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Base TVL Above $2 Billion Shows Coinbase’s Layer-2 Is No Longer A Side Bet
Base crossing $2 billion in total value locked is a milestone that changes the way the network should be discussed. This is no longer just Coinbase’s experimental layer-2. It is a meaningful DeFi venue with enough liquidity to affect the brBitcoinistNorth Carolina Sides With Federal Preemption, Taxing Prediction Markets 6% While Sportsbooks Pay 23%
North Carolina has broken with the wave of states fighting prediction markets in court, using its new budget to tax platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket at 6% while explicitly declining to regulate them – a posture that effectively recognizbitcoin.comVitalik’s Rollup Proof Work Shows Ethereum Scaling Still Runs Through Cryptography
Every so often, Ethereum’s most important story looks almost unreadable to casual investors. Vitalik Buterin’s work on proof optimization is one of those stories. It is technical, dense, and far removed from the usual ETF and price chatter.BitcoinistSolana Priority Fee Specs Put Validator Economics Back In Focus
Solana’s priority fee debate is not the easiest headline in crypto, but it is one of the more important ones for people who care about how the network actually works. SIMD-0096 puts validator economics back in focus by clarifying how prioriBitcoinistMakerDAO Rebrand Debate Shows Endgame Is Moving From Theory To Execution
MakerDAO’s Endgame transition has always been ambitious, and at times difficult to follow. The latest discussions around Spark rollout mechanics and token distribution help make the restructuring feel more concrete, especially for users tryBitcoinistAI Agents Could Be Turned Into Botnets Through Hallucinations, Researchers Warn
AI hallucinations may be more than incorrect answers—they could become a way for hackers to compromise computers, according to new research from Tel Aviv University, Technion, and Intuit. In the paper, “Beware of Agentic Botnets: Scalable UDecryptBlackRock BUIDL Passing $500 Million Shows Tokenized Treasuries Still Have Momentum
BlackRock’s BUIDL fund crossing the $500 million mark is another reminder that tokenized treasuries are not just a speculative side story. They have become one of the cleanest examples of traditional assets moving onto blockchain rails in aBitcoinistRobinhood Chain Tops $560 Million in Daily DEX Volume, Fueled by Meme Coin Boom
Robinhood Chain is seeing a sharp rise in speculative trading, with daily DEX volume topping $560 million and nearly 16,000 new tokens created in one day. Pumpfun has added support for Robinhood tokens, widening access for Solana-based tradbitcoin.comRobinhood Bitstamp Roadmap Shows Crypto Deals Are Becoming Regulatory Integration Projects
Robinhood’s planned Bitstamp acquisition is not just another exchange deal. It is a regulatory integration project. The value of Bitstamp is not only its users or its brand; it is also the licensing, compliance history, and institutional foBitcoinistSwift And Chainlink Settlement Trials Keep Tokenized Assets In The Banking Conversation
Tokenized assets do not become mainstream because crypto people say they should. They get closer when the institutions that already run financial plumbing test how those assets can move through existing systems. That is what makes the SwiftBitcoinistAvalanche Treasury Firm AVAX One Reclaims Nasdaq Compliance After Reverse Stock Split
AVAX One Technology, a crypto treasury firm that holds Avalanche (AVAX), announced Thursday that it has regained compliance with Nasdaq's minimum bid price requirement, closing out a listing issue that had put the company under scrutiny aheDecryptSEC Chicago Appointment Adds To The Agency’s Enforcement Bench During A Busy Crypto Cycle
SEC personnel announcements are easy to ignore until enforcement priorities start showing up in the market. The agency’s Chicago Regional Office appointment matters because regional offices are part of the enforcement machinery that handlesBitcoinistPerplexity Fine-Tuned a Chinese AI Model to Match Claude Opus 4.8 at One-Third the Cost
Perplexity has turned a Chinese open-source model into a near-frontier workhorse at roughly a third of what Claude Opus 4.8 costs. The company released a research preview today of a post-trained version of Z.AI’s GLM 5.2, built specificallyDecryptBitget Wallet TON Push Shows The Web3 Front Door Is Moving Toward Messaging Apps
The wallet race is no longer just about who supports the most chains. It is about who becomes the easiest front door for ordinary users. Bitget Wallet’s TON-related push sits right in that shift, especially as Telegram-linked ecosystems keeBitcoinistAnthropic AI Oversight Board Adds Ben Bernanke, Who Oversaw 2008 Financial Crisis at Fed
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who led the U.S. central bank through the 2008 global financial crisis, has joined Anthropic’s independent oversight body, the AI giant announced Thursday. The Anthropic Long-Term Benefit TrustDecryptNew Chain Hype Meets Old Scam Tactics: Relay Protocol Warns of Robinhood Chain Honeypot Coins
Investors utilizing the newly launched Robinhood Chain are facing a swathe of scammy “honeypot” tokens that result in the total loss of funds traded for those specific assets. Relay Protocol, a major cross-chain interoperability platform, cbitcoin.comUniswap Fee Switch Talk Shows DeFi Governance Is Still Searching For Sustainable Revenue
Uniswap has always been one of DeFi’s clearest product successes, but the fee-switch debate shows why product success and token value are not always the same thing. The protocol can process enormous volume, yet governance still has to decidBitcoinistKraken Margin Pair Expansion Gives Active Traders More Fiat-Based Liquidity Routes
Kraken’s latest margin pair expansion is not just a product-menu update. It is part of a broader fight among exchanges to keep active traders inside their ecosystems by offering deeper liquidity, more direct fiat routes, and more flexible pBitcoinistTrump Bitcoin Reserve Talk Needs More Than A Wallet Dashboard To Become Policy
Bitcoin reserve talk has a way of moving faster than the policy process behind it. That is especially true when Donald Trump, public wallet dashboards, and campaign-era crypto speculation all land in the same conversation. The importantBitcoinistDebate Grows Over Strategy Using Bitcoin Sales to Fund STRC Buybacks
Strategy raised the dividend on its flagship preferred stock to 12% in late June, but the security is still changing hands well below the $100 price the company says it wants investors to see. Key TakeawaysStrategy hiked STRC’s dividend tobitcoin.com
