RaaS #554: MetaMask Integrates Polymarket!

Lighter Enables Spot Trading, CZ Trolls Gold on Live Debate, and Moar!

Solflare is tired of being “just a wallet,” so they dropped Solflare Shield, a hardware wallet that offers no software fallback, no weak points, and way faster NFC signing. Solana users might finally have a hardware wallet worthy of the chain’s speed.

Rainbow just shipped one of the most ambitious token-and-equity designs we’ve seen in years. They created a new Class F stock, owned by the Rainbow Foundation, which holds 20% of total equity on behalf of token holders.

MetaMask Prediction Markets are now live on its mobile app, powered by Polymarket, and the UX is real smooth. The wallet is slowly becoming a super app, and prediction markets might be its most addictive feature yet.

House of all finance… on Solana?! On today’s On The Radar, our host Luki is joined by two special guests, Matus and Solontag from Deriverse, to break down whether it is actually building Solana’s all-in-one trading venue. Live at 2:30 PM UTC.

Lighter just introduced spot trading, starting with ETH deposits, withdrawals, and transfers as the first native asset. Spot markets will hit this week, and the project plans to add BTC and other pairs soon.

A banger idea tbh.

CZ pulled out a gold bar during a Binance Blockchain Week Dubai panel with Peter Schiff and asked Peter to verify if it was real. Schiff was unable to verify it without having extra tools. CZ seized the moment to push the point that Bitcoin transactions are verified instantly, on the blockchain, while gold still struggles with basic authentication.

Acting Chairman Caroline Pham announced that spot crypto products will now trade on federally regulated CFTC exchanges, a first in U.S. history. The move marks the Trump administration’s push for a “Golden Age of Innovation.“ Institutional green light? Pretty much.

Your daily dose of bite-sized crypto news.

1. Aave Labs expands partnership with CoW DAO to provide an improved swap experience across the Aave platform.

2. Kraken partners with Deutsche Börse Group, bringing FX via 360T to the trading platform.

3. Ripple acquires four companies (GTreasury, Rail, Palisade, Ripple Prime) to build a unified digital asset infrastructure stack.

4. Aster DEX drops its 2026 H1 roadmap, doubling down on three foundational engines: Infrastructure, Token Utility, and Ecosystem & Community.

5. Liquid Labs launches as LiquidAI’s new advanced research division for foundation model architecture, multimodality, and training systems.

Robinhood Crypto listed AERO, making it tradable nationwide, including New York, which is normally the final boss of compliance. The timing is spicy: AERO is preparing to merge with VELO, one of the bigger token consolidations coming into next year.

Kalshi’s data will now directly power CNBC’s reporting, giving the network real-time, market-priced probabilities for major events. CNN was previously the first major newsroom to integrate Kalshi. Prediction markets are really becoming part of the global news cycle.

Say less.

Top gainers: OMNI, PRIME, BOBA, PLLD, NUMI

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1. Blocmates breaks down why Fusaka is being called the backbone of Ethereum’s next growth cycle. The whole chain basically got a performance buff without touching decentralization.

2. Diego argues that AI agents will do for this cycle what DeFi did in 2020: bring millions into crypto by making everything stupidly easy to use. AI agents, he claims, are the unlock that finally lowers the barrier for mainstream users.

3. Stan calls out the chaos of social media growth tips, pointing out how all strategies are right but only in a specific context. There’s no universal formula, only frameworks.

4. AvgJoesCrypto says the market is waking up: BTC is the only asset with a credible monetary premium, and most alternative L1s can’t justify their valuations anymore.

5. Jayden dives into the trading philosophy behind Polymarket’s infamous “gabagool” bot, the one always winning the 15-minute Bitcoin markets. And yes, it’s a system that normal people can learn.

PeerDAS shipped in Fusaka, marking Ethereum’s first real step toward the sharding dream that started in 2015. Vitalik says even though it’s still incomplete, it’s already one of the biggest architectural leaps in Ethereum’s history, setting up the next two years for major scaling wins.

BNY, Nasdaq, iCapital, and S&P Global just invested $50M into Digital Asset, creators of the Canton Network (CC). The message is clear: institutional infrastructure is moving on-chain, but with privacy, compliance, and legal certainty baked in.

That’s all for today!