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Solana's Best Month Since 2024 Lands on a Historic Governance Vote
SOL is up 44% in August and back above $105. Validators are deciding whether the network prints less and burns more.
Robinhood Chain Posts Its Strongest Day Since July as RWAs Surge
$443m in DEX volume, three million transactions, and every token in the top eleven by market cap is under two months old.
An Oracle's API Change Threatened to Freeze Contracts Across 300 Protocols
Pyth missed its own cutover deadline. Developers calling its price service directly now need an API key.
Galaxy Opens Crypto-Backed Credit Lines to Retail Clients
Borrow against Bitcoin, Ethereum and staked Solana at 8.99% without selling. The collateral is not rehypothecated.
$457bn in Taxable Crypto Activity, and the Rules Cover 14% of It
Chainalysis says the OECD's reporting framework misses most on-chain flows, because it was built for exchanges.
DeFi's Users and Token Holders Want Different Things, and It's Breaking the Model
Protocol usage is at record highs. Token prices are stuck. The two groups of stakeholders have preferences that increasingly point in opposite directions — and the governance architecture assumes they're the same people.