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Payward plans to offer U.S. clients onchain perpetual futures on Hyperliquid

Leveraging its $550 million acquisition of Bitnomial, Payward aims to become the first registered U.S. exchange to deploy markets on the Hyperliquid protocol.

Payward and Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi.

Tech

Robinhood Chain surges into top five by DEX volume: Bernstein

Robinhood's new blockchain quickly became a top-five network by DEX volume, signaling strong early demand for its tokenized asset platform, the broker said.

Robinhood's Vlad Tenev speaks at Token2049 in Singapore (Token2049)

Markets

Crypto trader applies legendary HODL strategy to EUR/USD forex bet

A trader on Ostium has held a $1.14 million long position in EUR/USD perpetual futures for 400 days, applying a bitcoin-style HODLing strategy to forex.

Fiat currencies. (Roman Synkevych/Unsplash)

Tech

Aerodrome is turning liquidity into a prediction market with its biggest upgrade yet

The concept, called Predictive Allocation, will encourage participants to anticipate where liquidity will be needed next, instead of rewarding them for directing incentives toward pools that have already generated fees.

Crystal ball (Credit: Zhenyu LuoUnsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Solana DEX Orca launches new marketplace for tokenized real-world assets

The launch comes as crypto companies increasingly focus on tokenizing traditional financial assets, a market many in the industry see as a major growth opportunity.

orca, whale

Finance

Aero DEX aims to fix liquidity fragmentation and dethrone the incumbents

The rollout of Aero, targeted for the second quarter of 2026, will take direct aim at incumbents like Uniswap and Curve, the team told CoinDesk.

Flight, Aeroplane (RENE RAUSCHENBERGER/Pixabay)

Finance

Bitcoin price briefly plunges to $0 on lesser-known Paradex exchange

Starknet-based DEX Paradex reversed its blockchain to an earlier block after a database migration error briefly crashed bitcoin’s price to zero.

Reverse gear (CoinDesk Archives)

Markets

Traders split over whether Lighter’s LIT clears $3 billion FDV after launch

Prediction markets show traders clustering around a $2 billion–$3 billion range, with odds for $4 billion and $6 billion outcomes falling steadily after October's crash.

Lighter, LIT (Rudy and Peter Skitterians/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Tech

Solana’s Drift Launches v3, With 10x Faster Trades

With v3, the team says that about 85% of market orders will fill in under half a second, and liquidity will deepen enough to bring slippage on larger trades down to around 0.02%.

Drift (b52_Tresa/Pixabay)

Finance

Coinbase Debuts DEX Trading in Brazil as ‘Everything App’ Vision Grows

The move comes amid new regulations from Brazil's central bank, requiring crypto firms to be licensed and report international transactions.

Coinbase (CoinDesk)