Cointelegraph Connect Cannes Recap: DeFi, RWAs Lead Web3 Bets
EthCC-week gathering drew Web3 builders, founders, and protocol leads to debate where DeFi, real-world assets, and infrastructure capital land next.
Decentralized exchanges, AMMs, perpetual DEXs, and on-chain orderbooks — volume, TVL, and DEX activity.
EthCC-week gathering drew Web3 builders, founders, and protocol leads to debate where DeFi, real-world assets, and infrastructure capital land next.
Whale Alert quietly expanded its stablecoin coverage on the ERC-20 rail and added Tempo — a payments-focused L1 — to its supported chains.
MegaETH's headline number tripled since the token generation event — yet almost all of it is borrowed Aave liquidity rather than native protocol deposits, a structural fragility most readers will…
The same attacker hit 1inch Fusion V1 in March and is back via a different vulnerability in TrustedVolumes' resolver — part of a $635M April hack month now bleeding straight into May.
The DeFi and meme-coin index surge is happening while majors consolidate, with positioning data showing TON in a league of its own — OI at a record, +93% on the week.
A single transfer of approximately 348 million USDC ($347,942,928) has been flagged moving out of Coinbase…
A routine quarterly rebalance, but the ENA inclusion signals where Grayscale's product team is leaning as the real-yield sector matures.
Raw dollar losses look similar — roughly $2.6B in TradFi and $2.8B in DeFi in 2025 — but volume-adjusted, DeFi loses at an 86x higher rate, and the marketing damage may outlast the math.
Aave has proposed contributing 25,000 ETH to DeFi United, a collective effort to plug the hole left by the Kelp DAO…
The DeFi Education Fund, joined by other prominent crypto industry voices, is pressing the SEC to formally codify its…
The Hyperliquid HIP-3 sector has cleared $181B in cumulative perp volume, but the market is essentially a one-horse race: XYZ alone accounts for 86.9% of the flow, with Paragon still rounding to zero.
A single verifier-path failure let a fraudulent cross-chain message slip through, and the knock-on withdrawal cascade is now reading as a stress test of DeFi contagion plumbing.
JTX is Jito's first product aimed squarely at the sophisticated trader cohort still on Binance and Coinbase, and a slice of its revenue routes back to JTO holders as Solana DEX volume crossed $1T…
The Hyperliquid ecosystem has coalesced around two distinct tracks: conventional DEXs, led by Project X and HyperSwap…
The 36% supply incineration is the headline, but a revenue-linked buyback running 50% of net income for 12 months is the mechanism that turns a one-off event into a sustained deflationary pressure on…
At an implied $520M annualized run-rate, the prediction market's fee base is now larger than most mid-tier CEXs — a useful benchmark for whether the category is consolidating around a single venue.
A single exploit drained $292 million from DeFi protocols, reigniting a debate that the industry has deferred too long…