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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 0.30% and Bitwise’s BHYP at…
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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 proven vulnerable to manipulation. The…
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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 manage their positions. Read Full…
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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, eliminating forced liquidations and letting…
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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, Lighter, and Aave — letting…
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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 underpin much of DeFi today.…
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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 bitcoin acquisition strategy. Read Full…
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Aave now has a regulated path from bank accounts to DeFi lending – The hard part is keeping users there

On May 28, Aave Labs announced that its UK subsidiaries Push Labs Ltd. and Push Virtual Assets Ltd. received FCA registration as cryptoasset exchange providers,…
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XRP Ledger's new proposal blocks the flash loan attacks costing DeFi hundreds of millions

A draft XRPL amendment notes that flash loan attacks are “structurally impossible” on the network because of how its transactions are built, an architectural quirk…
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Wintermute Starts Quoting Prediction Markets as Event-Contract Volume Tops $60B in 2026

The $3.5 trillion-a-year crypto market maker said it is streaming two-sided quotes across event contracts on leading venues, including Polymarket and Kalshi, as monthly turnover…