Gauntlet raises $125M from SBI Holdings to expand DeFi services

The post Robinhood Chain Launch Sets New DeFi Volume Benchmark appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Robinhood Chain’s launch on July 1 did something most new Layer 2 blockchains never manage: it forced people to look twice at the numbers. $570 million in daily volume against just $21.68 million in total value locked — a 26:1 ratio that doesn’t exist anywhere else in decentralized finance at comparable scale. Most established DEXs with years of battle-tested liquidity sit at or below 1:1. Robinhood Chain turned over its entire liquidity base 26 times in a single day. Key takeaways Robinhood Chain launched July 1 as a permissionless Layer 2 on Arbitrum Orbit, with mainnet live from day one. Launch-day volume hit $570 million against $21.68 million TVL — a 26:1 ratio far above typical DEX benchmarks — largely driven by speculative memecoin trading. TVL has since grown past $240 million, mostly driven by Morpho and Ethena. The ARB token surged over 12% after Offchain Labs confirmed 10% of

The post What is a bonding curve? The math that launches every memecoin appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Every token launched on Pump.fun, every fair-launch memecoin, and a surprising share of DeFi’s core machinery runs on the same idea: a mathematical formula that sets a token’s price from its supply, with a smart contract as the only market maker. This guide explains how bonding curves actually work, the worked math of buying up a curve, the graduation model that industrialized token launches, the sniper and bundler attacks that exploit it, and where the elegant idea breaks. Summary Bonding curves use a mathematical formula to set token prices based on supply, allowing tokens to launch without order books or external market makers. Platforms such as Pump.fun use bonding curves to bootstrap liquidity before moving successful tokens into automated market maker pools through a graduation process. While bonding curves make token launches transparent and permissionless, they remain vu

Every token launched on Pump.fun, every fair-launch memecoin, and a surprising share of DeFi’s core machinery runs on the same idea: a mathematical formula that sets a token’s price from its supply, with a smart contract as the only market…

The post Robinhood Chain shocks DeFi as Uniswap volume hits $500M in 8 days appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Robinhood Chain has recorded $500 million in daily Uniswap trading volume within just eight days of launch, lifting total value locked above $106 million and pushing the Arbitrum-powered network into the top ranks of decentralized finance activity. Summary Robinhood Chain reached $500 million in daily Uniswap trading volume within eight days of launch. Ethena’s $50 million deposit helped push the network’s TVL above $106 million. Pump.fun integration, tokenized stocks, and gas fee waivers have accelerated early ecosystem growth. DeFiLlama data shows the network’s total value locked climbed to more than $106 million after surging 159% in 24 hours, while cumulative addresses approached 200,000. The same data places Robinhood Chain behind only Ethereum mainnet in 24-hour Uniswap trading volume, an unusually rapid rise for a newly launched Layer 2 network. Uniswap activity on th

Robinhood Chain has recorded $500 million in daily Uniswap trading volume within just eight days of launch, lifting total value locked above $106 million and pushing the Arbitrum-powered network into the top ranks of decentralized finance activity. DeFiLlama data shows…

The post Zapper shuts down after 7 years despite $13B peak volume – Details appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Zapper, a DeFi asset manager, has announced plans to shut down after nearly seven years of operation. To quantify the scale of its operation, the asset manager had attracted over 2 million active monthly users while it processed over $13 billion at its peak in transaction volume. Yet, the strong user adoption did not translate into a sustainable business model as revenue declined due to intensified competition. This competition narrowed the asset manager’s profit margin, crippling its operations. Source: Zapper on X On the 3rd of August, the asset manager will shut down completely, bringing an end to its operations. The platform will assist its users in transitioning. Seb Audet, Co-Founder and CEO of Zapper, acknowledged that Zapper fell short of its mission. On a post on X he stated, Zapper’s mission was to make DeFi more accessible, and while we did not realize that missio

Morpho's Solana listing could reshape DeFi lending dynamics, enhancing cross-chain liquidity and potentially expanding Morpho's protocol reach. The post Morpho token now available for trading on Solana via Jupiter appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Ethena's fee removal for USDe minting may boost institutional adoption but highlights DeFi's shift towards regulatory compliance. The post Ethena enables free minting and redemption of USDe with USDC appeared first on Crypto Briefing.