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Arbitrum DAO Reports $6.2M First-Half Income as Robinhood Chain Adds Revenue Stream
Arbitrum DAO reported $6. 2 million in first-half income, with the newly launched Robinhood Chain adding a fresh revenue stream to the treasury of one of Ethereum's largest rollup ecosystems.
Securitize's HINC Becomes Collateral on Solana's Loopscale
Securitize's HINC token is now accepted as collateral on Loopscale, a Solana-native lending protocol, extending the tokenized fund into onchain credit rails where holders can borrow against it. The integration makes Securitize HINC collateral on Loopscale a live borrowing use case rather than a buy-and-hold position.
Ethena Launches Pay App on Avalanche With Tiered Rates Up to 6%
Ethena has launched Ethena Pay, a consumer payments and savings app built exclusively on Avalanche, that advertises tiered yields of up to 6% on dollar balances paid daily alongside a Visa spend card.
Ethena Launches Ethena Pay on Avalanche
Ethena is positioning a payments product, Ethena Pay, on Avalanche, extending the protocol's stack beyond synthetic-dollar issuance and into consumer-facing settlement.
Hyperliquid-Kraken U.S. Perpetuals Talks: What Bloomberg Report Means
The reporting, attributed to Bloomberg and relayed by Decrypt , frames the discussions as advanced but not concluded. The counterparties named are the DeFi perpetuals venue Hyperliquid and Payward, the corporate parent of exchange Kraken.
Solana Narrowly Passes Double-Disinflation Proposal
Solana validators have narrowly approved a "double-disinflation" proposal, a governance decision that would accelerate the reduction of SOL issuance beyond the network's existing emission schedule.
Solana Vote to Double Disinflation Passes: What Changes for SOL Emissions
Solana validators have passed a governance vote to double the network's disinflation rate, a tokenomics change that steepens the decline of SOL's issuance schedule and marks one of the chain's first binding on-chain economic decisions.
Solana Validators Approve Doubling Disinflation in First Governance Vote
Solana validators have approved a proposal to double the network's disinflation rate in what is being described as Solana's first formal governance vote, shifting a tokenomics decision from off-chain discussion into a validator-ratified outcome.
Ethena Plans Equity-Perpetual Basis Trades for USDe Backing
Ethena is planning to extend its basis-trade model beyond crypto into equity perpetuals, adding a new sleeve to the collateral that backs its USDe synthetic dollar. The move would source yield from the funding spread on equity-linked perpetual futures rather than relying solely on crypto-native positions.
Ethena Buyback Vote, VC Unlock Overhaul Boost ENA Outlook
Ethena's governance process has moved two tokenomics levers into focus at once: a proposal to route protocol revenue into ENA buybacks and an overhaul of venture-investor unlock terms, a pairing that reporting has tied to a stronger near-term outlook for the ENA token.
Ethena Foundation Proposes Fee Switch for ENA Token Buybacks
The Ethena Foundation has proposed a fee switch that would route protocol revenue toward ENA token buybacks, a governance-level change to how the protocol allocates its fee flow. The measure is a proposal, not an active mechanism, and would require governance approval before any buyback program begins.
Ethena Proposes Sending All Net Revenue to ENA Buybacks
Ethena has floated a governance proposal to redirect all of the protocol's net revenue toward ENA buybacks, a change that would rewire how value flows back to the token rather than accumulating in the treasury. The plan is a proposal at this stage, not an enacted policy, and its exact terms still require confirmation.