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Oracles are essential infrastructure components that feed real-time, off-chain data (such as price feeds, weather, or sports results) into blockchain smart contracts. Without decentralized oracles like Chainlink and Pyth, DeFi could not function. In 2026, oracles have evolved to support verifiable randomness and cross-chain data synchronization. This tag covers the technical evolution of data availability, tamper-proof price feeds, and the critical role oracles play in ensuring the deterministic execution of complex decentralized applications.

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Ark Invest: The Birth of a DeFi Super App

Ark Invest: The Birth of a DeFi Super App

By Lorenzo Valente As the crypto market matures, investors are looking for clues from past tech booms to predict the next big trend or inflection point. Historically, digital assets have been difficult to compare to previous technology cycles, making it difficult for users, developers, and investors to predict their long-term trajectory. This dynamic is changing. According to our research, the “application layer” in the crypto space is evolving, much like the unbundling and rebundling cycles experienced by SaaS (Software as a Service) and FinTech platforms. In this article, I’ll describe how the unbundling and rebundling cycle seen in SaaS and Fintech plays out in DeFi (decentralized finance) and crypto applications. The pattern evolves as follows: The concept of "Composability" is key to understanding the unbundling and rebundling cycle. This is an analytical term used in the fintech and crypto communities to refer to the ability of financial or decentralized applications and services—particularly at the application layer—to seamlessly interact, integrate, and build upon each other like Lego blocks. With this concept at the core, we describe the shift in product structure in the following two subsections. From Verticalization to Modularization: The Great Unbundling In 2010, Spark Capital’s Andrew Parker published a blog post outlining how dozens of startups were capitalizing on the unbundling opportunity presented by Craigslist, the then-horizontal internet marketplace offering everything from apartments and gig work to merchandise sales, as shown in the image below. Source: Parker 2010. For illustrative purposes only and should not be considered investment advice or a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any specific security. Parker concludes that many successful companies—Airbnb, Uber, GitHub, Lyft—started by focusing on and verticalizing a small part of Craigslist's broad functionality and dramatically improving it. This trend ushered in the first major phase of "marketplace unbundling," during which Craigslist's fully bundled, multi-purpose marketplace gave way to single-purpose apps. The newcomers didn't just improve Craigslist's user experience (UX)—they redefined it. In other words, unbundling broke a broad-based platform into narrowly defined, autonomous verticals, disrupting Craigslist by serving users in unique ways. What made that wave of unbundling possible? Fundamental shifts in technology infrastructure, including advances in APIs (application programming interfaces), cloud computing, mobile user experiences, and embedded payments, lowered the barrier to entry for building focused applications with world-class user experiences. The same unbundling is also evolving in the banking industry. For decades, banks have offered a bundled set of financial services—everything from savings and loans to insurance—under a single brand and app. However, over the past decade, fintech startups have been precisely dismantling this bundle, each focusing on a specific vertical. Traditional banking bundles include: Payments and Remittances Checking and savings accounts Interest-bearing products Budgeting and financial planning Loans and Credit Investment and wealth management Insurance Credit and debit cards Over the past decade, the banking bundle has systematically unbundled into a series of venture-backed fintech companies, many of which are now unicorns, decacorns, or near-centacorns: Payments and remittances: PayPal, Venmo, Revolut, Stripe Bank accounts: Chime, N26, Monzo, SoFi Savings and Earnings: Marcus, Ally Bank Personal finance and budgeting: Mint, Truebill, Plum Loans and credit: Klarna, Upstart, Cash App, Affirm Investing and Wealth Management: Robinhood, eToro, Coinbase Insurance: Lemonade, Root, Hippo Card and expense management: Brex, Ramp, Marqeta Each company focuses on a service it can hone and deliver better than the incumbent, combining its skill set with new technology levers and distribution models to offer growth-oriented niche financial services in a modular manner. In both SaaS and FinTech, unbundling is not only disrupting incumbents but also creating entirely new categories, ultimately expanding the total addressable market (TAM). From modularity back to bundling: The Great Rebundling Airbnb recently launched its new Services & Experiences app and redesigned it to allow users to not only book accommodations but also explore and purchase add-on services such as museum visits, food tours, dining experiences, gallery walks, fitness classes, and beauty treatments. Airbnb, once a peer-to-peer accommodations marketplace, is evolving into a vacation superapp—rebundling travel, lifestyle, and local services into a single, cohesive platform. Furthermore, over the past two years, the company has expanded its product offerings beyond home rentals and is now integrating payments, travel insurance, local guides, concierge-style tools, and curated experiences into its core booking service. Robinhood is undergoing a similar transformation. The company, which disrupted the brokerage industry with commission-free stock trading, is now aggressively expanding into a full-stack financial platform and is re-bundling many of the verticals previously unbundled by fintech startups. Over the past two years, Robinhood has: Launch of payment and cash management features (Robinhood Cash Card) Increase cryptocurrency trading Launch of retirement accounts Launch of margin investing and credit cards Acquired Pluto, an AI-powered research and wealth advisory platform The moves suggest that Robinhood, like Airbnb, is bundling together previously fragmented services to build a