DEFI

Cryptocurrency markets experienced a limited recovery this week as investor liquidity gradually returned after the holidays.Bitcoin (BTC) topped a weekly high of $94,458 on Monday, before declining to about $90,937 at the time of writing on…
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New York Assemblyman Clyde Vanel has reintroduced legislation to the US state’s lower house that aims to restrict what event contracts prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket can offer.Vanel resubmitted the Oversight and Regulation…
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Jupiter, a Solana-based DeFi protocol and trading platform, has launched JupUSD, a dollar-pegged stablecoin issued natively on Solana and developed in partnership with Ethena Labs.In an X post on Monday, Jupiter said 90% of the stablecoin’s…
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Investment bank TD Cowen reportedly warned that the 2026 midterm elections in the United States could pull support needed to pass a digital asset market structure bill under consideration in the Senate.According to reports, TD Cowen’s…
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Crypto markets got more institutional and more regulated in 2025, but the familiar “altcoin season” many traders expected never fully arrived.Bitcoin (BTC) hit fresh highs earlier in the cycle, yet much of the rest of the market lagged.…
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Crypto billionaires are threatening to leave the state of California after a prominent trade union proposed a 5% assets tax on residents worth more than $1 billion.The Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West…
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Lighter, one of the fastest-growing perpetual decentralized exchanges (DEXs), drew mixed reactions in the decentralized finance (DeFi) community after unveiling the tokenomics of its new Lighter Infrastructure Token (LIT).Under its…
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Caroline Crenshaw, the sole Democratic member leading the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), will be departing the agency this week after serving more than five years.Crenshaw is expected to depart the SEC by Saturday, marking 18…
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Perpetuals decentralized exchanges are closing 2025 with cumulative trading volume reaching $12.09 trillion, up from $4.1 trillion at the start of the year. DefiLlama data shows that about $7.9 trillion of this lifetime total volume was…
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The key policy maker who oversaw the launch of regulated Bitcoin futures in the US has returned as the Commodities Futures Trading Commission’s chief of staff after a six-year hiatus. In a Wednesday announcement, the CFTC welcomed back Amir…
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