Weekly Recap
A roundup of the major developments and best stories in DeFi and crypto. The smartest way to end the week. Every Saturday.
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Weekly Recap: Blast, Balancer And Abracadabra Move To Shut Down
Plus, Robinhood turns on 10x crypto perps for US traders, and September losses hit $766 million
Weekly Recap: Bitget's $387.5 Million Hack
Bitget lost $387.5 million from its hot wallets, Binance bought into Circle, and the Fed wrote capital rules for bank stablecoins
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Weekly Recap: Blast, Balancer And Abracadabra Move To Shut Down
Plus, Robinhood turns on 10x crypto perps for US traders, and September losses hit $766 million
Weekly Recap: Bitget's $387.5 Million Hack
Bitget lost $387.5 million from its hot wallets, Binance bought into Circle, and the Fed wrote capital rules for bank stablecoins
Weekly Recap: Congress Said No, The Agencies Said Yes
The Senate killed CLARITY 49-50, the Fed raised rates, the SEC cleared tokenized stocks onchain two days later, and bitcoin finished the week at $81,000
Weekly Recap: $247 To $1.90 In Three Hours
Hunter Biden's memecoin round-tripped on day one, Robinhood Chain set volume records while its fees fell 83%, and the CLARITY Act got new text five days before the vote
Weekly Recap: Tokenized Stocks Mania
Robinhood Chain out-earned every chain in crypto, and its tokenized stocks spent the week detaching from the companies they reference
Weekly Recap: The Round Trip
Bitcoin round-trips $80,000, Solana votes to cut its own emissions, and a shared Cosmos bug freezes two chains
Weekly Recap: Washington's Rally
Bitcoin's best week since the 2024 election started with a Treasury buyback, and the SEC drafted a way out of securities law.
Weekly Recap: Trust, Don't Verify
Tether's audit, Robinhood Chain's launchpad boom, and Bitcoin's editors
Weekly Recap: Self-Custody's Worst Week
Plus, Ethereum fights over burning staking rewards, and the CLARITY Act slips toward 2027
Weekly Recap: Crypto Lost Its Rate Trade
Uniswap's fee switch tripled protocol revenue while Warsh talked crypto out of its rate trade.