
Our weekly updates are put together by folks deep in the crypto scene, giving you a clear picture of what's happening without overwhelming you.

August 9, 2024
ALPHA: What a Wonderful Worlde
August 9, 2024
AIRDROPS: Margin trading, no liquidation
August 2, 2024
AIRDROPS: Lend an asset
August 2, 2024
ALPHA: What a Wonderful Worlde
July 26, 2024
AIRDROPS: Apple + Moon
July 26, 2024
ALPHA: Make it Immutable
July 19, 2024
ALPHA: Are you an Old Soul?
July 19, 2024
AIRDROPS: On the Mantle
July 12, 2024
AIRDROPS: Stone age
July 12, 2024
ALPHA: Free ChampionsApr 8, 2025

Business
Coinbase, Uniswap Join SEC for First Crypto Trading Roundtable
The Securities and Exchange Commission will host its first-ever dedicated crypto trading roundtable on April 11, bringing together crypto industry leaders and traditional finance experts to help “restart” and reshape digital asset regulation. The event, titled "Between a Block and a Hard Place," is the first of a four-part series announced earlier in March. These talks were designed to establish clearer frameworks for crypto companies that have long operated in regulatory uncertainty. SEC Schedu...
Apr 3, 2025

Law and Order
Crypto Market Maker Hit With $428,000 Fine Over Wash Trading
A financial services firm has been fined over $400,000 after pleading guilty to wash trading in a Boston court. CLS Global, a firm that specializes in market making, was ordered to pay a total of $428,059 to the government, in the form of seized cryptocurrency and fines. The company was also sentenced to three years’ probation, during which time it will not be able to participate in U.S. cryptocurrency markets. These charges followed an undercover law enforcement operation which specifically tar...
Feb 11, 2025

DeFi
Uniswap Launches Ethereum L2 Unichain, Calling It 'Fastest Chain in the Industry'
Ethereum decentralized exchange Uniswap has launched a new blockchain to speed up transactions for its popular DeFi project. Dubbed Unichain, the layer-2 network has already processed more than 88 million test transactions, according to Uniswap. The aim of the L2 is so that traders and devs building new apps will be able to do everything faster. In fact, Uniswap said Tuesday that the network “will make Unichain the fastest chain in the industry.” Unichain mainnet is live ✨ ✸ Fast with low fee...
Nov 28, 2024

Business
Bitwise Files To Turn $1.4 Billion Crypto Index Fund Into an ETF
Something interesting just landed on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) desk: NYSE Arca, regarded as Wall Street's electronic home for exchange-traded funds (ETFs), wants to list Bitwise's $1.4 billion crypto index fund. The numbers on the document seem to show where the smart money thinks crypto is headed. Filed Wednesday, the proposed ETF reveals a carefully weighted portfolio that's anything but a crypto free-for-all. Bitcoin still commands the lion's share at 75.14%, while E...
Nov 4, 2024

Business
Seoul, Singapore Play Host to Crypto Leaders at Epoch Summit
Across two events in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, blockchain infrastructure conference Epoch Summit brought together a stellar line-up of speakers from leading crypto projects to discuss the future of the space. At a one-day event held in Seoul as part of Korea Blockchain Week, and a two-day conference in Singapore, Epoch Summit saw speakers from projects including Consensys, Lido, Uniswap, Worldcoin, Berachain and Mantle come together to explore blockchain infrastructure in the APAC region a...
Oct 14, 2024

Markets
Pepe Holder Loses $1.4 Million in Uniswap Permit2 Phishing Attack
Uniswap Permit2 signing, which started as a tool to simplify token approvals, has now become a common attack vector in the DeFi ecosystem. A PEPE token holder became the latest victim of a phishing scam, losing $1.39 million worth of crypto after unknowingly signing a malicious Uniswap Permit2 transaction. According to cybersecurity firm ScamSniffer, the stolen assets, including Pepe (PEPE), Microstrategy (MSTR), and Apu (APU) tokens, were transferred to a new wallet just an hour after the vict...
Oct 1, 2024

