Binance and Anchorage Digital launched an off-exchange settlement integration on Tuesday, letting institutional traders access Binance's liquidity while keeping assets in Anchorage's custody through Atlas, Anchorage's settlement infrastructure suite.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team1 Jul
Solana perpetuals exchange Drift Protocol has rebranded to Velocity DEX, with a private beta planned in the coming days as the platform rebuilds after a $295M April exploit.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team1 Jul
Christoph Jentzsch, who wrote code for the original 2016 "The DAO" and now runs Tokenize.it, called for ENS DAO to wind down and revoke its own upgrade authority, a day after ENS co-founder Nick Johnson used roughly half of the protocol's active voting power to block a Security Council renewal.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team1 Jul
Jeremy Allaire argued that stablecoin networks are winner-take-most businesses built over years, two days after the launch of the 140-plus-firm Open USD consortium sent Circle's stock down more than 17% in a single session.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team1 Jul
A new nonprofit backed by BitMine, SharpLink and Joseph Lubin spins the Ethereum Foundation's institutional outreach work into an independent organization, the second such steward group the three backers have funded in ten days, as the Foundation itself shrinks.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team1 Jul
New York Life Investment Management is tokenizing a high-yield corporate bond strategy for the first time, partnering with Centrifuge on the NYLIM Anemoy fund settled in USDC.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team1 Jul
The perpetuals exchange will start burning the LIT it buys with revenue and tap its token reserve to keep staking yields flowing.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team30 Jun
The trader's latest Ethereum liquidation came without a fresh deposit to backstop it, a first in a months-long losing streak tracked onchain.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team30 Jun
The Solana wallet is bringing on the three-person team behind a pre-IPO perpetuals platform, deepening its push into derivatives.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team30 Jun
Cantor Equity Partners II shareholders voted Monday to approve a business combination with Securitize, expected to close July 1 and list on the NYSE July 2 under ticker SECZ as the first publicly traded tokenization company in the US.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team30 Jun
A nationwide class action in New York accuses the NFT marketplace and its four co-founders of marketing the token's use cases, then delaying or abandoning them as $ME fell roughly 99% from launch
The Defiant•The Defiant Team30 Jun
A consortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies introduced Open USD, a dollar stablecoin whose reserve earnings and governance are designed to flow to the businesses that adopt it rather than to a single issuer.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team30 Jun
J.P. Morgan's Kinexys blockchain payments platform has processed more than $4 trillion in transactions since launch and expanded to eight currencies, adding the Australian dollar, Hong Kong dollar, Japanese yen, Chinese renminbi and Singapore dollar to serve institutional clients across
The Defiant•The Defiant Team29 Jun
The Solana influencer has sent roughly $6.7M in tokens to more than 700 wallets onchain, even as he controls about 60% of the supply.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team29 Jun
The collapsed yield protocol, whose November failure froze roughly $160 million in deposits and left an estimated $285 million owed across DeFi lending markets, is asking potential creditors to submit claim information through an online form
The Defiant•The Defiant Team29 Jun
The Solana launchpad's repurchases since July now exceed $400M, yet PUMP trades roughly 83% below its record and is little changed on the day
The Defiant•The Defiant Team29 Jun
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is conducting a broad investigation into Polymarket covering staged trades and fake winning bets, Bloomberg reported Friday, advancing the agency’s scrutiny beyond the platform’s prior influencer scheme.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team29 Jun
DraftKings has launched DKeX, a proprietary prediction markets exchange, reporting $3.4 billion in annualized consumer volume as it enters a field increasingly crowded by Kalshi, Polymarket, Meta Arena, and Robinhood.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team29 Jun
OKX is offering EEA users deposit bonuses of up to 8% and Coinbase has launched a parallel transfer bonus for subscribers in eight European markets, as both licensed exchanges compete to capture users displaced by Binance's July 1 MiCA wind-down.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team29 Jun
BNY, the world's largest custodian bank with $59.4 trillion in assets under custody, has made USDC the first stablecoin on its Digital Asset Custody platform, enabling institutional clients to store, transfer, mint, and redeem Circle's dollar-pegged token alongside traditional assets.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team29 Jun