DeFi

Variant Fund chief authorized officer Jake Chervinsky maintains that decentralized public blockchains remain the regulatory standard for product growth, despite current bulletins of corporate-controlled layer-1 (L1) networks. Chervinsky argued on X that many new L1s constructed by firms for product-specific causes are “pointless” and “unhelpful” from a regulatory perspective. He famous that no US regulator…

Shared security protocols are positioning themselves as options to infrastructure challenges which have sophisticated institutional blockchain adoption on account of unified security layers’ potential means to cut back improvement prices and technical boundaries for enterprises. According to Symbiotic CEO Misha Putiatin, the shared security mannequin permits organizations to leverage current blockchain security infrastructure somewhat than…

The Federal Reserve Board announced on Sept. 3 that it’s going to host a payments innovation conference on Oct. 21, the place it would focus on stablecoins, DeFi, and tokenization. The conference will characteristic panel discussions on the convergence of conventional and decentralized finance, rising stablecoin use instances and enterprise fashions, synthetic intelligence functions in…

Pump.fun unveiled Project Ascend on Sept. 2, introducing a tiered price construction designed to enhance creator earnings by 10 instances whereas making memecoins extra sustainable for long-term development. The initiative comes because the platform regained market dominance from competitor Bonkfun, in accordance to Blockworks data. The centerpiece of Project Ascend is Dynamic Fees V1, a…

Decentralized exchanges (DEX) processed a mixed $1.15 trillion in spot and perpetual contract volumes throughout August, marking the primary time month-to-month DEX exercise surpassed the $1 trillion threshold. According to DefiLlama data, spot DEX volumes reached $506.3 billion in August, falling simply $1.5 billion wanting the all-time high of $507.8 billion recorded in January. The…