cftc pilot goes live q1 2025. btc and eth become collateral for $10 trillion derivatives markets. cme already building the infrastructure. this isn't trading volume that comes and goes. it's collateral that gets posted and stays locked. haircuts start at 50% but improve as dcos get comfortable. every hedge fund holding btc just got handed 50-70% more capital to deploy without selling a single coin. sol didn't make the cut. only btc, eth, and usdc approved. ...

sei getting pre-installed on 170m xiaomi phones annually starting q2 2026. 680m existing xiaomi users get blockchain wallets without downloading anything. 20,000 stores accepting stablecoin payments through miPay integration. every other l1 is begging users to download apps. sei ships inside the hardware. $925m market cap for the only blockchain with actual consumer device distribution at scale. ...

pnc bank just became the first major us bank to offer direct bitcoin trading through regular investment accounts. $410b aum, 6th largest bank. coinbase powers the backend. every bank that waits loses their high net worth clients to pnc. jpmorgan, bofa, wells fargo announce within 90 days or bleed market share. ...

polymarket secured $2b from paradigm using volumes that were double-counted. actual october volume was $1.2b not $2.5b. every major data platform just halved their historical numbers. the funding closed before the correction. 83% of users lose money on the platform. vcs got their markup, now comes price discovery. ...

spark protocol climbed to #5 defi protocol managing $3b but hasn't launched a token yet. avalanche expansion pays triple rewards: susr + avax + spark points on the same deposits. avalanche card integration coming lets you spend defi yields directly without withdrawing. farming points on a top-5 protocol with no token is the most obvious asymmetric bet in defi right now. ...

brevis provernet mainnet just went live. every zk-rollup depends on centralized provers that can halt the entire chain. provernet creates an open marketplace where anyone can generate proofs. 250m proofs already processed, pancakeswap and uniswap integrated. brev token staking built but not activated yet. the infrastructure play before the token even exists. ...

zachxbt put a $5k bounty on kaito and galxe bot farms. 4 of kaito's last 6 launches trade below ido price. novastro down 69%, everlyn down 53%. bot operators get allocated tokens for spam, dump immediately at tge. projects pay 6-15% of supply for fake engagement that vanishes post-launch ...

camp network has 200k sleepagotchi users registering ip on-chain and they don't even know it. netflix black mirror franchise went live december 9. every other blockchain ip project is still writing whitepapers. ai companies need legally clear training data or face trillion dollar lawsuits. camp built the rails before the regulation hits. ...

mantra ceo tells $om holders to pull everything from okx immediately. exchange shows migration dec 22-25 but actual date is jan 15+. that 3 week gap means tokens get locked during the 4:1 split. okx hasn't responded to mantra since april when $om crashed 90% from $6.30 to $0.50. migration already shut trading on osmosis. wrong dates on a major exchange during token splits is how holders get trapped. ...

ETF Products & Strategy - BlackRock filed ETHB as a separate staked ETH ETF instead of adding staking to their $2.4 billion ETFA fund [1] - Product segmentation targets different allocator pools: pension funds (ETFA) and endowments (ETHB) [1] - The strategy aims to double the allocator pools by offering two products with the same underlying asset (ETH) [1] Validator & Revenue - Coinbase runs the validators for both ETFA and ETHB [1] - Coinbase earns $34.2 million from staked ETH, growing daily [1] Tokenomics - Product segmentation is the real tokenomics [1]