Virtual land and the MANA economy
Decentraland manages its ecosystem through a DAO that controls a treasury with 222,000,000 MANA in vesting contracts. The platform transitioned from early land auctions…
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The original chain
Bitcoin
Lightning Network capacity and the splicing shift
The Lightning Network reached 3,736 BTC in active capacity in September 2026, following a net expansion of 12.14 BTC. New Phoenix 2.0 technology introduces splicing to…
Charts & flows
Markets & Analysis
Kraken scales institutional volume with $8 billion monthly block trades
Kraken manages $8 billion in monthly block trade volume and has integrated CF Benchmarks indices. Meanwhile, Gemini faces fee compression and regional exits, while…
Open finance
DeFi
Morpho Labs takes the yield lead as Compound and Aave struggle
Morpho Labs achieves 10% to 20% APY through specialized MetaMorpho vault aggregators, outperforming Aave and Compound. While Aave targets $6 billion in idle capital…
Ownership online
NFT & Web3
Policy & law
Regulation
Base dominance and regulatory friction
Base maintains 1.5 million daily active addresses and $2.49 billion in total value locked despite ongoing SEC legal battles involving Coinbase. Meanwhile, Robinhood's…
Michael Selig leads a single commissioner at the CFTC
Michael Selig leads the CFTC as the sole commissioner following the replacement of Rostin Behnam. The agency is shifting enforcement focus toward fraud and market…
Firedancer rollout and Solana concentration risks
Jump Crypto's Firedancer client achieved a 1 million TPS testnet milestone, yet Solana faces significant risks from Agave code dependency and Jito Labs MEV…
Stablecoin licensing and institutional shifts in Hong Kong
HKMA issued stablecoin licenses to Anchorpoint Financial and HSBC requiring HKD 25,000,000 in minimum capital. While HashKey scales following its HK$18.5 billion…
Under the hood
Blockchain Tech
Starknet scaling and the Cairo ecosystem
Starknet utilizes STARK technology and the Cairo programming language to scale Ethereum through decentralized validity rollups. The ecosystem features native account…
Eden and the AI agent expansion on Celestia
Celestia launched Eden, an EVM sandbox for testing autonomous AI agent commerce and on-chain payments. The ecosystem features Botfun, which utilizes x402 for model…
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