South Korea to Hear From Polymarket Before Deciding on Action
South Korea’s Polymarket Review Tests the Limits of Prediction Markets Under Gambling Laws South Korea’s media and communications regulator has delayed a decision on whether to take corrective action against…
Kraken Accepts Tokenized Stocks as Collateral for Leveraged Trading
Kraken Lets Traders Use Tokenized Stocks as Collateral for Futures and Margin Trading Crypto exchange Kraken has started accepting select tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds as collateral for futures and…
Nearly 1 Million Trump Memecoin Wallets Are Underwater, Face $4B in Combined Losses
Nearly 1 million wallets that bought President Donald Trump’s official memecoin have recorded losses since the token launched in January 2025, underscoring how sharply the market has turned against one…
Ethereum Prepares Multi-Year ‘Lean Ethereum’ Overhaul as Buterin Prioritizes Storage, Quantum Security
Ethereum Prepares Multi-Year ‘Lean Ethereum’ Overhaul as Buterin Prioritizes Storage, Quantum Security Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has outlined an updated vision for Ethereum’s long-term development, describing the network’s “Lean Ethereum”…
Robinhood Goes Deeper Into Onchain Finance With Mainnet Launch, Stock Tokens and Global Expansion
Robinhood has launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 blockchain built using the Arbitrum platform, as the brokerage expands deeper into onchain finance, tokenized assets, decentralized lending…
Crypto Self-Custody Becomes a Security Test as Exchange Trust Keeps Breaking
The promise of cryptocurrency was always simple: users could own assets without depending on banks, brokers or centralized gatekeepers. That promise has become harder to ignore after years of exchange…
Fair Ordering Becomes the Missing Consensus Layer as MEV Pressure Exposes Blockchain Design Limits
Consensus protocols have traditionally been judged by two core guarantees: consistency and liveness. Consistency ensures that nodes agree on the same set and sequence of transactions. Liveness ensures that the…
Aave’s $8.45B Withdrawal Shock Shows DeFi Can Survive Stress, But Not Escape It
Aave faced one of the largest real-world stress tests in decentralized finance after users withdrew about $8.45 billion from the lending protocol following the KelpDAO rsETH bridge exploit in April…
Pump.fun’s Bounty Controversy Shows Memecoins Are Moving From Screens to Bodies
Pump.fun is facing renewed scrutiny over how far memecoin promotion can go, as reports of users accepting crypto rewards for physical stunts raise questions about whether the sector’s attention-driven culture…
Strategy’s Shrinking Dividend Buffer Turns Its Bitcoin Bet Into a Cash-Management Problem
Strategy is facing renewed scrutiny over the sustainability of its Bitcoin accumulation model after its dividend coverage fell sharply, prompting CryptoQuant to argue that the company should pause Bitcoin purchases…