Dune: Polymarket and Kalshi had $2B+ in notional trading volume in the week ending October 19, exceeding the previous peak during the 2024 presidential election
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Beauhurst: UK equity crowdfunding, once one of fintech's hottest trends, fell 58% from its 2021 peak to £335M in 2024, and dropped ~60% YoY in Q1 2025 to £42.6M
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Circle raises its fees to 0.03%+ per transaction for near-instant USDC redemptions above $2M; CoinGecko: USDC's market circulation is $35B, below USDT's $123B
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Abu Dhabi is becoming a popular destination for crypto companies, including Copper, Phoenix, Paxos, and eToro, seeking eager investors and friendlier regulators
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London-based crypto derivatives trading platform Global Futures and Options, which plans to clear BTC index futures with LCH, raised a $30M Series B led by M&G
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The 2022 crypto winter showed that the digital asset ecosystem is more interconnected than many participants realized, despite its core decentralization tenet
As 2021 came to a close, crypto enthusiasts were brimming with optimism. After all, it had been a banner year: Nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, had crossed into the mainstream. Tweets: @emilyjnicolle , @...
After suspending withdrawals on June 17, Babel Finance reaches “preliminary agreements on the repayment period of some debts”, helping ease liquidity pressure
Dear customers， Babel Finance management has taken the following steps … PYMNTS.com : Crypto Lender Babel Announces Debt Relief Babel Finance : Notice — Dear Customers， Recently, the crypto market h...
DeFi Llama: the total value locked across all DeFi protocols has dropped to ~$112B, down from ~$195B at the start of May before UST and LUNA collapse
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg : Tweets: @emilyjnicolle Tweets: Emily Nicolle / @emilyjnicolle : DeFi projects have lost a collective $83bn since the start of May, almost halving the sector's total value ...
Yuga Labs raises ~$320M by selling 55K virtual land plots in its Otherside metaverse, causing Ethereum blockchain ripple effects and skyrocketing gas fees
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business … Ivan Mehta / TNW : How the BAYC metaverse mint raised Ethereum gas fees to thousands of dollars Emma Roth / The Verge : Bored Ape Yacht...