DeFi
Uniswap Fee Increase Generated $53 Million Revenue Amid Legal Scrutiny
Leading decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap reported $52.75 million in fee revenue between April 1 and Sept. 30, 2024, according to DefiLlama data. This significant increase follows Uniswap Labs' decision in April to raise its user-interface swap fee, a move that significantly boosted earnings. In April, Uniswap Labs increased its user-interface swap fee to 0.25% on all trading pairs except stablecoin pairs and Wrapped Ethereum (WETH), up from the previous 0.1% fee that was applied to only ten...
Jul 22, 2024

Markets
WazirX Hacker Has $5 Million Left After Dumping Uniswap, Chainlink, and Other Alts
The entity behind the WazirX exploit has liquidated a good portion of its ill-gotten gains, which analysts have noted has had a major impact on some prices. Alex Svanevik, CEO of blockchain analytics firm Nansen, pointed out on Twitter that the entity behind the hack of Indian exchange WazirX—suggested to be a North Korean hacking group—became the top Uniswap (UNI) seller. Nansen data for UNI shows that the address in question has sold $859,514 worth of the token over the last seven days. The @...
Jul 10, 2024

Business
Uniswap Says SEC Should Drop Proposed DeFi Rules, Citing Chevron Decision
Decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap has urged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to abandon its proposal to regulate the decentralized finance (DeFi) space, citing the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling on Chevron deference. In a letter sent to the SEC Wednesday, lawyers for Uniswap argued that, "for better or worse—the Commission will not be able to claim the benefit of Chevron deference to defend its aggressive and atextual interpretation of its statutory authority." The SEC pr...
Apr 23, 2024

Law and Order
IRS Set to Kill Pseudonymity in Crypto? Tax Form Proposal Raises Alarms
A draft version of an IRS form spread fear and uncertainty across the crypto industry this week, with sections of the document leading some to believe that American DeFi users may soon be required to report their self-custodial wallet addresses to the federal government. Come 2025, the document, Form 1099-DA, will become a mandatory filing for any crypto transaction deemed by the IRS to have sourced from a broker. What exactly that means is still unclear. Crypto exchanges will all but certainly...
Apr 10, 2024

Markets
Uniswap UNI Token Tanks After SEC Threatens Enforcement Action
The price of Uniswap's UNI token fell sharply following news that the decentralized exchange was in the crosshairs of the Securities and Exchange Commission. CoinGecko data shows that UNI has dropped by 9% within an hour and is now trading for $10.15. At one point the price dipped below $10 for the first time since late February, and over the past 24 hours, the drop is closer to 11%. The token is the 20th biggest digital asset, with a market cap of $7.6 billion. Those who hold enough of the toke...
Feb 23, 2024

DeFi
Uniswap Price Skyrockets After Foundation Proposes Long-Awaited Staking Rewards
Uniswap (UNI) has surged in price following a proposal by the Uniswap Foundation to overhaul the protocol's governance system. The 16th-largest cryptocurrency by market cap is up by just over 50% in 24 hours, according to CoinGecko. Its price now stands at $11.20. That jump makes it the best performing token today among the top 100 cryptocurrencies. The reason is due to a proposed "large-scale upgrade to Uniswap protocol governance to incentivize active, engaged, and thoughtful delegation," deve...
Oct 18, 2023

Business
UK's $252B in Crypto Activity Dominated by DEX Trading, NFT Swapping: Chainalysis
Central, Northern, and Western Europe (CNWE) has cemented its status as a global powerhouse in the cryptocurrency space, with the United Kingdom emerging as a leading force in the region. According to a new report by Chainalysis, the UK leads the region in activity, boasting $252.1 billion in raw transaction volume over the past year. This figure also puts it third in the world in this category, behind the United States and India only. A closer look at the data reveals the pivotal role of decent...
Oct 16, 2023

