Deribit wins FOW Derivatives Trading System of the Year at the 2026 International Awards, marking the first time a crypto-native exchange has been recognized.

21Shares distributes $0.32 per share in SOL staking rewards to TSOL holders, marking a milestone as crypto ETFs evolve from price exposure to yield generation.

Gate founder Lin Han declares banks lost the stablecoin war, the four-year Bitcoin cycle is dead, and crypto exchanges will beat TradFi. Full breakdown.

Bhutan sold another 100 BTC worth $6.7M to QCP Capital, extending a $22M sell-off as post-halving mining costs squeeze the kingdom

The CFTC appointed CEOs from Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Polymarket, Ripple, and Chainlink Labs to a 35-member Innovation Advisory Committee.

Polymarket's new 5-minute BTC prediction markets settle every 300 seconds on Polygon, blurring the line between DeFi and binary options as bearish sentiment builds.

Solana's x402 payment protocol has processed 35M+ transactions for AI agents. Here's how the HTTP 402-based standard is rewiring machine-to-machine commerce.

KAST and Pudgy Penguins launch the Pengu Card with 6% (Standard), 8% (Premium), and 12% (Luxe) cashback. Virtual-first Visa at 150M+ merchants.

Vitalik outlines a four-quadrant Ethereum-AI framework: ZK payments for anonymous API calls, ERC-8004 reputation systems, and bot-to-bot settlement on L2s.

Ledger argues AI agents should never hold private keys, pushing a 'propose, humans sign' model that challenges Coinbase's agentic wallet approach.