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Checking, did pump.fun say what happened to the remaining 2.5% initially allocated to the PUMP ICO? That's 25B tokens = $100M, not a small amount, esp considering so many KYCed wallets didn't manage to get in.

From a $200M exploit to $1B in loans, Euler Labs's comeback is the ultimate DeFi success story. 💪 In this podcast, CEO Michael Bentley shares how they recovered, rebuilt, and redefined resilience in crypto 🎙️ Watch now: youtu.be/UADOiH6ChzI

This was a chilling interview where Euler Labs founder Michael Bentley Michael Bentley went through the blow-by-blow of what it felt like to lose $200M in a hack, recover it he also dives into the process of deciding whether to keep going or shut the project down. now they're

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Is DeFi really having a comeback? Camila Russo of The Defiant takes over The Breakdown today

The ETH narrative is coming back to what people in the very early days in that famous Miami house were saying about Ethereum The next bitcoin The world computer These messages got people excited then because they're simple and ambitious at the same time. They're having the

Solana monthly DEX volume about to fall below Ethereum's for the first time in more than a year h/t Artemis (this is a YTD chart)

U.S. House Passes Clarity, GENIUS, and Anti-CBDC Acts With Historic Bipartisan Support for Crypto It's a major milestone for clearer regulation of the blockchain industry in the United States. Read more: thedefiant.io/news/regulatio…

GENIUS Act has just cleared Congress and will be signed into law. Is this what big banks have been waiting for? Read the implications in this week's edition of Real World, our RWA-focused newsletter, and subscribe for free. 👇 real-world.beehiiv.com/p/congress-pas…

⚙️ The Infinite Machine (2020) The Infinite Garden (2021) The Ether Machine (2025)

The Ether Machine is set to debut on the Nasdaq with over $1.5 billion in commitments. This new Ethereum-focused public vehicle aims to be the largest of its kind, accumulating ETH and yielding ETH-denominated returns. Read more here: thedefiant.io/news/tradfi-an…

Camila Russo The Infinite Ether (20++)

Obviously very subjective, but does it feel like Ethereum bull post accounts changed from defense to offense, and the opposite happened to Solana bull post accounts?

🎙️ Curious about the future of Ethereum staking? We sat down with Hasu⚡️🤖, Strategic Advisor to Lido, to unpack the latest innovations shaping the space. Topics include: 🔑 Dual governance & decentralization 💡 Lido V3 & staking vaults 📈 The role of ETH in DeFi Watch

had a great convo with Hasu⚡️🤖 of Lido says ETH use as DeFi collateral will decline as other assets come on chain, but that's ok bc ETH's value comes from securing the world's settlement layer “I’m not bearish on ETH, I’m bullish on DeFi. But that means ETH will be one

So PayPal's head of crypto leaves and now the company is replicating blockchain benefits (seamless cross border payments) by linking the largest fintechs together instead of using blockchain

Regulators say “go,” but Goldman Sachs and PayPal stumble. In this week's issue of Real World: 🙄 How Goldman just tokenized MM funds and then parked them on an in-house ledger., 🙄 How PayPal launched a “global” wallet hub, but left its own PYUSD stablecoin on the bench., ✅