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DeFi projects are getting tired of paying rent for liquidity. Instead of endlessly funding yield farms, more teams are buying and running their own LP positions. That shift has a name: protoc
Michael Saylor said Strategy's Bitcoin monetization plan does not require BTC sales. The existing framework allows sales only for defined corporate purposes. Strategy remains a net Bitcoin bu
Key Insights: Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) says no wallet is completely safe after the reported $40 million COLDCARD exploit. Samson Mow urges affected users to document everything and
July was a very eventful month for the company behind XRP, and we will explore some of the major developments, such as growing the stablecoin business, institutional infrastructure, and the X
CryptoQuant data showed 226 billion SHIB moved onto exchanges despite price gains, signaling rising selling pressure across the market. Exchange deposits outpaced withdrawals, while buyers ma
August is off to a decent start. The whole crypto market is up a little over half a percent in the last day, now at $2.18 trillion. What turned things around is that Trump called off those pl
Key Highlights UNI trades at $4.23, up 32.3% over the past month following the activation of the v4 fee switch and buy-and-burn mechanism. 106,000 UNI was burned on July 29, marking the third
Key Takeaways Disabled machines may remain in retail locations until December 31. Minnesota recorded 134 complaints and nearly $1 million in losses from 2023 through 2025. Bitcoin Depot cited
OpenAI named its next major model family Astra on Aug. 1 and said an internal version solved 10 long-open problems in math and theoretical computer science. Key Points: OpenAI confirmed the A
The onchain revenue pie is becoming dangerously concentrated. A handful of applications now dominate fee generation across Ethereum and its layer‑2 ecosystems, and the pressure is already res
TLDR: DEX spot volume reached 24% of CEX trading in July 2026, marking its highest recorded share since 2019. The ratio rose even as monthly DEX turnover fell 26%, showing relative gains duri
Key Takeaways Most costs came from funding, conversion and withdrawal rather than the onchain transfer. The same country pair produced different results depending on transfer direction and pr
