DeFi Stays Outside Rules as Regulators Tighten Elsewhere
The European Union’s new crypto tax reporting regime under DAC8 is intentionally focused on enforceable targets, leaving decentralized finance (DeFi)...
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There Is No Trust In DeFi Without Proper Risk Management
Opinion by: Robert Schmitt, founder and co-CEO at CorkDeFi has entered its institutional phase. As large investors dip their toes...
Solana Validators Drop 68% From 2023 Peak
Solana’s validator count has fallen dramatically over the past three years, raising concerns about the blockchain network’s decentralization as the...
The Next Alpha Is Onchain
Opinion by: Annabelle Huang, co-founder and CEO of Altius LabsFor centuries, the world’s traders and speculators have pursued one thing...
Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 Open Interest Notched $793M ATH On Monday
Layer-1 blockchain network Hyperliquid has seen an explosion in trading through “Builder-Deployed Perpetuals” this month, hitting a new all-time high...
Nifty Gateway to Shut Down in February 2026 as NFT Market Slump Deepens
Nifty Gateway, one of the earliest and most recognizable NFT marketplaces, is set to shut down operations next month, marking...
Farcaster Co-Founder Pushes Back on Shutdown Rumors
Merkle plans to return the full $180M raised to investors, framing the move as responsible capital management. Farcaster co-founder...
Restaking Promises Yield But Delivers Only Stacked Risk
Opinion by: Laura Wallendal, co-founder and CEO of AcreRestaking is often heralded as the next big thing in decentralized finance...
Fedi, Cornell And Bitcoin Think Tank Launch US Financial Privacy Study
The Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI), Fedi and Cornell University are launching a two‑year study on how Americans view financial privacy,...
SEC Crypto Task Force Receives New Submissions Around CLARITY Act
The submissions add to mounting pressure on regulators as Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong calls for compromise to pass market structure...
Makina Finance Loses $4.13M in Flash Loan Exploit On Curve Pool
The attacker used a 280 million USDC flash loan and oracle manipulation to extract nearly $5 million in value....
Bridges Are Crypto’s Next FTX Waiting To Happen
Opinion by: Kadan Stadelmann, chief technology officer of Komodo PlatformCrypto didn’t get wrecked by regulators or some shadowy conspiracy. The...
DeFi Leaders Voice Concerns amid Market Structure Bill‘s Uncertain Future
With a markup of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY) in the US Senate Banking Committee postponed indefinitely, leaders...
BitMine Invests $200M In MrBeast’s Beast Industries
BitMine Immersion Technology has agreed to invest $200 million in Beast Industries, the entertainment company founded by YouTube star Jimmy...
DeFi Protocols Move Away From Discord as Scam Risks Rise
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols are abandoning public Discord servers, arguing that the platform has become more of a liability than...
Perp DEXs Will Eat TradFi 2026: Delphi Digital
Perpetual decentralized exchanges (DEXs) are gaining traction as traders turn to blockchain-based platforms that promise lower costs and fewer intermediaries...
Solana Policy Institute Urges SEC Protect DeFi Developers From Regulations
Update (Jan. 13, 2026, 9.45 a.m. UTC): This article was updated to clarify the legal status and jurisdictions of recent...
DeFi TVL Tops $99B, Stablecoin Volume Hits $18.8T
Ethereum’s DeFi TVL surpassed $99B, over nine times larger than the next Layer 1, showing dominant network adoption in...
Sharplink Pockets $33M From Ether Staking, Deploys Another $170M
Public companies and crypto-focused treasury firms are increasingly turning to staking as a source of passive income.Sharplink Gaming, the world’s...
Truebit Suffers $26.5M Loss in First Major DeFi Hack of 2026
The exploit leveraged a flaw in Truebit’s pricing logic, letting the attacker mint unlimited TRU tokens and drain ETH...
Nike Quietly Sells RTFKT After NFT Studio Shutdown
Footwear conglomerate Nike has quietly offloaded RTFKT, the digital collectibles studio it acquired at the height of the non-fungible token...
Uniswap’s Hayden Adams Rejects Claims AMMs Are Unsustainable
Adams argues automated market makers are quietly winning where capital is cheap and volatility is low, like stablecoin pools....