comprehensive financial super app. By controlling more of the financial stack—savings, investing, payments, lending, and advice—Robinhood is reinventing itself from a brokerage to a full-service consumer finance platform. Our research shows that this unbundling and rebundling dynamic is impacting the crypto industry. In the remainder of this article, we provide two case studies: Uniswap and Aave. DeFi’s Unbundling and Rebundling Cycle: Two Case Studies Case Study 1: Uniswap — From Monolithic AMM to Liquidity Lego and Back to a Trading Super App In 2018, Uniswap launched on Ethereum as a simple yet revolutionary automated market maker (AMM). In its early stages, Uniswap was a vertically integrated application: a small smart contract codebase with an official frontend hosted by its team. The core AMM functionality—swapping ERC-20 tokens in a constant product pool—existed within a single on-chain protocol. Users primarily accessed it through Uniswap's own web interface. This design proved highly successful, with Uniswap's cumulative on-chain trading volume exploding to over $1.5 trillion by mid-2023. With its tightly controlled technology stack, Uniswap provided a smooth user experience for token swaps, which guided the development of DeFi in its early days. At the time, Uniswap v1/v2 implemented all trading logic on-chain, requiring no external price oracles or off-chain order books. The protocol internally determined prices within a closed system, using its liquidity pool reserves (the x*y=k formula). The Uniswap team developed the primary user interface (app.uniswap.org) to interact directly with the Uniswap contracts. Early on, most users accessed Uniswap through this dedicated front-end, similar to a proprietary exchange portal. Beyond Ethereum itself, Uniswap does not rely on any other infrastructure. Liquidity providers and traders interact directly with Uniswap contracts, with no built-in external data feeds or plugin hooks. The system was simple but isolated. As DeFi expanded, Uniswap evolved into a composable liquidity "Lego" rather than a standalone application. The protocol's open, permissionless nature meant other projects could integrate Uniswap's pools and add layers. Uniswap Labs gradually relinquished control over parts of the stack, allowing external infrastructure and community-built features to play a greater role: Decentralized Exchange (DEX) Aggregators and Wallet Integrations: The majority of Uniswap's trading volume began flowing through external aggregators like the 0x API and 1inch, rather than through Uniswap's own interface. By the end of 2022, an estimated 85% of Uniswap's swap volume was routed through aggregators like 1inch as users sought the best prices across multiple exchanges. Wallets like MetaMask also integrated Uniswap liquidity into their swap functionality, allowing users to trade on Uniswap from their wallet applications. This external routing reduced reliance on Uniswap's native frontend and made AMMs more like a plug-and-play module in the DeFi stack. Oracles and Data Indexers: While Uniswap's contracts did not and still do not require price oracles to trade, the broader ecosystem built around Uniswap does. Other protocols use Uniswap's pool prices as on-chain oracles, and the Uniswap interface itself relies on external indexing services. For example, Uniswap's frontend uses subgraphs from The Graph to query pool data off-chain for a smoother user interface (UI) experience. Rather than building its own indexing nodes, Uniswap leverages community-driven data infrastructure—a modular approach that offloads the heavy lifting of data queries to specialized indexers. Multi-chain Deployment: During its modularization phase, Uniswap expanded beyond Ethereum to numerous blockchains and Rollups, including Polygon, Arbitrum, BSC, and Optimism. Uniswap's governance mandated the deployment of its core protocol on these networks, effectively treating each blockchain as a base-layer plugin for Uniswap's liquidity. This multi-chain strategy emphasizes Uniswap's composability: the protocol can exist on any Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible chain, rather than tying its fate to a single, vertically integrated environment. Recently, Uniswap has been moving back towards vertical integration, seemingly with the goal of capturing more of the user journey and optimizing the stack for its use cases. Key reintegration developments include: Native Mobile Wallet: In 2023, Uniswap released the Uniswap Wallet—a self-hosted mobile application—followed by a browser extension, allowing users to store tokens and interact directly with Uniswap products. The launch of the wallet was a significant step toward controlling the user interface layer, rather than ceding it to wallets like MetaMask. With its own wallet, Uniswap now vertically integrated user access, ensuring that swaps, browsing non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and other activities occurred within an environment it controlled and could potentially be routed to Uniswap liquidity. Integrated Aggregation (Uniswap X): Instead of relying on third-party aggregators to find the best prices, Uniswap also introduced Uniswap X, a built-in aggregation and trade execution layer. Using an open network of off-chain "fillers," Uniswap X sources liquidity from various AMMs and private market makers, then settles trades on-chain. As a result, Uniswap has transformed its interface into a one-stop trading portal that aggregates liquidity sources for the benefit of users—similar to the services provided by 1inch or Paraswap. By running its own aggregator protocol, Uniswap Labs has reintegrated this functionality, keeping users in-house while guaranteeing the best prices. Importantly, Uniswap X is integrated into the Uniswap web app itself—and potentially into the wallet in the future—so users no longer need to leave Uniswap for the aggregator. Application-Specific Chain (Unichain): In 2024, Uniswap announced its own Layer 2 blockchain—dubbed "Unichain"—as part of the Optimism Superchain. Taking vertical integration to the infrastructure level, Unichain is a custom rollup tailored for Uniswap and DeFi trading, aiming to reduce Uniswap user fees by approximately 95% and latency to approximately 250 milliseconds. Uniswap will control the blockchain environment in which its contracts operate, rather than operating as an