Hyperliquid is evolving from a perp DEX into a vertically integrated financial stack. By launching its own L1, native stablecoin, and spot markets, it prioritizes market fit over ideology. Started on Arbitrum, its roadmap reveals a larger ambition: to become the global base layer for all trading.
Triggered by a routine macro shock, crypto once again unraveled faster than any other market. Not because of sentiment alone, but because CEX risk engines, DEX liquidation incentives, and always-on leverage turn small moves into cascading stress.
From Polymarket’s stripped-down design to Kalshi’s regulatory breakthrough, prediction markets are turning collective opinion into a financial asset class — and a new battleground over who defines truth
While crypto remains banned, China’s state-backed blockchain ecosystem — led by Conflux — is expanding across Asia and into global finance. Conflux Network bridges China’s academic research, state strategy, and open blockchain innovation.
Monero, the leading privacy coin, suffered an 18-block reorg after Qubic consolidated large mining power. Debate rages: Qubic claims 51% control; Monero devs deny widescale damage. Exchanges raised confirmations. The episode shows PoW chains can be threatened by economic incentives
Hyperliquid is evolving from a perp DEX into a vertically integrated financial stack. By launching its own L1, native stablecoin, and spot markets, it prioritizes market fit over ideology. Started on Arbitrum, its roadmap reveals a larger ambition: to become the global base layer for all trading.
13.01.2026 YZi Labs invests $10M+ in privacy-focused decentralized trading platform Genius Trading.
13.01.2026 ETHGas plans an airdrop of its governance token, GWEI.
13.01.2026 Grayscale releases Q1 2026 “Assets Under Consideration” list: Tron, ARIA Protocol, Nous Research, Poseidon, and Double Zero added; Prime Intellect removed.
01.01.2026 EU crypto tax transparency directive DAC8 takes effect, requiring crypto-asset service providers to report user data to national tax authorities.
01.01.2026 MiCA comes into force in Spain.
31.12.2025 Ethereum smart contract deployments hit a record high in Q4.
2026 OUTLOOK Haseeb Qureshi (Dragonfly
Balancer Protocol was exploited through a tiny rounding bug in its code. As losses neared $100 million, projects froze pools, rolled back blockchains, and clawed back funds—revealing the centralized and still untamed side of decentralized finance
01.12.2025 Telegram’s Pavel Durov announces Cocoon, a decentralized confidential AI compute network.
01.12.2025 SushiSwap CEO steps down as Synthesis invests $3.3M in the struggling DEX.
01.12.2025 Grayscale to launch the first Chainlink ETF in the US.
01.12.2025 Germany and Switzerland
29.10.25 Ondo Finance launches Ondo Global Markets on BNB Chain.
29.10.25 Ethereum Foundation launches portal to guide institutional adoption.
29.10.25 Securitize goes public via SPAC merger with Cantor Fitzgerald’s CF Acquisition Corp VIII.
28.10.25 Trump Media & Technology Group to launch
Kazakhstan launched a state-backed crypto reserve, Alem Crypto Fund, partnering with Binance Kazakhstan and starting with an investment in $BNB.
SWIFT is building a blockchain ledger with 30+ banks using Consensys.
Polish lawmakers passed a Crypto-Asset Market Act, aligning rules with the EU’s MiCAR.
Vitalik Buterin opposes EU’s
Uniswap’s Unichain has boosted L2 volumes past $40B, but liquidity tells a different story. TVL has halved since July, exposing the limits of incentive-driven growth. Despite cheaper fees, users remain on Ethereum—where Uniswap continues to be one of the network’s largest revenue engines.
TON Strategy Company, formerly Verb Technology, has rebranded as a Toncoin treasury, holding $713M in TON and targeting over 5% of supply. By staking its holdings and adopting financial engineering akin to Strategy’s playbook, it aims to turn crypto reserves into shareholder returns
From $GOAT to $FART, memecoins show how hype burns fast and budgets vanish faster. Market caps in the tens of millions may look like real businesses, but behind the joke lies sunk marketing spend, fragile communities, and the math of attention that always runs out of breath
$PEPE price is in freefall after 60% of the team account’s funds were sold. One co-founder blames team members for pulling the rug on the project, but the community is finding it hard to believe his story.
$1.5 billion of assets still locked in the Multichain protocol have reportedly been confiscated by Chinese police as part of a money-laundering investigation. However, one source suggests that this is just the latest face of police embezzlement in the country.
Just two weeks ago we quipped 'wen moon?' as Virgin Galactic launched the world's first tourist space flight.
Well it seems India's response to that was, "Hold my beer," as on Wednesday it became only the fourth nation to achieve a lunar
The Australian Central Bank Digital Currency Pilot was focused on exploring potential use cases with an aim to define the 'public policy rationale' for it. Four key themes were identified.
Binance is likely to leave Georgia soon due to registration issues. This adds to a series of setbacks, including the end of its partnership with Mastercard and Visa.
Institutional crypto exchange EDX Markets adds Anchorage Digital as its clearinghouse custody provider, but fears of Wall Street swallowing crypto whole are premature.
13.01.2026 YZi Labs invests $10M+ in privacy-focused decentralized trading platform Genius Trading.
13.01.2026 ETHGas plans an airdrop of its governance token, GWEI.
13.01.2026 Grayscale releases Q1 2026 “Assets Under Consideration” list: Tron, ARIA Protocol, Nous Research, Poseidon, and Double Zero added; Prime Intellect removed.
01.01.2026 EU crypto tax transparency directive DAC8 takes effect, requiring crypto-asset service providers to report user data to national tax authorities.
01.01.2026 MiCA comes into force in Spain.
31.12.2025 Ethereum smart contract deployments hit a record high in Q4.
2026 OUTLOOK Haseeb Qureshi (Dragonfly
Balancer Protocol was exploited through a tiny rounding bug in its code. As losses neared $100 million, projects froze pools, rolled back blockchains, and clawed back funds—revealing the centralized and still untamed side of decentralized finance
01.12.2025 Telegram’s Pavel Durov announces Cocoon, a decentralized confidential AI compute network.
01.12.2025 SushiSwap CEO steps down as Synthesis invests $3.3M in the struggling DEX.
01.12.2025 Grayscale to launch the first Chainlink ETF in the US.
01.12.2025 Germany and Switzerland
29.10.25 Ondo Finance launches Ondo Global Markets on BNB Chain.
29.10.25 Ethereum Foundation launches portal to guide institutional adoption.
29.10.25 Securitize goes public via SPAC merger with Cantor Fitzgerald’s CF Acquisition Corp VIII.
28.10.25 Trump Media & Technology Group to launch
Kazakhstan launched a state-backed crypto reserve, Alem Crypto Fund, partnering with Binance Kazakhstan and starting with an investment in $BNB.
SWIFT is building a blockchain ledger with 30+ banks using Consensys.
Polish lawmakers passed a Crypto-Asset Market Act, aligning rules with the EU’s MiCAR.
Vitalik Buterin opposes EU’s
Uniswap’s Unichain has boosted L2 volumes past $40B, but liquidity tells a different story. TVL has halved since July, exposing the limits of incentive-driven growth. Despite cheaper fees, users remain on Ethereum—where Uniswap continues to be one of the network’s largest revenue engines.
TON Strategy Company, formerly Verb Technology, has rebranded as a Toncoin treasury, holding $713M in TON and targeting over 5% of supply. By staking its holdings and adopting financial engineering akin to Strategy’s playbook, it aims to turn crypto reserves into shareholder returns
