Tether’s omnichannel USDT0 rapidly expands across multiple chains. Built on LayerZero’s Omnichain Fungible Token standard and supported by Legacy Mesh, USDT0 unifies liquidity across blockchains. Unlike Circle’s Bridged USDC, it offers decentralized, flexible, and incentivized cross-chain support.
As Europe advances its mission to safeguard personal data, it walks a fine line between protection and prohibition. The European Data Protection Board’s latest blockchain guidelines seek to align decentralized technologies with GDPR — but risk crippling public blockchain innovation in the process.
In 2024, flash loan transaction volume surpassed $2 trillion, establishing flash loans as a key mechanism for maintaining capital efficiency across DeFi markets.
As of 2025, the total value of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) has reached an astonishing $247 billion, with approximately $100 million in new assets added each month. In this report, we break down the sector by both asset class and underlying technology
Tether’s omnichannel USDT0 rapidly expands across multiple chains. Built on LayerZero’s Omnichain Fungible Token standard and supported by Legacy Mesh, USDT0 unifies liquidity across blockchains. Unlike Circle’s Bridged USDC, it offers decentralized, flexible, and incentivized cross-chain support.
How the memecoin trading landscape evolved from Telegram-based trading to full-fledged professional terminals, offering traders a wealth of data for informed decision-making.
The project’s fixed-income products have generated significant interest from investors. In just over six months, it has attracted over $200 million in TVL and recently raised funding at a $400 million valuation.
Visa invests in UK stablecoin platform BVNK via its Ventures arm.
OCC clears US banks to trade crypto and use third-party crypto services.
USD1 becomes 7th largest stablecoin with $2,2B market cap.
Strive plans reverse merger to go public as Bitcoin treasury firm.
Stripe rolls out USDC and USDB
Evolving beyond a staking protocol, the project is transforming into a full-fledged fintech platform, featuring its own credit cards and a variety of DeFi integrations for its users.
Arbitrum improves blockchain transaction processing with a new feature called Timeboost. The transaction ordering mechanism lets MEV searchers bid for priority transaction placement, creating also a new revenue stream for the DAO.
Synthetix's main stablecoin, sUSD, has been trading significantly below its $1 peg for over a month after the implementation of the SIP-420 protocol upgrade. In an act of manual intervention within a decentralized system, the project’s founder has urged users to take action and help restore the peg
India's cryptocurrency exchange WazirX is preparing to relaunch operations following a devastating $234.9 million hack in July 2024. A pivotal hearing in the Singapore High Court, scheduled for May 13, 2025, will determine the fate of its restructuring and user compensation proposal.
Liquidity lockers are now vital for project founders to establish trust with their communities. UNCX Network, one of the largest in the space, secures over $240 million in liquidity, showcasing its significance.
Ethena and Securitize unveil a new blockchain for Real-World Assets (RWA) and digital money. The new chain will be optimized for launching both permissionless and permissioned RWA applications, leveraging Arbitrum’s tech stack and Celestia for data availability.
Polymarket correctly predicted the results of the United States elections. Can the blockchain information market be as accurate in predicting other presidential elections around the globe?
Gensler declared war on "fraudsters" and "hucklers" — and took celebrities to task when they promoted little-known coins to their millions of followers, without disclosing they had been paid to do so.
Riding the memecoin wave to scam inexperienced and busy users, hackers have built “poisoned” repositories of trading bots, from which ChatGTP eventually trained.
Happy Sunday, Observers!
Good things come to those who wait, and we waited.
Bitcoin was $500 short from $100,000 after the news that the world’s leading anti-crypto crusader, SEC’s chair Gary Gensler, is leaving its post.
Now that we are throwing precautions out the window, wild things
The two-hour downtime was due to a bug in the transaction scheduling logic, which led to validators crashing. The incident resulted in a drop in SUI's price and raised doubts about the network’s ability to compete with Solana.
The zero-knowledge privacy application is gaining momentum on Farcaster, which has been grappling with a 96% decline in monthly revenue since February.
How the memecoin trading landscape evolved from Telegram-based trading to full-fledged professional terminals, offering traders a wealth of data for informed decision-making.
The project’s fixed-income products have generated significant interest from investors. In just over six months, it has attracted over $200 million in TVL and recently raised funding at a $400 million valuation.
Visa invests in UK stablecoin platform BVNK via its Ventures arm.
OCC clears US banks to trade crypto and use third-party crypto services.
USD1 becomes 7th largest stablecoin with $2,2B market cap.
Strive plans reverse merger to go public as Bitcoin treasury firm.
Stripe rolls out USDC and USDB
Evolving beyond a staking protocol, the project is transforming into a full-fledged fintech platform, featuring its own credit cards and a variety of DeFi integrations for its users.
Arbitrum improves blockchain transaction processing with a new feature called Timeboost. The transaction ordering mechanism lets MEV searchers bid for priority transaction placement, creating also a new revenue stream for the DAO.
Synthetix's main stablecoin, sUSD, has been trading significantly below its $1 peg for over a month after the implementation of the SIP-420 protocol upgrade. In an act of manual intervention within a decentralized system, the project’s founder has urged users to take action and help restore the peg
India's cryptocurrency exchange WazirX is preparing to relaunch operations following a devastating $234.9 million hack in July 2024. A pivotal hearing in the Singapore High Court, scheduled for May 13, 2025, will determine the fate of its restructuring and user compensation proposal.
Liquidity lockers are now vital for project founders to establish trust with their communities. UNCX Network, one of the largest in the space, secures over $240 million in liquidity, showcasing its significance.
