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The total value locked (TVL) across decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols has fallen for six consecutive months, according to a new report from CryptoRank. Year-to-date, DeFi TVL has dropped approximately 39%, declining from around $115 billion in January 2025 to roughly $70 billion as of late June. This sustained downturn reflects a broader correction following the market’s peak earlier this year. Six Months of Decline and Rising Security Concerns The ongoing contraction in DeFi TVL marks one of the most prolonged drawdowns since the 2022 bear market. Analysts point to a combination of factors, including reduced yield opportunities, shifting investor sentiment…

Advisors to some of the largest financial institutions are taking more of an interest in stablecoins and tokenization than in Bitcoin, which could help pull crypto out of its current slump, said Bitwise investment chief Matt Hougan. Hougan said in a note on Wednesday that he recently spoke with more than 40 advisors who were “still interested in crypto” but are “more interested today in stablecoins and tokenization than they are in Bitcoin.” “It was pretty hard to engage with advisors on Bitcoin this week,” he said. “In call after call, they expressed much more curiosity over the real-world applications…

Swell’s 10th Year Draws Executive Focus on Institutional Crypto Adoption Excitement around Ripple Swell 2026 accelerated after Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, Ripple President Monica Long, and Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz highlighted the event’s significance for Ripple, $XRP, and the $XRP Ledger ecosystem. The conference will take place in New York from Oct. 27-29 and will combine Swell with XRPL Apex for the first time. Executive comments have emphasized institutional adoption and ecosystem growth as central themes of the gathering, which is designed to bring together participants from traditional finance, blockchain development, and the broader digital asset industry. On June…

New York Stock Exchange-listed Bitcoin mining firm Hyperscale Data (NYSE: GPUS) has entered into a Master Service Agreement (MSA) to deliver 20 megawatts of AI computing capacity at its Michigan data center campus, signaling a strategic pivot from cryptocurrency mining toward high-performance computing for artificial intelligence workloads. Deal Details and Capacity Conversion The agreement, first reported by FinanceFeeds, will see Hyperscale Data allocate a significant portion of its existing infrastructure to AI services. The company currently operates approximately 28 MW of Bitcoin mining facilities at the Michigan campus. Under the new plan, Hyperscale intends to convert some of this mining…

As AI agents become increasingly capable of completing tasks online, a new challenge is emerging: how can businesses tell whether an agent is acting on behalf of a real person or simply part of a bot network? World believes human verification will become a critical part of the answer. The company has announced broader access to AgentKit, a framework that allows individuals to connect AI agents to a verified World ID and act on their behalf across the internet. The technology is designed to help websites and applications verify when an AI agent represents a unique human while still allowing…

On May 10, 2010, developer Laszlo Hanyecz published a post on the Bitcointalk forum explaining how to mine Bitcoin using an NVIDIA 8800 GTS graphics card instead of a CPU. Today marks exactly 16 years since that publication that helped drive the network’s hash rate up by 130,000% by the end of the same year. However, this historical moment is interesting from a very different angle too, as it became the first point of conceptual division in Bitcoin’s philosophy and stripped the project of its original “democratic” nature. Original post by Laszlo Hanyecz on how to generate $BTC with GPU,…

Cryptocurrency analytics company Santiment has ranked governance-themed cryptocurrency projects based on their GitHub development activity over the past 30 days. According to the shared data, Radworks topped the list, while Curve Finance’s Ethereum and Arbitrum versions shared second place. According to Santiment data, Radworks (RAD) led the governance category by a wide margin with 53 developer activities. Curve Finance’s $CRV projects on the Ethereum and Arbitrum networks came in second with 19.37 activity points, while Reserve Protocol ($RSR) secured third place with 5.53 activity points. Related News Analyst Who Predicted the Drop Forecasts What Might Happen Next with Bitcoin According…

Ethereum co-founder and Consensys CEO Joseph Lubin has re-emerged on social media to defend the latest intellectual endeavour of the latest intellectual endeavor of Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin: authoring a science fiction novel. Lubin praised Buterin as an “enormously effective communicator,” stating that he remains “the most important contributor to and steward of the Ethereum ecosystem.” Fictional governance Amid a brutal Ethereum price correction, the community is perplexed by some of Buterin’s personal choices. Buterin is currently in the middle of writing a science fiction novel focused on decentralized governance. card The Canadian prodigy announced the project on the decentralized…

The debate over Strategy’s (MSTR) recent dilutive transaction resurfaced, this time featuring Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor and Strike and Twenty One Capital (XXI) CEO Jack Mallers, on Wednesday at BTC Prague, as the two weighed in on how investors should assess the company’s increasingly complex capital structure. Mallers asked Saylor how he defines multiple-to-net asset value (mNAV), noting that some investors include out-of-the-money securities in their calculations and asking whether he agrees with that approach. (Strategy currently has $6.7 billion of convertible debt that is out of the money, meaning the securities are not expected to convert into equity…

Solana has managed to surpass all other blockchain networks in terms of the number of wallets that hold tokenized real-world assets (RWA), with a record of 285,971 RWA wallets reported as of June 18, according to the statistics provided by RWA.xyz. This development is particularly important for the whole crypto ecosystem as it shows where the interest of the investors, both retail and institutional, lies. A network that is favored by the greatest number of people and not only capital is bound to get the lion’s share of the action in the coming months. Solana leads by holders, not asset…