📣 Plasma ($XPL) partners with Binance

$USDT on Binance Earn will now be automatically deposited to Plasma, generating yield. Binance will also distribute 1% of the total Plasma supply to early participants.

➡️Campaign starts Aug 20 with per-user limits and a 1% XPL pool (100M).

➡️Runs until TGE or until deposit cap is reached.

And by the way - the pre-market is already trading at 6x the ICO price.

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🪐 Wormhole Challenges LayerZero Over Stargate

Wormhole Foundation plans to submit a “significantly higher bid” for Stargate ($STG), calling the project undervalued.

➡️ LayerZero has already offered $110M in $ZRO tokens
➡️ Wormhole says it will top that figure
➡️ The foundation asked for a 5-day pause in Snapshot voting to finalize its offer

A bidding war could decide Stargate’s future and reshape the cross-chain landscape.

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Hyperliquid just became the company with the highest revenue per employee in the world.

They only have 12 employees.

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🌐 ConsenSys: the fund that shaped Web3

ConsenSys isn’t just another VC. It’s a builder at the core of Web3, creating dApps, tools, and infrastructure that still define the industry today.

👀 Numbers that matter:
➡️ 74 investment rounds
➡️ Average check: $3–10M
➡️ Main stage: Seed
➡️ Retail ROI: 11.75x
➡️ Around 28% of their portfolio projects end up with a tradable token

📌 Tokens backed early by ConsenSys include: Uniswap, StarkNet, Axie Infinity, Rocket Pool, Ether.fi, Biconomy, Puffer Finance, Decentraland, and more.

If you see ConsenSys on a project’s cap table, the odds of a future token launch are far above average.

This is one of the most influential funds in the space and its presence is rarely just symbolic.

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📈 Open Interest explained

In trading, OI shows how much capital is locked in open positions. Reading it right helps you see if traders are entering or exiting.

➡️ Price ↑ + OI ↑ → new longs opening
➡️ Price ↓ + OI ↑ → new shorts opening
➡️ Price ↑ + OI ↓ → longs closing
➡️ Price ↓ + OI ↓ → shorts closing

It’s not just the chart, it’s the commitment behind it.

OI tells you who’s really in the game and who’s getting out.

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📊 Top RWA Projects to Watch

Real World Assets are one of the fastest-growing narratives in crypto, bringing tokenization of real assets on-chain.

Here are the leaders right now:

➡️ $ONDO
➡️ $RSR
➡️ $PLUME
➡️ $WHITE
➡️ $CTC
➡️ $OM
➡️ $HUMA
➡️ $USUAL
➡️ $RIZE
➡️ $CFG

The RWA sector is positioning itself as a major bridge between traditional finance and blockchain.

This is where institutional money is looking closely.

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📉 $YZY traders wrecked.

56,050 wallets touched the token:

➡️ 14,957 lost up to $500
➡️ 1,273 lost $500–$1K
➡️ 1,878 lost $1K–$5K
➡️ 429 lost $5K–$10K
➡️ 523 lost $10K–$100K
➡️ 64 lost $100K–$1M
➡️ 1 lost $1M+

Meanwhile, only 5 wallets made $1M+.

Total bloodbath.

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🔒Chainlink earns key security certifications

Chainlink ($LINK) has become the first oracle platform to meet both ISO 27001 and SOC 2 standards.

➡️ ISO 27001 proves the project has a systematic approach to information security.

➡️ SOC 2 checks how service providers handle customer data across five principles: security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.

This puts Chainlink on the same compliance level as top financial and tech firms, a major step for enterprise adoption.

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⚡️The latest DeFi developments

➡️ Fluid’s buyback program proposal went live

➡️ Ethereum treasury companies bought $2.2B worth of ETH in the past 7 days

➡️ INFINIT V2 public beta launched with AI-powered multi-step DeFi strategies

➡️ Silo Finance received a grant from Avalanche Foundation to incentivize users

➡️ Wormhole announced plans to acquire Stargate, LayerZero’s main product

➡️ Cap launched a stablecoin protocol for decentralized yield generation

➡️ Sonic proposed creating an S token strategic reserve

➡️ Andre Cronje teased an ICO for Flying Tulip, an all-in-one DEX on Sonic

➡️ Almanak, a DeFi AI agent platform, launched its community sale

➡️ Metamask announced its own stablecoin

➡️ Lombard Protocol introduced its token BARD

➡️ USD AI, a stablecoin backed by infra credit, went live on Arbitrum

➡️ Avalanche used by Skybridge Capital to tokenize $300M real-world assets

➡️ Circle launched Circle Gateway for cross-chain USDC transfers

➡️ Napier Finance unveiled its AMM for yield trading

➡️ DeFi App distributing 100M HOME tokens to Nansen Points holders

➡️ Huma Finance introduced instant same-day payouts for sellers

➡️ Liminal launched xTokens with delta-neutral strategies on HyperEVM

➡️ Ronin unveiled plans to become an Ethereum L2

DeFi is shifting from hype to plumbing - stablecoins, cross-chain rails, and RWA tokenization. The projects building infrastructure today are the ones that will outlast the noise.

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