application on another chain. By operating Unichain, Uniswap will be able to optimize everything from gas costs to maximum extractable value (MEV) mitigation for its exchange and introduce native protocol fee sharing with UNI holders. This full-circle transformation transforms Uniswap from an Ethereum-dependent decentralized application (dApp) to a vertically integrated platform with a proprietary UI, execution layer, and dedicated blockchain. Case Study 2: Aave — From P2P Lending Market to Multi-Chain Deployment and Back to a Credit Super App Aave's origins can be traced back to ETHLend in 2017, a self-contained lending application that gave way to a decentralized peer-to-peer lending marketplace, renamed Aave, in 2018. The team developed smart contracts for lending and provided an official web interface for user participation. During this phase, ETHLEND/Aave matched lenders and borrowers using an order book approach and handled everything from interest rate logic to loan matching. As it evolved toward a pooled lending model similar to Compound, Aave underwent vertical integration. The Aave v1 and v2 contracts on Ethereum incorporated innovations like flash loans—an in-protocol feature that allows for uncollateralized borrowing with repayments in the same transaction—as well as interest rate algorithms. Users primarily accessed the protocol through the Aave web dashboard. The protocol managed key functions, such as interest accrual and liquidations, internally, with minimal reliance on third-party services. In short, Aave's early design was a monolithic money market: a dApp with its own UI that handled deposits, loans, and liquidations in a single location. Aave is part of the broader DeFi symbiosis, integrating MakerDAO's DAI stablecoin as a key collateral and lending asset from the outset. In fact, in its incarnation as ETHLend, Aave launched simultaneously with Maker and immediately supported DAI, reflecting the tight coupling between those vertically integrated pioneers and demonstrating early on that no protocol is an island. Even in its "vertical" phase, Aave benefited from the product of another protocol—its stablecoin—to operate. As DeFi has grown, Aave has unbundled and adopted a modular architecture, outsourcing parts of its infrastructure and encouraging others to build on its platform. Several shifts illustrate Aave’s move toward composability and external dependencies: External Oracle Network: Rather than operating its own price feeds, Aave uses Chainlink's decentralized oracles to provide reliable asset prices for collateral valuation. Price oracles are crucial to any lending protocol, as they determine when loans become undercollateralized. Aave governance has selected Chainlink Price Feeds as the primary oracle source for most assets on aave.com, outsourcing pricing infrastructure to a specialized third-party network. While this modular approach improves security—for example, Chainlink aggregates many data sources—it also means Aave's stability relies on external services. Wallet and App Integration: Aave's lending pools have become the building blocks for numerous other dApp integrations. Portfolio managers and dashboards like Zapper and Zerion, DeFi automation tools like DeFi Saver, and yield optimizers all access Aave's contracts through its open software development kit (SDK). Users can deposit or borrow through third-party frontends that interface with Aave, but the official Aave interface is just one of many access points. Even DEX aggregators indirectly leverage Aave's flash loans for complex, multi-step trades executed by services like 1inch. By open-sourcing its design, Aave allows for composability: other protocols can integrate Aave's functionality—for example, using Aave flash loans within a Uniswap arbitrage bot—all coordinated by external aggregators. As a liquidity module rather than a standalone application, its composability expands Aave's influence in the DeFi ecosystem. Multi-chain deployment and isolated models: Similar to Uniswap, Aave is deployed on multiple networks—such as Polygon, Avalanche, Arbitrum, and Optimism—essentially cross-chain modularity. Aave v3 introduced features such as isolated markets for certain assets—architectural modularity—creating different risk parameters for each market, sometimes operating separately from the main pool. It also introduced permissioned variants, such as "Aave Arc" for Know Your Customer (KYC) institutions, which are conceptually independent "module instances" of Aave. These examples demonstrate Aave's flexibility to operate in a variety of environments, not just one integrated one. During this unbundling phase, Aave relies on a broader infrastructure stack: Chainlink oracles for data, The Graph for indexing, wallets and dashboards for user access, and tokens from other protocols—like Maker's DAI or Lido's staked ETH—as collateral. This modular approach increases Aave's composability and reduces the need to "reinvent the wheel." The tradeoff is a partial loss of control over those parts of the stack, and the risks associated with relying on external services. Lately, Aave has shown signs of returning to vertical integration by developing in-house versions of key components that it previously relied on others. For example, in 2023, Aave launched its own stablecoin, GHO. Historically, Aave has facilitated lending and borrowing of various assets, notably MakerDAO’s DAI stablecoin, which has scaled significantly on Aave. With GHO, Aave now has a native stablecoin on its platform that acts as a distribution channel for other protocol stablecoins. Like DAI, GHO is an overcollateralized, decentralized, USD-pegged stablecoin. Users can mint GHO with their deposits on Aave V3, which allows Aave to acquire a previously outsourced vertical part of the lending stack—stablecoin issuance. Therefore: Aave is an issuer of a stablecoin—not just a lending venue for existing stablecoins—and directly controls the parameters and revenue of the stablecoin. GHO is a competitor to DAI, so now Aave can recycle interest payments into its own ecosystem. GHO interest can benefit AAVE token stakers rather than indirectly increasing MakerDAO fees. The introduction of GHO also requires dedicated infrastructure. Aave has facilitators—including the main Aave pool—that can mint and burn GHO and set governance policies. By controlling this new layer of functionality, Aave