[TheDefiant] Scroll, the long-awaited Ethereum Layer 2, is suffering from poor adoption roughly one week after discretely executing its mainnet launch. According to data from Dune Analytics, 720 unique wallets…

[TheDefiant] Ethereum’s validator queues are empty, meaning no prospective ETH stakers currently waiting to come online. The metric indicates demand from new validators no longer exceeds the churn-rate for onboarding,…

[TheDefiant] Ferrari, the renowned Italian sports car manufacturer, now accepts payments in the form of cryptocurrency for its vehicles in the United States. On Oct. 14, Ferrari announced it tapped…

[TheDefiant] Lucas Vogelsang is the founder of Centrifuge, a credit platform that brings Real World Assets onchain. Real World Assets (RWAs) have been a growing sector in DeFi over the…

Caroline Ellison testifies in Sam Bankman-Fried trial, reveals more on FTX-Binance war; SEC reportedly has no plans to appeal on Grayscale Bitcoin ETF case. Hodler s Digest

[TheDefiant] Israel's crypto community has joined hands to launch "Crypto Aid Israel" to lend support to those affected in the war with Hamas. In the first 48 hours of the…

SBF allegedly bribes Chinese officials with $150 million to unfreeze accounts, Binance justifies blocking Hamas users, meanwhile, Huobi hacker returns all $8M in stolen assets. Asia Express, Columns

[TheDefiant] MetaMask, the popular Ethereum wallet, launched a fiat on-ramp for U.S. users via Stripe, the $50B global payments processor. MetaMask announced the news on Oct. 11, noting that the…

[TheDefiant] Decentralization proponents are celebrating Arbitrum governance rejecting a proposal from Lido, the largest liquid staking provider, requesting a 4M ARB grant to fuel incentive programs. A week-long vote concluded…

[TheDefiant] The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a complaint against Stephen Ehrlich, the former chief executive officer of Voyager Digital Ltd., Voyager Digital Holdings, Inc., and Voyager Digital,…

[TheDefiant] Trader Joe's, the well-known American grocery store chain, is again pursuing legal action against Trader Joe, the leading decentralized exchange on the Avalanche network. In a lawsuit filed last…

[TheDefiant] Real-world asset loan protocol Goldfinch is writing down part of a $20M loan issued to a U.S.-based credit fund and backstopping the losses. Goldfinch facilitated a $20 million loan…

X’s new gaming feature, exclusive Q&A with Cronos Labs’ Ella Qiang, Immutable’s cloud titan partner. Columns, Web3 Gamer

Fox Business producer Eleanor Terrett’s following exploded after she began providing commentary on the SESC v. Ripple lawsuit. Columns, Crypto Twitter Hall of Flame

[TheDefiant] Farcaster, the Optimism-based decentralized social media protocol, opened its doors to permissionless onboarding. Dan Romero, the co-founder of Farcaster, announced the news on Oct. 11 via tweet, declaring that…