Solana just took the most historic step in its governance history: its first real on-chain vote, where any SOL holder — not just validators — could weigh in on the network's constitution, inflation and fees. Camila Russo sits down with Nick Almond, Head of Governance at the Jito Foundation, right
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The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a five-year conditional exemption on Thursday letting tokenized National Market System (NMS) stock trade on permissioned automated market makers (AMMs), and Commodity Futures Trading Commission staff opened introducing-broker relief to passive software
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Agentic Detection, live Thursday in Messari Monitoring, lets a listings or compliance desk take a development the moment Blockworks' agents find it, before an analyst has checked it. Every alert carries a tag saying whether an agent or an analyst produced it.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team9h ago
Tenka, the liquidity platform for asset-backed finance, has closed its pre-seed round led by Maven 11, with participation from Gami Capital and several angel investors.
The Defiant•BTC Wire9h ago
The Federal Open Market Committee voted 12-0 to lift its target range a quarter point to 3.75%-4%, and the median projection now puts the rate at 4.1% at the end of 2026 against 3.8% in June. Bitcoin spiked to $76,499.99 five minutes after the release and gave it back within half an hour. The S&P
The Defiant•The Defiant Team16 Sept
History says major airdrops mark tops as often as they spark rallies, but the timing is everything.
The Defiant•yyctrader16 Sept
Michael Selig said the CFTC is "locked in and ready to ship its rules for the new frontier of finance." Paul Atkins said the SEC will "act decisively within the SEC's statutory authority." Both posted the statements to X on Wednesday, within two hours of each other, the day after the Senate blocked
The Defiant•The Defiant Team16 Sept
The standardized connection replaces bespoke links to fund counterparties; the joint release named no specific Ondo product or transaction start date for Fund/SERV.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team16 Sept
Trade groups and executives responded to the Senate blocking the CLARITY Act by pointing at agency rulemaking, saying the SEC and the CFTC can keep writing crypto rules without the bill. Several framed the loss as one of permanence, since a future agency chair can rewrite a rule and repealing a
The Defiant•The Defiant Team16 Sept
Bitnomial would deploy, administer, clear and settle the proposed markets, while NinjaTrader Clearing would carry approved customer accounts.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team16 Sept
The Aave V4 RWA Hub would let institutions borrow USA₮ against tokenized collateral on Avalanche. The hub and the USA₮ listing both go to an Aave DAO vote, and the release gives no launch date.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team16 Sept
The Layer 1 charges gas in USDC and runs proof-of-authority across a permissioned set of 11 institutions plus Circle. More than 100 applications are live at launch, with Aave, Morpho and Uniswap anchoring DeFi. Circle minted 10 billion ARC tokens this week without committing to a public launch.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team16 SeptThe Layer 1 charges gas in USDC and runs proof-of-authority across a permissioned set of 11 institutions plus Circle. More than 100 applications are live at launch, with Aave, Morpho and Uniswap anchoring DeFi. Circle minted 10 billion ARC tokens this week without committing to a public launch.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team16 SeptCloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633 fell 11 votes short of the 60 it needed. All 49 votes to proceed came from Republicans. Collins, Hawley, Moran and Tillis voted no, and Tillis voted no to preserve the right to move to reconsider, which he did a minute after the result was announced.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team15 Sept
The DEX aggregator found 54.2% of the 84,163 hooks it analyzed were malicious. Uniswap's founder and Paradigm's Dan Robinson said the failure is in 0x's routing.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team15 Sept
Yoink sent 2,882.37 rsETH to one address after its transaction beat the original attack into the same Ethereum block.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team15 Sept
The Solana lending protocol has $1.35 billion in TVL and $1.02 billion in active loans, according to DefiLlama.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team15 Sept
Polymarket priced the odds of the bill becoming law this year at 12.5% on Tuesday morning, down from 29.5% on Monday afternoon, ahead of a cloture vote scheduled for 2:15 p.m. Ninety-five of the 124 largest non-stablecoin tokens fell as the Federal Reserve opened a two-day meeting with a
The Defiant•The Defiant Team15 Sept
Withdrawals end Dec. 22, while Arkham attributes $422.7 million across 3.2 million addresses to CoinEx and its reserve page shows no current audit rows.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team15 Sept
The Senate is set to vote on a procedural motion to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, the major crypto market structure bill, on Tuesday, September 15 — a critical step toward a full floor vote, requiring at least seven non-Republican votes to clear the 60-vote threshold. Camila Russo
The Defiant•Camila Russo15 Sept