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The Airdrop Economy: How Crypto Projects Bootstrap Communities & Solve the Cold Start Problem
Web3 token airdrops solve the "cold start problem" by giving up to 50% of supply to early users. Learn how Uniswap, BONK, and others use strategic distributions to build communities and create aligned incentives.
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A deal would route a subset of Hyperliquid's perpetual futures through Payward's CFTC-regulated Bitnomial exchange, giving the decentralized platform a compliant path into the US market it has never been able to serve directly.
Coinbase Debuts Tokenized Stocks on Base Network
The launch runs on B20, a token standard Base built for real-world assets, and arrives with roughly 50 DeFi protocols already committed to support it.
Licensed to Shill: Ethereum's Staking Yield Cut Won't Fix What's Actually Broken
The panel, featuring Blockhead's Tim Han, discusses why cutting ETH's risk-free rate from roughly 3% to 1.2% cannot fix a token that still has nowhere useful to go.
Morph Grows Its Stablecoin Ecosystem with New Payments Tool
Morph frames the launch as part of growing its ecosystem of stablecoin use cases, on top of trading and yield strategies.
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Hyperliquid in Talks With Kraken Parent Payward on US Market Entry
A deal would route a subset of Hyperliquid's perpetual futures through Payward's CFTC-regulated Bitnomial exchange, giving the decentralized platform a compliant path into the US market it has never been able to serve directly.
London Stock Exchange Partners With Payward to Explore Tokenised UK Equity Markets
LSEG plans to bring the 100 largest London-listed companies onchain as Payward's xStocks and is separately assessing a UK tokenised equity structure of its own, with trading targeted for 2027 pending regulatory approval.
Singapore Proposes Stablecoin License With 100% Reserves, No Holder Interest
MAS opened a consultation on the legislative amendments needed to bring its 2023 stablecoin framework into force, formalizing a protected "MAS-regulated stablecoin" label as regulated tokens are already being piloted in payment and settlement projects across the city-state.
A Hollow Recovery?
Bitcoin has recovered 31% from its lows, but the capital behind that recovery remains questionable. Whale accumulation is rising while retail distributes, stablecoin growth stays muted and leveraged derivatives drive volume—leaving $77,000 as the next critical test.