Latest

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

NFTs & Web3
Rarible Launches Solana NFT Marketplace With Claynosaurz as First Collection
Rarible's site now lists Solana alongside Ethereum, MegaETH and Base, with dedicated Explore, Mint and Gacha pages for the network.
DeFi
ether.fi Removes Restaking From weETH, Nearing A Full EigenLayer Exit
Restaking exposure moves into weETHs, a separate token built on Symbiotic. CEO Mike Silagadze: “End of an era. Sad.”
DeFi
Uniswap's New Launchpad Out-Launched Pons On Its First Day On Robinhood Chain
Pools.trade opened on Aug. 5 charging no launchpad fee and created 10,506 tokens that day against Pons' 7,210. Uniswap says the product does not change its support for the launchpads already built on its protocol. Some traders disagree. PONS is down 49% on the week.
Blockchains
Robinhood Chain's DEX Volume Fell 72% While Transactions And Deposits Set Records
Daily volume dropped from $878 million on Jul. 11 to $241 million on Aug. 1 as transactions, deposits and stablecoin supply climbed to all-time highs. Volume per transaction fell 74%. More than 90% of the chain's incentive spending pays depositors.