Blast is closing its Ethereum layer-2 after the chain earned $1,793 last month, down from about $3.5 million in June 2024. Revenue fell far faster than deposits, a pattern that fits an airdrop-era chain better than an industry-wide squeeze.
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Curators managing vaults on Morpho, a lending protocol with more than $3 billion in deposits, rely on offchain fees and subsidies, Crypto Briefing reports. A 10% cut of a 5% yield leaves the curator of a $100 million vault about $500,000 a year to run a risk team.
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Maxime Desalle gave back a Zcash grant and published the case against the Dev Fund. Paradigm's Matt Huang defended it, and the only dated decisions in the record belong to the November 5 NU7 upgrade.
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Grayscale will cut ZCSH's NAV per share to a third on Sept. 30. The coin behind the fund went from about $42 a year ago to an intraday $1,521 on Friday, and by one analysis $100 million of the fund's inflow came from a unit of its parent.
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Zcash's lockbox holds 63,962 coins taken at 12% of every block subsidy, about $95 million when the argument went public. The dollar figure moves with the coin, and the 2028 sunset is what investors are fighting over.
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Bloomberg reports Zipline is in early talks for about $1bn at roughly $20bn, with Paradigm, a shareholder since March, in line to lead. That is 2.6 times the $7.6bn its Series H set in January.
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Messari puts Morpho's outstanding loans at a record $5bn, with 95% of it stablecoin credit. About $1.3bn of that comes from Coinbase customers borrowing USDC against $2.5bn of cbBTC, and that prices out as a 52% loan-to-value book, not a leverage book.
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Milestone payments and vendor-owned prototypes push execution risk onto the developer, and the arithmetic says private capital pays for most of the reactors.
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Builders FirstSource led the whole round and signed a five-year commercial agreement covering its roughly 565 locations. No integration schedule or deployment size has been published.
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The GENIUS Act proposal extends liability to exchanges and intermediaries, including offshore firms touching U.S. customers, and demands documented due diligence on foreign issuers.
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