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Polymarket Books First On-Chain Institutional Block Trade

A six-figure trade settled against the Ornn Compute Price Index pushes the world’s largest prediction market into TradFi-style risk transfer,…
Jun 2, 2026
DeFi

Hyperliquid is beating ethereum in trading volume on some days as big money rotates, says FalconX

Institutional investors are ditching range-bound bitcoin and ether for Hyperliquid as the decentralized platform wins over hedge funds with massive…
Jun 2, 2026
DeFi

Ethereum Researchers Lay Out Post-Quantum Key Registry as First Concrete Migration Step

A team led by Thomas Coratger and Justin Drake published the design for a dedicated XMSS public-key registry, the first…
Jun 2, 2026
DeFi

Grayscale Sets 0.29% Fee for Hyperliquid Staking ETF, Kicking Off a Price War Among HYPE Issuers

Grayscale filed S-1 Amendment 6 with a 0.29% sponsor fee for its Hyperliquid Staking ETF (HYPG), undercutting 21Shares’ THYP at…
Jun 2, 2026
DeFi

Vitalik Buterin Proposes Options-Based DeFi to End Forced Liquidations and the Real-Time Oracle Problem

Vitalik proposed replacing CDPs with options-based index-tracking assets, using slow oracles to reduce reliance on real-time price feeds that have…
Jun 2, 2026
DeFi

DeFi protocol Radiant to wind down after failing to recover from 2024 hack

Radiant says its frontend and smart contracts will remain accessible and users will still be able to withdraw, repay, and…
Jun 2, 2026
DeFi

Vitalik Buterin Proposes Options-Based DeFi to Replace Liquidation-Driven Debt Model

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed splitting 1 ETH into two paired option assets that always sum back to 1 ETH,…
Jun 1, 2026
DeFi

Anchorage Digital Pushes Federally Chartered Settlement Into Non-Custodial DeFi With Coordinated Multiparty Layer

The OCC-chartered crypto bank is positioning its Atlas network as a coordinated multiparty settlement layer for institutional trading on Hyperliquid,…
Jun 1, 2026
DeFi

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin is rethinking how DeFi handles market crashes

In a research post published Monday, Buterin proposed creating index-tracking assets using options contracts rather than the debt-based structures that…
Jun 1, 2026
DeFi

Strategy holds STRC dividend at 11.5% for fourth straight month

The preferred stock remains near its $100 par value as the company balances yield stability, ATM issuance capacity, and its…
Jun 1, 2026