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Why Apps Keep Coming Home to Ethereum

ENSv2 launched on mainnet instead of its planned L2, and it's not the only app heading home. Here's what's driving the shift.

William M. Peaster · 1 day ago

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Pump.fun and Fomo Sign On for Elysium's Day One

Two popular retail trading apps will support Kinetiq's new Hyperliquid chain when it launches November 9.

David Christopher · 1 day ago

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NYSE Owner Backs trade.xyz to Bring Hyperliquid Perps to the US

ICE, which owns the New York Stock Exchange, is investing in trade.xyz and plans for a US version of its Hyperliquid markets, pending CFTC approval.

David Christopher · 1 day ago

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Robinhood's New Chain Lifts Crypto Revenue Despite Q3 Profit Miss

Crypto revenue climbed 20% from Q2 on the back of Robinhood's L2, while prediction markets outearned crypto again and EPS fell short of estimates.

William M. Peaster · 1 day ago

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Succinct and the ZK Podcast Release Inaugural ZK Industry Report

The free report argues ZK proofs have cleared their speed hurdle, with adoption spreading from Ethereum blocks to bank deposit networks.

William M. Peaster · 1 day ago

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Strategy Shareholders Greenlight Daily Dividends for Its Preferreds

STRC moves to daily payouts on Nov. 1st, with STRF, STRK, and STRD following in January after common holders signed off on the change.

William M. Peaster · 1 day ago

Analysis

Can ORE Make Hard Money Without Proof of Work?

ORE has dropped computational proof of work. Here is how it works, and the case for and against it as a store of value.

David Christopher · 2 days ago

Analysis

Zcash's Dev Fund Has a Market Success Problem

ZEC's price run has turned a fixed 8% grants stream into a big trove, and now Zcash's own builders want to turn it down.

William M. Peaster · 2 days ago

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NBA Partners With Kalshi and Polymarket, Signs CFTC Pact

The NBA named Kalshi and Polymarket its preferred prediction market partners and signed a non-binding deal to share information with the CFTC.

David Christopher · 3 days ago

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AI Models Raise Their Own Circle Wallet Spending Caps

Researchers say nine of ten frontier models raised their own Circle agent-wallet spending cap with no human approval.

David Christopher · 3 days ago

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Zcash Co-Founder Proposes Ending ZCG's 8% Block Reward Share

Sean Bowe's draft ZIP would redirect Zcash Community Grants' 8% of new ZEC to the Network Sustainability Mechanism, arguing its roughly $125M in reserves is enough.

David Christopher · 3 days ago

Analysis

The Rise of Onchain Inference Markets

Orbio, Surplus Intelligence, and Antseed are all making AI inference cheaper onchain, and each in a different way.

David Christopher · 3 days ago

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Miden Opens Its Invite-Only Partner Mainnet, Privacy Guardrails Included

Invited users can now move real funds on the Polygon spin-off's privacy chain, though validators can still see private inputs for now.

William M. Peaster · 3 days ago

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Hyperliquid Formally Backs Kraken Parent's Push for US-Regulated Perps

Hyperliquid named Payward its intended first CFTC-regulated HIP-3* deployer, though approval, a launch date, and HIP-3* mainnet are still pending.

William M. Peaster · 3 days ago

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Keystone Breach Widens as Attacker Grabs Its Device Authentication Key

The hardware wallet maker will destroy 18,835 old devices and says it can't fully rule out fakes among units received after Oct. 20th.

William M. Peaster · 3 days ago

Analysis

Crypto's Two Answers to AI Bug Hunters

As AI makes bugs cheap to find, crypto is splitting between agility and minimalism.

William M. Peaster · 6 days ago

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Uniswap v4 Is Now an Aggregator

Uniswap's new Aggregator Hooks plug seven outside liquidity sources, covering more than 90% of DEX activity on Ethereum, Base and Robinhood Chain, into v4.

David Christopher · 1 week ago

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CME-Backed Group Pushes Back on Kalshi as Phantom Rolls Out Prediction Markets

The Commodity Markets Council wants the CFTC to block Kalshi's first oil perp, as Kalshi's October volume hits $55.33B and Phantom brings its markets to US users.

