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ETH derivatives reset and the next retail trade

ETH derivatives show a disciplined rebuild of risk, with rising open interest pointing to healthier leverage

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Decrypt · 2mo ago

Crypto Wallets Can ‘Directly Compete With Neobanks'

Bitget Wallet CMO Jamie Elkaleh tells Decrypt how the platform is evolving from a crypto wallet to a everyday finance app that seamlessly integrates crypto with TradFi, building on...

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Friday charts: Finding good news, in spite of bad headlines

2025 was far from perfect, but much better than we think it was.

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DePIN and crypto gaming led a surprising end-of-year rebound

BTC finished the week up 1.6%, while L2s, RWAs and the treasury trade continued to grind lower

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Canton’s $6T RWA rails and Lighter’s Hyperliquid multiple

DTCC moves DTC-custodied Treasuries onchain via Canton, while Lighter’s LIT launches trading at a fees multiple in Hyperliquid territory

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The long wait for crypto’s “coffee pot” moment

In the 90s, rapt audiences worldwide watched a coffee pot — will that fascination ever turn to crypto?

Failure is an option in crypto finance

Some systems improve by failing — and crypto has no choice

Yield Basis is making native BTC yield a reality

Yield Basis introduces an IL-free AMM design that already dominates BTC DEX liquidity

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Users are the best investors to have

Maybe tokenholders don’t need the rights that corporate shareholders have come to expect

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A sleeper in the perps category

As Hyperliquid and Lighter battle for perps DEX dominance, Boros could capture the structural upside

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Decrypt · 2mo ago

2026 Crypto Predictions! Tom Lee still buying ETH! Rekt tease WorldStar collab!

Btc: 87k (0%) | btc.D: 59.0% (0%). Eth: 2975 (1%) | bnb: 855 (+1%) | sol: 124 (0%). Tom Lee bought another $130M in ETH for Christmas, and still holds $1B in cash heading into the...

The old story of investing in new technology

Investors are often right about the future, but wrong about the returns

2025 Reflections

A look back at 2025, reflections on our industry, and what it means for Blockworks in 2026

The perps wars are heating up

Hyperliquid’s weekly volume trails newer rivals as a Lighter airdrop looms

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Decrypt · 2mo ago

The White Whale up 10x in a week! Lighter TGE! Saylor buys $109M BTC!

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 and silver won 2025

Gold is having its best year since 1979, while many DeFi names are trading near multi-year lows

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Maple’s fundamentals are driving outperformance

Maple is outperforming peers on growth, yield, and revenue — while benefiting from limited supply overhang and clear value accrual

The incredible, incomprehensible, possibly impossible world of trillion-dollar tech valuations

Will mega-unicorns collectively earn the trillions of dollars of revenue required to justify their valuations?

The year new tokens died

2025 saw a huge compression in the valuation of new tokens, with the steepest losses in infrastructure and gaming

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Grinch rally: Crypto indices track lower through the week

The AI sector was the top loser on the week, trading down -26%

A holiday guide to explaining crypto to your relatives

Spoiler alert: talking about crypto to normies is still really hard

Coinbase embeds Solana trading

The platform turns to onchain rails for Solana assets while crypto M&A and fundraising surge to cycle highs

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Robinhood’s leap shows the prediction-market arms race is underway

Robinhood is pushing deeper into high-margin market design, joining competitors like Kalshi and DraftKings

The competitive advantage of not knowing you’re wrong

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...

The network is the innovation

What Thomas Edison actually invented — and what it tells us about the future of crypto

Another week, another MetaDAO advertisement

Meanwhile, recent acquisitions continue to neglect tokenholders

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A man’s blockchain is his castle

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...

Capital gets selective

Unit economics inflect, institutional capital shows up onchain, and market structure continues to evolve