Aave Labs proposes standardized asset listing framework for V3, V4
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.
Decentralized finance — DEXs, lending, yield strategies, on-chain derivatives, and tokenized real-world assets.
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.
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…
Andrew Forson points to $150B in Treasury-bill backing for stablecoins and 20–30% monthly volume growth as evidence the core stack is thriving despite a $20B TVL pullback and $1.1B in exploits.
VanEck's tokenized VBILL US Treasury fund has been integrated as eligible collateral on Euler, the decentralized…
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 same wallet that banked $311.6K on a 145-BTC short yesterday just rotated the entire book net long at max leverage — a $439K take-profit at $74.4K is now the line traders are watching.
A single deployer-key compromise on Arbitrum let an attacker forge 5.4 trillion vsdCRV — but the structural read is that automated yield vaults bundle risks the interface never shows, and April 2026…
The world's largest digital asset manager is now publicly framing Hyperliquid as a top-tier perps venue — a legitimacy stamp that matters more for institutional capital flows than the volume figure…
The market isn't fragmenting the way early-cycle DEX data suggested: nearly four-fifths of top-ten volume still routes through Hyperliquid, and a $50M Variational round is now pulling retail flow at…
The Solana DEX is building rails for KYC-gated tokenized assets, with Streamex's GLDY gold security as the first issuer — a concrete step toward compliant onchain commodities, funds and equities.
The yield wrapper is powered by Veda and Sentora and routes deposits into Aave and Morpho — Kraken's bet that post-2022 centralized lending skepticism can be blunted with transparent onchain…
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.
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.
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.
President Trump has publicly endorsed CFTC Chair Selig's effort to broaden the agency's authority over prediction…
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…