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EU Parliament Opens the Door to DeFi, Staking and NFTs Under MiCA
Europe’s crypto rulebook may be about to get a second act. After years of building MiCA into the world’s most comprehensive crypto framework, lawmakers are now looking at what the regulation left outside: decentralized finance, staking, crypto lending and NFTs. The European Parliament has adopted it
Hoskinson Says Ethereum Is Borrowing Cardano’s Biggest Innovation Without Giving Credit
The long-running rivalry between Cardano and Ethereum has flared up once again, this time over one of blockchain’s most fundamental design choices. Charles Hoskinson, founder of Cardano and one of Ethereum’s original co-founders, has accused the Ethereum ecosystem of attempting to adopt
Ripple’s Flutterwave Bet Turns African Payments Into a Stablecoin Battleground
Ripple’s strategic investment in Flutterwave is not just another fintech funding headline. It is a direct bet on one of the most important questions in global payments: can stablecoins finally make cross-border settlement faster, cheaper, and more useful at scale? By backing Flutterwave at a reporte
CZ’s Hyperliquid Admission Exposes the New Fault Line in Crypto Exchanges
When Changpeng Zhao says Binance cannot compete with a rising exchange, the market listens. Not because Binance suddenly looks weak, but because CZ rarely frames competition in such blunt terms. His recent comments on the Galaxy Brains podcast about Hyperliquid were notable for exactly that reason.
Ondo Brings Wall Street to Ledger Wallets: Tokenized Stocks Move Closer to Crypto’s Self-Custody Era
The line between crypto wallets and brokerage accounts is getting thinner. Ondo Finance has integrated more than 260 tokenized stocks and ETFs into Ledger Wallet, allowing users to access assets such as tokenized Nvidia, Amazon, McDonald’s and major ETFs directly from a self-custody environment. For
Coinbase Just Put Ethena in the Middle of the Onchain Finance Race
Coinbase has spent years trying to bring crypto closer to mainstream finance without losing the advantages that made onchain markets interesting in the first place. Ethena has spent the last cycle building one of the most talked-about synthetic dollar protocols in DeFi. Now the two are moving closer
Linea’s TVL Slide Raises Hard Questions for Consensys’ Layer 2 Ambitions
Linea was supposed to be one of Ethereum’s most institutionally credible Layer 2 bets: a zkEVM network backed by Consensys, tied to the MetaMask ecosystem, and marketed around Ethereum alignment rather than speculative detours. But the latest DeFi data tells a much colder story. Linea’s total value
DeFi Users After the ATH: Why the Next Boom Will Look Nothing Like 2021
DeFi users are no longer the same crowd that chased triple-digit yields through Ethereum in 2021. The market has survived Terra, FTX, bridge hacks, toxic token emissions, regulatory pressure, and the slow death of the “number go up” liquidity-mining era. Yet DeFi has not disappeared. It has changed
Avalanche Enters the Stablecoin Big Leagues as BUIDL Becomes Its Institutional Anchor
Avalanche has quietly crossed into a more serious category of blockchain network: the stablecoin layer. With roughly $1.66 billion in stablecoin supply on the chain, Avalanche now ranks among the ten largest stablecoin networks by supply, putting it in the same conversation as the blockchains that h
Fake Uniswap Ads on Google Show Crypto’s Most Dangerous Attack Vector Is Still the Search Bar
The latest Uniswap phishing campaign did not require a protocol exploit, a bridge vulnerability, or a smart contract bug. It needed something far simpler: a sponsored Google result that looked convincing enough for users to click. According to on-chain analyst b-block and Web3 marketer Stacy Muur, s
Pompliano’s Crypto Purge: Why Bitcoin, Stablecoins and Tokenization May Be the Only Survivors
Anthony Pompliano has never been shy about drawing hard lines in crypto, but his latest argument cuts deeper than the usual Bitcoin maximalist sermon. His message is not simply that Bitcoin will win. It is that most of the crypto industry has already lost. In his view, the future belongs to a narrow
Monad’s $76M Echo Protocol Shock Shows DeFi’s Real Weakness: Not Code Alone, but Control
Crypto has been hit by another security scare, and this one carries exactly the kind of headline number that rattles markets: $76 million. Echo Protocol, a Bitcoin-focused DeFi project deployed on Monad, suspended cross-chain transactions after an attacker allegedly minted 1,000 unauthorized eBTC, a