Web3 security incidents cost the industry more than $1.31 billion across 344 events in the first half of 2026, according to CertiK's Hack3D H1 2026 Report, published Monday. Net losses stood near $1.2 billion after frozen and recovered funds, the blockchain security firm said. Headline totals show…
The Defiant•The Defiant Team6 Jul
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin laid out an updated "Lean Ethereum" roadmap in a post on X Saturday, describing a three-to-four-year overhaul he called the network's third major protocol iteration since the 2022 Merge. The plan follows a researcher meeting in Berlin and would replace direct…
The Defiant•The Defiant Team6 JulMoonbeam is fully migrating its GLMR token from the Polkadot parachain to Base, and relaunching as an AI-agent focused network, the project said in a strategic update posted to its official site. The bridge from Moonbeam to Base is open now, with a deadline of July 31, 2026. GLMR converts 1:1 into…
The Defiant•The Defiant Team4 Jul
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU's securities regulator, said in a statement that many prediction market event contracts may already fall within the bloc's existing ban on marketing binary options to retail investors. The regulator reminded firms they must assess whether…
The Defiant•The Defiant Team4 Jul
Rocket Pool's Saturn 1 upgrade reshapes the math for RPL and rETH holders. Darren Langley, GM of Rocket Pool, sits down with Camila Russo to explain how the protocol expands its scaling capacity, stabilizes rETH's peg, and turns RPL staking into a real ETH-yield strategy.
The Defiant•Camila Russo2 Jul
Senator Elizabeth Warren is pushing to add a provision to pending Senate crypto legislation barring President Trump, his family and senior officials from profiting off digital assets, after a disclosure showed his crypto ventures made more than $1.4 billion last year.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team2 Jul
Erik Voorhees pushed back on X against critics who said Venice's $65M Series A undervalued VVV tokens, saying the deal could bring in $131M for 6.5 million tokens locked four years.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team2 Jul
The working group's final term committed $450,000 in USDC and 72.5 ETH to Ethereum infrastructure projects including Vyper, Argot Collective and Remix Labs before it was wound down.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team2 Jul
Phong Le acquired the Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock at a weighted average price of $90.796 per share on June 22, an SEC filing shows, after weeks of pressure on the security.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team2 Jul
Securitize put its own newly listed common stock onchain the same day SECZ began trading on the NYSE, launching tokenized shares on Avalanche and Solana through its regulated platform.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team2 Jul
Solana Foundation says onchain governance is now live, letting validators with at least 100,000 SOL delegated open proposals that go to a stake-weighted vote once they clear 15% cluster support.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team1 Jul
Erik Voorhees' privacy-first AI platform Venice landed a $65 million Series A at a $1 billion equity valuation, its first outside capital, after hitting profitability in Q1.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team1 Jul
Cloudflare opened a waitlist for its Monetization Gateway on Wednesday, letting customers charge for web pages, datasets, APIs or MCP tools with payments settling in stablecoins over the x402 protocol. Will Papper, formerly of Syndicate, joined the company as product manager for Agent Payments to
The Defiant•The Defiant Team1 Jul
Avalanche Treasury Corp told the SEC its ability to continue as a going concern is in doubt after its Nasdaq-listed stock lost 93% of its value in a month, with its AVAX position now worth less than half of what it paid.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team1 Jul
The Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in Trump v. Slaughter overturns a 91-year-old precedent shielding independent agency commissioners from at-will removal, with direct implications for SEC and CFTC leadership as the CLARITY Act nears a floor vote.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team1 Jul
dYdX Labs founder Antonio Juliano launched Arcus, a new DEX combining tokenized stock trading with perpetual futures, built jointly with Robinhood Crypto on Robinhood Chain.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team1 Jul
At a London keynote, the trading platform opened its Arbitrum-based Layer 2 to the public, rolled out new stock tokens and a Morpho-powered lending product, and confirmed launches in Canada and Singapore alongside plans for crypto trading in the UK.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team1 Jul
The SEC published a formal request for comment on 'Novel ETFs' covering crypto-asset and prediction-market funds, following Chair Paul Atkins' May statement pausing launches for over two dozen pending applications.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team1 Jul
The platform, unmasked in late June after two-plus years as an anonymous "Trade Everything" teaser account, opens trading in Phantom's CASH stablecoin and leans on Chainlink oracles instead of human-run resolution.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team1 Jul
A federal judge ordered Guo to forfeit $889 million after a jury convicted him of running a scheme that raised over $1 billion partly through the fake Himalaya Coin cryptocurrency.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team1 Jul