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The four-year pipeline lands on Avalanche alongside BlackRock's Uniswap and Apollo's Morpho moves — a marker that traditional credit originators are now bridging to public-chain rails, with AI agents…
Three of crypto's most insider VCs co-led alongside Apollo, Circle and VanEck — a cap-table that signals Morpho's real target isn't DeFi natives, it's the institutions it already services through…
Combined top-3 perp-DEX volume jumped 96.6% in five days while CEX futures rose 81% — a volatility-driven expansion that cut across venue type, not a directional bet.
Co-led by Paradigm, a16z crypto, and Ribbit Capital with participation from Apollo, Circle Ventures, and VanEck, the round ranks among the largest in DeFi history and signals TradFi's deeper push…
Circle has launched cirBTC on Ethereum, a 1:1 Bitcoin-backed token designed to bring native BTC collateral into…
An 18,000-ETH borrow-and-deposit to a venue deep enough to absorb that size reads as a directional short, not a treasury rebalance — and $30M is the kind of flow that moves front-month perps.
The Nasdaq-listed Toncoin treasury is now the network's largest validator and one of its biggest holders, staking 226.8M tokens for a 1.48% monthly yield as governance upgrades boost throughput.
Consensys is positioning for the agent economy before one exists at scale: the wallet lets autonomous software move real capital across DeFi, but every transaction still routes through human-set…
The 42-day campaign ties prediction markets, trading challenges and team competition under a single Golden Ball mechanic — a loyalty hook built for active users rather than spot-only flow.
A brand-new address has pulled 1.14M $HYPE — roughly $79M — off exchanges and into Hyperliquid staking in seven days, a pattern that tightens float at exactly the moment HYPE needs a bid.
Total value locked across DeFi protocols has shed nearly $100 billion since October 2025, marking one of the sharpest…
Bridges, flash-loans and key compromises have been engineered out. The remaining risk is bespoke protocol logic — and a single flaw now lands on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, OP Mainnet and…
The protocol is also freezing locked LAB from NAV until August — but on-chain investigator ZachXBT says the strategy was the real mistake, not the unwind.
As Abra prepares for a $750M Nasdaq debut under ABRX, the CEO is staking the next phase on BTCAF, USDAF and DeFi-powered lending — and calling tokenization more consequential than the ETF debate.
Ethereum's validator queue is flashing one of its most lopsided readings on record: the number of ETH queued to enter…
Two of Hyperion's marquee 'triple-dip' yield deals — 800,000 HYPE, roughly 40% of its treasury — come back to the firm as Coinbase prepares to install USDC as Hyperliquid's quote asset.
The Binance founder's first extended public comment on Aster frames it as privacy-native and multi-chain, not a head-to-head challenger to Hyperliquid's open-orderbook model.
Five storylines from the week that matter for DeFi: Hyperliquid's perp volume peaks, Radiant Capital plans a wind-down, Polymarket alleges Kalshi espionage, Kelp DAO's bridge loses funds, and the…
The Hyperliquid trader's account is down to $52K after a relentless stretch of forced unwinds — yet he's now adding back risk at a lower liquidation price, betting on a bounce that keeps failing to…
The risk stack concentrates just below current levels — $1.57B in cumulative exposure awaits a 5–10% ETH drawdown, with the heaviest cluster waiting at $1,362.
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