Tenev Pushes for Tokenized Stocks in America
The Robinhood CEO published a case for US equity tokenization five days after the SEC shelved its innovation exemption for a second time.
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SEC Proposes Token Offering Rules With $75 Million Exemption
The proposal would also let issuers shed the "investment contract" label once they stop the managerial work they promised investors.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team18 Aug
Omnichain Launchpad Printr Shuts Down, Cancels Token Launch And Airdrop
Printr said it will cease all operations by Aug. 31 and will not hold the token generation event or airdrop it had promised. The launchpad raised $4.5 million last October and collected 84% of its lifetime fees in a single month.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team17 Aug
Ansem Launches Site Where Teams Buy His Attention With Airdrops
Projects launching on ansem.io hand at least 3% of supply to holders of his memecoin and burn $ANSEM to rank higher. Every coin created there is a pump.fun token.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team17 Aug
Deel Takes Its DLUSD Stablecoin Wallet to More Than 80 Countries
The payroll platform's dollar balance, issued through Stripe's Bridge and settled on Tempo, is now live across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. The US, UK, EU and Australia remain excluded.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team17 Aug
Neynar Seeks a New Owner for Farcaster Seven Months After Buying It
Protocol fees fell from $35.43 million in the first quarter to $376,740 so far in the third, according to DefiLlama. Neynar says it will return most of its remaining balance sheet and its team will disband.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team17 Aug
Search Interest in Prediction Markets Falls 83% From Its World Cup Peak as Kalshi Pulls Away
Google Trends set its five-year high for "prediction market" the week the 2026 World Cup opened, and its single-day high on the day of the final. Category volume hit a record in July. August is pacing lower on both, and Polymarket is falling behind Kalshi faster than the mindshare data suggests.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team17 Aug
Compound Foundation Names Coinbase And Anchorage Alumni To Run $52 Million Institutional Push
The DAO approved the two-year budget in May with 1.88 million COMP in favor and none against. Compound holds about $1.2 billion in deposits, against Aave's $14.8 billion.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team17 Aug
Fake World Assets Opens Its Gacha Pool to New NFT Collections
TokenWorks will let artists issue collections directly into the randomized pool through a mechanism called FWAir, with backers fronting the ETH and creators paid out of trading fees rather than mint proceeds.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team17 Aug
Stripe’s Reported $7 Billion OpenRouter Deal Buys Micropayments Without a Blockchain
OpenRouter meters AI usage against prepaid deposits and charges 5% on crypto top-ups against 5.5% on card purchases made through Stripe. Stripe co-incubated Tempo to settle machine payments onchain; the chain is running at about one transaction per second.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team17 Aug
SafePal Breach Exposes 39,798 Buyers as Stolen Records Hit Cybercrime Forum
The wallet maker says a flaw in an order-tracking plug-in leaked names, phone numbers and shipping addresses over 14 months. A seller is now advertising the file.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team17 Aug
Tether Clears First Full Audit From KPMG Without Publishing the Statements
The Big Four firm issued an unqualified opinion on 2025 accounts for Tether's El Salvador issuing entity. The work was done to AICPA standards rather than the PCAOB standards the GENIUS Act sets for licensed U.S. issuers, and Tether has released neither the statements nor the opinion letter.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team13 Aug
Norway Wealth Fund Discloses $81.9 Million BitMine Stake
The fund reported holding 6.15 million BMNR shares at June 30, giving it indirect Ethereum exposure through a listed company.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team13 Aug
Tempo Launches Embedded Yield Product for Platforms, Starting With Deel
Tempo Earn routes rewards through Morpho vaults and tokenized money market funds, placing the payment outside the stablecoin issuer that US law bars from paying interest. Deel's contractor wallet is the first named deployment, at a promotional target rate of up to 4% APY.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team13 Aug
Standard Chartered Says Its $100 UNI Target May Be Too Low After Robinhood Chain Burns
Geoff Kendrick says UNI burns funded by Robinhood Chain trading have run at an annualized $90 million since Jul. 27. DefiLlama data puts Uniswap's protocol revenue at 2.4 times its prior level, with Robinhood Chain supplying about 60% of it.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team13 Aug
SharpLink Plans $200 Million ETH Allocation to Lido’s wstETH
Using Kraken’s displayed $1,889.84 ETH price, the planned allocation equates to about 106,000 ETH, roughly 12% of SharpLink’s reported holdings.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team13 Aug
Neutrl Pauses Minting and Redemptions While Assessing Reserve Impact
Strata paused minting, redemptions and related functions on its Neutrl market contracts, whose two tranche tokens carried more than $1.7 million in displayed onchain value.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team13 AugRobinhood Private-Market Fund Prices $200 Million IPO
RVII pays its adviser a 2% annual base fee and a 20% realized-gains incentive fee; some exposure may use illiquid vehicles.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team13 Aug
Trezor Shipping-Provider Breach Exposes Data of 13,689 Customers
ShipMonk incident exposed names and contact details of recent customers in seven countries; Trezor says its devices and systems were not compromised.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team13 Aug
ether.fi Adds Tokenized Stocks, New Fiat Rails And Aave-Backed Borrowing
The Summer release lands a week after the protocol pulled restaking out of weETH. The release also introduces programmatic ETHFI buybacks funded from every revenue line.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team13 Aug