has built an internal version of the MakerDAO product to serve its own community. In another notable move, Aave is leveraging Chainlink's Smart Value Routing (SVR), or a similar mechanism, to recapture MEV (maximum extractable value, similar to payment for order flow in stocks) for Aave users. Tighter coupling with the oracle layer to redirect arbitrage profits back into the protocol is blurring the line between the Aave platform and the underlying blockchain mechanisms. This move suggests Aave's interest in customizing even lower-level infrastructure, such as oracle behavior and MEV capture, for its own benefit. While Aave hasn't yet launched its own wallet or chain like Uniswap and others, its founder's other ventures suggest his goal is to build a self-sustaining ecosystem. For example, the Lens Protocol, a social network, could be integrated with Aave for social reputation-based finance. Architecturally, Aave is moving towards providing all key financial primitives: lending, stablecoins (GHO), and potentially decentralized social identity (Lens), rather than relying on external protocols. In my opinion, this product strategy is about deepening the platform: with stablecoins, lending, and other services, Aave's user retention and protocol revenue should benefit. In short, Aave has evolved from a closed-loop lending dApp to an open lego that connects to DeFi and relies on others such as Chainlink and Maker, and is now returning to a more expansive vertically integrated financial suite. In particular, the launch of GHO emphasizes Aave's intention to reintegrate the stablecoin layer it once outsourced to MakerDAO. Our research suggests that the journeys of Uniswap, Aave, MakerDAO, Jito, and other protocols illustrate broader cyclical patterns in the crypto industry. In the early days, vertical integration—building a single, monolithic product with a very specific purpose—was necessary to pioneer new features like automated trading, decentralized lending, stablecoins, or MEV capture. These self-contained designs allowed for rapid iteration and quality control in emerging markets. As the space matured, modularity and composability became priorities: protocols unbundled portions of their stack to launch new features or provide more value to external stakeholders, becoming "money Legos" by leveraging the strengths of other protocols. However, the success of modularity and composability has brought new challenges. Relying on external modules introduces dependency risk and limits the ability to capture value created elsewhere within the protocol. Now, the largest players and protocols with strong product-market fit (PMF) and revenue streams are shifting their strategies back toward vertical integration. While not abandoning decentralization or composability, these projects are reintegrating key components for strategic reasons: launching their own chains, wallets, stablecoins, frontends, and other infrastructure. Their goal is to provide a more seamless user experience, capture additional revenue streams, and protect against dependency on competitors. Uniswap is building a wallet and chain, Aave is issuing GHO, MakerDAO is forking Solana to build NewChain, and Jito is merging staking/re-staking with MEV. We believe that any sufficiently large DeFi application will eventually seek its own vertically integrated solution. in conclusion History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. The crypto world is humming a familiar tune. Much like the SaaS and marketplace revolutions of the past decade, DeFi and application-layer protocols are focusing on new technical primitives, evolving user expectations, and a desire for greater value capture, all while moving along a trajectory of unbundling and rebundling. In the 2010s, startups specializing in niche segments of the massive Craigslist marketplace effectively atomized it into distinct companies. This unbundling gave rise to giants—Airbnb, Uber, Robinhood, Coinbase—all of which have since embarked on their own rebundling journeys, integrating new verticals and services into cohesive, sticky platforms. The crypto space is following the same path at a revolutionary pace. What started as strictly scoped vertical experiments—Uniswap as an AMM, Aave as a money market, Maker as a stablecoin treasury—became modularized into permissionless Lego blocks, opening up liquidity, outsourcing key functions, and allowing composability to flourish. Now that usage has scaled, the market is fragmenting, and the pendulum is starting to swing back. Today, Uniswap is becoming a trading super-app with its own wallet, chain, cross-chain standards, and routing logic. Aave is issuing its own stablecoin, bundling lending, governance, and credit primitives. Maker is building an entirely new chain to improve the governance of its currency ecosystem. Jito unifies staking, MEV, and validator logic into a full-stack protocol. Hyperliquid merges exchanges, L1 infrastructure, and the EVM into a seamless on-chain financial operating system (OS). In crypto, primitives are unbundled by design, but the best user experiences — and the most defensible businesses — are increasingly rebundled. This isn’t a betrayal of composability, but an implementation of it: build the best possible Lego brick and use it to build the best possible castle. DeFi is compressing the entire cycle into just a few years. How? DeFi operates in a completely different way: Permissionless infrastructure reduces the friction of experimentation: any developer can fork, copy, or extend an existing protocol in hours rather than months. Capital formation is instant — With tokens, teams can fund new projects, ideas, or incentives faster than ever before. Liquidity is highly liquid. Total value locked (TVL) moves at an incentivized pace, making it easier for new experiments to gain traction and successful experiments to scale exponentially. Larger addressable market size. Protocols have access to a global, permissionless pool of users and capital from day one, typically achieving scale faster than their Web2 counterparts that are limited by geography, regulation, or distribution channels. DeFi’s super apps are rapidly expanding in real time. We believe the winners won’t be the protocols with the most modular stack, but rather those that know exactly which parts of the stack to own, which to share, and when to switch between the two.

