Base Breaks Up With Optimism — And the L2 Landscape Will Never Be the Same

Coinbase just dropped a bomb on the Ethereum Layer 2 ecosystem. Base, the L2 network that rocketed to $3.85 billion in TVL and became arguably the most important chain in DeFi over the past two years, is walking away from Optimism's OP Stack. In a blog post

Vibe-Coded DeFi: How an AI Co-Authored Oracle Bug Drained $1.8M From Moonwell

A pricing glitch that lasted only minutes has left DeFi lender Moonwell with nearly $1.8 million in bad debt — and the governance code that introduced the bug was co-authored by Claude Opus 4.6, an AI coding assistant. If you needed a single incident to crystallize everything that'

Stripe Just Got a Bank Charter for Stablecoins. Here's Why That Changes Everything.

Stripe's Bridge gets OCC approval for a national bank charter to issue stablecoins. The biggest payments company on the internet just got a federal license to issue digital dollars.

Smart Money Is Loading Up While Crypto Sentiment Hits Rock Bottom

Strategy bought $168M in BTC at a loss. BitMine added $91M in ETH. Intesa Sanpaolo disclosed $96M in Bitcoin ETFs. The institutions are accumulating while everyone else panics.

Harvard Cuts Bitcoin, Opens $87M Ethereum Position — The Institutional Rotation Is Here

Harvard University's $56.9 billion endowment just made one of the most telling moves in institutional crypto to date — and it's not what most people expected. According to a Q4 2025 SEC filing, the Harvard Management Company (HMC) cut its Bitcoin ETF position by 21% while