Aligned Details ALIGN Airdrop 20 Months Later
Aligned published the terms of its ALIGN airdrop on Tuesday, 20 months after registration for the drop closed. The company did not say when the token launches. Every figure in the post is pegged to a token generation event that Aligned has not set a date for. The ALIGN contract on Ethereum records… Read the […]
Hayden Adams Says AMMs Will Win The Biggest Markets. A Former XTX Trader Says They’re Going To Zero
Hayden Adams published his first blog post since 2019 on Monday night, arguing that automated market makers will take over the world’s largest markets once tokenized assets begin trading against each other rather than against dollars. By Tuesday afternoon a former XTX Markets trader had replied… Read the full story at The Defiant
Omnichain Launchpad Printr Shuts Down, Cancels Token Launch And Airdrop
Printr, a token launchpad that deployed assets across eight chains from one interface, said Monday it has begun winding down and will cease all operations by Aug. 31, cancelling the token generation event and airdrop it had told users to expect. The shutdown removes one of the few launchpads that… Read the full story at […]
Search Interest in Prediction Markets Falls 83% From Its World Cup Peak as Kalshi Pulls Away
Worldwide search interest in prediction markets has returned to roughly where it sat before the 2026 World Cup, and the two venues that take almost all the category’s trading volume are moving apart as it does. Both peaks in Google’s data land on tournament dates. The decline since is a return to… Read the full […]
Neynar Seeks a New Owner for Farcaster Seven Months After Buying It
Neynar has started looking for a new team to run Farcaster, the token launcher Clanker and its own developer platform, co-founder Rish Mukherji said on Aug. 17, seven months after the company acquired the decentralized social protocol from Merkle Manufactory. That puts Farcaster into its second… Read the full story at The Defiant
Deel Takes Its DLUSD Stablecoin Wallet to More Than 80 Countries
Deel said on Aug. 17 that its DLUSD stablecoin wallet is live in more than 80 countries, 11 weeks after a launch limited to Argentina. The expansion routes a payroll platform that processes $22 billion a year into distributing dollar balances to contractors in markets where local banks make dollar… Read the full story at […]
Ansem Launches Site Where Teams Buy His Attention With Airdrops
Crypto influencer Zion “Ansem” Thomas opened ansem.io on Aug. 17, a site where token teams pay for his promotion by giving supply to holders of his memecoin. The trade replaces the standard influencer deal, in which a team pays social media influencers, known as Key Opinion Leaders, in cash or… Read the full story at […]
SharpLink Plans $200 Million ETH Allocation to Lido’s wstETH
SharpLink plans to stake $200 million of ETH through Lido, receiving wstETH that will be held with Anchorage Digital. Using Kraken’s displayed ETH price of $1,889.84, the dollar allocation equates to about 106,000 ETH, roughly 12% of the company’s 888,938 ETH holdings reported as of Aug. 3. The… Read the full story at The Defiant
Standard Chartered Says Its $100 UNI Target May Be Too Low After Robinhood Chain Burns
Standard Chartered’s global head of digital assets research said on Thursday that the $100 end-2030 price target he set for UNI in June may be too low, citing the rate at which Uniswap is now burning tokens with fees earned on Robinhood Chain. The burn rate Geoff Kendrick is extrapolating from is… Read the full […]
Tempo Launches Embedded Yield Product for Platforms, Starting With Deel
Tempo on Aug. 12 launched Tempo Earn, a product that lets fintechs pay their users rewards on idle stablecoin balances and keep part of the return, with payroll platform Deel as the first named deployment. Section 4(a)(11) of the GENIUS Act bars any permitted payment stablecoin issuer from paying… Read the full story at The […]