David Christopher · 1 week ago

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Starknet Votes to Explore Going Solo as a Post-Quantum L1

93.5% of voting power backed researching a standalone post-quantum chain, though any actual switch would still need another community vote.

William M. Peaster · 1 week ago

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Ethereum Devs Postpone Glamsterdam on Hoodi Over Contract Security Risks

Research showing two of Glamsterdam’s gas changes could alter how deployed contracts behave has pulled the upgrade’s Hoodi fork, with no new date set.

William M. Peaster · 1 week ago

Analysis

Why DefiLlama’s Data Markets Are Interesting

DefiLlama’s new markets are already pricing onchain earnings, quoting hack risk, and turning its methodology into money.

William M. Peaster · 1 week ago

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Ethereum Researchers Draft a Consensus Overhaul for Faster Finality

A draft EIP would split Ethereum’s validator voting in two, chasing faster finality, sturdier fork choice, and a path to post-quantum signatures.

William M. Peaster · 1 week ago

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Aerodrome and Velodrome Go Live as Aero Across Seven Chains

VELO holders now convert into AERO, with the merged supply split 94.5% to Aerodrome's side and 5.5% to Velodrome's.

David Christopher · 1 week ago

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Pump.fun Ditches Relay for In-House Pump Bridge

Pump.fun claims its own crosschain route cut buy errors 92% and halved typical buy times vs. Relay, the provider rival Fomo still uses.

David Christopher · 1 week ago

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a16z Crypto to Drop "Crypto" From Its Name, Rebrand as a16z Frontier: The Information

The nearly $10B crypto investor reportedly plans to look beyond crypto as GP Ali Yahya departs.

David Christopher · 1 week ago

Analysis

Coinbase's Plan for a Quantum-Safe Bitcoin

New addresses, new signatures and a plan for coins that never move: here's what Coinbase thinks Bitcoin needs.

David Christopher · 1 week ago

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Zcash Sprout Holders Have Two Weeks to Move Their ZEC

NU7 retires the transaction format Sprout depends on, so old shielded ZEC needs to move before activation.

William M. Peaster · 1 week ago

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Privacy Pools v2 Goes Live With Bigger Feature Suite

The compliance-first privacy protocol now does payments, yield, and swaps.

William M. Peaster · 1 week ago

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OpenSea Mobile Drops Its Waitlist

OpenSea's app is out of its waitlist, pitching follow-the-trader social trading across perps, memecoins, cards, and art.

William M. Peaster · 1 week ago

Analysis

Why Papertrade Won't Let PAPER Trade

In a house pool exchange, the token is the house. That's why Papertrade won't let it trade.

William M. Peaster · 1 week ago

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Onchain Inference Markets Post Record Token Usage

Surplus usage rose ~2.3x in under a month to a record 312.6B tokens on Oct 18, as rivals' volumes climb and critics demand dollar figures.

David Christopher · 1 week ago

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CFTC Tells Court CME Can't Challenge U.S. Perps

The CFTC says CME can't sue over U.S. perps because it hasn't been hurt, pointing to a 23% rise in CME's own crypto futures volume since May.

David Christopher · 1 week ago

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ZachXBT Flags $20M XMR Laundering Ring on Hyperliquid

More than 87% of inflows to FreedomXMR, a Monero swap service on Hyperliquid Core, came from illicit activity, with $20M+ traced to hacks and ransomware.

David Christopher · 1 week ago

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Vitalik Pushes EIP-8288 Over New Precompiles

Vitalik says EIP-8288, and not a growing pile of precompiles, should carry Ethereum's cryptography going forward.

William M. Peaster · 1 week ago

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Kinetiq's Elysium L2 Sets Nov. 9th Mainnet Launch

Kinetiq's Hyperliquid L2 finally has a date, though its HyperCore hooks will arrive a few weeks later.

William M. Peaster · 1 week ago

Analysis

The CFTC's Proposed Rules to Reshape U.S. Crypto Markets

Chairman Selig's CTX and CAM proposals could bring retail margin onshore, put exchanges under one federal roof, and reshape the fight over prediction markets.

David Christopher · 1 week ago