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Ostium, a perpetual DEX built on Arbitrum, halted trading after a vault exploit tied to oracle manipulation drained up to $18 million from the protocol, marking one of the more serious securi
Lighter is the exchange running perpetual futures inside Robinhood Wallet. It is also the clearest attempt yet to rebuild payment for order flow on a blockchain, backed by the company that ma
SBI Holdings completed its majority acquisition of Singapore-based crypto platform Coinhako on July 16 after receiving approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Coinhako has be
Hyperliquid News Today: Why HYPE Price Fell 8% After a16z Wallet Move? Hyperliquid news today isn't just about HYPE's price drop. One announcement could redefine future, while one wallet move
European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone has warned that the rising use of stablecoins could diminish commercial banks’ retail deposit base. Stablecoins and payment sector
Chainlink is one of the most talked about names in crypto right now, and for good reason. It's a decentralized oracle network that connects smart contracts to real-world data like prices, wea
Dash has shipped its Orchard-based privacy pool to production, positioning the Dash Orchard privacy pool as a shielded transfer system that pairs private credit movements with confirmation ti
ARB has taken a beating this cycle, and everyone watching it knows that. But the Arbitrum price prediction conversation is shifting a bit this week, because price is finally showing some life
SIREN Price Lost Signal Finds Its Way Home There's a number sitting quietly in SIREN's on-chain history that gets less attention than it deserves: $39.1 million. That's how much USDT the whal
MegaETH has shut down MegaMafia, its 2-year startup program, after deciding that the initiative created successful companies but returned too little value to the network. The move ends plans
At what point does "almost done" actually become "done"? That's a genuinely fair question to ask about a softcap that's been sitting in its final single-digit-thousands stretch for a while no
Solana vs Robinhood Chain: Comparing Speed, RWA, and Ecosystem Growth Robinhood Chain just went live. And right away, people started asking one thing: is this a threat to Solana? It's a fair
