CertiK's 2026 Skynet report reveals prediction markets hit $63.5B in volume but centralized logins, 60% wash trading, and oracle risks threaten the sector.

Robinhood Chain testnet goes live on Arbitrum with nearly 2,000 tokenized stocks, $1M developer fund, and plans for perpetual futures and DeFi lending.

BlackRock's tokenized treasury fund BUIDL is now tradeable on Uniswap via Securitize, with Wintermute and Flowdesk as whitelisted market makers.

Yearn Finance announces its expansion to RISE Chain, an Ethereum L2 targeting 100K TPS and 5ms latency, bringing automated yield strategies to a new execution layer.

36.6 million ETH is now staked, crossing the 30% threshold for the first time. Institutional players and liquid staking protocols are driving a structural supply squeeze.

Institutional clients can now use Franklin Templeton's tokenized MMF shares as off-exchange collateral on Binance while earning yield in regulated custody.

Bitcoin's mining difficulty fell 11% to 125.86 trillion as hashrate plunged 20%. Winter Storm Fern and a 45% price crash triggered the biggest reset since 2021.

Solana declares payment volume leadership across Web2 and Web3 at Consensus Hong Kong, backed by 750% growth, $15B in stablecoins, and institutional heavyweights.

Banks arrived at the White House with a principles document demanding a blanket prohibition on stablecoin yield. Crypto negotiators came to compromise. Neither side budged.

Stripe adopts the x402 payment protocol on Coinbase