Key takeaways Tether operates a Treasury- and repo-heavy balance sheet, holding $181.2 billion in reserves against $174.5 billion in liabilities, leaving $6.8 billion in excess. High interest rates have turned those reserves into profit, generating […]
Opinion by: Agata Ferreira, assistant professor at the Warsaw University of Technology A new consensus is forming across the Web3 world. For years, privacy was treated as a compliance problem, liability for developers and at […]
The nation-state model is eroding and losing relevance, according to Jarrad Hope, author of “Farewell to Westphalia: Crypto Sovereignty and Post-Nation-State Governance” and co-founder of Logos, a project developing blockchain tools and decentralized digital infrastructure […]
The rapid growth of the prediction market Polymarket may not be entirely organic but instead inflated by artificial trading activity, according to research published by Columbia University. In an 80-page paper titled “Network-Based Detection of […]
Google is incorporating prediction market data from Kalshi and Polymarket into its search results as part of its AI-powered upgrade, enabling users to view real-time probabilities for future market events directly within the platform. According […]
The team behind decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Balancer published a preliminary post-mortem report on Wednesday, detailing the cause of the exploit that siphoned $116 million across DeFi markets. Balancer was hit by a sophisticated code […]
Key takeaways Mastercard is in talks to buy Zero Hash, following earlier interest in BVNK, in a push toward 24/7 stablecoin settlement. The deals could give Mastercard a turnkey onchain payments stack, accelerating its move […]
Key takeaways Reuters estimates Trump-linked ventures earned $802 million in crypto in early 2025. Income came from WLFI tokens, the TRUMP coin and USD1 stablecoin yields. Alt5 Sigma’s deal and foreign buyers helped turn token […]
Coinbase Global Inc., the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange, is continuing its stablecoin push, after key legislation in the United States sparked a renewed wave of corporate interest in blockchain-based payments. Coinbase exchange is reportedly in […]
Maximal extractable value (MEV), the process of miners or validators reordering transactions in a block to extract profits, is preventing financial institutions from adopting decentralized finance (DeFi), which hurts retail users, according to Aditya Palepu, […]
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