Author: PANews

2025/09/04

From Wisdom of Crowds to Manipulation Risks

From Wisdom of Crowds to Manipulation Risks

The post From Wisdom of Crowds to Manipulation Risks appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Prediction markets are rising strongly, from the hundreds of millions of dollars raised by Kalshi and Polymarket to their growing applications across crypto and traditional finance.  Considered a new asset class, prediction markets promise to change how people consume information — instead of reading headlines, they will look at odds to assess probabilities. Behind this enormous potential, however, lie the risks of regulation, manipulation, and herd behavior, forcing investors to remain cautious in the face of this “data wave.” When Prediction Markets Become “An Asset Class” Prediction markets are emerging as forecasting tools and a new asset class within the crypto ecosystem. Platforms and venture funds are beginning to bet on commoditizing information and probabilities. Sponsored Sponsored This has triggered a “prediction market war,” with massive fundraising rounds, backing from top venture capital firms, and expansion into new use cases — all fueling competition. It shows how the market is shifting from “news” to “odds” as a source of value. Comparison between Polymarket & Kalshi platforms. Source: Delphi Digital Investors increasingly view prediction markets as a strategic asset class, not just entertainment or research products. While this competition accelerates innovation, it also introduces systemic risks if the business models are not yet sustainable. Many community members call this the “next big wave” of the current cycle. They argue that the next generation of users won’t read headlines anymore but will “check the odds.” In theory, prediction markets work well because they aggregate scattered information from many participants and turn it into a number representing collective wisdom — sometimes even more accurate than expert forecasts. This explains why protocols and projects focused on prediction highlight the “wisdom of crowds” advantage in pricing event probabilities. On the other hand, this advantage only materializes when the market has enough liquidity, transparency, and protection…

Author: BitcoinEthereumNews

2025/09/04

Clippers And Leonard Mess Is A Pandora’s Box For Pro Sports

Clippers And Leonard Mess Is A Pandora’s Box For Pro Sports

The post Clippers And Leonard Mess Is A Pandora’s Box For Pro Sports appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JULY 24: (L-R) President of Basketball Operations Lawrence Frank, head coach Doc Rivers, Paul George, Kawhi Leonard and owner Steve Ballmer of the Los Angeles Clippers attend the Paul George and Kawhi Leonard introductory press conference at Green Meadows Recreation Center on July 24, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) Getty Images Pablo Torre reported Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer facilitated $28 million in ghost endorsements to two-time National Basketball Association Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard, a seismic story for the NBA and professional sports at-large. Listening to his work, and having built and investigated financial compliance in sport for years, my immediate reaction was that this is opening pandora’s box. I encourage people to watch the video, but for those preferring to the written word, a breakdown of what exactly happened, why it matters and where gaps in the investigation still exist follows. Leonard, the Clippers and the NBA have not responded, and should be afforded the opportunity to do their own investigation. INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 24: Kawhi Leonard #2 of the Los Angeles Clippers reacts after defeating the Denver Nuggets in Game Three of the Western Conference First Round NBA Playoffs at Intuit Dome on April 24, 2025 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images) Getty Images How The NBA Compensation Restrictions Work Player salaries in the NBA are not a free market; there is a Collective Bargaining Agreement with the National Basketball Player’s Association that governs compensation, colloquially called the salary cap. In essence, the money that players make for playing basketball is tabulated – by team – and restricted by a series of complex rules. Think of it like a spreadsheet, with players in one column, and dollars in another. Money from external sources, such as…

Author: BitcoinEthereumNews

2025/09/04

BullZilla Secures Its Spot in the Top Cryptos to Buy Now as Bonk Climbs and Chainlink Powers On

BullZilla Secures Its Spot in the Top Cryptos to Buy Now as Bonk Climbs and Chainlink Powers On

