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Convex’s Resupply Summer campaign is live: extra RSUP and CVX for Curve Lend and Fraxlend collateral, gauge weight, and a structural positive-carry borrow. Round 1 began 3 August 2026. This is a growth programme, not a price forecast.
Read analysis →BitMine, SharpLink, and other corporate ETH holders are funding Ethlabs while expanding balance-sheet Ether positions — signalling institutional conviction in Ethereum as settlement infrastructure.
Read analysis →Historical June 2026 countdown: agencies were due to publish final GENIUS Act stablecoin rules by 18 July 2026. That deadline was missed — read the August recap for the January 2027 effective-date backstop.
Read analysis →Historical June 2026 coverage of the CLARITY Act’s Senate progress. The later 15 September procedural vote failed; see the updated canonical vote report for the outcome.
Read analysis →Aave, Morpho, SparkLend, and Compound supply APYs have compressed in mid-2026 as TVL rebounds post-restaking stress. We break down where borrowers still pay premium rates and where LPs earn real yield.
Read analysis →Hyperliquid continues to lead decentralised perpetual futures by volume in mid-2026 — processing more daily notional than GMX, dYdX, and Drift combined on many sessions. We analyse what is driving the shift to on-chain order books.
Read analysis →On-chain tokenised real-world assets exceeded $30B in June 2026, with OUSG on Aave and BlackRock BUIDL integrations driving institutional DeFi lending. Here is how RWA collateral is changing money markets.
Read analysis →Solana DeFi TVL and DEX volume rebounded in June 2026, led by Jupiter aggregators, Kamino lending, and liquid staking flows into JitoSOL and mSOL. Alpenglow upgrade anticipation adds a protocol roadmap tailwind.
Read analysis →Ethlabs (ethlabs.org) is an independent nonprofit R&D lab launched in June 2026 by five former Ethereum Foundation researchers — focused on faster finality, mainnet capacity, and institutional-grade Ethereum infrastructure.
Read analysis →Base, the Layer 2 network incubated by Coinbase and built on the OP Stack, has crossed $10 billion in total value locked — entering the top three DeFi networks by TVL alongside Ethereum mainnet and Arbitrum. The milestone reflects rapid protocol deployment, growing stablecoin liquidity, and Coinbase's retail distribution advantage.
Read analysis →Bitcoin has surpassed its previous all-time high to trade above $150,000 for the first time, driven by record ETF inflows, continued institutional accumulation, the post-halving supply reduction, and growing sovereign interest in BTC reserves. Here is what is behind the rally and what analysts are watching next.
Read analysis →BlackRock's BUIDL fund — a tokenised US Treasury money market fund on the Ethereum blockchain — has crossed $2 billion in assets under management, making it the largest tokenised real-world asset fund in existence. The milestone signals that institutional RWA tokenisation is moving from experiment to mainstream.
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