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The HackerNoon Newsletter: When DeFi Turns Reputation Into Middleware (1/7/2026)

When DeFi Turns Reputation Into Middleware

DeFi’s original promise was inclusion. But as we build the infrastructure for social reputation, we are accidentally laying the ra...

Can Bitcoin-Backed Tokens Compete With Traditional Savings Accounts? Buck Thinks...

Buck Foundation launched Buck, a governance token offering 7% annual rewards calculated by the minute, backed indirectly through S...

SQD Network Just Killed Token Emissions. Here's What $16 Billion in DeFi TVL Pay...

SQD Network launches Portal Pools, replacing token emissions with enterprise revenue. The move affects how [Deutsche Telekom], [Mo...

Why Yala's AI Agent Could Change How Traders Price Uncertainty Forever

Yala 2.0 deploys AI-native fair value agents to transform prediction market pricing through a three-stage roadmap. The system proc...

Revolut Lists $AURORA as Aurora Unveils Leadership Transition to Drive Mass Adop...

Aurora's $AURORA token lists on Revolut app with 65M users as Declan Hannon becomes CEO. New leadership targets mass adoption.

How Altitude Finance Turned Bitcoin Into a $26 Million Lending Infrastructure

Altitude Finance CEO explains how Bitcoin-collateralized lending achieves 2.63% rates and $26M TVL while surviving 18 months witho...

How SCOR Plans to Rescue Thousands of Dormant Sports NFTs from Digital Graveyard...

Soccerverse secures licensing rights for 65,000+ professional footballers through FIFPRO partnership, bringing unprecedented authe...

Why Mantle's Developer Focus Could Position It for Institutional Adoption

Mantle Network's Global Hackathon has attracted over 900 developer registrations across 50+ countries in under two months, coincid...

Why Autonomous Trading Agents on PriveX Could Replace Human Crypto Traders

PriveX has launched the AI Agents Arena, a platform where users can create autonomous trading systems that operate continuously on...

Crypto.com Targets Trillion-Dollar Prediction Market Opportunity With Regulatory...

Travis McGhee is the Global Head of Predictions at [Crypto.com]. He says the company is positioning prediction markets as a tool f...

How Collectibles.com is Tapping Into Blockchain to Transform a $500 Billion Indu...

Collectibles.com launched in 2020 with $5M in seed funding to solve authentication, provenance, and liquidity issues in the collec...