On-chain lending and borrowing — borrow rates, liquidations, governance, and collateralized debt activity.
The structure lets a market-maker borrow stables without posting its own onchain BTC, routing the underwriting premium back to depositors as yield.
The commissioner stopped short of calling any protocol a security outright, instead laying out which structural features would draw the SEC's eye: yield strategy, LTV, liquidations, asset allocation.
The commissioner stopped short of calling vaults securities outright, but the structural framing pushes curated strategies and onchain lending squarely into the SEC's lane, with Morpho down 5% on the…
The commissioner is signalling that the agency will case-by-case each vault and lending product, and builders who try to engineer around securities law will pay the price.
The SEC's crypto mom signalled that how a protocol is designed, not where it runs, decides whether U.S. securities law applies, a posture that puts every yield strategy on notice.
Direct Morpho access inside the main app turns DeFi yield into a brokerage-native product instead of a separate wallet workflow.
Midnight moves fixed-rate credit to the protocol layer instead of stacking it on variable-rate markets, where every existing fixed-rate DeFi book has lived so far.
The account bundles a stablecoin debit card, fee-free USDT transfers and Aave USDT0 yield into tiers priced in XPL, a structure that ties consumer onboarding directly to a DeFi lending market.
Cointelegraph Research and 8Lends map the structural fault lines between CeFi, DeFi pools and tokenized RWA credit, where the failure mode changes depending on what backs the claim.
The distribution deal through Fireblocks Earn matters more than the vaults themselves: idle stablecoin balances sitting in custody are the largest unmonetised pool in crypto, and Galaxy just put a…
The first Bank of Korea hike in over three years is the macro anchor, while a $2.4M LayerZero wallet breach and Summer.fi shutdown put DeFi risk back on the table.
Wall Street's largest wealth manager bringing digital-asset rails in-house reframes the institutional custody race, and tightens the gap between TradFi balance sheets and on-chain credit markets.
The Aave Labs founder frames V4's Avalanche debut and a prime-broker disruption thesis as the on-chain rails for the next leg of tokenized credit growth.
The 98% concentration shows Bitmine has effectively become an ETH yield vehicle, with Chairman Tom Lee projecting $284M annualized once the full treasury is staked.
The product lets accredited investors tap Galaxy as a single counterparty while the firm routes the loan across multiple on-chain lending venues to optimize yield.
HMRC's carve-out exempts disposals on eligible crypto loans and liquidity-pool entries from capital-gains tax, aligning DeFi with share-loan treatment and ending the asset-swap tax trap that has…
The deadline matters less than the math: DeFi protocols that already generate real revenue stand to inherit the first wave of institutional flow once the rulebook lands.
The upgrade turns scattered prediction-market bets into a single marginable balance sheet, layering leverage on top of an asset class that already behaves like a derivatives book.
A zeroed oracle signature was the entire vulnerability: one byte in the wrong place let a single attacker borrow against collateral the system could not price, draining the Bonzo money market on…
The split between record transaction volume and the largest supply drop since the Terra collapse is the real signal: the same dollars are turning over faster inside a shrinking pool, a setup that…
TheBlock
WuBlockchain
CoinDesk
CoinTelegraph
Crypto Rank News
CryptoSlate