Uniswap’s new swap record is testing whether the protocol’s wider fee footprint can turn rising activity into measurable UNI burns. Uniswap founder Hayden Adams said Tuesday that the decentralized exchange was handling roughly 82 swaps per second across chains. He was responding to Blockworks Research analyst Marc Arjoon, who said Uniswap had recorded more than…
August has been the best month for the second-largest cryptocurrency so far this year, and now bulls have set their attention on September, expecting additional gains in the next four weeks. Check out what suggests that a further green wave could indeed be in the cards. The Positive Factors As of this writing, ETH trades…
Analyst Ali Martinez says the $15 Dogecoin target he has been tracking since the token’s early days is dead, now that DOGE has broken below the long-term rising channel the whole thesis was built on. The call undoes months of bullish setups other analysts pointed to through August, from whale accumulation to a technical buy…
The TAC network halt continues at block 24,671,475, more than 10 days after an exploit emptied the bonded staking pool. The network is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 connected to the TON ecosystem. An RPC query by CryptoSlate at 2:33 a.m. UTC still showed the final block from Aug. 22, meaning normal block production had not…
Adding Massachusetts incumbent Auchincloss to the list of winning primary candidates Fairshake supported, the industry’s influence moves on to November.
After multiple appeals courts ruled differently about whether states can crack down on prediction markets’ sports products, New Jersey asked SCOTUS to step in.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wants to let Wall Street’s official shareholder records move onchain while keeping regulated transfer agents in control. On Sept. 1, the financial regulator proposed its first major overhaul of transfer-agent rules since regulations were adopted in the late 1970s and early 1980s, explicitly allowing blockchain or other distributed-ledger…
Kalshi is pricing a 25-basis-point September rate increase at 59% against 42% for no change. Other reported measures put the probability at about 60% to 68% before the September 15-16 Federal Open Market Committee meeting. On the other hand, Fed rate-cut odds have dropped to just 1%, as all hope of a possible cut fades.…
Corporate political donations hit a record $646 million over the 18 months through June, according to Public Citizen’s analysis of FEC filings. Crypto political spending led every other corporate sector at $206 million, while crypto, AI, and online betting together accounted for $344 million, more than half the total. The GENIUS Act already created a…
In this week’s Crypto Long & Short, Varun Datta of Truth Ventures writes that crypto venture capital’s retreat to later-stage deals is a consensus trade dressed as discipline. With proven companies taking 57% of last quarter’s capital, he argues the founding-stage gap is where the returns are, and lays out three things to look for.