Unchained

The distressed-asset firm says BitMart never answered its offer of up to $10 million to fund a court-supervised bankruptcy, and it is now organizing creditors to pursue recovery.

Laura joins Haseeb, Tom, and Tarun to unpack Robinhood Chain’s surge, the strange fusion of stock tokens and memecoins, the damage speculative entertainment can do to retail, Solana’s competitive position, and why regulated onchain markets will still look different across jurisdictions.

Two people familiar with the plans said Payward will not list before the second quarter of 2027, extending a delay that began in March.

Payward will issue tokenized versions of the 100 largest London-listed companies within weeks, though UK investors cannot buy them and the exchange’s own leg of the deal still needs regulatory sign-off.

Owners must stake, post and attest to a permitted country to earn Robinhood Stock Tokens. Anyone can buy the NFT, and the portfolio inside it, with no KYC.

An attacker inflated Tectonic’s own governance token roughly 100-fold and borrowed against it, and Cronos validators froze the entire network in response.

Coinbase just launched fully backed tokenized stocks on Base. Dromos Labs’ Alex Cutler says they’ll chip away at Interactive Brokers “77% profit margin.”

The protocol’s supply cap is checked when a normal deposit mints shares, so the attacker deposited once, then sent 53 million tokens straight to the market and raised what those shares could claim about 3.7-fold.

Ten AI coding agents ran the same 12 Solidity challenges human developers faced at Devcon. Only OpenAI’s Codex cleared the course, and the cheapest near-finisher was an open-weight Chinese model.

Some crypto products work with multiple chains on different post-quantum paths. NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin and Ledger’s Charles Guillemet discuss how they manage that challenge.

Ethereum wants to slash staking yields toward zero. Gitcoin’s Kevin Owocki, DV Labs’ Oisín Kyne, and Ethereum-France’s Jérôme de Tychey debate whether that breaks DeFi.

The crypto industry has been unwittingly hiring North Korean “developers” who are really hackers. But as I found out, an almost incomprehensibly easy question incapacitates them.

Owners must stake, post and attest to a permitted country to earn Robinhood Stock Tokens. Anyone can buy the NFT, and the portfolio inside it, with no KYC.

OpenSea postponed its SEA token generation event indefinitely as NFT market capitalization fell 50% since January, even as the platform’s OS2 rebuild shifts most volume to crypto trading.

At an Unchained panel, lawyers from the Hyperliquid Policy Center, WilmerHale, and Temporal argued perpetual futures are futures rather than swaps, days after the CFTC asked a judge to throw out CME’s challenge to that classification.

A source told Reuters the prediction market plans to seek approval as early as next week for a 24/5 perpetual contract on West Texas Intermediate crude.

The regulator told a Washington federal court that CME has no standing to claim competitive injury because nothing stops it from listing perpetual futures itself.

New Jersey’s attorney general filed the first certiorari petition over Kalshi’s sports contracts, asking the justices to resolve a fresh split between two federal appeals courts.

World says the zero-knowledge toolkit behind its World ID checks is now open to outside developers, letting a phone confirm a fact about its owner without handing over the document behind it.

Some crypto products work with multiple chains on different post-quantum paths. NEAR’s Illia Polosukhin and Ledger’s Charles Guillemet discuss how they manage that challenge.

Coinkite’s 5.6.1 and 1.5.1Q releases require user-supplied entropy for every new seed, but they do not repair seeds generated on affected firmware.

Trevor Harries-Jones, a director at the Render Network Foundation, lays out how the network is bringing artists and creators onchain, why onchain proof of creation is central to its vision and how AI may accelerate its growth.