CryptoDep - Key Updates and Analytics

⚡ Crypto vs Stocks: Who Won Each Era

The framing of SpaceX's ~$1.77T IPO against crypto is one way to look at it.

Another: era by era since 2013, where did $1,000 actually land, crypto or stocks? Top 3 of each by market cap, measured within each window 👀

⚡ Biggest Crypto Fundraising Events in Summer

Presenting a list of the biggest crypto fundraising rounds in Summer 2026, backed by well-known investors such as a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Paradigm, Pantera, Polychain Capital, Dragonfly, Payward, Bain Capital Crypto, and others. Let's take a look!

⚡ Ethena introduces the internet money neobank

Ethena Labs has launched Ethena Pay app, a new self-custodial money app on Avalanche, offering up to 6% yield and 10% card cashback.

The beta app is available on iOS and Android, with access opening in stages across 48 countries. $ENA

⚡ Payward to Tokenize LSE Stocks

Kraken parent Payward has partnered with the London Stock Exchange to tokenize the 100 largest LSE-listed companies as 1:1-backed xStocks, with trading planned on the exchange's new LSE 24 venue pending regulatory approval.

⚡ Crypto Cards by Summer Volume

RedotPay dominates summer card volume at $1.15B, more than triple the combined total of the next four cards.

Wirex One posted the standout move, up 1751% to $61.8M, the sharpest swing in the group by a wide margin.

⚡ Polymarket has raised $1B in new funding led by 1789 Capital at $21B valuation

Polymarket will raise $1B, with 1789 set to contribute around $300M. The new funding brings Polymarket's post-money valuation to $21B and comes at a time when the platform seeks regulatory approval to offer margin trading in the US.

⚡ On-Chain Protocols by Summer Revenue

Hyperliquid leads on-chain protocol revenue over the summer at $149M despite a 14.7% pullback, while Pump follows at $114M after more than doubling since June.

Flap posted the sharpest swing in the top 20, up 848% from a small base.

⚡ Strategy has acquired 4,603 BTC for $370M at an avarage price of $80,318

The firm now holds 845,050 $BTC and $6.71B of USD Assets.

⚡ Biggest Crypto Hacks This Summer

Crypto hacks drained $483M this summer across June, July and August, with July the worst month at $254.4M lost.

Coldcard's private key compromise led all individual incidents at $116M.

⚡ Cronos Сhain Halted Amid $75M Exploit

The Crypto Com-linked Cronos network halted after an exploit hit lending protocol Tectonic, with the attacker estimated to have borrowed ~$75M using inflated collateral. $CRO

⚡ Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know

The current report features updates of Circle, Solana, a16z, Chainlink, Ondo Finance, Injective, Bybit, SBI Holdings, Visa, BitGo, HyENA, and Plume.

⚡ Solana’s Double Disinflation Vote Passed

Solana validators approved the SGP-0002 proposal with 67% support, doubling $SOL annual disinflation rate from 15% to 30% and moving its 1.5% terminal inflation rate forward from 2032 to 2029. Solana's annual inflation rate was 3.82% in June.

⚡ Potential Token Launches in Q4 2026

Polymarket leads the Q4 pipeline at $2.87B raised.

Linera, Multipli, Ethos and Umia all have sales landing around the same window, a cluster of overlapping launches across infra, DeFi and social.

⚡ Circle, the issuer of the world’s second-largest stablecoin USDC, becomes the main shirt sponsor of Chelsea FC

Premier League soccer club Chelsea will debut its new $USDC-branded kit in its first home game of the season on Sunday against Brighton and Hove Albion.

⚡ Top Performers Among Majors: Summer 2026

Lighter led major tokens over the past 90 days at +215%, more than double second-place Pump Fun at +189%.

WhiteBIT's WBT rounds out the top performers at +36.3%, outpacing SOL, LINK and ETH despite a smaller $23.4B FDV.

⚡ Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know

The current report features updates of Hyperliquid, Ondo Finance, Chainlink, Ethena, Ripple, Bithumb, StarkWare, Moonwell, Charles Schwab, Bitfinex, Aave, and Flop Labs.

⚡ Ethena Foundation announced 4 ecosystem changes

The team behind USDe synthetic dollar is making a series of changes to further align protocol value with token holders:

🔸 Buys out misaligned early investors
🔸 Assigns protocol value to token holders
🔸 Launches $ENA revenue-based buybacks
🔸 Removes monthly VC unlocks

⚡ Moonwell exploited for $8.7M on Base

Moonwell is investigating an issue affecting the MAMO Core Market on Base after security firms CertiK and PeckShield flagged a multimillion-dollar exploit.

⚡ Bitfinex raises $50M in new tokenization push

With fresh funds in hands, Bitfinex Securities will list ALKN, a tokenized security tied to a $1.6B stockpile of high-purity nickel wire held by Luxembourg's Alkemya Metacore.

⚡ Crypto News Digest: Key Updates You Need to Know

The current report features updates of Revolut, Hyperliquid, BNB Chain, Robinhood, Pump Fun, Coinbase, Kalshi, Doppler Finance, Mastercard, Axis Robotics, Aster, and Monad.