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Pump.fun's Share Of Launchpad Fees Fell To 27% In July. Four Weeks Later It's Back Above Half
Two launchpads on Robinhood Chain cut pump.fun's share of launchpad fees from 80% to 27% in two weeks. Pump.fun's fees are up 30% over 30 days anyway, because the category grew 77% around it. Memecoin prices did not participate.
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.
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Uniswap Founder Says Team Renounced Creator Fees From Employee Testing
TradePools said test tokens built while developing Pools no longer send creator fees to Uniswap Labs, with past and future fees redirected to an ETH-for-burn mechanism.
Pump.fun's Share Of Launchpad Fees Fell To 27% In July. Four Weeks Later It's Back Above Half
Two launchpads on Robinhood Chain cut pump.fun's share of launchpad fees from 80% to 27% in two weeks. Pump.fun's fees are up 30% over 30 days anyway, because the category grew 77% around it. Memecoin prices did not participate.
ENS Tokenholders Hand Endowment Control to a Staffed Foundation
The proposal passed with 1.27 million ENS in favor and 480,690 against. Co-founder Alex Van de Sande voted no after decoding the executable, arguing the DAO disappears from the endowment's control chain.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
Sentora Opens A Lending Vault Against Wellington's First Native Onchain Credit Strategy
The Morpho vault holds $9.6 million of PayPal's stablecoin and lends against mWIN, a Luxembourg-issued token whose bond portfolio Wellington Management runs. Of the 8.31% headline yield, 7.61 percentage points come from a PYUSD reward stream.
Uniswap Ships A Memecoin Launchpad On Robinhood Chain, Topped By $FRONG Token Minted Six Days Early
Pools opened four and a half hours behind its own countdown. Uniswap Labs claims the product and disclaims every token on it, including FRONG, the frog memecoin named after its teaser video that leads the platform at a $12.1 million valuation.
Nomura’s Laser Digital Backs ZIGChain’s Emerging-Market Private Credit Push
Laser Digital bought ZIG tokens and will structure and risk-govern a pipeline of vault products with ZIG Markets, which says it has originated more than $50 million with no defaults so far. The investment size was not disclosed.