On-chain lending and borrowing — borrow rates, liquidations, governance, and collateralized debt activity.
The licenses are the unglamorous plumbing — but a zero-fee bank-to-stablecoin ramp into Aave's $14B lending market finally gives the protocol a path around crypto-native leverage cycles.
The protocol's code worked; the bridge that delivered 116,500 unbacked rsETH didn't — and Aave's response reframes where DeFi risk actually sits now.
A draft XRPL amendment calls flash loan attacks "structurally impossible" — an architectural quirk that has spared the chain from the exploit class draining Ethereum and Solana DeFi.
The $148B in DeFi still locked isn't shrinking because AI broke smart contracts — it's shrinking because the attacks are now cheaper, faster, and increasingly aimed at the operational layer around…
The move lets institutions post tokenized U.S. Treasuries as onchain collateral — and signals DeFi lending books are quietly being rebuilt for permissioned, compliance-bound capital.
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 wallet is up $2.04M on two prior ETH swing trades, so the Aave deposit is a position, not a parking spot — and the borrow side is where the real read comes from.
Decentralized finance's total value locked has shed roughly 14% since the KelpDAO exploit rattled the restaking sector…
Socket's TrapDoor disclosure named 34+ malicious packages across npm, PyPI and Crates.io targeting developer machines, CI/CD credentials and AI coding files — the control plane a smart-contract audit…
Roughly $97B of tokens unlocked publicly in 2025 — the Streamflow integration routes those distributions through Umbra's confidential pool, turning a structural information leak into an opt-in…
Optimism's final core contributor and investor vesting tranche is the headline at $4.18M, but GUA and H together account for more than two-thirds of the week's unlocked supply.
vBTC.b ships as a 1:1 collateralized Bitcoin asset on a Coinbase L2, with native BTC redemption and self-custody integration from day one — the bet is that real BTC collateral beats another synthetic…
The integration turns Tempo from a payments rail into a full-stack finance platform — letting corporates park idle stablecoin balances in curated lending markets without leaving the network.
Borrowing caps are back on, but the exploit funneled the borrowed ETH through a sanctioned mixer — the borrowing-market plumbing is patched, the regulatory tail is not.
Aave has confirmed that WETH loan-to-value ratios have been fully restored to their pre-incident levels across all…
WETH borrowing is back at pre-incident levels across seven Aave V3 deployments — the second step in the rsETH recovery plan, with the swap-path work still open.
After $16.5B in cumulative DeFi exploits, the latest THORChain incident is forcing protocols toward the centralised-style controls they once resisted — Aave's rsETH bad debt is the canary.
Two weeks without a forced close ended Wednesday — the high-leverage ETH long is back inside the liquidation zone at $2,153, with cumulative losses now near $32M.
DeFi lending protocols have lost $7.7B to exploits since 2020, yet coverage sits at 0.14% of TVL — users keep chasing yield while the sector's own insurance stack shares the same vulnerabilities as…
An isolated lending pool aimed at institutions is the real differentiator — it routes risk away from Jupiter Lend's core liquidity so that a single large position can't drain the public book.
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