Aave Brings V4 to Avalanche as Tokenized Asset Market Grows
Decentralized lending protocol Aave has launched V4 on Avalanche, marking the first expansion of its latest lending infrastructure beyond Ethereum and setting the stage for future lending markets backed by…
Base Creator Jesse Pollak Says Social Bet was Wrong
Base creator Jesse Pollak says he is stepping back from leading the Base App after admitting he made a “wrong bet” on social, leaving the chain to fall behind on…
Japan’s Landmark Vote Reclassifies Bitcoin And Crypto As Financial Assets
Japan’s parliament passed an amendment on Wednesday that reclassifies cryptocurrency as a “financial asset,” a shift that pulls bitcoin and other digital assets out of the country’s payments regime and…
Ostium Pauses Trading After Apparent Oracle Exploit Targets OLP Vault
Decentralized trading protocol Ostium paused trading Wednesday after blockchain security firms Blockaid and CertiK reported an apparent exploit of its OLP liquidity vault. Blockaid estimated the exploit resulted in roughly…
Traders Manipulated $8.2M On Polymarket Bitcoin Bets: Study
A new study argued that Polymarket’s five-minute Bitcoin contract became a machine for wealth transfer. It moved money from retail bettors to a small band of manipulators, and it made…
Stanford Study Examines Manipulation in Polymarket Bitcoin Contracts
Researchers at Stanford University and Singapore Management University found that Polymarket’s five-minute Bitcoin prediction markets create incentives for traders to manipulate spot prices around settlement, allowing sophisticated participants to profit…
Bitcoin To $40,000? If History’s Anything To Go By, It’s Possible, Says Report
Bitcoin has underperformed compared to other “risk-on” assets this year — and if history’s anything to go by, its price could dip as low as $38,000 by October. That’s according…
Revolut Receives In-Principle Approval from UAE Authorities for Crypto Services
UK-based financial company Revolut has received approval from the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) of Dubai to offer crypto-related services in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In a Wednesday notice,…
Trump To Meet Senators On Clarity Act’s Ethics Fight: Report
President Donald Trump plans to meet with a group of senators at the White House on Thursday afternoon to address the last major obstacle to the crypto market structure bill,…
US Senator Blasts AG Nominee for ‘Dismantling’ DOJ Crypto Unit, Trump’s CZ Pardon
Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche faced backlash Wednesday over the Justice Department’s (DoJ) enforcement of crypto-related crimes and other actions as President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney appeared before…









