Zapper will fully shut down on August 3, 2026, after which its website, app, and API will no longer be accessible. The one essential thing you must do is: before the shutdown, import your wallet addre

The tokenized gold options market is beginning to take shape—not because gold itself has changed, but because crypto-native traders are reshaping the pricing structure of gold using the high-volatilit

The statement that "on-chain data tools are entering a phase of elimination" holds true, but what is being eliminated is not the "data" itself. Rather, it is the batch of data intermediaries from the

On July 13, 2026, Hyperliquid's total open interest (OI) across all markets reached $11 billion, with the RWA segment alone accounting for $3.6 billion—both all-time highs. This number isn't directly

Perpetual DEXs are taking on traditional asset trading not out of "blockchain faith," but because traditional asset trading itself has structural pain points—limited trading hours, cross-border barrie

Monad's DeFi liquidity did not grow organically—it was bought with $15 million in targeted incentives. As of mid-July 2026, Monad's TVL reached $621 million, with Aave contributing over $100 million i

Once Aave goes live on Monad, the most direct change is that Monad gains a battle-tested top-tier lending protocol, while Aave gets a high-performance, low-latency deployment environment. But this par

RWA has become the new gateway that public chains are fighting over, not because blockchains need assets, but because the US government is making the on-chain integration of dollar-denominated assets

A common misconception is that institutions issue stablecoins to steal market share from USDT and USDC. That's not the case — Circle and Tether serve crypto traders, whereas institutions building thei

The direct conclusion of MoneyGram becoming a Solana validator is: A global payments company with 600,000 active users is no longer just "using" the blockchain, but has started "operating" its underly

Cross-border payments choose multiple blockchains not because one chain is particularly outstanding, but because no single chain can simultaneously meet the compliance requirements, liquidity distribu

If you are in Europe, July 1, 2026 is a hard cutoff: platforms that have not obtained a MiCA license must stop serving EU residents, and users who remain on unauthorized platforms will no longer have

The answer to "Will compliant stablecoins replace USDT?" is: they won't take over the whole world, but they will carve out a big chunk. Compliant stablecoins have already captured Europe (USDC) and th

The CLARITY Act is advancing through the U.S. Congress. One of its core provisions extends the ban on "passive stablecoin yield" from issuers to all intermediary platforms—meaning the days of earning

The NFT safe harbor provision, included in the CLARITY Act, directly ensures that most NFT collectibles, game items, and membership credentials are no longer automatically deemed securities just becau

Ethereum native account abstraction is back in the spotlight because over 200 million smart accounts have been deployed at the application layer, yet the protocol has never given them a formal "on-cha