Developer access and the shifting metaverse landscape
Improbable offers SpatialOS tools through a Google Cloud partnership to help developers manage high costs. Meanwhile, Meta shifts Horizon Worlds toward mobile-exclusive…
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The original chain
Bitcoin
Remittance flows surge in Latin America
Latin American remittance flows reached a record US$161 billion in 2024, driven by high demand in Mexico where Bitso facilitated $1 billion in remittances by June.…
Charts & flows
Markets & Analysis
Kraken scales institutional volume with $8 billion monthly block trades
Kraken manages $8 billion in monthly block trade volume and has integrated CF Benchmarks indices. Meanwhile, Gemini faces fee compression and regional exits, while…
Open finance
DeFi
Morpho Labs takes the yield lead as Compound and Aave struggle
Morpho Labs achieves 10% to 20% APY through specialized MetaMorpho vault aggregators, outperforming Aave and Compound. While Aave targets $6 billion in idle capital…
Ownership online
NFT & Web3
Policy & law
Regulation
Base dominance and regulatory friction
Base maintains 1.5 million daily active addresses and $2.49 billion in total value locked despite ongoing SEC legal battles involving Coinbase. Meanwhile, Robinhood's…
Michael Selig leads a single commissioner at the CFTC
Michael Selig leads the CFTC as the sole commissioner following the replacement of Rostin Behnam. The agency is shifting enforcement focus toward fraud and market…
Firedancer rollout and Solana concentration risks
Jump Crypto's Firedancer client achieved a 1 million TPS testnet milestone, yet Solana faces significant risks from Agave code dependency and Jito Labs MEV…
Stablecoin licensing and institutional shifts in Hong Kong
HKMA issued stablecoin licenses to Anchorpoint Financial and HSBC requiring HKD 25,000,000 in minimum capital. While HashKey scales following its HK$18.5 billion…
Under the hood
Blockchain Tech
Toncoin roadmap delays and the scalability reality
Toncoin reached 900 million Telegram wallet activations and saw validator stakes grow by $400 million despite a November 2026 sharding delay. NEAR Protocol achieved a 1…
Arbitrum scales developer subsidies using Orbit sequencer revenue
Arbitrum Orbit sequencer revenue reached $400 million, enabling the DAO to fund Stylus developer subsidies for Rust and C programming. This capital deployment follows…
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