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The GENIUS Act Is Now Law — What the U.S. Stablecoin Bill Does
The GENIUS Act became U.S. law on July 18, 2025, establishing the first federal framework for payment stablecoins and reshaping on-chain dollar infrastructure.
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Ethereum ETF Outflows Hit $273M as Institutions Go On-Chain
Ethereum spot ETFs bled $273 million in the week ending June 26, marking seven consecutive weeks of net outflows even as SharpLink Gaming bought 5,000 ETH on-chain.
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Base Network Went Dark for 33 Minutes: What Broke
Coinbase’s Base network halted block production on August 5, 2025. The outage lasted 33 minutes and was caused by a sequencer failure.
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BitGo Cuts 15% of Staff, Bets Hard on Stablecoins and AI
BitGo cut roughly 15% of its workforce on June 25, 2026. It’s a deliberate pivot — not a distress signal — anchored to a hard bet on stablecoins and AI.
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How Stablecoin Issuers Became the Most Profitable Banks
Stablecoin issuers earn billions by investing depositor reserves in T-bills while paying holders zero interest — here’s how the model works and why regulation is reshaping it.
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BlackRock’s Jay Jacobs Names DeFi-TradFi Merger ‘The Great Convergence’
BlackRock’s Jay Jacobs is calling it “The Great Convergence” — his framing for the accelerating merger of decentralized and traditional finance.
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How DeFi Yield Vaults Fail: On-Chain Warning Signs for ETH Holders
Learn to read the on-chain warning signs — utilization rates, oracle timestamps, bad debt — that precede every DeFi yield vault collapse before you deposit.
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Morgan Stanley Files Ethereum and Solana ETF Amendments
Morgan Stanley filed two amended S-1 registrations with the SEC on June 18, 2026, proposing spot Ethereum and Solana funds at a 0.14% annual sponsor fee.
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Gnosis Safe Security Checklist: Protect Your Multisig Wallet
Learn how to secure your Gnosis Safe multisig wallet with threshold best practices, hardware key hygiene, ProxyAdmin audits, and Safe Watch Agent.
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Ethereum DeFi Liquidity Layer Explained: Where Your Capital Goes
The liquidity layer is the invisible DeFi infrastructure tier that decides where your capital goes, how efficiently it works, and what happens when markets move fast.
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