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TLDR CRYPTO 2025-08-08

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01MARKETS & BUSINESS

TRUMP ORDER WILL ALLOW ALTERNATIVE ASSETS LIKE CRYPTOCURRENCIES IN 401(K)S

President Trump will sign an executive order directing the Labor Secretary to review ERISA fiduciary guidance so that private equity, cryptocurrencies, real estate, and other alternative assets can be included in 401(k) and defined-contribution plans. The move marks a major victory for alternative asset managers after conditional 2020 and Biden-era guidance already allowed limited private market exposure. With Americans holding about $8.7 trillion in 401(k) assets, BlackRock and Empower are already preparing funds that allocate 5-20% to private investments. Proponents argue that broader access can improve diversification and long-term returns, despite higher fees, longer lockups, and transparency concerns.

cnbc.com5 min read

RIPPLE TO BUY STABLECOIN PAYMENTS FIRM RAIL FOR $200M

Ripple is set to acquire Toronto-based stablecoin payments platform Rail for $200 million. The deal is expected to close in Q4. It is part of Ripple's strategy to deepen adoption of its newly launched RLUSD stablecoin. Rail will augment Ripple's global payments network by integrating fast, compliant stablecoin rails into its On-Demand Liquidity infrastructure. This move follows Ripple's prior bid for Circle. It is the latest development in the intensifying race among blockchain firms to control stablecoin payment flows. By combining Rail's payment expertise with its settlement network, Ripple aims to accelerate stablecoin innovation in cross-border finance.

coindesk.com6 min read

02INNOVATION & LAUNCHES

NARRATIVE: THE PERPETUAL INFORMATION MARKET

Narrative is a perpetual market that allows users to speculate on trends and mindshare rather than more objective information like prices. Its goal is to make it possible to speculate on any piece of information. It is the latest entry to the InfoFi narrative. Narrative's testnet deployment is live on Monad. A private beta is available for interested users.

threadreaderapp.com3 min read

BOROS: INTRODUCING FUNDING FUTURES

Boros is a new protocol from the Pendle team that lets users trade and hedge funding-rate yields on BTC and ETH via Yield Units (YUs), each representing the yield from one unit of the underlying asset until maturity. By allowing traders to go long or short YUs and providing isolated liquidity pools (exLSTs), it introduces a standardized, trustless way to fix or speculate on funding exposure. Over time, Boros aims to become a core pillar of onchain yield markets and extend beyond funding rates to bonds, equities, and other real-world assets. Initially capped at $10 million open interest per market and 1.2x leverage, Boros supports Binance BTCUSDT and ETHUSDT funding rates, with vaults offering PENDLE incentives, swap fees, and implied APR gains.

medium.com5 min read

03GUIDES & TUTORIALS

UNVEILING THE PREDICTION MARKET FOREST

Onchain order-book data from Polymarket between April 2024 and April 2025 reveals persistent pricing inefficiencies. Leveraging heuristics and LLM-assisted semantic matching, this research classifies mispricings into intra-market “Market Rebalancing” and cross-market “Combinatorial” arbitrage, scanning 17,218 conditions. Opportunities surfaced in 7,051 single-condition and 662 multi-condition markets, with 11 logically linked market pairs enabling cross-market trades. Onchain activity shows arbitrageurs have already extracted about $40 million, highlighting both the scale of inefficiency and the corrective role of sophisticated traders in decentralized prediction markets.

threadreaderapp.com7 min read

THE COMET CRYPTO PORTFOLIO EXPERIMENT

Comet, Perplexity's browser agent, was put to the test of creating a crypto portfolio and investing on Coinbase. It collected market information using various news sources and pricing data and organized it into a digestible format. Comet then navigated to Coinbase and started making trades based on its analysis, marking the first agentic trading on Coinbase. The portfolio includes BTC, ETH, SOL, ADA, and XRP.

threadreaderapp.com6 min read

04MISCELLANEOUS

“MONEY 3.0” THESIS FOR STABLECOINS

Stablecoins mark a foundational shift from batch-based legacy finance to real-time, programmable money, creating new markets and value layers. There are four core layers in the stablecoin stack: issuance (where trust lives), infrastructure, orchestration, and distribution. While most builders chase the middle layers, the most defensible value lies at the edges, specifically issuer network effects and end-user distribution scale. The stablecoin market cap is at $232B and projected to hit $400B by year-end.

lsvp.com4 min read

BOROS LETS TRADERS HEDGE FUNDING RATES WITH FIXED-RATE YU TOKENS

Boros' YU tokens are fixed-rate instruments that let long and short traders hedge volatile funding rates. In bull markets, longs pay high funding - buying YU at a fixed rate locks in costs. Shorts in bear markets can sell YU to fix incoming funding gains. Basis traders (e.g., long spot + short perp) can use short YU to preserve favorable funding without closing positions, especially relevant for protocols like Ethena. While Boros is early and short-YU demand dominates, it reflects smart yield engineering for the growing perp ecosystem.

threadreaderapp.com2 min read