Trump’s White House Crypto Meeting: Key Takeaways
US President Donald Trump met with crypto and prediction market executives at the White House on Wednesday, August 19, pushing Congress to pass the CLARITY Act while also signaling that regul
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How Did Pudgy Penguins Build a Physical Consumer Brand Around PENGU?
Pudgy Penguins built its physical consumer brand by licensing its penguin characters into toys, trading cards, and games sold through Walmart, Target, and Amazon, while keeping that retail bu
Tokenized deposits could cut U.S. bank lending capacity by $580 billion: report
Tokenized deposits have raised concerns that faster movement of bank money could reduce U.S. banks’ capacity to fund long term loans by hundreds of billions of dollars if the technology reach
Bybit Adds Plume’s nOPAL Credit Vault to Its RWA Earn Platform
Bybit has added nOPAL, a Plume-based private-credit vault managed by BlackOpal Finance, to its RWA Earn platform. The August 27 listing announcement says eligible users can subscribe and rede
The Sandbox to reimburse SAND holders after 14.7M token bridge exploit
The Sandbox has pledged to reimburse eligible SAND holders 1:1 after an Aug. 21 bridge exploit drained about 14.7 million tokens worth roughly $700,000 from an Ethereum vault. Summary The San
Eylül’de Parlayabilecek 3 Meme Coin: Gözler Bu Coinlerde!
Meme coin piyasasında Ağustos ayının son günlerine yaklaşılırken yatırımcıların odağı şimdiden Eylül ayında öne çıkabilecek tokenlara çevriliyor. CoinGecko verilerine göre önde gelen meme coi
Moonwell Probes Base Lending Issue After Exploit Alert
Moonwell, the decentralized lending protocol, said it is investigating a lending market issue on Base, the incident at the center of a widening Moonwell Base exploit inquiry that security res
Sandbox Reports Differ on $ Value of SAND Vault Theft
Cryptopolitan and Cointelegraph agree on how The Sandbox's bridge was exploited and on its 1:1 compensation plan, but give different dollar values for the same ~14.74 million SAND withdrawn f
Core steps its block reward down every year instead of halving it
A Supply Cap Built in Bitcoin's Image @Coredao_Org has structured the supply of its native token with a clear nod to Bitcoin. CORE mirrors Bitcoin's scarcity model with a fixed supply cap of
Ethena Foundation buys out selling investors as 95% revenue buyback goes to a vote
The @EthenaFndtn has unveiled a sweeping overhaul of its token economics, buying out locked positions held by early seed investors and launching a governance vote that could redirect 95% of t
Internet Computer upgrades its subnets one at a time instead of all at once
Two Votes, One Upgrade at a Time Most blockchain networks coordinate protocol upgrades in a single, network-wide event. @dfinity's Internet Computer takes a more deliberate approach, rolling
Best Self Custody Wallets September 2026: A Full Comparison Guide
From Hot to Cold: Best Self Custody Wallets September 2026 Self-custody is not one single setup. It stretches from a browser extension you open a dozen times a day to a hardware device that s