Asset manager Bitwise has entered the tokenization market, taking over management of the Bitwise Crypto Carry Fund (USCC), a $259 million fund and the first on-chain product in the structure's history. Interestingly, XRP was included in the basket of the fund's underlying assets on absolutely equal terms with BTC, ETH and SOL.
A security researcher known as 0xflorent recovered roughly 1,003.62 ETH, worth approximately $2 million, that had been trapped inside a failed 2016 Ethereum ICO smart contract for nearly nine years.
Kyle Samani said “Web3 is no more,” arguing that DeFi and DePIN now offer more viable paths for blockchain adoption. The older Web3 vision struggled to reach mainstream scale, with decentralized social apps remaining niche and play-to-earn games losing users after rewards faded.