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DefiLlama shows Pump.fun generated $108.3 million in gross revenue during the first quarter and $69.2 million in the second quarter to date, marking a 36.1% decline from the prior quarter’s pace. The broader Pump stack, which includes PumpSwap and Terminal alongside Pump.fun, shows Q2-to-date gross protocol revenue of $179.3 million, 37.5% below the first quarter’s $287.1 million, while earnings fell from $120.9 million to $79.1 million over the same period. Pump.fun’s scale ranks among the most profitable consumer applications ever built on Solana. Its cumulative revenue exceeds $1 billion, and the broader Pump stack has generated $1.18 billion since launch.…

Block Inc.’s (XYZ) Square has crossed a threshold of roughly 1 million merchants now enabled to accept Bitcoin payments. The figure, cited by a member of Block’s team, reflects a wave of auto-enrollment that began March 30, when Square automatically switched on $BTC payments by default for eligible U.S. sellers. At its peak pace, a new business was activating the feature every eight seconds. The rollout is powered by the Lightning Network, enabling near-instant settlement while merchants receive U.S. dollars by default, removing currency risk from the equation. In other words, customers can pay in Bitcoin via Lightning while merchants…

Wang Chun, the founder of F2Pool — one of the world’s top five Bitcoin mining pools by hashrate — has executed a significant purchase of Ethereum ($ETH) and Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC). On-chain data shows that a wallet linked to Chun withdrew 7,650 $ETH and 124.18 WBTC from the Binance exchange over a four-hour window. The total value of the acquired assets is approximately $20.3 million (28 billion won). On-Chain Movement and DeFi Integration Following the withdrawal, the funds were deposited into Spark, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform built on the Ethereum network. Spark is a lending and borrowing protocol that…

The most-used private dollar on earth does not move primarily over an American chain. It moves over Tron. Of the more than $180 billion in $USDT Tether has in circulation, close to half sits on Tron, roughly $89 billion of supply on a single network with no US nexus and a founder the SEC spent three years pursuing. The reserve debate in Washington has almost nothing to say about that. One chain, half the supply Tron has quietly become the settlement layer for the dollar that emerging-market users actually touch. The pull is simple: transfers are cheap, liquidity is deep,…

A massive $UNI whale deposit has caught the attention of the crypto community. On-chain analyst ai_9684xtpa reported that an anonymous wallet transferred 1.397 million $UNI tokens, valued at $4.6 million, to three exchanges. This event occurred approximately two hours before the report. Deposits to exchanges often indicate an intent to sell. $UNI Whale Deposit Details and Exchange Connections The whale address, starting with 0xb5E, moved the tokens to Bybit, Binance, and another undisclosed platform. One receiving address on Bybit has a direct link to the DeFi fund Defiance Capital. This connection raises questions about the entity behind the transaction. Defiance…

The CLARITY Act is moving faster than most people expected and the stakes attached to it are higher than most people realise. Bloomberg senior commodity strategist Mike McGlone delivered a verdict on the legislation that cuts against the celebratory tone dominating crypto circles right now. McGlone’s Warning: Most Cryptos Go to Zero Asked whether the CLARITY Act deserves its billing as the biggest regulatory catalyst in crypto history, McGlone did not dispute the significance of the legislation. But his answer reframes what that significance actually means for the majority of digital assets. “Great for stablecoins and tokenization,” he said, “which…

As Bitcoin ($BTC) attempts to rally above a crucial resistance level around $82,200, Finbold AI Agent, an advanced financial assistance tool, has made a bold prediction for May 31. The Finbold AI Agent predicted that the Bitcoin price rally may cool down over the coming 20 days. Precisely, Finbold AI expects $BTC price to close May trading at $79,325, down nearly 2% from May 12. $BTC/USD prediction for May 31. Source: Finbold The Finbold AI Agent leveraged several Large Language Models (LLMs) – including Claude Opus 4.6, DeepSeek Chat, and Grok 4.1 – to generate this $BTC price prediction. Additionally,…

As digital assets move toward broader institutional adoption, investors bring familiar expectations with them. They want the same tools that support decisions across public markets, including transparent pricing, standardized benchmarks, independent governance and reliable ways to measure performance and risk. In other words: they want what indexes provide. Throughout financial history, the arrival of trusted benchmarks has often marked the moment that a new market becomes an investable one. Equities, fixed income, commodities and currencies each developed their own benchmarks as they matured. None of these measures are the market itself, but they are the lens through which it can…

MegaETH’s Token Generation Event (TGE) is officially scheduled for April 30, 2026, triggered after the project hit its first on-chain milestone: 10 live Mega Mafia applications deployed on mainnet. $MEGA TGEAPRIL 30, 2026 pic.twitter.com/XmtJdhEA8y — MegaETH (@megaeth) April 23, 2026 What Triggered The TGE Countdown? MegaETH launched on mainnet in February without a fixed token launch date. Instead, the team tied the release of its $MEGA token to three performance-based KPIs. Only one needed to be met to start a seven-day countdown. The three conditions were: A $500 million circulating supply of USDM, with at least 25% deposited into smart…

A spokesperson for Polymarket said the company looks forward to addressing the claims. “This action runs counter to the CFTC’s established framework for regulating prediction markets,” the spokesperson said in a statement emailed to CoinDesk. So far, the states that have filed such a challenge against the prediction markets have met with counter suits from the CFTC, where Chairman Mike Selig has taken an aggressive legal stance defending his agency’s authority as the sole regulatory power over events contracts, which he says falls directly into the CFTC’s authority over U.S. derivatives. And Trump has recently backed him up. “It is…