DEX announces day-one support for Circle’s upcoming stablecoin-native L1, bringing swap infrastructure and deep liquidity to Arc at mainnet launch.
Network to cease operations on June 30, 2026; Curve Finance warns LPs to withdraw liquidity from Fantom Opera pools before deadline.
Latin America-focused stablecoin payments firm raises Series A led by Paradigm, with Coinbase Ventures and Verda Ventures participating.
Confidentiality layer for smart contracts goes live on Base mainnet, enabling private execution without new chains or tools.
Protocol exploited for ~$2.1M via integer division truncation bug in mint function, with ~$2M rescued by whitehat.
Optimism launches stake-based ordering experiment, splitting blocks into Reserved and General tiers to prioritize latency-sensitive transactions.
Linea and Bermuda demonstrate trustless private interoperability, enabling atomic delivery-versus-payment settlement across EVM chains.
NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin outlines NEAR's decade-long evolution from a sharded blockchain to an AI-agent economy, where NEAR serves as the native 'AI money' for confidential, intent-driven transactions and agent marketplaces, with architectural bets on chain abstraction and privacy-preserving execution.
The episode covers the US government's export control directive suspending global access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models due to a jailbreak vulnerability, sparking debates on AI regulation and decentralization. It also dives into SpaceX's IPO, market structure reforms like SEC's Reg NMS rescission, and the rise of tokenized equities.
The episode covers macro tailwinds for crypto (institutional adoption, Fed policy), AI agent integration in fintech with stablecoins as a key rail, and deep dives into onchain exchange tokenomics (Aerodrome/Arrow, Hyperliquid) as competitive threats to traditional finance. Bullish long-term calls on Bitcoin and onchain GDP growth are paired with granular supply debates for HYPE and Arrow.
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