DEFI
The machinery underneath. Protocols, liquidity, yields, governance votes, exploits, and the slow institutional creep into on-chain infrastructure. Where crypto stops being an asset and starts being a financial system.
ON-CHAIN
+3
Oct 12, 2026
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4 min read
Houthi missiles hit Riyadh airport as diesel reaches $6.28
Also: an XRP Ledger bug that could have minted trillions, and Papertrade limits trading.
ON-CHAIN
+2
Oct 5, 2026
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4 min read
OKX and NYSE's owner filed for 63 tokenized stocks
Standard Chartered calls Aave a bank, and S&P starts rating DeFi lending vaults.
BITCOIN
+3
Oct 2, 2026
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5 min read
Trump says some inflation will pay off the debt
The president said some inflation will pay off the debt while the Fed raises rates to bring it down. Also: the first bitcoin fund outflow since September 16, and Derive's planned move to Ethereum.
ON-CHAIN
+3
Oct 1, 2026
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4 min read
US core inflation fell to 3.0% in August
Inflation cooled and rate-hike odds fell, but the money going into the bitcoin funds shrank every day.
BITCOIN
+3
Sep 4, 2026
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8 min read
Waller named the data he is waiting for
You have already had the half of Waller's speech that moved the price. The half that names the release he is waiting for sits further down, and it points somewhere else.
BITCOIN
+3
Sep 2, 2026
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4 min read
Bitcoin has never moved with gold like this.
A record correlation with gold, on the day four bond markets broke to multi-decade highs.
ON-CHAIN
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Aug 31, 2026
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5 min read
Argentina's inflation collapsed. The dollar tokens stayed.
Dollars are legal to buy again there, and one in five Argentines still uses crypto.
BITCOIN
+3
Aug 28, 2026
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8 min read
Nobody bought a coin this week
You already have this week's adoption headlines. We went and counted what a year of them has actually done to the price.
BITCOIN
+3
Aug 24, 2026
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4 min read
Bitcoin's biggest dollar week, then nothing
Three days without movement, and a crowd that has been cooling since Friday.
BITCOIN
+3
Aug 20, 2026
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5 min read
A bond-market tweak moved bitcoin 8%
The Treasury doubled a buyback cap. Ether rose 18%. American buyers stayed home.
BITCOIN
+3
Aug 14, 2026
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8 min read
Washington borrowed at the worst rates since 2001
Gold is up a third in a year. Bitcoin is down by half. Same argument, different destination.
BITCOIN
+3
Jul 31, 2026
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8 min read
Crypto traders swapped memecoins for stablecoin yield
It stayed in crypto and moved into a corner far narrower than the one it left.
BITCOIN
+3
Jul 22, 2026
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4 min read
One number pulled crypto off the floor
A cooler inflation reading, five green ETF days, and fear finally easing.
BITCOIN
+2
Jul 13, 2026
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4 min read
Crypto got boring. Grayscale says that's good.
Grayscale says that is exactly what growing up is supposed to feel like.
BITCOIN
+3
Jul 8, 2026
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4 min read
Nobody audits the sums
The vault's code held up fine. It was the arithmetic that let the money out.
BITCOIN
+3
Jun 19, 2026
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4 min read
Crypto found yield in the most boring place
Stablecoins are moving into the $1 trillion reinsurance market. Real premiums, real yield.
BITCOIN
+3
Jun 2, 2026
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4 min read
Three sellers. Zero buyers. Do the math.
Strategy sold BTC for the first time. ETF outflows hit 11 days. Mt. Gox is next.
