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Uniswap Turns On Earn, Routing USDC, USDT and ETH Deposits Into Gauntlet-Curated Morpho Vaults

DeFi

Uniswap Labs has switched on Earn, a lending feature inside the Uniswap Web App and Wallet that takes $USDC, $USDT and ETH deposits and routes them into Morpho vaults curated by risk firm Gauntlet on Ethereum mainnet. Uniswap says it charges no fee of its own for the product, though standard network costs still apply. The three vaults behind the feature are $USDC Prime, $USDT Prime and WETH Prime, according to Gauntlet, which curates them under what it calls its Prime risk mandate: overcollateralized lending against blue-chip collateral, with risk configuration, market allocation and exposure limits set by the firm's…

Dow Protocol raises $10.5M seed round for blockchain financing e-commerce

Regulation

E-commerce sellers often wait weeks to see cash from sales they have already made. Dow Protocol wants to close that gap with blockchain financing for e-commerce, and it just raised fresh capital to do it. The startup has completed a $10.5 million seed funding round to expand a financing model that advances working capital to online merchants against receivables that haven’t yet cleared. Key takeaways Dow Protocol raised $10.5 million in a seed round backed by MH Ventures, Mapleblock, Animoca Brands, Arcane Group, HSKChain, Essentia Partners, and Quartet Group. The protocol advances working capital to online merchants against pending receivables,…

Andrew Tate’s memecoin down 97% while he tweets from cell

Altcoins

Andrew Tate’s DADDY memecoin has shed half its value and is currently trading 97% below its 2024 peak — a plunge that’s coincided with Tate’s latest arrest and his incarceration in Miami’s Federal Detention Center. US Marshals arrested Tate, 39, and his brother Tristan, 38, on Saturday on a sealed warrant pursuant to UK extradition proceedings outside Miami’s James L. Knight Center. The pair were en route to a boxing event that Andrew was slated to co-host. It is not the pair’s first time in government detention and they continue to use these experiences to attract media attention. Indeed, Tate…

Ripple's Alderoty Says Crypto Is No Longer Just for 'Crypto Boys'

Legal

Ripple Chief Legal Officer Stuart Alderoty has pushed back against a recent Wall Street Journal editorial that referred to supporters of cryptocurrency regulation as "the crypto boys." He claims that the industry's user base is far more diverse than its critics tend to believe. Beyond stereotypes Alderoty said the label misrepresents the millions of Americans who now own digital assets. According to the Ripple executive, roughly 67 million Americans currently hold cryptocurrency. He added that about one-third of U.S. crypto owners are women. What is particularly striking is that more holders are over the age of 55 than under 25.…

OKX schedules delisting of GODS, PRCL and DUCK spot trading pairs

Exchanges

OKX has scheduled the removal of six GODS, PRCL and DUCK spot trading pairs while suspending deposits for the affected tokens from Aug. 7 and setting Nov. 7 as the withdrawal deadline. According to an OKX announcement, the exchange will remove three margin-settled spot pairs GODS/USD, PRCL/USD, and DUCK/USD, between 16:00 and 18:00 UTC on Aug. 14. Three additional spot pairs quoted in $USDT and EUR will follow three days later, with GODS/$USDT, PRCL/$USDT and DUCK/$USDT scheduled for delisting during the same two-hour window on Aug. 17. The exchange has also introduced a phased timeline for the affected assets. Deposits…

Ravencoin could roll back four days of transactions after critical block flaw

Mining

The first bad block appeared at height 4,487,776 at 15:44 UTC on Aug. 7. Once the weakness had been demonstrated on the live network, others appeared to copy it and produce invalid blocks of their own. Ravencoin has since released a fix, but patching the software does not undo what is already written. The two pools, 2Miners and RavenMiner, are building their version from block 4,487,775, the last one before the exploit. The project said it asked them to restart from a more recent point, which would put less history at risk, but they declined. Some transactions caught in the…

Over 2 million DOGE sit trapped in limbo as Dogechain keeps printing blocks past its final deadline

Blockchain

Dogechain, a separate Ethereum-compatible network from the Dogecoin blockchain, kept producing blocks after its announced 12:00 UTC shutdown on Aug. 8. Its project-run bridge page also remained online, while a Dogechain-specific QuickSwap route continued sending users to Polygon. Dogechain announced the cutoff in July and warned that assets remaining on the chain might become inaccessible or permanently lost. The split in service availability after noon leaves the recovery path for those assets unresolved. Blocks continued after noon The official RPC, the endpoint apps use to communicate with the network, returned block 62,578,500 immediately before noon and block 62,578,578 less than…

Samsung Electronics Surpasses Bitcoin in Global Market Cap Ranking as Semiconductor Rally Continues

Bitcoin

Samsung Electronics has once again overtaken Bitcoin in global market capitalization, reclaiming the 13th position among the world’s most valuable assets, according to data from CompaniesMarketCap as of June 11. The shift reflects a broader divergence between the ongoing weakness in cryptocurrency markets and a sustained rally in South Korean semiconductor stocks, with Samsung Electronics leading the charge. Market Cap Milestone and Recent Fluctuations The two assets have been trading places in the global rankings in recent weeks, highlighting the volatility inherent in both the crypto and semiconductor sectors. Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has faced persistent…

Midas Launches On-chain Credit Strategy

DeFi

Midas, a platform bringing investment strategies on-chain, has partnered with Wellington Management, an asset manager overseeing more than $1.3 trillion, to launch mWIN. The tokenized credit strategy is issued through a Luxembourg Securitisation Vehicle and is designed for use in both traditional and decentralized markets. mWIN tracks an actively managed fixed-income portfolio covering CLOs, CMBS, RMBS, ABS, and investment-grade corporate bonds. Wellington Management manages the portfolio, while Northern Trust, a global institutional custody provider, holds the underlying assets and provides daily pricing for NAV calculations. mWIN allows the portfolio to change with market conditions. Wellington can adjust exposures based on…

Take-Two Stock Launches on Solana

Regulation

World’s most popular game Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA 6) is now reaching the crypto market. A tokenized version of Take-Two Interactive (TTWO), the publisher behind GTA 6, has officially launched on the Solana blockchain. The move allows crypto investors to buy and trade the company’s stock directly through blockchain wallets. Tokenized Take Two Stock Now Trading on Solana Backpack Securities has officially launched tokenized TTWO shares on the Solana blockchain through the Sunrise tokenization platform. The digital stock can now be traded using compatible Solana wallets and decentralized platforms, including Jupiter, without relying on a traditional brokerage account. Unlike…