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$675M Lighter Airdrop Becomes 10th Largest in Crypto History

Lighter, a decentralized exchange (DEX) offering perpetual futures trading, carried out one of the largest token giveaways in crypto history, even as critics questioned how the project split its token supply.Lighter airdropped a total of…
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Aave Founder Responds to Governance Vote With New Strategy

Aave founder and CEO Stani Kulechov has outlined a broader strategic vision for the protocol following a contentious governance vote that rejected a proposal to transfer control of Aave’s brand assets and intellectual property to its…
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Can Solana Shed Its Memecoin Image in 2026?

Solana heads into 2026 facing the question of whether infrastructure upgrades and tokenized financial activity can push the network beyond its memecoin reputation.Solana kicked off 2025 at the height of the memecoin frenzy, with Solana…
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Arthur Hayes Dumps ETH for $6M in Pendle, Lido, and Emerging DeFi Tokens

Most of the redeployed funds flowed into Pendle, Lido, Ethena, and Ether.fi within minutes of the ETH sale. Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes sold a substantial portion of…
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US Oppose Defi Education Fund Brief Ahead of Potential MEV Case Retrial

The US government has filed a letter opposing the introduction of an amicus brief from the digital asset advocacy group DeFi Education Fund as the court considers a possible retrial for two brothers allegedly behind a $25 million exploit of…
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Onchain Perps Drove Crypto Derivatives Growth in 2025

Crypto derivatives activity picked up sharply in 2025 as traders increasingly turned to onchain perpetual futures, according to Coinbase researcher David Duong. By late in the year, decentralized exchanges were processing more than $1…
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Uniswap Burns $596M in UNI After Fee Switch Governance Vote

Uniswap has executed a major token burn following the approval of its long-anticipated fee burning proposal, removing 100 million UNI, worth roughly $596 million at current prices, from the protocol’s treasury.Onchain data shows the burn…
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BNB Chain Fermi Upgrade Slated for January 2026 Rollout

The BNB Smart Chain’s Fermi hard fork has been scheduled for mainnet activation on Jan. 14, following about two months in the testnet phase.Fermi will lower the block interval to 250 milliseconds from 750 milliseconds to support…
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Aave Founder Says $15M Token Buy Wasn’t Used in Controversial DAO Vote

Stani Kulechov, the founder and CEO of Aave Labs, the main development company behind the Aave decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol, denied claims that he recently purchased $15 million of Aave (AAVE) tokens to influence a…
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CZ Proposes Fix To Address Poisoning After Investor Loses $50M

Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao proposed additional security measures to “eradicate” address poisoning, including wallet warnings and blacklists of suspicious accounts."All wallets should simply check if a receiving address is a 'poison…
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