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Mantle Collaborates with Bybit and Backed to Bring U.S. Equities Onchain, Pioneering Next Trillion-Dollar Wave of Tokenized Assets
Mantle Collaborates with Bybit and Backed to Bring U.S. Equities Onchain, Pioneering Next Trillion-Dollar Wave of Tokenized Assets
9 hours ago
Bybit PWM Posts 16.9% Fund Return as Crypto Markets Weather “Uptober” Shock
Bybit PWM Posts 16.9% Fund Return as Crypto Markets Weather “Uptober” Shock
12 hours ago
$BALZ Token Goes Live on PancakeSwap Today as BNB Chain Meme Project Closes $2M+ Presale
$BALZ Token Goes Live on PancakeSwap Today as BNB Chain Meme Project Closes $2M+ Presale
13 hours ago
LP-Free Perpetuals Exchange Leverup Available Now, Powered by Monad
LP-Free Perpetuals Exchange Leverup Available Now, Powered by Monad
1 day ago
MediCoin Launches Sale of Tokenized Attorney Fee Interests for PFAS Litigation Proceeds
MediCoin Launches Sale of Tokenized Attorney Fee Interests for PFAS Litigation Proceeds
1 day ago
Sonami Announces Presale Developments and Layer 2 Expansion
Sonami Announces Presale Developments and Layer 2 Expansion
1 day ago
Real-World Uranium Markets Meet DeFi with the Launch of xU3O8-Based Lending on Oku, Powered by Morpho
Real-World Uranium Markets Meet DeFi with the Launch of xU3O8-Based Lending on Oku, Powered by Morpho
1 day ago
Cango Inc. Releases Letter to Shareholders
Cango Inc. Releases Letter to Shareholders
1 day ago
WalletConnect and Stacks Announce Expanded Support for STX with New Stacking Access
WalletConnect and Stacks Announce Expanded Support for STX with New Stacking Access
2 days ago
Paradigm-Backed Harmonic Launches HFT-Style Block Building to Supercharge Solana’s Validator Performance
Paradigm-Backed Harmonic Launches HFT-Style Block Building to Supercharge Solana’s Validator Performance
2 days ago
Pi Squared Launches Devnet 2.0 to Bring Internet-Speed Payments to Web3
Pi Squared Launches Devnet 2.0 to Bring Internet-Speed Payments to Web3
2 days ago
Everstake Partners with Utila to Simplify Institutional Staking Across Solana and Other PoS Networks
Everstake Partners with Utila to Simplify Institutional Staking Across Solana and Other PoS Networks
2 days ago
Bybit Kicks Off LATAM November Carnival With 100,000 USDT in Community Rewards
Bybit Kicks Off LATAM November Carnival With 100,000 USDT in Community Rewards
2 days ago
Leverage Shares by Themes adds GEMI, BLSH, BMNR to leveraged single-stock ETF suite — debuting first-to-market GEMG
Leverage Shares by Themes adds GEMI, BLSH, BMNR to leveraged single-stock ETF suite — debuting first-to-market GEMG
2 days ago
Zama Announces Strategic Acquisition of KKRT Labs to Scale Confidentiality on Public Blockchains
Zama Announces Strategic Acquisition of KKRT Labs to Scale Confidentiality on Public Blockchains
2 days ago
Plume Relaunches Nest Protocol to Tie Real-World Yields to Onchain Rewards
Plume Relaunches Nest Protocol to Tie Real-World Yields to Onchain Rewards
3 days ago
Plume Partners with OpenTrade utilizing WisdomTree Tokenized Funds to Expand RWA Yield Offerings
Plume Partners with OpenTrade utilizing WisdomTree Tokenized Funds to Expand RWA Yield Offerings
3 days ago
Mevolaxy Launches Mobile App and Announces Record Payouts
Mevolaxy Launches Mobile App and Announces Record Payouts
3 days ago
GrantiX Brings $1.57 Trillion Impact-Investing Market On-Chain Through AI-Powered SocialFi Platform
GrantiX Brings $1.57 Trillion Impact-Investing Market On-Chain Through AI-Powered SocialFi Platform
4 days ago
Bybit’s Emily Bao: “The Future of Crypto Lies in CEX-DEX Convergence”
Bybit’s Emily Bao: “The Future of Crypto Lies in CEX-DEX Convergence”
4 days ago
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Plasma: Redefining Stablecoin Settlement
Plasma tackles stablecoin fragmentation with free USDT transfers, built-in yield, and a path to decentralisation. Dive into our latest research here.
