Blockchain

Tether, the leading stablecoin provider, has introduced a new self-custodial wallet app, seeking to shift its long-term position as a foundational payment infrastructure into a user-facing product. This article examines the wallet’s design features, supported assets, and the strategic vision driving its development.

CoW Swap has suspended its services following a DNS hijacking incident targeting its frontend website. While the core protocol remains unaffected, this event underscores the persistent security risks facing DeFi frontends. In this article, we will examine the attack mechanism, the scope of its impact, and recommended preventive strategies.

Polygon has introduced its first native liquid staking token, sPOL, enabling users to stake POL and still freely use their assets in DeFi. This initiative not only boosts capital efficiency, but also helps improve the low adoption rate of liquid staking in the Polygon ecosystem.

MANTRA is a blockchain infrastructure designed for real-world assets (RWA), connecting off-chain finance with on-chain systems through asset tokenization and a stablecoin-based settlement mechanism.

At its core, MANTRA works by mapping real world assets into on-chain assets through a standardized process, then managing, trading, and settling them through the protocol.

In mid-April, the crypto marketplace saw a unique scenario where a price rebound coincided with a bearish funding rate. This article dissects the new structure behind the capital mismatch between spot and futures by analyzing Goldman Sachs' application for the Bitcoin Premium Income ETF, shifts in ETF capital flows, the renewed activity of ETH, and Coinglass fee rate data. It further provides an actionable three-indicator observation framework and corresponding risk management approaches.

Lighter and Hyperliquid are both decentralized perpetual futures (Perp) trading platforms, but they differ fundamentally in architectural design. Lighter adopts a hybrid model combining off-chain matching with zk-rollup verification, while Hyperliquid is built on a proprietary high-performance blockchain that executes matching and settlement entirely on-chain. These differences lead to distinct trade-offs in performance, decentralization, scalability, and user experience. Understanding these two approaches helps illuminate the direction of next-generation high-performance DEX development.

With Goldman Sachs applying for the Bitcoin Premium Income ETF and Morgan Stanley introducing MSBT, the crypto marketplace is entering the institutionalization 2.0 era. This article systematically examines how Wall Street’s full-scale entry is reshaping the capital structure of the crypto marketplace, focusing on capital inflows, product segmentation, liquidity migration, shifts in pricing power, and risk transmission mechanisms, and offers a practical monitoring framework.

Hashi serves as a collateral protocol within the Sui ecosystem, specifically designed for Bitcoin. Its objective is to allow native BTC to engage in on-chain lending and credit marketplaces without the need for conventional wrapping solutions. This article provides a comprehensive overview of Hashi's operational framework, covering its positioning, mechanisms, stakeholders, risk factors, and use cases, and discusses why Hashi could emerge as a foundational infrastructure for BTCFi.

This article systematically examines the fundamental drivers accelerating the rotation of trending sectors in the crypto marketplace, analyzing three core pressures: loss of information advantage, shortened narrative half-life, and amplified volatility due to leverage. It also offers a practical framework for traders, including cycle stratification, position templates, entry and log out rules, review mechanisms, and anti-FOMO procedures.

This article examines the stablecoin liquidity environment, leveraging key metrics including total stablecoin supply, net inflows, exchange reserves, on-chain migration, and BTC market share. It demonstrates how a single metric can reveal shifts in crypto market risk appetite and the rhythm of sector rotation. Additionally, it offers a weekly monitoring checklist, position management guidelines, and strategies for correcting misjudgments, empowering investors to improve decision-making consistency and risk control efficiency in bullish, sideways, and drawdown scenarios.

Amidst ongoing volatility and decreasing returns in the crypto marketplace, USDD has launched the WBTC Vault, enabling users to use WBTC as collateral to lend USDD stablecoin while maintaining their Bitcoin exposure. By utilizing over-collateralization and a tiered risk structure, this mechanism improves capital efficiency—allowing holders to pursue both return and holding strategies concurrently, rather than having to choose between them.

Lighter’s operating flow includes order submission, offchain matching, batch packaging and verification, and final onchain settlement. User orders first enter the offchain matching engine for efficient matching, then the trade results are packaged into a zk rollup and verified through zero knowledge proofs, before final settlement is completed on the main chain. This architecture of “off-chain matching + on-chain verification” allows Lighter to deliver low latency and high throughput trading that approaches the experience of a centralized exchange, while still preserving security.

Recently, an address contamination attack has targeted Squads multi-signature Wallet users. While no Assets have been lost, the attack could mislead users through interface manipulation and prompt incorrect actions.

South Korean payment provider NHN KCP is collaborating with Ava Labs to create a Layer 1 blockchain tailored for payment environments. Leveraging high-speed processing, on-chain encryption, and customizable infrastructure, the initiative seeks to drive practical blockchain adoption in real-world commercial settings.