Analysis Can Crypto Save the Internet? Bots are strip mining the open web. Cloudflare's CEO thinks x402 and stablecoins are the solution.
News HYPE Hits All-Time High Above $62 as ETF Flows Grow HYPE surged past its previous all-time high Thursday on strong ETF inflows, surpassing Solana in fully diluted valuation.
News Crypto PAC Backed by Chainlink and Anchorage Makes First Endorsements The Blockchain Leadership Fund backed ten candidates across both parties, pushing bipartisan support for blockchain regulation.
Article Lighter Launches RFQ Beta to Compete on RWA Perps Lighter's hybrid RFQ system alerts market makers looks to improve execution on thin RWA markets where competition is fiercest.
News Circle Co-Founder Raise $30M to Build Banks for Agents Catena Labs raised $30M to build regulated banking infrastructure for AI agents, while filing for a national trust bank charter with the OCC.
News Hyperliquid ETF Inflows Grow 8x Since Launch Bitwise and 21Shares are the only live HYPE ETFs so far, with inflows growing 8x since day one and VanEck and Grayscale filings still pending.
News Variational Raises $50M to Use TradFi Liquidity Onchain Variational raised $50M from Dragonfly to pitch RFQ as the right architecture for RWA perps, arguing order books break beyond the top assets.
Analysis How USDC Wins the Hyperliquid Deal Tether dominates Binance, but Coinbase just installed USDC on Hyperliquid. The battle for stablecoin distribution is intensifying.
Mindshare Venice Amidst the Inference Shift Cerebras' IPO marked AI's shift from training to inference. Venice's ecosystem, with tokens like DIEM and POD, is set up benefit.
Analysis How Congress Wants to Grade Crypto Decentralization The long-awaited crypto market structure bill aims to get crystal clear on what decentralized crypto projects really look like.
News Democrats File Anti-DeFi Amendments to CLARITY Act Critics identified 15 amendments to CLARITY targeting DeFi developers – including BRCA rollbacks, criminal liability for code, and smart contract sanctions.
Analysis Plugging Hyperliquid into Your AI Stock Trading Stack Tokenized AI stocks landing on Hyperliquid are opening the door to automated perp and spot strategies onchain.
Article Circle Raises $222M for Arc Institutional Blockchain Circle's Arc token presale closes at a $3B FDV with BlackRock and a16z backing, as Circle moves to own the whole stack behind USDC.
Article The Week Solana Brought Google to x402 Pay.sh shows x402 moving from unauthorized API wrappers toward native integrations, with Google Cloud anchoring Solana's gateway to agentic payments.
Analysis Can Congress Get CLARITY Across the Line? Senators resolved one key dispute, but fights over developer protections and ethics rules could threaten the crypto bill’s buzzer beater passage.
Analysis Breaking Down Hyperliquid’s Prediction Play The HIP-4 upgrade brings “outcome markets” to the much-hyped exchange, adding binary trading alongside perps.
Article Agents and x402 Make DeFi Safer When used properly, agents can shrink DeFi’s attack surface while helping users react to live risk before it becomes damage.
Opinion Prediction Markets Face a Full-Court Press Kalshi and Polymarket may have a wild road ahead as states wage war on sports markets and the public reckons with insider bets.
Analysis Can MEGA Defy the Bear Market? MegaETH's MEGA token is launching into a tough market, but real usage and novel design could give it an edge.
News Western Union Launching Stablecoin and Global Spend Card Western Union's USDPT hits Solana next month as a SWIFT replacement, with a stablecoin card targeting inflation-sensitive markets coming later.
News Ethics Concerns Could Tank the Clarity Act Sen. Tillis' ethics provisions are the latest headwind for the Clarity Act, which recently missed its latest April deadline.
Article Who Authorized This? The Gray Area of x402 x402 needs native integrators to succeed. Unauthorized wrappers could turn potential partners into adversaries instead.
Analysis AI Rewrites the DeSci Equation AI is collapsing drug discovery costs, expanding what DeSci communities can fund and explore.
Article Productive Money: The ETH Thesis Grows Up Etherealize just dropped a report making the case for $250K ETH. The argument closes a loop Bankless opened six years ago.
News Vercel Breached via Third-Party AI Tool, User Keys at Risk An attacker used a compromised AI platform to access Vercel's internal systems and customer environment variables. Here's what happened and what to do.
