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Hyperliquid’s weekly volume trails newer rivals as a Lighter airdrop looms
Btc: 87k (-1%) | btc.D: 59.0% (0%). Eth: 2953 (-3%) | bnb: 853 (-1%) | sol: 124 (-3%). The White Whale goes almost 15x in a week, from $5m to $71m mcap. Lighter TGE rumours stirrin...
Gold is having its best year since 1979, while many DeFi names are trading near multi-year lows
Maple is outperforming peers on growth, yield, and revenue — while benefiting from limited supply overhang and clear value accrual
Will mega-unicorns collectively earn the trillions of dollars of revenue required to justify their valuations?
2025 saw a huge compression in the valuation of new tokens, with the steepest losses in infrastructure and gaming
The AI sector was the top loser on the week, trading down -26%
Spoiler alert: talking about crypto to normies is still really hard
The platform turns to onchain rails for Solana assets while crypto M&A and fundraising surge to cycle highs
Robinhood is pushing deeper into high-margin market design, joining competitors like Kalshi and DraftKings
news The Breakdown The competitive advantage of not knowing you’re wrong When not knowing the odds improves your chances by Byron Gilliam / December 18, 2025 11:12 am yakupyavuz /S...
What Thomas Edison actually invented — and what it tells us about the future of crypto
Meanwhile, recent acquisitions continue to neglect tokenholders
news The Breakdown A man’s blockchain is his castle But who gets a key to the gate? by Byron Gilliam / December 16, 2025 10:22 am Georg Cracow by Lucas Cranach | Cranach Digital Ar...
Unit economics inflect, institutional capital shows up onchain, and market structure continues to evolve
Throughout its billions of searches, Google’s goal has always been to train and hone its algorithms
The Nasdaq slipped yesterday after disappointing Q3 revenue from Oracle
It’s getting harder and harder to trade crypto like the good ol’ days
Lightspeed IR, launched with the Solana Foundation, aims to give allocators a single surface for diligence and communication
Stablecoins are no substitute for what makes the dollar dominant
Crypto tokens need better investor relations infrastructure; today, Blockworks solves that.
BTC leads a broad crypto bid as ETFs post their strongest inflow in weeks
Quantum teleportation could make money a physical resource again
The exchange between Kamino and Jupiter has escalated from healthy competition to a clear public dispute
Crypto lags behind TradFi benchmarks, but trends in stablecoins, deposits and loans point to durable multi-year growth
news The Breakdown The productivity bull case for almost everything And the bear case for bitcoin by Byron Gilliam / December 9, 2025 10:54 am Andrey Suslov/Shutterstock and Adobe...
Kalshi raises a billion dollars, and Trump’s new Fed Chair pick is imminent
Bad math makes headlines: real progress, a history of candlelight, and “the worst poverty analysis…ever seen”
Despite a soft market backdrop, Solana DeFi tokens showed relative strength, with Sanctum leading the pack
Anthropic researchers report that their AI agents successfully exploited 56% of vulnerable smart contracts
