Surplus usage rose ~2.3x in under a month to a record 312.6B tokens on Oct 18, as rivals' volumes climb and critics demand dollar figures.
This is the summary Bankless publishes in its feed. The full article lives on their site.
The CFTC says CME can't sue over U.S. perps because it hasn't been hurt, pointing to a 23% rise in CME's own crypto futures volume since May.
More than 87% of inflows to FreedomXMR, a Monero swap service on Hyperliquid Core, came from illicit activity, with $20M+ traced to hacks and ransomware.
CFTC Chairman Mike Selig wants federal rules for crypto exchanges, retail margin, and prediction markets. Here's what he told Bankless.
Vitalik says EIP-8288, and not a growing pile of precompiles, should carry Ethereum's cryptography going forward.
Kinetiq's Hyperliquid L2 finally has a date, though its HyperCore hooks will arrive a few weeks later.
Chairman Selig's CTX and CAM proposals could bring retail margin onshore, put exchanges under one federal roof, and reshape the fight over prediction markets.
