DeFi

CoinDesk 20 performance update: Stellar (XLM) gains 6% as all constituents rise

Aave (AAVE), up 5.8% from Tuesday, joined Stellar (XLM) as a top performer.

Latest Clarity Act Draft Bans Rewards on Passive Stablecoin Balances

Activity-based rewards are allowed, but anything ‘economically equivalent to interest’ is barred.Crypto industry leaders reviewed the draft stablecoin yield language in the Digital Asset...

Aave DAO Supports V4 Rollout Plan in Snapshot Vote

Aave’s decentralized autonomous organization backed a proposal to move its V4 protocol toward deployment on Ethereum mainnet, signaling broader support for the upgrade after...

Resolv Pauses Protocol After 80M USR Exploit

Resolv Labs has temporarily paused its protocol after an exploit on Sunday in which an attacker minted 80 million unbacked tokens, knocking the dollar...

There’s a huge $14 billion bitcoin options expiry this Friday and it points to $75,000 as price magnet

On Friday, bitcoin BTC$71,171.94 options or derivative contracts worth billions will expire on crypto exchange Deribit. Traders might want to note that the dynamics...

Cardano (ADA) price signal that once preceded a 300% rally is back

The average Cardano holder who bought in the past year is down 43%. The derivatives market is betting it gets worse. But both of...

Retail traders fare worse on prediction markets than sportsbooks

Prediction markets are exciting, but they’re not reliable wealth builders for retail users. Research by Citizens shows that retail prediction market users are losing...

CFTC Launches Innovation Task Force Covering Crypto, AI, and Prediction Markets

The new unit will coordinate policy development and work alongside the SEC's Crypto Task Force.The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Tuesday announced...

Bittensor Subnet Tokens Surge as TAO Rally Boosts Ecosystem

Bittensor subnet tokens' cumulative valuation has climbed to $1.5 billion as nearly every token in the ecosystem posts double- or triple-digit 30-day gains.Decentralized artificial...

BTC volatility signals a bottom as tradfi reels in uncertainty

Some worry bitcoin BTC$70,577.61 could still see a deeper sell-off, but one key indicator suggests the bottom may already be behind us.That indicator is...

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2 weeks left for Clarity: State of Crypto

The crypto industry, naturally, is urging passage. The common...

CFTC Warns Prediction Markets Over Vague Self-Certification

For the second time this year, the US Commodity...

U.S. regulator warns prediction markets against cutting corners in event contracts

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which has claimed...

Europe’s high regulatory bar could spark new crypto industry M&A wave

"As it uses existing rules, it’s going to be...

BitMart to shut down after nine years, exchange token crashes 58%

BMX, the platform's token, fell to about 8 cents,...