Stories tagged “Defi.”
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Crypto majors close massive week up 20-30%; BTC at $78.5k. 10 alts gain 50% or more on the week, spanning memes, Defi and perps. ETH / BTC prints fresh golden cross. ZEC jumps 65% on week ahead of Grayscale spot ETF incoming.
Term Finance lost an estimated $8.5 million after an attacker exploited governance control of its strategy vaults. The attacker drained about 2,843 Ether (ETH) and 1.68 million USDC, which was exchanged for approximately 1.68 million Dai (DAI).
The European Commission is reviewing whether crypto lending, particularly DeFi vaults, should fall under the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) framework, despite the complexities of regulating decentralized structures.
Compound Finance has placed a $52 million bet and leadership renewal on its pivot to institutional DeFi. The protocol is pivoting toward institutional clients by developing real-world asset offerings, partner integrations and credit infrastructure designed to meet traditi…
Major financial institutions, each managing over $1 trillion, have approved crypto products, signaling a significant shift from traditional finance resisting digital assets to actively enabling their distribution and adoption.
SharpLink, a digital asset treasury company, announced it will stake $200 million of Ethereum through Lido's liquid-staking protocol, receiving wrapped staked ETH (wstETH). This move aims to make their ETH holdings more productive while maintaining liquidity.
Neutrl has suspended minting and redemptions for its NUSD synthetic dollar due to unspecified circumstances affecting protocol reserves. The protocol did not identify the affected asset or counterparty, nor provide a timeline for resuming operations.
Ethereum DeFi platform Ether.fi is adding tokenized asset trading, portfolio-backed loans, and fiat accounts to its self-custodial app. Users can now trade tokenized stocks, metals, and crypto assets through the app, and lend assets, borrow against their portfolios withou…
Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan predicts crypto valuations could at least double as more protocols adopt revenue-capture mechanisms like token buybacks and burns, linking network activity directly to token value.
Solstice Finance launched strcUSX on Solana, a structured product that splits exposure to Strategy's STRC preferred stock into senior and junior tranches targeting 7% and 20%+ yields.
Standard Chartered initiated coverage of Chainlink, projecting its price to reach $200 by 2030, driven by an anticipated $4 trillion in tokenized assets and a 37-fold increase in DeFi deployments.
Ethereum’s proposed EIP-8363 staking overhaul aims to reduce issuance, but critics say it could hurt DeFi, decentralization, and institutional adoption.
A new Ethereum proposal (EIP-8361) suggests gradually burning validator rewards, reaching zero net issuance if staked ETH hits approximately 60.25 million, aiming to cap staking and enhance decentralization.
XRP holders can now use wrapped XRP (FXRP) as collateral to borrow Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin on Ethereum. A $280 million lending pool managed by Sentora approved FXRP, opening a new isolated market on Morpho Blue.
A DeFi platform, Spark, has ditched its consumer app to become the secret backend for tech giants, supplying yield to firms like Robinhood. The stablecoin market is fragmenting, and Spark is betting it can capitalize on the split.
Ethereum's mainnet is largely absent from the booming perpetual futures market, with traders migrating to Hyperliquid, Solana, and Ethereum layer-2s like Arbitrum and Base. Builders argue Ethereum's future role is as a settlement and collateral base, not an execution layer.
Perpetual futures and tokenized stocks are becoming a crucial battleground for Solana, as traditional finance users are increasingly drawn to on-chain derivatives platforms, potentially bringing trillions of dollars with them.
Trade.xyz will reimburse eligible traders after a price anomaly hit its contract tracking SK Hynix, a South Korean chipmaker. The contract's mark price fell nearly 19% after an executed trade was relayed by multiple independent data providers.
Uniswap founder Hayden Adams rejected claims that the newly activated v4 protocol fees reduce liquidity providers' earnings, stating that the fees are additive rather than deducted from existing LP fees.
Coinbase's new Canadian CEO, Eric Richmond, says the exchange wants to offer Canadians advanced crypto products, including derivatives, DeFi services, and tokenized assets. However, Richmond argues that Canada needs a more permanent and harmonized regulatory framework to …
Hyperliquid, a decentralized exchange, is capitalizing on its volume and depth of order book by offering firms composibility, a concept from decentralized finance (DeFi), whereby permissionless smart contracts can slot together like money LEGOs. This allows other applicat…
DeFi projects that survived the 2022 crash are shutting down in 2026. Analysts say it's not a case of industry consolidation, but rather the opposite. Capital has rotated rather than exited, and the rules for attracting capital have changed.
1inch has opened Aqua, its shared DeFi liquidity layer, to all users across 13 EVM chains, eight months after a developer-only release.
WEMIX, a layer-1 blockchain network, has been compromised by an attacker who moved approximately $724,000 in USDC.e tokens. The attacker issued 5.23 million WEMIX$ tokens without authorization, which were then converted into other assets and distributed across multiple ad…
Decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator Odos Protocol is shutting down operations, giving users until July 30, 2026, to withdraw their assets. The team did not provide a specific reason for the closure, though its volume has significantly declined.
Uniswap is launching "Permissioned Pools," a new framework enabling regulated tokenized assets like funds and equities to trade on its decentralized exchange while enforcing on-chain compliance rules for approved investors.
A wave of high-profile crypto hacks in April led to fears of an AI-driven hacking epidemic. However, the stream of attacks seemed to ebb, leading some to declare the fears a 'false alarm'. But experts warn that AI is changing attacks, making existing ones cheaper, faster,…
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said some crypto vaults and lending strategies may fall within federal securities laws. Morpho's token fell about 5% after the statement, underperforming the broader crypto market.
Morpho has launched Morpho Midnight, a fixed-rate lending protocol on Base, alongside its variable-rate lending markets. The protocol allows lenders and borrowers to propose their own interest rates, maturities, and other loan terms.
About $1.6 billion in DeFi liquidity was underutilized in H1 2026, failing to generate returns. Roughly $542 million, or 29.5%, sat fully out of range in an average week.