Ostium to Reopen Trading July 23 After $23.8M Vault Exploit
Positions will be marked to the live market price at reopen, and new OLP liquidity-provider deposits stay paused as the protocol works through recovery.
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Franklin Templeton Says Altcoins Are Key to the Agentic AI Trade
Digital assets head Sandy Kaul argues card rails can't handle $0.001 machine payments, making blockchain tokens the way to capture agentic AI value.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team22 Jul
Ramp Adds Stablecoin Accounts and Bill Pay on Stripe Stack
Bridge converts dollars for Bill Pay while Privy stores balances, splitting the roles across Stripe's stablecoin infrastructure.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team22 Jul
Crypto Rallies as Reported Ethics Deal Revives Odds of CLARITY Act Senate Vote
Bitcoin reclaimed $66,000 after reports that the White House circulated agreed-upon ethics-provision language to Senate Republicans, removing the main obstacle to a floor vote before the August recess.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team21 Jul
S&P and Pantera Launch Revenue-Screened Digital Asset Index
The 18-constituent benchmark excludes Bitcoin and meme coins, screening for protocols with positive revenue verified by onchain data.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team21 Jul
Movement Labs Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
The company behind the MOVE token filed a voluntary petition in Delaware listing up to $10 million in liabilities, capping a year of governance disputes, a market-making scandal and a failed strategic pivot.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team21 Jul
Crypto's Quiet Revolution: How Stablecoins Deliver Aid Where Banks Can't
Blockchain's most underrated and important use case: nutrition aid for mothers in Haiti and banking the unbanked in Afghanistan. Stablecoins for aid.
The Defiant•Camila Russo21 Jul
Durov Says Telegram Will Ship Native Gram Wallet to a Billion Users
The Telegram founder is putting private-key custody inside the core app this summer, a distribution reach no self-custody wallet has attempted.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team21 Jul
Ondo Enables Tokenized Stock Collateral on OndoPerps
Ondo Stocks holders can now back perpetual futures positions with SPYon and QQQon, subject to an initial $100,000 per-asset notional cap.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team21 Jul
Pump.fun Adds 'BOOST' Liquidity Mode for Every New Coin
The Solana launchpad's co-founder says the change adds about 20% liquidity to each newly migrated coin, with all figures the company's own projections.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team21 Jul
Morpho Launches Fixed-Rate Lending Protocol Midnight on Base
The DeFi lender also released a new Markets App that lets users set their own rates and terms, starting on Base with more networks to follow.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team21 Jul
Jack Mallers Steps Down as CEO of Twenty One Capital
Board member Raphael Zagury takes over the Tether-backed bitcoin treasury company, and Strike is no longer under consideration for a business combination.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team21 Jul
Aztec Launches Alpha V5 on Mainnet With Faster Private Proving
The privacy Layer 2 says its latest release halves proving time and transaction costs versus V4, with the Nyx wallet as its first live app.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team21 Jul
Grayscale Files S-1 for Spot Worldcoin ETF
The registration statement, filed with the SEC on July 20, would create an exchange-traded product holding the WLD token.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team21 Jul
Armstrong Says His X Posts and Avatars Are Not Token Endorsements
The Coinbase CEO told traders not to treat his personal account as alpha after his profile-picture changes fueled a memecoin trading frenzy.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team20 Jul
Consensys Halted MetaMask Releases Over North Korea-Linked Contractor
A contractor brought in through a third-party provider worked on MetaMask code from March until Consensys cut off access in April and paused product releases. The company says it found no stolen assets, exposed data or malicious code.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team20 Jul
Lighter Makes Stock Tokens Eligible Collateral on Robinhood Chain
The perpetuals exchange now accepts Robinhood's tokenized equities as margin, expanding beyond the USDG stablecoin and delivering on a plan to broaden collateral in the third quarter.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team20 Jul
Saylor Opposes Bitcoin's BIP-110 in 110-Point Essay
The Strategy chairman says the anti-spam soft fork would set a censorship precedent worse than the data problem it targets, weeks before an August signaling window.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team20 Jul
Hyperliquid to Open HIP-4 Prediction Markets Behind 500,000 HYPE Stake
Deployers can set fees of up to 50% but face slashing by validator vote for poorly defined or unsettled markets, under terms Hyperliquid calls preliminary.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team20 Jul
Allbridge Halts Core Bridge After $1.65M Flash Loan Exploit
The attacker used a $1.12 million Kamino flash loan to skew Allbridge's Solana stablecoin pools, then bridged the proceeds to Ethereum, security firms said.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team20 Jul