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eToro to Buy US Brokerage TradeZero for Up to $231M as Crypto Revenue Shrinks
CeFi

eToro to Buy US Brokerage TradeZero for Up to $231M as Crypto Revenue Shrinks

The purchase, eToro's third acquisition signed this year, is not expected to close until the first half of 2027 and needs regulatory approvals for a broker-dealer whose chief executive settled SEC charges in 2022.
Bitcoin's BIP Editors Remove Luke Dashjr Two Days After BIP-110 Fork Stalled
Blockchains

Bitcoin's BIP Editors Remove Luke Dashjr Two Days After BIP-110 Fork Stalled

Dashjr lost editor and admin access to the BIPs repository about 26 hours after Mark "Murch" Erhardt filed a motion on the developer mailing list. Dashjr called the accusations false. Minutes before the removal was confirmed, he announced a sabbatical from mining pool Ocean.
Two Prediction Markets Shut Down Hours Apart as Kalshi and Polymarket Take 93% of Volume
DeFi

Two Prediction Markets Shut Down Hours Apart as Kalshi and Polymarket Take 93% of Volume

Trepa and Fireplace both told users to withdraw by Sept. 30. One published a post-mortem arguing crypto's active user base is far smaller than the industry reports.
 Robinhood's Head of Product Reveals How Robinhood Chain Hit 200M Transactions in 30 Days
Podcast

Robinhood's Head of Product Reveals How Robinhood Chain Hit 200M Transactions in 30 Days

Robinhood just launched its own blockchain — and the numbers are wild. Seong Lee, Head of Product for Robinhood Crypto, joins Chris Storaker to explain how Robinhood Chain went from zero to 200 million transactions in a month, why permissionless stock tokens can now be redeemed even if Robinhood disappears, and how everyday users are earning yield through a fully insured DeFi lending product. A must-watch conversation on the future of tokenized finance, meme coins, and real-world assets on chain.
Ether Products Lead $600M Crypto ETP Flow Rebound in July
TradFi & Fintech

Ether Products Lead $600M Crypto ETP Flow Rebound in July

Bitcoin products still took 78.5% of the $133.3 billion traded in global crypto ETPs during July, even as ether led the money coming in.
Vitalik Buterin's Ethereum Roadmap Prioritizes Quantum Readiness and Privacy
Blockchains

Vitalik Buterin's Ethereum Roadmap Prioritizes Quantum Readiness and Privacy

Quantum safety moved up the queue, VDFs and most EVM improvement work moved down, and Verkle trees and state expiry were dropped for other constructions. Privacy, post-quantum scaling and native rollups were not on the 2023 diagram at all.
BIP-110 Bitcoin Fork Stalls at Two Blocks as Its Only Miner Quits
Blockchains

BIP-110 Bitcoin Fork Stalls at Two Blocks as Its Only Miner Quits

OCEAN will refund roughly 0.3 BTC to miners whose hashrate its Stratum templates sent to the breakaway chain for about 18 hours.
Lightning Nodes Drained As BTCPay Server Users Race To Patch
Hacks

Lightning Nodes Drained As BTCPay Server Users Race To Patch

Hardware wallet maker Foundation and the Bitcoin zine Citadel21 both said their nodes were swept, in some cases hours before the project's public alert. BTCPay says the flaw under attack is not the one disclosed in its changelog.
Solana Perp DEX Flash Trade to Wind Down Unless It Finds a Buyer
DeFi

Solana Perp DEX Flash Trade to Wind Down Unless It Finds a Buyer

Any proceeds from a sale of the exchange's tech stack, brand and IP go to FAF holders pro rata, with team tokens excluded from the distribution.
SharpLink Opposes Ethereum Proposal to Burn a Growing Share of Validator Rewards
Blockchains

SharpLink Opposes Ethereum Proposal to Burn a Growing Share of Validator Rewards

Joseph Chalom argues the draft would strip the base rate out from under roughly $35 billion in liquid staking token collateral and could push institutions to sell ETH as they unstake.