The post BullZilla Secures Its Spot in the Top Cryptos to Buy Now as Bonk Climbs and Chainlink Powers On appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Crypto News BullZilla, Bonk, and Chainlink shine as the top cryptos to buy now, combining presale strength, meme momentum, and DeFi infrastructure. The competition for the top cryptos to buy now is intensifying in 2025. Markets are no longer driven by hype alone; they reward structure, community strength, and proven mechanics. Against this backdrop, three projects stand out: BullZilla, Bonk, and Chainlink. BullZilla commands attention with its progressive presale, powerful tokenomics, and deflationary design. Bonk proves meme coins can mature into resilient ecosystems. Chainlink continues to cement its position as critical infrastructure for decentralized finance. Together, they reveal how presale innovation, cultural momentum, and utility-driven adoption are converging to create the next wave of high-potential tokens. BullZilla: Zilla DNA Powers Its Presale Momentum BullZilla ($BZIL) has surged ahead in Stage 1-C of its presale, already selling over 16.25 billion tokens and raising more than $119,711. With tokens priced at $0.00001908, early participants are securing their spots before prices climb higher. Zilla DNA: Tokenomics with Structure BullZilla’s ecosystem is built on a carefully planned allocation: Presale Engine (50% – 80B tokens): Designed to fuel initial growth with progressive pricing. HODL Furnace (20% – 32B tokens): Staking system delivering up to 70% APY, rewarding long-term holders. Treasury & Ecosystem (20% – 32B tokens): Funding development, marketing, and post-launch growth. Burn Pool Reserve (5% – 8B tokens): Fueling the Roar Burn mechanism to cut supply chapter by chapter. Team Allocation (5% – 8B tokens): Locked for two years, ensuring commitment to long-term success. This allocation ensures balance: immediate adoption through presales, loyalty through staking, sustainability through treasury funding, and scarcity through burns. The Mutation Mechanism: A Presale Built for Urgency BullZilla’s presale is powered by its Mutation Mechanism, a progressive pricing engine. Each time the project raises $100,000, or every 48 hours without…

Author: BitcoinEthereumNews

2025/09/04

Presale Momentum Builds: BullZilla Ranks Among the Top Cryptos to Buy Now as Bonk Surges and LINK Expands DeFi Reach

Presale Momentum Builds: BullZilla Ranks Among the Top Cryptos to Buy Now as Bonk Surges and LINK Expands DeFi Reach

The competition for the top cryptos to buy now is intensifying in 2025. Markets are no longer driven by hype […] The post Presale Momentum Builds: BullZilla Ranks Among the Top Cryptos to Buy Now as Bonk Surges and LINK Expands DeFi Reach appeared first on Coindoo.

Author: Coindoo

2025/09/04

Unified security layers may accelerate institutional crypto adoption

Unified security layers may accelerate institutional crypto adoption

The post Unified security layers may accelerate institutional crypto adoption appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Shared security protocols are positioning themselves as solutions to infrastructure challenges that have complicated institutional blockchain adoption due to unified security layers’ potential ability to reduce development costs and technical barriers for enterprises. According to Symbiotic CEO Misha Putiatin, the shared security model allows organizations to leverage existing blockchain security infrastructure rather than building custom systems. Shared security consists of a unified layer where users stake assets, and multiple applications can build upon that security-focused infrastructure. This structure enables institutions to address development timelines and allocate resources effectively. In an interview with CryptoSlate, Putiatin described the value proposition as immediate scalability through reusable security primitives. Organizations can utilize existing operator sets and benefit from established infrastructure rather than developing systems independently over multiple years. Multi-chain infrastructure challenges Traditional cross-chain verification has presented enterprises with limited options, each carrying distinct trade-offs. Trusted messenger systems require allowlisting specific authorities and relying on off-chain agreements, while light client implementations demand extensive development resources and ongoing maintenance. Shared security protocols aim to provide a middle ground by enabling the verification of consensus results across multiple blockchain ecosystems. For example, users can stake Ethereum (ETH) on Symbiotic, and institutions developing applications on Solana can utilize this validation power. Although the execution architecture is different, the security layer is the same, simplifying validation processes. This approach could support various enterprise applications, including liquidity protocols, cross-chain bridges, and oracle systems, without requiring separate verification infrastructure for each blockchain. The Crypto Investor Blueprint: A 5-Day Course On Bagholding, Insider Front-Runs, and Missing Alpha Nice 😎 Your first lesson is on the way. Please add [email protected] to your email whitelist. The unified model creates native connectivity between supported blockchains, potentially simplifying multi-chain deployment for institutions exploring blockchain integration strategies. Centralization and control considerations Shared security implementations face scrutiny regarding centralization risks,…

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2025/09/04

Zero Fees + 500x Leverage: Understanding Avantis, the Largest Derivatives Exchange on Base

Zero Fees + 500x Leverage: Understanding Avantis, the Largest Derivatives Exchange on Base

