Pump.fun’s daily fees have crossed $1 million early August despite dwindling Solana DEX activity, allowing the protocl finance more token buybacks.
deBridge has integrated Tron, bringing the largest USDT network into its cross-chain routing to allow swaps between Ethereum, Solana and 25+ blockchains.
Starknet’s community ratified SNIP-31 to bring bitcoin staking to the Ethereum Layer 2, allowing to BTC account for up to 25% of staking power.
Ethena’s USDe boom is increasingly routed through Aave, but risk teams say popular Pendle–Aave loop scales yield and concentrates risk.
An Ethereum ICO-era wallet deposited another $19.9M in ETH to Kraken, bringing seven-day exchange deposits to 9,803 ETH as ether slipped on Monday.
Coinbase has relaunched its Stablecoin Bootstrap Fund after nearly six years to increase stablecoin liquidity in DeFi.
Heritage Distilling is set to launch an IP token treasury strategy worth about $340 million, backed by a16z crypto and other investors.
ALT5 Sigma is raising $1.5 billion to launch a WLFI token treasury strategy that will see it hold about 7.5% of the token’s total supply.
The latest integration allows MetaMask users to access Sei-based applications, tokens, NFTs, and other assets directly from the wallet.
deBridge’s new Reserve Fund channels all protocol earnings into DBR token buybacks as DeFi operators deploy revenue to bolster ecosystem value.
21Shares has filed for an exchange-traded product tracking ONDO, the native token for the Ondo real-world asset platform.
The project's assets under management have more than doubled in the past year, rising from $173 million to over $440 million, Numerai said.
Ondo is a real-world asset startup with backing from World Liberty Financial, the DeFi project led by President Donald Trump's friends and family.
Beyond the airdrop, major ES token allocations include 35% for ecosystem growth, 31% for early backers, and 19% for contributors.
BNB, the fifth-largest crypto by market cap, is currently trading hands at around $630, up nearly 5% on the day.
Paxos Labs will let companies create their own stablecoins, offer onchain yield, and manage tokenized assets.
Cosmos-based Namada has completed its mainnet, introducing a composable privacy layer for decentralized applications.
Ondo Finance has expanded support for its OUSG onchain money market to the XRP Ledger and added funding in Ripple's RLUSD on the network.
Ethereum has yet to see a material increase in activity despite recent successive upgrades, according to JPMorgan analysts.
Succinct will launch the PROVE token as the native asset of its Ethereum-based prover network for zero-knowledge proofs.
Synthetix aims to integrate Derive's treasury and products — including options, perpetuals, and structured products — into its ecosystem.
PumpSwap introduced a revenue-sharing program that allocates 50% of its trading revenue to token creators.
Superstate was among several firms to propose an SEC-backed framework to bring Wall Street stocks to the blockchain.
The growth is linked to the launch of USDT0, an omnichannel version of Tether's USDT, and an incentive program by Flare.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao also commented on memecoins, saying 99.99% of them will fail and that they distract from real innovation.
"The timing is right: infrastructure, talent, and user behavior are finally aligned," Re7 Capital's Luc de Leyritz told The Block.
The points will convert into the Infrared token expected to launch in Q3, pseudonymous co-founder and CEO Raito Bear told The Block.
The firm began buying and staking SOL after being acquired by former Kraken executives earlier this month.
Treehouse Finance has raised fresh funding at a $400 million token valuation to expand its DeFi fixed-income platform.
"We see a great opportunity in the market for liquid tokens when you look at current valuations," Node Capital's Amos Meiri told The Block.