Article Robinhood Chain's Unexpected Meme Meta Robinhood built its L2 for serious onchain finance, but degens had other plans.
News Paradigm Raises $1.2B Fourth Fund, Expands Into AI Paradigm's $1.2B fourth fund broadens beyond crypto into AI and robotics, joining Framework Ventures and Haun Ventures in widening their scopes.
News BNB Chain Builds New L1 for Agentic Trading BNB Chain's new L1 removes the mempool and targets sub-50ms preconfirmation, built for AI agents as chains race for agent trading tools.
News Robinhood Chain's First Big Traction Comes From Memecoins Robinhood Chain was built for tokenized stocks and agentic trading, but memecoin CASHCAT is driving its first real surge in trading volume.
Article How Strategy Can Sell Billions More in Bitcoin Strategy sold $216M in Bitcoin to fund dividends but still reports full $1.25B reserve capacity. The build-versus-replenish loophole explained.
News SEC Tees Up "Regulation Crypto" in New Rulemaking Agenda The SEC just published its 2026 rulemaking agenda, and crypto is a top priority.
News Lazy Summer Protocol Drained of $6M in Vault Price Exploit Lazy Summer Protocol lost $6M to a NAV manipulation exploit three months in the making.
News Ondo Unveils Perps DEX With Tokenized Stocks as Collateral Ondo just launched a perps platform where tokenized stocks can be used to back leveraged positions.
Article Ethereum's Third and Ultimate Form Is Taking Shape Nearly every major piece of Ethereum is slated for transformation.
News USDC Extends Lead Over USDT to 70% of Volume in 2026 USDC now handles 70% of adjusted stablecoin transaction volume as banks like Standard Chartered and BNY build on Circle's network.
News Buterin Proposes 'Extremely Lean' Ethereum Overhaul Buterin's new proposal would shrink Ethereum's validator state sharply using daily ZK proofs, part of the multi-year "Lean Ethereum" redesign.
News Strategy Sells $215M More BTC as Bitcoin Holds Steady Strategy sold $215M in BTC over two weeks to fund dividends, and BTC closed the week higher, testing whether the market can absorb ongoing sales.
News eToro Leads $12.5M Round for Onchain Perps Platform Extended eToro led a $12.5M round for Extended, a perpetuals exchange it will integrate into its recently acquired self-custodial wallet, Zengo.
News Africa's Largest Centralized Exchange Integrates Hyperliquid Perps VALR will become the first major regulated exchange to natively integrate Hyperliquid, sourcing onchain liquidity for 200+ perps markets.
Article Robinhood Just Revealed Lighter's Master Plan Robinhood's integration marks the first Lighter Domain, and a preview of how the zk perps DEX plans to scale.
News Solana Launches Onchain Governance With 100K SOL Entry Solana's new governance system lets validators with 100,000 SOL staked propose network changes, while delegators vote for or against the changes.
Article Open USD Is Coming for Circle's Margins The newest major stablecoin consortium is offering businesses a better deal than Circle has. Will Circle be fazed?
News Tokenized Trading Card Gachas Blow Past $300M in June June marked a new ATH for onchain gacha spending volume, the category's fourth record month running.
News Ethereum Institutional Launches as Ecosystem's New Wall Street Liaison Ethereum Institutional has arrived as a nonprofit liaison for institutional adoption.
News Venice Joins the Unicorn Club, Now Valued at $1B Venice just raised a war chest for its mission to bring private AI into the mainstream.
Article Solana’s Venice is Loading The case for confidential compute on Solana amid the ANSEM frenzy has an interesting setup forming for Arcium's token.
News SEC Starts Comment Period on Rules for Crypto and "Novel" ETFs The SEC is asking the public whether its current rulebook can keep pace with novel funds covering digital assets, prediction markets, and more.
News NFTX Teases v4 Relaunch With New Whitepaper NFT trading protocol NFTX is relaunching with a next-gen design atop Uniswap v4.
News Dozens of Major Companies Become Open USD Launch Partners Some of the biggest names in finance and beyond are joining forces to back the Open USD stablecoin.
Article The Case for a Second Ethereum R&D Lab Making ETH inevitable and scaling Ethereum to the world. Ethlabs's co-founders sat down with Bankless to unpack the new org's mission.
