Marcus Feld is CoinScoop's DeFi and on-chain analyst. He digs into L2 activity, stablecoin flows and protocol revenue, translating raw chain data into plain-English calls.
Two-developer NFT gacha protocol Fake World Assets hit $1.6M in daily fees on July 25, overtaking Solana's Collector Crypt and ranking second only to Sky on Ethereum.
South Korea's FSC is building a sweeping stablecoin and exchange bill while the opposition pushes to abolish the 22% crypto income tax before its 2027 start date.
Ondo Finance has abandoned its layer-1 blockchain plans, launching the Ondo Network — an offchain execution layer built on secure hardware enclaves with onchain settlement.
Lido's Curated Module v2 migrates 8M+ staked ETH to a bond-backed operator model, potentially cutting Ethereum's total validator count by roughly one-third.
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce warned the $131B crypto vault and onchain lending sector it cannot outrun federal securities law, citing the Howey Test and structural risk.
Security researchers found 31 vulnerabilities across 15 x402 protocol operators covering 99% of transactions, confirming asset theft and free-shopping exploits.
Garden Finance disabled its app on July 27 after Blockaid detected a $450K USDT drain from its HTLC contracts across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and BNB Chain.
Mirae Asset plans to rebrand South Korea's Korbit crypto exchange as Digital X, targeting tokenized real-world assets, stablecoins, and digital finance services.
A cumulative $650M in cross-chain bridge exploits during Q2 2026 accelerated a $7 billion migration onto Chainlink's CCIP, per the company's own quarterly review.
Ripple has launched Ripple Mint, giving institutions API-driven access to mint and redeem RLUSD as the stablecoin's market cap nears $1.6 billion.
