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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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The new chain splits Morph into two specialized networks, one for payments and stablecoins and another for high-throughput trading, with perpetual exchange PopDEX as its first announced user.
Base's Blocked Buidling
A three-year build that circles back to square one: Base remains fully centralized despite repeated decentralization pledges, raising harder questions about whether Coinbase is operating a dressed-up money transmission system—and how long regulators will tolerate it.
EU Parliament Flags Stablecoin Dominance Risk, Calls for Tighter Digital Asset Oversight
The Parliament's non-legislative report lands days after MiCA's full enforcement began, warning that US dollar stablecoins pose a structural risk to the euro.
BonkDAO Loses $20 Million After Attacker Buys Governance Control for $4.4 Million
The exploit succeeded not through a smart contract bug but because BonkDAO's quorum threshold let a single well-funded wallet outvote thousands of token holders who stayed home.
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Wall Street Calls Tokenization Strategic – Its Own Survey Says Equities Are the Exception
A new Broadridge poll of 200 financial services executives finds near-unanimous conviction on tokenization broadly, but muted enthusiasm for stocks specifically, even as onchain data shows tokenized equity transfers up more than 170-fold in a year.
Russia's State Duma Passes First Comprehensive Crypto Law, Takes Effect September 1
The law lets licensed intermediaries sell crypto to retail investors under a roughly $3,800 annual cap and permits its use in foreign trade settlements, while keeping the domestic payment ban in place.
Telegram Plans "Largest'" Non-Custodial Wallet Rollout in History
A browser-based Gram Wallet is already live, but the bigger move, a native wallet built into every Telegram app for its 1 billion-plus users, is still planned rather than shipped.
Bitcoin Climbs Toward $67K as CLARITY Act Optimism, Rate-Cut Bets Extend Rally
Bitcoin is up roughly 6% from this week's low and ether is outpacing it over seven days, as traders weigh a possible Senate breakthrough on crypto market structure legislation against growing expectations of a Fed rate cut.