Altseason is almost here and early signs suggest traders are becoming more selective, with capital flowing into revenue-generating protocols across a number of different narratives.

The SEC has opened a five-year path for tokenized stocks, but only some products and venues fit the model. Will Uniswap, Robinhood, Coinbase or Kraken come out on top?

Solstice CEO Ben Nadareski says deeper liquidity and growing institutional participation could make future crypto bull runs less volatile than previous cycles.

Industry watchers are debating the fate of the Zcash development fund after the ZEC token’s rally pushed its value above $95 million.

A BIS study found widely used crypto metrics can obscure economic activity, with measurement challenges spanning Bitcoin, Ethereum and stablecoins.

Balancer cut costs and shipped new products after restructuring, but Marcus Hardt says v3 failed to replace legacy revenue as November’s $128 million exploit continued to weigh on adoption.

Kraken’s new xStocks vaults let investors earn yield on tokenized versions of Nvidia and major US stock market ETFs by lending the assets in DeFi markets.

The bank expects Sky to pass five times as much value to token holders by 2028 as USDS adoption and borrowing capacity continue to expand.

Fomo generated $1.76 million on Friday, beating Pump.fun’s $1.1 million, though the memecoin launchpad remains ahead over 30 days.

Crypto projects are spending hundreds of millions buying their own tokens. But are buybacks creating lasting value — or just making tokens look more valuable than they really are?

Full Sail is shutting down after an attacker removed about $91,000 from three vaults during a security incident linked to oracle provider Switchboard.

Blockaid said an attacker used an Ankr liquid staking token and E-mode to overborrow from More Markets and drain about $410,000 in WFLOW from a lending reserve.

Term permanently closed its Meta Vaults after an attack reportedly removed nearly all of their Ethereum deposits.

Brussels is reviewing whether crypto lending should fall under MiCA, but DeFi lending vaults are making it harder to determine who, exactly, should be regulated.

Symbiotic’s Liquid Lane gives eligible holders immediate USDC liquidity across three Centrifuge funds managed by Janus Henderson and NYLIM.

Harmony said selectively restoring transactions could create inconsistent chain state, as Ravencoin faces a separate rollback dispute after an exploit.

Klippsten said Bitcoin could bottom about a year after its previous peak and argued that crypto’s best outcome is to become part of TradFi.

BA Labs had previously classified a proposed NUSD integration as higher risk because of its counterparty, operational and liquidity exposure.

Flying Tulip founder Andre Cronje contends that DeFi protocols have evolved into a new financial paradigm of “onchain finance,” but have sacrificed some of their inherent immutability and decentralization.

Bitwise’s Matt Hougan said he expects revenue-capture mechanisms to spread across DeFi applications and layer-1 networks over the next 12 to 24 months.

The LINK token may see a 25-fold increase to $200 by the end of 2030, as the growing real world asset market increases demand for the industry’s largest oracle services provider, according to Standard Chartered.

Ethereum’s proposed EIP-8363 staking overhaul aims to reduce issuance, but critics say it could hurt DeFi, decentralization and institutional adoption.

The Coldcard exploit, which caused more than $100 million in losses, helped push July crypto thefts to $247 million, making it the second-worst month of 2026.

Tokenized real-world assets moved beyond issuance as RWA deposits more than tripled to $7.4 billion, while lending and trading activity expanded despite a broader industry slowdown.

Forgd’s ratings draw on data from more than 500 token projects and 35 market-making firms, but do not solely reflect trading performance.

Fake World Assets turns forgotten NFTs into an onchain lottery — but is crypto’s latest obsession built to last?

DeFi risk management service LlamaRisk recommended that Aave wind down every reserve on Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium and Aptos, but action against most of those instances was already taken.

A RedStone report found tokenized bullion held up during gold’s sharp sell-off, but DeFi lending adoption remains limited despite surging market growth and trading volumes.

Crypto’s fundamentals have never been stronger, yet degens keep chasing hot new narratives. Behavioral finance may explain why get-rich-quick stories continue to beat substance.

Trade.xyz said its oracle worked as designed but will reimburse eligible traders after an external SK Hynix price print caused the contract’s mark price to fall nearly 19%.