Rewards, Points, and Airdrops: Organic Growth or Artificial Volume?
Reward programs have become crypto’s favorite growth hack, and also its most convenient illusion.
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BlackRock, Ondo, and BUIDL dominate RWAs: Does this signal the end of “decentralized” crypto or its inevitable maturation?
The RWA boom is forcing crypto to confront a contradiction it avoided during easier cycles: real-world assets need real-world gatekeepers.
South Korean Prosecutors Seek 20 Years for Former Delio CEO
South Korean prosecutors have asked a court to sentence former Delio CEO Jeong Sang-ho to 20 years in prison, alleging he led a large-scale crypto fraud that caused…
Hyperliquid Tests Outcome Token Fees as Prediction Market Race Intensifies
Hyperliquid has published a detailed fee framework for its Outcome Tokens under the HIP-4 upgrade, introducing a testnet model that charges nothing to open positions…
Mashinsky Settlement Adds Personal Penalties to Celsius Fallout
Former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky must pay $10 million to the Federal Trade Commission and is permanently barred from participating in crypto and related financial…
Aptos Rolls Out Confidential APT With Privacy for Balances and Transfers
Aptos Labs has launched Confidential APT on mainnet, introducing a privacy-enabled token designed to conceal balances and transfer amounts while keeping transactions…
Bankman-Fried Loses Bid for New Trial in FTX Criminal Case
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan denied Sam Bankman-Fried’s motion for a new trial in the FTX criminal case, rejecting the defense’s claims of newly discovered evidence…
Robinhood’s Crypto Revenue Slump Exposes Trading-Volume Risk
Robinhood Markets reported a 34% sequential decline in cryptocurrency revenue for Q1, dropping to $134 million and missing analyst expectations of roughly $180 million…
Polymarket Seeks Full CFTC Clearance for Direct U.S. Access
Polymarket is pursuing broader approval from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to let American users trade directly on its primary on-chain prediction…
OKX Lets Institutions Use BlackRock’s BUIDL as Trading Collateral
OKX has begun allowing eligible institutional and VIP clients to use BlackRock’s tokenized money market fund, BUIDL, as collateral for margin and derivatives trading.
Block’s Bitcoin Proof-of-Reserves Dashboard Raises the Transparency Bar
Block Inc. has published a public proof-of-reserves dashboard showing control of approximately 28,355 BTC, a balance the company valued at about $2.2 billion.
Solana Advances Falcon-Based Plan for Post-Quantum Security
Solana developers and ecosystem partners are moving to adopt the Falcon post-quantum signature scheme as the core of a phased quantum-readiness roadmap.
Tether Pushes Open-Source Mining Stack With MDK and MiningOS
Tether has expanded its Bitcoin mining infrastructure push with the release of an open-source Mining Development Kit, following the earlier launch of MiningOS on…