Latest updates, press releases, and insights from the volatile world of digital assets.
Ethena is extending its delta-neutral basis trade for the synthetic dollar USDe into tokenized U.S. stocks, pairing Binance bStocks with equity perpetual futures as open interest exceeds $2.9 billion
BitMEX co-founder and Maelstrom CIO Arthur Hayes maintains a structural Bitcoin long while projecting Ether at $10,000, Ethena at $0.50 and Ether.fi at $2 by year-end 2026 on expected liquidity expansion
The self-custodial mobile platform launches in beta for 400 users across dozens of countries, offering rewards up to 6% and Avalanche settlement
Protocol shifts basis trade beyond crypto as equity perpetual open interest hits $6.2 billion and funding rates far outpace bitcoin
The Ethena Foundation detailed measures to eliminate early investor unlock pressure and direct most protocol revenue to ENA purchases, coinciding with a sharp price advance for the governance token
The partnership deploys synthetic dollar reserves into overcollateralized institutional loans, adding a new return stream beyond crypto funding rates
Network total value locked rose more than 45% during the month while tokenized real-world assets fell to just 6% of the total despite absolute gains
Deposits of tokenized real-world assets in decentralized finance more than tripled over the past year while the wider sector contracted, according to a joint CoinShares and Token Terminal report covering the second quarter of 2026
Lorenzo Valente of ARK Invest cites record revenue concentration among top protocols and expects more shutdowns, mergers and bankruptcies in coming months
Robinhood Chain, the new Ethereum layer-2 network, drew more than $70 million in bridged Ether and generated hundreds of millions in daily trading volume within days of its July 1 launch
