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.
Robinhood Chain reached nearly $79M in total value locked within its first eight days on mainnet, with Uniswap volume reportedly topping $500M and memecoins driving early traffic.
Security researchers warn that AI agents' hallucination flaw can be weaponized to install malicious packages, turning autonomous agents into botnet nodes.
Ethereum Foundation deploys AI agents to hunt network vulnerabilities. Octane Security's AI already caught a high-severity Nethermind bug that could have frozen 38% of block production.
Gauntlet closes a $125M Series C solely from Japan's SBI Holdings — its largest raise ever — signalling aggressive Japanese institutional capital deployment into U.S. DeFi infrastructure.
Operation First Light, Interpol's 97-country sweep, netted 5,811 arrests and $293M — including a single Thai suspect's wallet that processed $123M in romance-scam proceeds.
Tokenized stock transfers surged 105% to $8.41B in 30 days, per RWA.xyz data, as Solana emerges as key infrastructure and TradFi institutions accelerate onchain equity.
Mark Cuban-backed DeFi dashboard Zapper is winding down after nearly seven years, 2M monthly users, and $13B in processed transactions.
Sony Bank's Connectia Trust, NA cleared OCC conditional approval in a five-charter crypto banking wave alongside Ripple and Circle, paving the way for a dollar-backed stablecoin.
Polymarket activates self-custodial Bitcoin Lightning deposits powered by Spark, crediting BTC in under a second — no custody surrender required.
Base's B20 native token standard went live June 27, 2026 via the Beryl hard fork, embedding compliance tools for stablecoins and RWAs at the protocol layer.
