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Near-parity resets the competition for onchain volume: both chains are positioned to absorb the next rotation, and the L1 race now runs on market share rather than narrative.
The restart comes a week after a Lazarus-linked April 18 attack drained the restaking market's largest LRT — a clean recovery test for the DeFi lending stack that absorbed the impact.
The pitch is STRC — a liquid, money-market-grade credit instrument built on Bitcoin's volatility surface — and the $100B target is the substrate DeFi builds on next.
SOL joins the collateral stack as Coinbase's crypto-backed loan book crosses $2.3B in originations — a sign the venue is betting users want yield-plus-borrowing, not yield-versus-it.
The headline rate is more than triple what most stablecoin lenders currently pay — the question is whether the spread reflects real yield or a fee-rebate subsidy from the platform’s mining pool.
The bad debt is gone, but the road back is brutal: FLUID buybacks paused, incentives cut or removed, and an oracle + pricing-system overhaul on the slate before the next product wave.
Backed by the $55.6M AEON Omiya commercial site and built on the ibet for Fin blockchain, the structure brings regulated on-chain real estate exposure to Japanese retail investors.
Capital is small next to Sharplink's 873K ETH stack, but the structure — a public-markets vehicle farming active DeFi yield without selling its core ETH — is the template that matters.
The 30,765 ETH is a sliver of Aave TVL but the precedent is the story: a DAO-level vote becomes the legal bridge between DeFi custody and a US terrorism judgment.
Pavel Durov announced that TON's newly released AI-ready toolchain delivers a tenfold improvement in smart contract…
The shift ends five years of standalone sidechain operation and slashes RON inflation from over 20% to below 1%, but the roughly 10-hour outage window is the first real test.
A Bitcoin address that had sat untouched for 12.5 years was activated this week, moving 500 BTC now valued at…
Three protocols with $2.3B combined just walked — the first measurable TVL migration since LayerZero admitted a Lazarus-linked RPC exploit and a 1/1 DVN misconfiguration.
A single quarter of tokenized equity trading outpaced the prior six months, and tokenized gold has already cleared its full-year 2025 total — the RWA thesis is no longer hypothetical flow.
The lift only frees the funds to move — North Korea-linked judgment creditors keep their claim against whatever wallet ends up holding the ETH.
Ethereum's share of total value locked across DeFi has dropped from 63.5% to 54% so far this year, a near…
Brazilian savers in Recife now earn Aave yield on USDC, and Mexican and Argentine holders borrow against BTC and ETH without selling — DeFi stops being a niche experiment when the on-ramp stops being…
The order is a narrow procedural win for the recovery plan — but the restraining notice now follows the ETH wherever it lands, keeping terrorism judgment creditors one step behind the protocol.
The $71M in ETH the Arbitrum DAO voted to return was frozen by plaintiffs holding a North Korea judgment — Aave will borrow against the shortfall and burn the seized rsETH to drain the hacker's…
Toncoin has climbed to the top of the staking yield table, now ranking as the highest-yielding staking asset among the…
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