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The headline is a 24-hour $5.78B print and a fresh weekly record — but the real story is that Solana's perps stack is now absorbing flow at a scale that puts it in the same conversation as…
The bill's headline digital-asset market structure looks set to clear, but the DeFi provisions were rewritten hours before the vote — and the industry is still parsing what that means.
The launch turns non-custodial, no-identity-check token swaps into a five-endpoint Bearer-auth REST integration — and lets every partner keep 0–4% of the spread as USDT.
A compromised admin key let the attacker mint 1,000 unauthorised eBTC and launder proceeds through Tornado Cash — the latest in a string of mega-exploits now totaling hundreds of millions across DeFi.
Ostium's institutional-grade data link comes as equity perps have already carved out 20% of the $75B RWA perps market — and signals Nasdaq is building a deliberate onchain strategy, not a one-off bet.
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.
The $4T figure, evenly split between stablecoins and tokenized RWAs, positions DeFi protocols as the native infrastructure layer — and clears a path for protocol tokens to capture the throughput.
The bank's digital-assets team splits the forecast evenly between stablecoins and RWAs — and names established DeFi protocols with strong risk metrics as the primary beneficiaries, not the issuers.
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.
Jeff Yan's disclosure lands as ICE and CME have been lobbying to restrict the protocol, making compliant U.S. access the deciding variable for Hyperliquid's next leg of growth.
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…
The contracts worked exactly as written — the problem was operational. As shared bridge infrastructure concentrates, a single LayerZero-adjacent weakness can cascade across the protocols sitting on…
The position is a 10x leveraged short on 175,082 HYPE ($7.62M notional) — funded with a freshly bridged 8.8M USDC and still being added to, signaling conviction rather than a tactical scalp.
The single-day buy is small next to the four-week total: an a16z-linked wallet has now stacked 1.71M $HYPE, a signal that the institutional bid for the token is still active rather than rotating out.
Leveraged ZEC bets are back on the tape — a single wallet's 10x long size and a $537 liquidation line give the next session a clear invalidation level for the breakout trade.
The framing flips Sonic's burn narrative: 295,454 S from VI product revenue outweighs 59,787 S of fee-related burns since March 1, and the ratio is the real story.
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