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.
JustLend DAO's fourth JST buyback-and-burn destroyed 355M+ tokens worth $34.59M on July 17, 2026 — the highest-value single round in the program's history.
Visa's Cuy Sheffield pegs adjusted x402 volume at $19M across 134M transactions, but a Visa-Artemis analysis shows just 4,000 wallets account for 90% of spending.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong publicly admitted Base's content coin strategy failed, saying the network 'messed up,' while defending its new focus on AI agents, trading, and payments.
A Dune study for 1inch finds 85% of concentrated liquidity sat idle in H1 2026, with $542M out of range weekly and retail LPs missing $150M in annual fees.
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh told Congress the Fed will not rescue failing crypto or stablecoin firms, drawing a hard line as the GENIUS Act nears finalization.
Visa's new Stablecoin Platform lets banks and fintechs store, issue, and settle with stablecoins via Visa's network, backed by 130+ partnerships and 7-day U.S. settlement windows.
Ondo Finance and Japan's SBI Group have partnered to tokenize Japanese equities, settling trades in SBI's yen stablecoin JPYSC — a landmark RWA deal for Asian markets.
Anton Bukov claims he was fired from 1inch in November while still holding a 50% stake in the protocol. He has since launched infrastructure startup Second Tier.
FATF's June 2025 update warns stablecoins have overtaken Bitcoin in illicit transactions and criminals are minting proprietary tokens to dodge asset freezes.
Jesse Pollak admits Base's social-first strategy was 'definitively wrong', steps back from Base App leadership as the chain fell behind in perps and prediction markets.