DeFi
Your Favorite Uniswap Pool May Soon Include a KYC Check
Trading on Uniswap? Sign here, please. With Uniswap’s latest upgrade coming later this year, the decentralized exchange has opened code suggestions to the community. Not everyone is enthused by all of those suggestions, however Community-contributed code for a Know Your Customer (KYC) and whitelisting features, for example, have sparked fierce debate on the future of DeFi. Uniswap Overtakes Coinbase as Second-Largest Exchange Trading Ethereum Today Executing KYC checks and whitelisting addresses...
Oct 12, 2023

Coins
Uniswap Launches Mobile Ethereum Wallet on Android
Leading decentralized exchange Uniswap released a mobile crypto wallet for Android on Thursday, months after doing the same on Apple’s iOS platform. The app is currently in beta while the company invites members of the DeFi community to help it test the wallet before it’s released more widely to users. As per Uniswap’s Twitter feed, some 35,000 users have already signed up to the waitlist. In line with the beta launch, the Uniswap Labs team will also open-source the code as part of its Trail of...
Sep 1, 2023

DeFi
Uniswap Ruling Creates Regulatory 'Anomaly' for DeFi: Legal Scholar
As the crypto industry weathers what advocates say are oceans of regulatory uncertainty in the United States, a district judge’s ruling earlier this week dove into decentralized finance (DeFi), and may have calmed the waters for protocols like Uniswap. Tossing out a class action lawsuit on Wednesday, Southern District of New York Judge Katherine Polk Failla found that Uniswap’s investors and developers were not liable under federal securities laws for so-called scam tokens that burned a trader....
Aug 30, 2023

DeFi
Uniswap Lawsuit Dismissed: DeFi Crypto Exchange Not Liable for ‘Scam Tokens’
A class action lawsuit brought against Uniswap was tossed out by a district judge on Tuesday, who found those associated with the decentralized exchange were not liable for so-called scam tokens that purportedly burned traders. The lawsuit, brought by trader Nessa Risley last April and on behalf of other Uniswap users, accused the decentralized exchange’s developers and investors of violating securities laws. It alleged the exchange was an unregistered broker and dealer, offered unregistered sec...
Jun 15, 2023

Business
Ethereum Devs Cry Foul on Uniswap v4 'Open Source' Promises
Popular decentralized exchange (DEX), Uniswap, launched its fourth version this week, which brings with it a series of new features and customizability. It also brought, however, the wrath of the open source Ethereum community. The reason? The license they are using for v4. Lefteris Karapetsas spoke to Decrypt about the controversy. He is an Ethereum developer, and founder of rotki, a portfolio tracker that protects user’s privacy. “Uniswap decided to go with a Business Source License (BSL), con...
Jun 13, 2023

Coins
Uniswap Update Means 'The Possibilities Are Pretty Endless,' Says Developer
Uniswap, the leading decentralized exchange (DEX) on the market, has announced Uniswap v4, bringing customizable features and releasing the draft core code so that the community can build on top of it. Sara Reynolds, lead smart contract engineer at Uniswap Labs, spoke to Decrypt about the upgrade. “The possibilities are pretty endless,” Reynolds said, adding that they are bringing v4 development into the open so the community “can take it anywhere.” Decentralized exchanges are platforms that all...
Jun 7, 2023

DeFi
DeFi Trading Surges as Centralized Exchanges Feel Regulators' Wrath
What are crypto users doing now that the US has gone after two of the largest cryptocurrency platforms? Turning to decentralized finance, or DeFi, apparently. Back-to-back days of lawsuits from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against the two largest cryptocurrency exchanges caused many to decry that there is a “war on crypto.” It's a pattern the market has seen before, when DeFi volumes soared days after centralized crypto exchange FTX filed for bankruptcy in November 2022. There...