DeFi

Pump.fun Launches GO Bounty Platform, Immediately Draws Backlash Over Extreme Listings

Pump.fun launched GO, an escrow-based bounty marketplace letting anyone post and complete tasks for SOL rewards, within hours a user posted a 690000 dollar...

Dragonfly GP Tom Schmidt Calls Nova Markets Startup ‘Huge Scammers,’ Slams VCs

A Dragonfly Capital general partner partially walked back the attack on named investors. The founder responded by calling Schmidt a former backer turned hostile...

apxUSD Loses Dollar Peg as Bitcoin Slide Squeezes STRC-Backed Collateral

Apyx Finance's apxUSD stablecoin slipped to $0.94 after Bitcoin fell to $63K, the first concrete peg break in the chain linking Strategy's BTC treasury...

Sky Launches Fixed-Rate Yield Product Built on Pendle, Targeting $6B sUSDS Pool

Sky (formerly MakerDAO) launched Fixed Yield on Wednesday — a term-based alternative to the variable Sky Savings Rate built on Pendle Protocol v2, giving...

Coinbase Launches Pre-IPO Perpetual Futures, Starting with SpaceX

Coinbase International Exchange, operating through its BMA-licensed Bermuda entity, now offers USDC-settled perpetual futures on private-company valuations, with SpaceX as the first listing.Coinbase has...

Crypto’s worst week since July 2024 deepens as BTC, ETH prices near critical support levels

The crypto market is teetering on the brink of a major breakdown in price after suffering one of its worst weeks since July 2024.Bitcoin...

BitMine Files for $300M Preferred Stock Offering at 9.5% Yield to Expand ETH Treasury

BitMine Immersion Technologies filed a 424B5 prospectus supplement to raise up to $300 million through Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock at a 9.5% cumulative...

Arthur Hayes Exits Entire HYPE and NEAR Positions, Cites Iran War and AI IPO Pipeline

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes sold his full Hyperliquid and NEAR Protocol holdings on June 4, citing rising energy prices, a pipeline of AI IPOs,...

Shielded Labs Proposes New Zcash Upgrade to Prove ZEC Supply After Orchard Bug

The Zcash developer said researcher Taylor Hornby used Anthropic's latest AI model to find a flaw that could have minted undetectable counterfeit ZEC inside...

Spot Bitcoin ETF Outflow Streak Extends to Record 13 Days, $4.4B Cumulative

US spot Bitcoin ETFs posted a 13th consecutive day of net outflows on Wednesday, extending the longest withdrawal streak in the products' history to...

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Balance stablecoin collapses 99% after $1 million exploit drains its bitcoin vaults

Balance Coin, a low-circulation algorithmic stablecoin meant to hold...

Bitcoin under $66,000 as traders await Alphabet earnings to gauge AI trade

Bitcoin traded near $65,900 on Wednesday, holding just below...

Bitcoin at $66,300 as yen hits a 40-year low against dollar

Bitcoin held near $66,300 on Wednesday, consolidating a two-week...

AI models escaped OpenAI’s sandbox and hit Hugging Face. Crypto is where that gets dangerous

OpenAI caught the anomaly internally, while Hugging Face's team...