MakerDAO’s roadmap has sometimes felt like a maze of names, tokens, and governance layers. The SPARK distribution plan helps make one piece of that transition easier to see: how users and early participants may be reward
Spark's innovative liquidity management could redefine DeFi economics, but it also introduces new risks and requires careful oversight.
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The post Circle Refused to Recover a Scam Victim’s USDC, Wisconsin’s Criminal Complaint Says appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Wisconsin prosecutors have filed a criminal complaint against Circle, alleging the USDC issuer intentionally disobeyed a court warrant to recover roughly 381,000 stolen tokens for a local scam victim. The misdemeanor charge sharpens a dispute over how much responsibility stablecoin issuers bear for returning stolen funds. A Romance Scam Set the Criminal Complaint Against Circle in Motion A Walworth County resident received an unsolicited text in May 2025 from a scammer calling herself Lenora. Posing as a romantic partner, she steered part of his savings into USD Coin (USDC), a dollar-pegged stablecoin, on a bogus investment platform. According to the court filing, a county court ordered Circle to freeze the tokens last August, and it complied. In December, however, a judge ordered Circle to invalidate the tokens and reissue an equal amount to the sheriff’s o
The post Zapper shuts down after 7 years despite $13B peak volume – Details appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Zapper, a DeFi asset manager, has announced plans to shut down after nearly seven years of operation. To quantify the scale of its operation, the asset manager had attracted over 2 million active monthly users while it processed over $13 billion at its peak in transaction volume. Yet, the strong user adoption did not translate into a sustainable business model as revenue declined due to intensified competition. This competition narrowed the asset manager’s profit margin, crippling its operations. Source: Zapper on X On the 3rd of August, the asset manager will shut down completely, bringing an end to its operations. The platform will assist its users in transitioning. Seb Audet, Co-Founder and CEO of Zapper, acknowledged that Zapper fell short of its mission. On a post on X he stated, Zapper’s mission was to make DeFi more accessible, and while we did not realize that missio
Europe’s stablecoin rulebook is becoming much more real. ESMA’s finalized MiCA guidelines add another layer of detail to how stablecoin issuers and service providers are expected to operate inside the bloc, especially wh
Helium is getting a fresh liquidity window after Binance added HNT to its spot trading lineup. For a DePIN token, that matters because exchange access can quickly change who can trade the asset, how deep the order book b
The post Pump.fun $130M PUMP unlock: Fair-launch stress test appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
The platform whose homepage promises no presales and no team allocations is about to release roughly $130 million of presale and team tokens into a market that trades half that much in a day. The July 12 PUMP unlock, landing one year to the day after its record-breaking ICO, is the sharpest test yet of whether the fair-launch economy’s own house token can survive the mechanics it imposes on everyone else. Summary Pump.fun’s July 12 unlock releases 82.5 billion PUMP, worth roughly $130 million, into a thin daily trading market. The unlock tests the contradiction between Pump.fun’s fair-launch branding and its own allocated ICO and insider vesting schedule. PUMP’s buybacks and burns have been unusually aggressive, but they have not stopped the token’s steep drawdown. The key question is whether insiders and investors hold, hedge, or sell newly liquid tokens after the cliff. Saturday’s outcom
SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.5, pitching the model to developers and enterprises trying to control the rising cost of AI-assisted software development.
In a statement, the company said the model is priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. It said the model is built for coding and agentic work, runs at 80 tokens per second, and uses fewer tokens than comparable models on some software engineering tasks.
Grok 4.5 is available through the SpaceXAI console and Grok Build. It is also available in Cursor, the AI coding tool made by Anysphere, giving SpaceXAI a route into a development environment already used by programmers rather than only competing through an API. SpaceXAI said EU availability is expected in mid-July.
In June, SpaceX, which owns SpaceXAI, said it was buying Anysphere, the startup behind Cursor, in a deal aimed at strengthening its position in enterprise AI tools. In a separate statement, Cursor said that Grok 4.5 was trained jointly with Spac
