate chains can ever be truly neutral

Astana regulator begins trial accepting USD-backed stablecoins for payments through Bybit integration

Season One of the DeFi Renaissance Incentive Program (DRIP) will distribute up to 24 million ARB to users

A new Earn tab on stake.lido.fi surfaces curated vaults, for one-click blue-chip strategies

ETH onchain is slowly coming back while Crypto Twitter’s falling in love with a new flavor of gambling

UNI holders will decide on creating “DUNI,” a Wyoming Decentralized Unincorporated Nonprofit Association

World Liberty Financial opened WLFI claims at 8:00 am ET, driving a rush of on-chain transactions that pushed Ethereum gas into triple digits

Developers debated the buffer between client releases and the first testnet fork in an effort to keep Fusaka on schedule

Despite incentives and a sweeping rebrand from MakerDAO, USDS growth has stalled and DAI is quietly resurging

Faster markets and bigger bets are reshaping how capital and predictions flow onchain