A16z Raised $2.2B for Crypto While Bitcoin Sits 40% Below Its High. Here's Their Bet.
The fund is half the size of its 2022 vehicle. The thesis is completely different. Stablecoins, prediction markets, and AI agents replaced the Web3 dream.
The fund is half the size of its 2022 vehicle. The thesis is completely different. Stablecoins, prediction markets, and AI agents replaced the Web3 dream.
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan called Hyperliquid one of the most mispriced assets in crypto. The firm launched a HYPE ETF on the NYSE, pledged to buy and hold HYPE with 10% of its management fees, and published a memo arguing investors are making two fundamental errors in how they value the token.
DAOs have funded protocols worth billions, governed the most important DeFi infrastructure in crypto, and also collapsed spectacularly in ways that reshaped the entire industry. Understanding what they are — and how they actually work — is essential context for anyone navigating decentralized finance in 2026.
Every DeFi interaction leaves behind a permission that attackers can exploit long after you close the tab. Revoking unused approvals is the single most effective habit for keeping your wallet safe.
Airdrops have made early users millionaires and ruined careless wallets in the same week. The difference is almost always in how the claim is handled, not whether the airdrop is real.
A blockchain is just a database that no single party controls and no single party can quietly rewrite. Strip away the buzzwords, and the whole thing comes down to that one idea.
Banks have middlemen. DeFi has code. Over $130 billion is locked in smart contracts that lend, trade, and generate yield — without a single bank account, credit check, or business hour.
Governor Kay Ivey signed the DUNA Act on April 1, 2026, giving decentralized autonomous organizations full legal personality in Alabama. Over $24.5 billion in DAO treasury assets have operated without this protection. That is changing.
A token built around AI hype collapsed 70% after on-chain investigators exposed extreme supply concentration. The rest of the losers list told a more familiar story: a macro risk-off week, revenue pressure in DeFi, and a July token unlock hanging over Worldcoin like a known weight.
Uniswap is the largest decentralized exchange and a bellwether for the entire DeFi sector, spanning its AMM protocol, Unichain Layer 2, and UNI governance token. This tag tracks trading volume and liquidity, protocol upgrades from v4 hooks to Unichain, the fee-switch and governance debates over rewarding token holders, the regulatory pressure on the Uniswap Labs front end, and the competitive landscape against rival DEXs and aggregators. Coinliva covers the on-chain data, the governance votes, and Uniswap’s role as core DeFi infrastructure.