The Shaga Model
Shaga converts everyday hardware into global infrastructure, powering cloud gaming and AI-ready data. Dive into our latest research here.
An Analysis of the Role of Vote Buying in DAO Governance
Our report shows onchain vote buying moving from informal back-room deals to transparent marketplaces, where aligned delegation and market-driven pricing reshape DAO participation and governance.
The Return of Uncollateralised Lending in Crypto: A Sector of Risk and Reward
This report explains how onchain uncollateralised lending is resurfacing, with transparent borrower-level vaults and analytics-driven underwriting replacing opaque pooled risk, rebuilding trust and broadening access to DeFi credit.
Evaluating Risk in DeFi
Exponential standardises DeFi due diligence by converting complex technical, economic, and operational data into intuitive A-F risk scores. Discover how its framework clarifies product safety and guides smarter yield strategies in our latest deep-dive.
iYield: The Ultimate Financial Planning Tool for Crypto Natives
iYield redefines financial tracking by integrating digitial and TradFi assets into one powerful portfolio hub. Explore how it simplifies budgeting, yield tracking, and more in our latest deep-dive.
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Solv Protocol: The Onchain Bitcoin Reserve
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Enso: Taking DeFi from fragmented to functional
Enso is simplifying DeFi with 'shortcuts,' using its intent engine to turn requests into predefined workflows.
Hemi: A Modular L2 connecting the Bitcoin and Ethereum Ecosystems
Hemi is a modular, multi-network Layer 2 blockchain focused on securely unifying Bitcoin and Ethereum in a scalable manner. Our latest report delves into Hemi's key features and the use cases they enable.
DeFi Yield Renaissance
DeFi is in a new era, driven by sustainable revenue models, real yields and capital efficiency. We break it down in our latest report with Exponential Finance.
State of DeFi 3Q24
DeFi faced Q3 volatility head-on, showing resilience in lending, staking, and cross-chain bridges.
Analyst Notes: Insights After Dencun
The Ethereum ecosystem has undergone significant changes since the Dencun upgrade (EIP-4844) went live in March 2024.
The state of digital assets in Europe
Europe is leading the world in efforts to regulate digital assets, charting a more sustainable growth path for the blockchain industry. What does this mean for the world's second-largest crypto market?
Kontos: The AI-Powered Omnichain Infrastructure Pioneering Chain Abstraction
Mainstream adoption of blockchain technology hinges on two components—interoperability and user experience (UX). For blockchain to reach users beyond digital natives earnestly discussing use cases, regardless of whether they exist yet, it needs one connected ecosystem and a decidedly web2 front end.
Zeta Markets: Perpetual growth
Zeta Markets is the second-largest derivatives platform on the Solana blockchain, and it aims to take top spot. Growth is exploding. What's coming next?
Zircuit: The L2 with AI-enabled Security
Born out of the need to scale Ethereum, Layer 2 (L2) networks have truly taken off, each with its own unique design choices. Zircuit introduces a novel feature called Sequencer Level Security, which is designed to prevent malicious transactions from ever being finalised on the blockchain.
Polkadot is levelling up
The Polkadot network has been at the forefront of blockchain innovation since its 2020 mainnet launch, and this cycle is no exception. Polkadot is reaching new heights with a host of technological advancements including the Join-Accumulate Machine, or JAM upgrade, a proliferation of AI-driven projects and applications, and new forays into decentralised physical infrastructure (DePIN). Time to level up!
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