Source: Alea Research Daily Newsletter Compiled by: Zhou, ChainCatcher Synthetic derivatives, decentralized oracles, and composable liquidity protocols enable traders to access everything from Bitcoin and ETH to gold and FX using stablecoin collateral. Since Avantis launched on the mainnet in February 2024, it has become the largest derivatives exchange on Base and the largest DEX in the RWA trading and market making field. The protocol has processed over $18 billion in cumulative trading volume and executed over 2 million trades for over 38,500 traders. With $23 million in TVL across 25,000+ LPs and over 80 markets, Avantis is solidifying its position as a hub for perps. This article will explore Universal Leverage, Avantis's architecture, and the launch of $AVNT. About Avantis Avantis is a perps DEX that allows users to trade cryptocurrencies, forex, commodities, and indices using stablecoin collateral. The protocol abstracts away individual order books and instead builds a “universal leverage layer” where any asset with a reliable price feed can be listed. Synthetic leverage is achieved through a USDC-based liquidity vault that acts as the counterparty for all trades, enabling capital-efficient exposure to multiple markets. Traders can choose up to 500x leverage, allowing them to express directional views with minimal capital, while liquidity providers (LPs) earn a yield by providing USDC to support their positions. Avantis distinguishes itself from other perpetual swap exchanges in that users can trade non-crypto markets like the Japanese Yen, gold, and US stock indices alongside BTC or ETH. The protocol's design also supports features like zero trading fees, loss rebates, and positive slippage, aligning incentives between traders and limited partners by returning a portion of fees or profits to users when they improve the protocol's risk profile. Avantis Architecture At its core, Avantis is a capital-efficient synthetic engine. Traders use the protocol's interface to open positions on supported assets. Instead of matching orders in an order book, Avantis pairs each trader with a USDC vault that takes the other side of the trade. This vault aggregates deposits from thousands of limited partners and acts as a single counterparty. This structure allows the protocol to offer deep liquidity across many markets without requiring separate liquidity pools for each pair, enabling Avantis to list over 80 markets, including 22 RWA assets. Avantis introduces risk tranches and time-lock parameters so that LPs can choose their preferred exposure. LPs can passively deposit in the senior tranche or take more risk in the junior tranche, which has higher return potential but also absorbs a greater share of losses. Additionally, LPs can choose a time lock (e.g., 30 or 90 days) to control the duration of their capital commitment, with longer locks incurring more fees. This design mimics the centralized liquidity model of Uniswap v3 while applying it to the risk management of perps exchanges. Trader <> LP Alignment Avantis' innovative mechanism further aligns the interests of traders and LPs. Loss Rebates: Traders who take the opposite side of open interest (helping balance the platform’s long/short skew) can receive up to 20% loss rebates. This encourages traders to arbitrage open interest and stabilize LP exposure. Positive Slippage: When a trader's order reduces the vault's risk (e.g., closing out a heavily long position), Avantis offers an entry price above the Mark Price. This "better-than-market" execution rewards traders for helping to balance flows. Zero Trading Fees: Avantis pioneered a product where traders pay no fees to open, close, or borrow positions. Instead, they pay only a portion of their profits when closing a winning trade. Available for $BTC, $SOL, and $ETH, with leverage up to 250x, this tool is popular with scalpers and high-frequency traders. Advanced Risk Management: LPs can act as passive lenders or active market makers by selecting risk tranches and time locks. Each tranche has its own share of fees and potential losses, enabling LPs to control risk and return. $AVNT: Token Issuance and Token Economics To facilitate its next phase of growth, Avantis has launched $AVNT, a utility and governance token. $AVNT has multiple functions: Security and Staking: Holders can stake $AVNT in the Avantis Security Module to support the USDC vault during periods of extreme market volatility. Stakers receive $AVNT rewards and discounted trading fees. Community Rewards: 50.1% of the total 1 billion token supply is reserved for traders, liquidity providers, referrers, and builders who contribute to Avantis. Airdrops (12.5% of the supply) will reward protocol activity starting in February 2024, while on-chain incentives (28.6%) will fund future XP seasons and community contributions. Builder and ecosystem grants (9%) will support the creation of new front-ends and trading tools, such as AI agents and Telegram bots. Governance: Token holders will be able to propose and vote on protocol decisions, ranging from asset listings and fee structures to buyback programs and cross-chain deployments. The remaining 49.9% of the supply is distributed as follows: Team (13.3%) Investors (26.61%) Avantis Foundation (4%) Liquidity reserve (6%)

