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Blockchain Just Had Its First Bank Run: Key Investor Takeaways

Blockchain Just Had Its First Bank Run: Key Investor Takeaways

After the $294 million hack at Kelp DAO last weekend, traders yanked over $15 billion from major protocols. It’s as close as DeFi's ever come to an old-school bank run, sending shockwaves across DeFi markets. The twist? You didn't have to use Kelp to feel it.

What Next For Ethereum? ETH Funds Bleed As Policy Fears Mount

What Next For Ethereum? ETH Funds Bleed As Policy Fears Mount

ETH (CRYPTO: ETH) investment products flipped sharply into the red last week,

Is The Crypto Downturn Web3's Extinction Event, Or Its Reset?

Is The Crypto Downturn Web3's Extinction Event, Or Its Reset?

It's too soon to write Web3's obituary.

Have Prediction Markets Popped Crypto's Balloon?

Have Prediction Markets Popped Crypto's Balloon?

Prediction markets are competing with crypto for the same traders.

Did TradFi Just Steal Your Coins?

Did TradFi Just Steal Your Coins?

Snapshot: Social media is buzzing with speculation that institutions deliberately sank Bitcoin's price to spook retail and hoover up digital assets at a discount. The idea isn’t baseless, but on closer inspection, the evidence is thin. Did Wall Street crash crypto so it could gobble up your coins?

The Bet On InfoFi Is Changing — From Paying For Posts To Pricing Credibility

The Bet On InfoFi Is Changing — From Paying For Posts To Pricing Credibility

In 2026, information finance is splitting off in two distinct directions.

Crypto's M&A Phase Is Coming and 2026 Will Be About Survivors, Not Launches

Crypto's M&A Phase Is Coming and 2026 Will Be About Survivors, Not Launches

This is the year crypto moves from experimentation toward scale.

The First Consumer RWA Boom Isn't In Banking — It's In Gambling

The First Consumer RWA Boom Isn't In Banking — It's In Gambling

RWA tokenization is quielty slipping into consumer territory, but not where you might expect.

TVL Is Dead. Stablecoin Issuance Is The Only Metric That Matters

TVL Is Dead. Stablecoin Issuance Is The Only Metric That Matters

Stablecoin supply growth reflects genuine capital inflows, making it the only metric for predicting crypto market movements.

As VaultSeason Arrives, Institutions Are Quietly Rebuilding The Rails

As VaultSeason Arrives, Institutions Are Quietly Rebuilding The Rails

Vaultseason is here, that un-festive time of cycle when crypto investors store their assets away in hopes of locking up supply, earning high yields, farming points for future airdrops, or simply lie in wait for the next bull run to begin.

How Digital Asset Treasury Firms Are Quietly Rewriting The Rules

How Digital Asset Treasury Firms Are Quietly Rewriting The Rules

DATs are in the spotlight as firms like Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) race to accumulate tokens at industrial scale – despi

Why Crypto's Young & Wealthy Are Firing Their Financial Advisors

Why Crypto's Young & Wealthy Are Firing Their Financial Advisors

Crypto's entered uncharted territory, or maybe off-charted is more apt.

From Memes to Markets: Inside Crypto's Push To Turn Attention Into an Asset Class

From Memes to Markets: Inside Crypto's Push To Turn Attention Into an Asset Class

As NFTs cool and markets reset, a new thesis is taking shape: that meme coins, creator tokens and prediction markets are converging into a measurable asset class built on attention flows.

Ripple, XRP, And Why Crypto's Next Big Bets Are On Infra – Not Tokens

Ripple, XRP, And Why Crypto's Next Big Bets Are On Infra – Not Tokens

Snapshot Big capital is quietly asserting influence over crypto's underlying infrastructure. Banks are buying into everything from private settlement networks to ISO 20022-aligned messaging layers.

Uniswap Finally Turns On The Money Machine

Uniswap Finally Turns On The Money Machine

Uniswap (CRYPTO: UNI) unveiled a plan this week that could reshape how value circulates through DeFi's largest marketplace. The "UNIfication" proposal published on November 10th would activate a long-dormant fee switch, re-routing a slice of trading fees to support token burning.

Crypto x AI? The Blockchain Projects Offering A Fix for AI's ills

Crypto x AI? The Blockchain Projects Offering A Fix for AI's ills

Snapshot: AI is experiencing serious growing pains: resource monopolies, opaque decision-making, and data privacy pitfalls. Blockchain offers a fix by creating tamper-proof ledgers for data and computations, peer-to-peer marketplaces, and data set tokenization.

Low-Risk DeFi or TradFi Trojan Horse? The Fight For Crypto's Soul

Low-Risk DeFi or TradFi Trojan Horse? The Fight For Crypto's Soul

Snapshot: Vitalik Buterin's push for structural risk minimization in DeFi aims to make decentralized finance safer and more sustainable, but critics warn it could neuter Ethereum's growth and turn crypto into compliant, on-chain TradFi. Skeptics from across the ecosystem argue true safety is impossible without sa

Has Bitcoin's Q-day Countdown Begun? How Google's New Quantum Chip Could Break The Chain

Has Bitcoin's Q-day Countdown Begun? How Google's New Quantum Chip Could Break The Chain

Snapshot: Google's new Willow quantum processor brings real-world quantum computing closer, reviving fears that Bitcoin's (CRYPTO: BTC) core cryptography could be cracked within a decade. While "Q-Day" isn't here yet, the countdown has started and Bitc

October's Crypto Flash Crash: Did Market Makers Make It Worse?

October's Crypto Flash Crash: Did Market Makers Make It Worse?

When algorithms retreat, crypto liquidity can vanish fast.

Kalshi's Trojan Horse: How The Prediction Market Leader Is Inching Further Into DeFi

Kalshi's Trojan Horse: How The Prediction Market Leader Is Inching Further Into DeFi

Could it become crypto's reference layer for probabilities?