Two protocols hold 71% of the $35.5B liquid staking market
A $35.5B market, but the capital is barely spread The liquid staking sector spans 272 protocols and $35.5 billion in total value locked, according to DefiLlama. Yet the money is concentrated
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Grayscale rewrites ETF rules to stake nearly all its $1.6B in ETH
Grayscale moves to stake nearly all idle ETH in its mini fund @Grayscale has filed an amendment to the trust agreement governing its Ethereum Staking Mini ETF, making staking the default trea
BNB Chain overtakes Tron as the largest stablecoin holder base
@BNBCHAIN has quietly overtaken @trondao as the leading blockchain by stablecoin-holding addresses. According to Token Terminal data, BNB Chain now sits at roughly 79 to 80 million stablecoin
UK stablecoin issuer warns FCA capital rule could destabilize pegs
A UK stablecoin issuer is pushing back against a key plank of the Financial Conduct Authority's newly finalized crypto rulebook, warning that a capital requirement tied to issuance volumes co
Thune still plans CLARITY Act cloture filing before recess, per report
Senate Majority Leader John Thune's office is telling crypto industry leaders he still intends to file cloture on the motion to proceed to the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act before lawmaker
Thailand's 0% crypto tax goes viral after CZ post, but it's been law since 2025
A post by Binance founder @cz_binance on Thailand's 0% capital gains tax on crypto went viral this week, driving a sharp spike in Thailand-related social volume across trading communities. Tr
US sanctions two more crypto exchanges over alleged IRGC ties
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has moved against digital asset exchanges that the Iranian regime allegedly relies on to launder billions of doll
Bybit sues North Korea over $1.5B Lazarus hack and wins asset freeze
The Lawsuit and Asset Freeze @Bybit_Official has filed a civil lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against North Korea, its Reconnaissance General Bureau, and the La
CFTC warns prediction markets off sportsbook-style moneyline odds
The @CFTC has sent letters to its regulated prediction market operators instructing them to stop displaying American-style moneyline odds, warning that the format constitutes a "deceptive" pr
IMF's Katz warns local-currency stablecoins could speed up dollarization
IMF First Deputy Managing Director Dan Katz (@DanKatzIMF) used a speech in Cape Town on August 7 to flag a counterintuitive danger for emerging-market policymakers: the very tools some govern
Bitcoin, stocks, and gold rally as shock US jobs miss cools Fed hike talk
Jobs Data Shocks Markets The US labor market delivered a sharp surprise on Friday. Nonfarm payrolls unexpectedly declined in July, falling by 23,000 amid a drop of 53,000 government jobs and
South Korea's travel rule expands to every crypto transfer from August 20
South Korea is set to tighten its grip on crypto transactions from August 20, when an amendment to the Enforcement Decree of the Act on Reporting and Using Specified Financial Transaction Inf