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Today KYD Labs, a Solana-based ticket sourcing platform, announced the launch of TIX — a DeFi lending layer built for live event financing. TIX will be integrated with KYD Labs, bringing a verifiable financing and settlement layer to its existing infrastructure. KYD is DeFi’s largest ticket transfer platform, with more than $8 million in ticket sales, and $2 million in pre-existing financing across more than 300,000 tickets, according to the press release. TIX looks to solve venues’ up front cost demand, and says it turns tickets into tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) “that replace opaque, ad-hoc loan agreements to fundamentally re-architect…

ETH rallied above $3,300 after a mostly positive day for the crypto market. The token kept seeing inflows from whales, as well as another big purchase from Bitmine. ETH continues to see interest from large-scale players, including whales, in both spot and derivative markets. ETH rallied late on Tuesday, after a short squeeze liquidated positions above $3,300. | Source: Coingecko ETH recovered above $3,200 after a short squeeze, following a day of rebuilding short liquidity. The token continued its expansion to $3,342.21. The last price move caused $36.3M in long liquidations for the past 24 hours, of which close to…

On November 3, Michael Burry’s Scion Asset Management disclosed a new regulatory filing, revealing several changes to its portfolio, including one million put options on Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA). The bet against the chipmaker was tied to roughly 1 million NVDA shares, carrying a notional value of about $186 million. With Nvidia jumping around 5% on Thursday, November 20, and adding roughly $205 billion in market value following strong third-quarter results, those who called Burry’s take “dead wrong” might be justified in hindsight. Namely, while the exact strike prices and option deltas were not disclosed, the investor’s position has still potentially…

Two months on from October 10’s crypto market meltdown, which saw $19 billion of positions liquidated, Gauntlet CEO Tarun Chitra argues that common autodeleveraging (ADL) mechanisms led to massive losses on Hyperliquid. In a lengthy post to X, Chitra says an excess of $650 million was autodeleveraged from profitable traders’ positions. The amount, he claims, was 28x more than the potential bad debt facing the exchanges who used ADL. This “massacre of the innocent” could allegedly be avoided with new ADL algorithms, described in an accompanying 95-page report. Read more: How Binance’s USDe ‘depeg’ cost the exchange millions Autodeleveraging on…

Falcon Finance, a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocol building a universal collateralization infrastructure to unlock liquidity from diverse assets, is attaching tokenized gold to Staking Vaults, its developing multi-asset staking product. The main purpose of this addition is to allow users to stake tokenized gold for pre-planned returns without revealing asset exposure. Gold has traditionally been a passive asset, but not anymore.With the new $XAUt Staking Vault on Falcon, you can stay fully exposed to gold while earning an estimated 3–5% APR, paid weekly in $USDf.For anyone looking to turn a conservative position into a steady income… pic.twitter.com/bJ82ximlbu — Falcon Finance…

Ethereum’s ether ETH$3,374.36 surged on Tuesday to its strongest price since mid-November, leading crypto markets higher as bitcoin BTC$93,913.61 climbed above $94,000. The second-largest cryptocurrency climbed to just shy of $3,400, rallying 8.4% over the past 24 hours. Those gains significantly outpaced bitcoin’s 4.5% advance and the broad-market benchmark CoinDesk 20 Index’s 6% climb. The rally also drove the ETH/BTC ratio — a closely-watched gauge of ether’s relative performance to bitcoin — to its strongest level since late October, signaling rotation into ETH from the leading crypto. Ether’s rally and relative strengths against BTC is being driven by “improving regulatory…

CoreWeave stock price has been in a free fall this year, erasing billions of dollars in value. CRWV plunged from the year-to-date high of $186 to the current $74, with its market cap falling from $87 billion to $37 billion today. The recent CoreWeave plunge has coincided with the performance of other companies in the AI industry. Nebius stock has plunged by over 32% from the year-to-date high, while IREN has dropped by over 40%. Other firms like Bitfarm and Hive Digital have also pulled back. CoreWeave’s business is thriving Copy link to section The ongoing CoreWeave stock crash is…

Demand for compliant digital-asset infrastructure is rising across Europe, and the Lava network is moving to meet it with new exchange listings and full MiCA alignment. MiCA compliance and EU-wide legal clarity Listings on Kraken and Binance expand access High-uptime infrastructure and cross-chain reach Ecosystem growth and enterprise focus MiCA compliance and EU-wide legal clarity Lava Network announced that it has completed the MiCA Title II procedure, confirming that its native LAVA token is not classified as a financial instrument under current rules. The process included the required 20-day notice period, granting the project full legal compliance across the EU…

Table of Contents What is Goblin Finance?What Are The Key Features and Components of Goblin Finance?Funding Round DetailsWho Were The Investors Involved?What Impact Does The Funding Have on the Aptos Ecosystem?ConclusionSourcesFrequently Asked Questions Goblin Finance, a decentralized finance protocol developed on the Aptos blockchain, has secured $1 million in strategic funding to expand its native yield infrastructure. According to the project’s announcement, the raise will support ongoing work on automated liquidity strategies and risk-managed yield aggregation, areas that remain underdeveloped within Aptos’ comparatively young DeFi landscape. The round, closed on December 10, 2025, involves lead investors OKX Ventures, Gate Ventures,…

Ethereum’s derivatives market is sliding into December with the kind of nervous energy typically reserved for election nights and surprise hard forks — a mood shaped by swelling open interest, lopsided options activity, and max pain levels that hint at a month where traders might need caffeine and courage in equal measure. Ethereum Open Interest Dips as Options Activity Heats Up Ethereum is trading near $3,291, and futures open interest across all exchanges sits at roughly 12.24 million ETH, equal to about $38.07 billion, according to coinglass.com figures. That number is sizable on its own, but the more interesting story…