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Bit Mining Limited announced plans to rebrand as SOLAI Limited, reflecting a strategic shift from cryptocurrency mining toward building onchain intelligent financial infrastructure within the Solana landscape. Bit Mining Unveils Plan to Rebrand as SOLAI The company, currently traded on the NYSE as BTCM, will seek shareholder approval to change its name and adopt the new ticker symbol “SLAI.” This move signals an evolution from a pure-play miner into a broader digital assets company focused on blockchain infrastructure and decentralized finance (DeFi). This transformation is centered on the Solana ecosystem. Bit Mining had previously announced it had purchased 27,191 solana…

TAC, a TON blockchain-focused protocol, has attracted nearly $208 million in total value locked (TVL) in just a month after its mainnet launch. After launching on July 15, the EVM-compatible layer now holds 35% more value on-chain than TON’s DeFi TVL, which stands at $153.6 million as of today, Aug. 20, per data from DefiLlama. TVL on TAC and TON. Source: DefiLlama The network connects Ethereum-based applications to TON’s Telegram-integrated ecosystem without bridges or wrapped assets. Since launch, Ethereum-based DeFi protocols including Curve, Morpho, and Euler — each with over $1 billion in TVL — have deployed on TAC. Months…

The Ethereum market is undergoing changes as Ethereum treasury firms and Ethereum exchange-traded funds ( ETFs) are still increasing their purchases of Ether (ETH). Although the two groups are actively buying some ETH over the last few months, an evident pattern developed such as treasury firms such as SharpLink and Bitmine acquired more Ethers than large ETF firms such as BlackRock. According to crypto analyst Sassal on x, In the last several months, the Ethereum treasury companies and Ethereum based ETFs have entered the ETH market with a huge percentage. Three larger treasury companies namely SharpLink, Bitmine, and another unknown…

Key Takeaways AI startup Rillet raises $70M Series B to transform ERP for SaaS firms, with a16z and ICONIQ backing its automation-first accounting tools. This follows Rillet’s $25 million Series A in May, led by Sequoia Capital. Rillet, an AI startup reimagining ERP (enterprise resource planning) with automation-first accounting tools for SaaS and high-growth companies, has raised $70 million in Series B funding co-led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and ICONIQ, the company announced Wednesday. This brings Rillet’s total funding to over $100 million in under a year. Seth Pierrepont, General Partner of ICONIQ, and Alex Rampell, General Partner of a16z,…

Solana dApps can now embed one-click transfers with Across’ new integration. The launch removes UX barriers that once pushed 13% of users to abandon bridging attempts, according to the protocol. Summary Across has expanded its intents-based bridging infrastructure to Solana, enabling one-click transfers between Ethereum and Solana. The integration removes multi-step claims and leverages a decentralized solver network to finalize transfers in seconds. Solana’s $10.1 billion inbound bridge volume has faced high abandonment rates, and Across positions its model as a fix to legacy bridging inefficiencies. Iinteroperability protocol Across has officially expanded its intents-based bridging infrastructure to the Solana blockchain,…

Centrifuge’s integration with Aerodrome is making RWAs accessible on DeFi platforms. Summary Centrifuge launched decentralized RWAs on Aerodrome, one of the largest EVM-based DEXs Users can trade these deRWAs and use them as collateral across the EVM ecosystem The protocol plans to expand this standard to the Ethereum mainnet and Solana. Real-world assets and decentralized finance are increasingly converging. On Wednesday, August 20, Centrifuge officially launched decentralized RWA tokens on Aerodrome, one of the largest DEXs on Base (BASE). The move makes RWAs tradable and usable as collateral on DeFi platforms across EVM chains. “This is the inflection of connecting…

U.S. stocks opened higher and Bitcoin held the $114k level as Wall Street continued to cheer corporate earnings amid ongoing jitters around trade deals. Summary Stocks opened slightly higher amid investor focus on key corporate earnings results. Tariffs remain in focus amid the Aug. 7 deadline. The benchmark S&P 500 opened 0.3% higher and the Nasdaq added 0.5%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up by 38 points. Meanwhile, Bitcoin (BTC) continued to hover near $114,000, where it has held for most of the week as sell-off pressure persists. Bitcoin reached an all-time high above $123,000 in July 2025.…

The Base blockchain overtook Tron to become the fifth-largest blockchain in TVL, clocking in at over $6.6B. A spokesperson representing the Morpho DeFi protocol said the Layer 2 blockchain did great at promoting borrowing and lending protocols. The spokesperson added that the Morpho-Coinbase integration allowed users to borrow stablecoins against their BTC holdings. The DeFi protocol’s representative also pointed out that this integration was a significant driver of deposits, contributing nearly $1B to Morpho’s TVL on the L2. Bernstein researchers expect the U.S.-listed crypto exchange to increase its stock’s value to $510 (+60%) by further leveraging the recent rally in…

This is a segment from the Lightspeed newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe. When one thinks of DeFi’s greatest innovations, automated market makers (AMMs) come to mind. Popularized by early OG teams like Bancor and Uniswap in 2018, AMMs enabled permissionless liquidity provision without the need for professional market makers to manage an order book. This permissionless structure has immense benefits for bootstrapping markets around illiquid tokens, but it comes with many well-known tradeoffs. Since liquidity positions and execution is public, LPs are vulnerable to MEV attacks, manifesting in price impact and slippage problems for the end-user. Protocol designers have…

A new cryptocurrency whale has purchased $1.34 billion worth of Ether in the past eight days, outpacing record US spot Ether ETF inflows and fueling speculation over the token’s price trajectory ahead of key US inflation data. The whale acquired 312,052 Ether (ETH) across 10 newly created cryptocurrency wallets, according to crypto intelligence platform Lookonchain. The whale has acquired $300 million more than the record-breaking inflows to US spot Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which amassed $1 billion worth of Ether on Monday, their largest daily net inflows since launch. Analysts say the billion-dollar accumulation could help push Ether closer to…