Aave’s V4 discussion is a useful reminder that DeFi’s next cycle will not be won only by bigger yields or louder token narratives. Cost still matters. If users have to think twice before every transaction, the product is
The post Robinhood launched a Wall Street layer 2 chain and the market crowned a $150M cat coin first appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Robinhood launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain this month, describing it as a permissionless Layer 2 built on Arbitrum for tokenized stocks, real-world assets, DeFi lending, and AI-native finance. One week in, the chain’s loudest retail activity is driven by CASHCAT, a memecoin built on Robinhood’s own discarded “CashCat” name. The token reached nearly $150 million in market cap and over $159 million in 24-hour volume. CASHCAT gained liquidity, price charts, and social attention through Uniswap V3 pools and third-party launch and routing infrastructure, including Noxa.fun and Pump.fun, rather than through Robinhood’s own app-listing process. An explainer graphic outlines six steps showing how CASHCAT gained liquidity, price charts, and trading volume on Robinhood Chain without a formal listing. Behind an unapproved listing Robinhood built
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The DeFi portfolio tracker once handled $13 billion in transaction volume and 2 million monthly users before deciding an orderly wind-down was its best option. Zapper, the DeFi portfolio tracker and dashboard, will shut down entirely on August 3rd, co-founder and CEO Seb Audet said in a post on X Wednesday. The company’s website, mobile apps and API services will all go offline. Audet said the team “evaluated a number of different options, pursued some to the fullest extent possible,” before concluding that an orderly wind down is the best course of action. Existing API users will receive transition guidance by email, he said. Seven-Year Run Zapper launched in 2019 as a simple portfolio tracker Audet built for himself while exploring early DeFi, before scaling into a broader dashboard for tracking liquidity pools, yield farms and claimable rewards. At its peak, the platform served more tha
The DeFi portfolio tracker once handled $13 billion in transaction volume and 2 million monthly users before deciding an orderly wind-down was its best option.
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The Hyperliquid Policy Center (HPC) and non-custodial wallet provider Phantom have jointly urged the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to modernize its regulatory approach to decentralized finance (DeFi). In a response to the agency’s Request for Information on evolving financial technology, the organizations argue that onchain infrastructure should not be regulated like traditional financial intermediaries. The filing could influence how US regulators oversee decentralized markets while shaping the future of self-custody, onchain trading, and blockchain innovation. HPC and Phantom Push for Tailored DeFi Rules In their joint comment, HPC and Phantom argue that developers who publish onchain protocol software should not automatically be treated as operators of exchanges or clearinghouses. Instead, they urge the CFTC to distinguish between building technology and prov
Spark's innovative liquidity management could redefine DeFi economics, but it also introduces new risks and requires careful oversight.
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Robinhood Chain’s launch on July 1 did something most new Layer 2 blockchains never manage: it forced people to look twice at the numbers. $570 million in daily volume against just $21.68 million in total value locked — a 26:1 ratio that doesn’t exist anywhere else in decentralized finance at comparable scale. Most established DEXs with years of battle-tested liquidity sit at or below 1:1. Robinhood Chain turned over its entire liquidity base 26 times in a single day. Key takeaways Robinhood Chain launched July 1 as a permissionless Layer 2 on Arbitrum Orbit, with mainnet live from day one. Launch-day volume hit $570 million against $21.68 million TVL — a 26:1 ratio far above typical DEX benchmarks — largely driven by speculative memecoin trading. TVL has since grown past $240 million, mostly driven by Morpho and Ethena. The ARB token surged over 12% after Offchain Labs confirmed 10% of
The post What is a bonding curve? The math that launches every memecoin appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Every token launched on Pump.fun, every fair-launch memecoin, and a surprising share of DeFi’s core machinery runs on the same idea: a mathematical formula that sets a token’s price from its supply, with a smart contract as the only market maker. This guide explains how bonding curves actually work, the worked math of buying up a curve, the graduation model that industrialized token launches, the sniper and bundler attacks that exploit it, and where the elegant idea breaks. Summary Bonding curves use a mathematical formula to set token prices based on supply, allowing tokens to launch without order books or external market makers. Platforms such as Pump.fun use bonding curves to bootstrap liquidity before moving successful tokens into automated market maker pools through a graduation process. While bonding curves make token launches transparent and permissionless, they remain vu
Every token launched on Pump.fun, every fair-launch memecoin, and a surprising share of DeFi’s core machinery runs on the same idea: a mathematical formula that sets a token’s price from its supply, with a smart contract as the only market…
