Crypto Markets Writer
Tony Rabbit is a crypto markets writer at DEXTools News covering decentralized finance, on-chain trends, and trading narratives. He turns DEXTools live on-chain data into clear, actionable explanations for everyday readers, with a focus on new token launches, memecoins, liquidity, token safety, and how DEX market structure actually behaves. His reporting leans on primary sources and verifiable on-chain evidence over hype.
1469 articles published
Hyperliquid is opening permissionless prediction markets under HIP-4 to challenge Polymarket, but deploying one costs a 500,000 HYPE stake. Verified at the live price, that is $30.6M per market, not the $32M widely quoted, on an engine already clearing $3.64B a day.
Spain won the 2026 World Cup and Polymarket's Winner market settled at $4.33B, its biggest single market ever, verified on-chain. It cleared on Polygon the same week France ordered ISPs to block the platform as illegal gambling.
July 18 was the GENIUS Act's one-year deadline for final US stablecoin rules. It passed with eight proposals and zero final rules, while on-chain data shows the stablecoin market grew from $259.7B to $308.1B in the same year.
The BRIAN memecoin pumped to a $31M market cap two hours after Brian Armstrong's avatar change, then lost over 93%. We verified the viral claim on-chain: barmstrong.eth holds 5,292 tokens, about $11, not 80% of the supply.
Uniswap proposed turning on protocol fees across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Robinhood Chain and more, feeding its UNI burn. On-chain data: it makes about $74M in fees a month, and UNI captures none of it, yet.
A Bitcoin wallet dormant for 8.5 years moved 5,907.56 BTC (about $383M) on July 16. We traced the transaction on-chain: it went to one new self-custody address, not an exchange, so no sale, yet.
Galaxy Curator wires Fireblocks' 2,400 institutional clients into Morpho-based DeFi lending. On-chain data shows why: lending is a $39.2B market and Morpho is now the $7.25B number two Wall Street is picking.
About 40.9M ETH, a record 33.5% of supply, is now staked and worth $74.5B, while exchange balances sit near record lows and BlackRock's staked-ETH ETF pulls institutional money into the lock-up.
An attacker drained about $18M from Ostium's Arbitrum vault using future-dated oracle reports. It is 2026's biggest oracle exploit. Our on-chain ledger has the full picture.
Swift activated a blockchain ledger with 17 global banks for tokenized deposits. Our on-chain census shows about $335B is already tokenized and live on public chains.
The $308B stablecoin market looks flat at the top, but read it on-chain and capital is rotating fast: Ethena's USDe and Sky's USDS shrank about 12-13% this week while USDT, USDC and small regulated dollars held or grew. Here is what is actually moving, and why.
Robinhood Chain is crowded, fast and mostly fake volume, so we read it on-chain and picked the three tokens with something real underneath: CASHCAT the deepest market, VIRTUAL the blue chip, and BYCOCKET the cult. Plus the watchlist, the graveyard, and how to trade the chain without getting skinned.
