Lido Labs has asked the Lido DAO to approve the use of up to 2,500 stETH, worth about $5.8 million, to help reduce the rsETH shortfall caused by the recent Kelp exploit. Summary Lido Labs asked its DAO to allocate up to 2,500 stETH for Kelp exploit recovery. The Kelp exploit created an rsETH shortfall…
A US-sanctioned supertanker loaded with Iranian oil moved to cross the Strait of Hormuz while the waterway remained largely closed. The “Crude Oil all time high by April 30” market sits at 3.1% YES. Market reaction The crude oil all-time high market is barely moving after the supertanker incident. At 3.1% YES, it hasn’t shifted…
BTC/USD price is holding a fragile line. The leading cryptocurrency trades near $75,407 on CoinMarketCap, up 1.73% in 24 hours, but sitting roughly 40% below its all-time high of $126,210.50 reached in October 2025. That gap tells a story worth reading carefully. Meanwhile, Strategy’s Michael Saylor just posted “Think Even ₿igger” on X, historically his…
GraniteShares has delayed the launch of its 3x Long and 3x Short XRP Daily ETFs from April 23 to May 7, marking the fifth postponement in three weeks and raising fresh questions about whether the SEC will ultimately clear 3x leveraged crypto products under the framework it applied to reject similar products from ProShares in…
Iran has deposited its first toll fees from the Strait of Hormuz into its Central Bank. The odds of 80 ships transiting by April 30 are at 4% YES, down from 20% a week ago. The deposit confirms Iran’s operational toll regime is functioning, not just announced. Traders in the 80 ships transit market now…
Tokyo’s Metropolitan Government has launched a subsidy program offering companies up to 40 million yen – roughly $250,000 – to build real-world use cases around digital yen stablecoins, administered by the city’s Bureau of Industrial and Labor Affairs under Japan’s Payment Services Act. The detail most headlines are missing, though, is what this program actually…
Pantera Capital and other investors pressure Satsuma to dump $50M Bitcoin as stock collapses over 98%. Digital assets-focused venture fund, Pantera Capital, is pushing London-listed Satsuma Technology Plc to sell its remaining Bitcoin (BTC) holdings and return the proceeds to shareholders, in what appears to be a shift in sentiment around a strategy that…
Deloitte and Touche LLP has completed a SOC 2 Type 2 examination for Chainlink’s CCIP and Data Feeds, making Chainlink the only data and interoperability oracle platform in the blockchain industry to hold SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 1, and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certifications simultaneously, the full stack of security credentials that institutional risk…
Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman called on Wall Street leaders to support proposed capital rules and stop seeking exemptions. The Polymarket contract on Bitcoin dipping to $60,000 in April sits at 1.3% YES. Market reaction The proposal would reduce capital requirements, potentially increasing banks’ lending capacity and liquidity. The Bitcoin market has…
If you’ve been paying attention to Polymarket and the growing Trump crypto empire over the past few months, you already know something has been off. The BBC has now put numbers to what the on-chain data has been whispering for a while, and the picture isn’t pretty. Across multiple major geopolitical events during Trump’s second…
