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Robinhood Is Using Uniswap’s TJAR to Convert Trading Fees Into Stablecoins. It Is a Treasury Tool, Not a New DEX.
A crypto app can earn fees in a large collection of tokens without wanting to keep any of them. Every asset that…
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Binance’s Attacker Raced $3 Billion in Freezes. The Escape Route Ran Through DeFi
The response to Binance’s October 29 security incident became a race between blockchains that move assets continuously and organizations that can stop…
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Blast Went From More Than $2 Billion in TVL to a Shutdown Notice. Layer 2 Economics Finally Hit the Income Statement
Blast once had more than $2 billion deposited before its mainnet was even live. On October 2, the Ethereum Layer 2 announced…
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OKX and ICE Built a Permissioned Uniswap Pool for Real U.S. Stocks. This Is What Regulated DeFi Actually Looks Like
The phrase “tokenized stocks” has covered several very different products: synthetic price exposure, offshore wrappers, broker-issued claims and tokens backed one-for-one by…
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Base’s Cobalt Upgrade Lets Transactions Wait for a Price and Lets Issuers Seize B20 Assets. Both Are Protocol Features Now
Base activated its Cobalt upgrade on mainnet on September 30. The headline features sound unrelated: traders can submit transactions that wait for…
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zk.money Is Back After Three Years. The Payment Can Be Private Even Though the Deposit Is Not
Aztec has brought zk.money back three years after shutting down the original product. The new wallet runs on Aztec Network and hides…
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Robinhood Chain’s Anti-Sniping Exemptions Let Selected Wallets Take 82% to 86% of Supply. That Is the Design Problem
An anti-sniping system is supposed to stop insiders and bots from owning a token before ordinary buyers can react. On Robinhood Chain’s…
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Coinbase Put a Fixed Maturity Date on Bitcoin Loans. DeFi Credit Is Starting to Look Like a Bank Product
Crypto lending spent most of its history asking borrowers to accept one uncomfortable variable: the interest rate could change while the loan…
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The SEC Just Opened a Five-Year Lane for Tokenized U.S. Stocks. Synthetic Shares Are Not Invited
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has created a temporary regulatory lane for trading tokenized versions of U.S.-listed stocks onchain. The order,…
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The CLARITY Act Has Reached Its Hard Part: The Senate Vote Is Now About More Than Crypto
The U.S. Senate is heading toward a key procedural vote on September 15 on crypto market-structure legislation, after more than a year…
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Someone Pumped a Token 100x, Borrowed Against It, and the Chain Was Halted Mid-Escape
Cronos halted its network after an exploit on the Tectonic lending protocol. The attacker is estimated to have borrowed around $75 million…
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You Locked Your ETH in a Validator. So Why Can You Still Trade It?
Staking is supposed to involve a trade. You commit your coins to securing the network, and in exchange for the yield, you…