Protocol fees fell from $35.43 million in the first quarter to $376,740 so far in the third, according to DefiLlama. Neynar says it will return most of its remaining balance sheet and its team will disband.

Google Trends set its five-year high for "prediction market" the week the 2026 World Cup opened, and its single-day high on the day of the final. Category volume hit a record in July. August is pacing lower on both, and Polymarket is falling behind Kalshi faster than the mindshare data suggests.

The DAO approved the two-year budget in May with 1.88 million COMP in favor and none against. Compound holds about $1.2 billion in deposits, against Aave's $14.8 billion.

TokenWorks will let artists issue collections directly into the randomized pool through a mechanism called FWAir, with backers fronting the ETH and creators paid out of trading fees rather than mint proceeds.

OpenRouter meters AI usage against prepaid deposits and charges 5% on crypto top-ups against 5.5% on card purchases made through Stripe. Stripe co-incubated Tempo to settle machine payments onchain; the chain is running at about one transaction per second.

The wallet maker says a flaw in an order-tracking plug-in leaked names, phone numbers and shipping addresses over 14 months. A seller is now advertising the file.

The Big Four firm issued an unqualified opinion on 2025 accounts for Tether's El Salvador issuing entity. The work was done to AICPA standards rather than the PCAOB standards the GENIUS Act sets for licensed U.S. issuers, and Tether has released neither the statements nor the opinion letter.

Tempo Earn routes rewards through Morpho vaults and tokenized money market funds, placing the payment outside the stablecoin issuer that US law bars from paying interest. Deel's contractor wallet is the first named deployment, at a promotional target rate of up to 4% APY.

Geoff Kendrick says UNI burns funded by Robinhood Chain trading have run at an annualized $90 million since Jul. 27. DefiLlama data puts Uniswap's protocol revenue at 2.4 times its prior level, with Robinhood Chain supplying about 60% of it.

Using Kraken’s displayed $1,889.84 ETH price, the planned allocation equates to about 106,000 ETH, roughly 12% of SharpLink’s reported holdings.