Author: PANews

2025/09/04

Cardano Founder Says Chainlink Quoted Them An ‘Absurd Price’, Here’s Why

Cardano Founder Says Chainlink Quoted Them An ‘Absurd Price’, Here’s Why

Cardano’s founder, Charles Hoskinson, has clarified why the blockchain platform was excluded from a prominent US government initiative meant to publish official economic data on public blockchains. Blockchain networks like Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, and Optimism made the cut; Cardano didn’t. Hoskinson revealed during a YouTube AMA that the reason wasn’t technical or regulatory, but it was grounded in economics. Specifically, he said the integration fee quoted by Oracle specialist Chainlink was absurd, which made Cardano’s participation really unfeasible. Chainlink’s Absurd Fee As one of the biggest blockchain ecosystems, Cardano’s inability to participate in the US government’s recent blockchain initiative to bring macroeconomic data onto the blockchain took many crypto participants by surprise. However, while speaking at a recent surprise AMA on his YouTube channel, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson says the reason boils down to money.  Related Reading: Is XRP Coming To Cardano? Founder Sparks Speculation After Midnight Airdrop According to Hoskinson, the main reason was due to its pending partnership with Chainlink’s oracle integration, which is yet to be finalised because of the absurd fee charged by Chainlink. Hoskinson did not shy away from strong language: “They gave us an absurd number for integration. I said ‘f– it, we’ll handle it. We’ll figure it out,'” he said. Despite the frustration, he tempered his critique with respect. He described Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov as “extremely smart” and “a very good businessman”, someone who “sees the future” and, in Hoskinson’s words, is “sitting on a golden egg”.  Chainlink’s oracle solutions are very important for connecting smart contracts to real-world data. As such, Hoskinson’s metaphor acknowledges Chainlink’s powerful position in the blockchain ecosystem.  How It Stalls Cardano’s DeFi Growth Without a cost-effective oracle integration, Cardano’s decentralized finance landscape has struggled to keep pace with other blockchain ecosystems. To put this into perspective, Ethereum’s integration with Chainlink has allowed large inflows into its DeFi ecosystem, with about $13.4 billion in Total Value Locked (TVL) added from between August 2 ($78.222 billion) and August 31 ($91.595 billion), according to data from DeFiLlama. Related Reading: Cardano Price To Rise 300% To $4? Analyst Reveals When Meanwhile, Cardano’s TVL broke below $400 million in August, and daily active addresses have also fallen massively. At the time of writing, Cardano’s TVL is sitting at $367.91 million. The result is a disconnect between Cardano’s on-chain activity and ADA’s price action, which witnessed a steady increase in August alongside the rest of the crypto market. Nonetheless, Hoskinson is still optimistic. Talks with Chainlink are ongoing, and he’s determined to find common ground with Chainlink. He also revealed discussions with the team behind the USD1 stablecoin and hinted at potential collaboration with Aave, which he described as part of a bundle. If USD1 (already launched on Ethereum, BNB, and Tron) comes to Cardano, it could become the ecosystem’s largest stablecoin. Combine that with oracle access and lending support from Chainlink, and Cardano could strengthen its DeFi foundations significantly. At the time of writing, Cardano is trading at $0.8307, up by 1.1% in the past 24 hours. Featured image from Adobe Stock, chart from Tradingview.com

Author: NewsBTC

2025/09/04

Lido debuts simplified Earn vaults with Veda and Mellow

Lido debuts simplified Earn vaults with Veda and Mellow

The post Lido debuts simplified Earn vaults with Veda and Mellow appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Lido has launched Earn, a new tab on stake.lido.fi that surfaces curated strategy vaults aimed at making it easier, and comparatively safer, to put staked ether to work. The first listing, GG Vault (GGV) by Veda Labs, offers one-click access to “blue-chip” DeFi strategies using ETH, WETH, stETH, or wstETH. A second listing, the Decentralised Validator Vault (DVV) implemented by Mellow, is slated to go live in mid-September. Lido says vaults must clear the same security bar as its core protocol, according to Jakov Buratović at the Lido Ecosystem Foundation. “To appear in Lido Earn…all production contracts must be audited by reputable firms before listing, with any material findings addressed,” Buratović told Blockworks.  Live vaults maintain automated alerts to spot any issues, and “if necessary, onchain pause or kill mechanisms can be triggered to halt the vault operation,” he said. While the foundation works to minimize risk for depositors, Buratović notes, they disclaim any liability for potential losses. Fees are straightforward at launch. “Specifically for GGV, there is a 1% platform fee split between Veda and the Lido DAO, consistent with rates seen in other DeFi vaults,” Buratović said. On the UX side, users receive an ERC-20 deposit token which accrues value, similar to wstETH — the non-rebasing form of stETH which is widely used in DeFi. Withdrawals are made in wstETH and, for now, Lido is not optimizing for secondary markets of the vault tokens. The liquid staking provider currently has about $38 billion in ETH deposits, representing nearly 61% of staked ether, according to Blockworks Research’s latest data. Source: Blockworks Research The Mellow alternative The second strategy listed in Earn, DVV, is built on Mellow’s modular vault architecture and introduces a different approach — this time centered on validator decentralization. Each strategy is boxed into an isolated “Subvault,”…

Author: BitcoinEthereumNews

2025/09/04

Ripple (XRP) Braces for Deep Correction in September as Analysts Predict 7000% Gains for This Crypto

Ripple (XRP) Braces for Deep Correction in September as Analysts Predict 7000% Gains for This Crypto

September is proving to be a turbulent month in the crypto market, with Ripple (XRP) in question as analysts fear it could see a deep correction in the future. In all this commotion, Mutuum Finance (MUTM) is shaping up as a major player that investors are starting to look at, as projections are pointing at […]

Author: Cryptopolitan

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