Orbs V5 launches as L3 hybrid to cut DeFi gas costs
V5's Committee Sync decentralizes Orbs' execution layer across Ethereum and Arbitrum — the upgrade lands after the protocol cleared $14B in cumulative DEX volume since V4.
Decentralized exchanges, AMMs, perpetual DEXs, and on-chain orderbooks — volume, TVL, and DEX activity.
V5's Committee Sync decentralizes Orbs' execution layer across Ethereum and Arbitrum — the upgrade lands after the protocol cleared $14B in cumulative DEX volume since V4.
Solstice Labs' CEO frames the gap as cultural, not technical: DeFi's growth is being undercut by a $2B+ exploit cycle that proves capital management, not code, is the missing layer.
Ripple has returned 100 million XRP — valued at approximately $129.6 million — to escrow, a routine but closely watched…
Ripple has moved 100 million XRP — valued at approximately $129.6 million at current prices — into escrow, in line with…
Ripple has locked 500 million XRP — valued at approximately $648 million at current prices — back into its escrow…
Ripple has unlocked 400 million XRP tokens — equivalent to approximately $532.86 million at current prices — in what…
Ripple has unlocked 500 million XRP — valued at approximately $666 million at current prices — in what appears to be a…
Ripple has unlocked 100 million XRP tokens, valued at approximately $133.2 million at current prices. The release…
The critique from one of crypto's most cited VCs lands on decentralization, not throughput — and on a partnership appetite that excludes any legitimate U.S. counterparty.
Six perp DEX tokens launched in the past year reserved more than a quarter of supply for community rewards, but only ASTER crossed the two-thirds threshold.
The proposal pushes a 10-point technical review checklist across every Aave deployment — turning ad-hoc asset onboarding into something closer to an audit gate than a forum vote.
Three months on from the rsETH security incident that drained Aave's core WETH market, total supplied WETH has not only recovered — it now sits at the deepest pool in DeFi.
The bombshell isn't the quote — it's the source. OpenZeppelin audits Aave, Compound, MakerDAO, Uniswap and Coinbase, so its co-founder telling family to exit DeFi is a signal the audit industry…
OpenZeppelin's CEO says coding agents have flipped the asymmetry on smart contract security — and $1.1B in 12-month hack losses plus a $20B+ TVL drop make the warning impossible to wave off.
When the lead author of the contracts the space audits itself against tells you to leave Aave, MakerDAO, and Compound too, the warning is structural — not protocol-specific.
The product pipes Base wallets into ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor via the Model Context Protocol, with Uniswap, Morpho, Moonwell and Avantis on board at launch — turning chat interfaces into a…
XRPL's native AMM has lacked capital-efficient curve options since launch — a draft amendment would add concentrated liquidity and StableSwap, the same primitives that already move ~60% of AMM volume…
A modest pullback in the ratio, but the narrative behind it — fading DeFi speculation, lighter retail onchain activity, and a year of large protocol exploits — points to liquidity concentration on…
A pre-mine Ethereum address that had sat untouched for 10.8 years was activated this week, moving 2,000 ETH now valued…
While BTC, ETH and SOL have shed a third or more since September 2025, Hyperliquid's native token is up 120% YTD — Bitwise's CIO now frames it as a $600T-asset super-app, not a $3T crypto bet.