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The 1.588M $HYPE accumulation is the headline, but staking 1.3M of it locks roughly 82% of the buy off the float — a quiet bid that doubles as a validator commitment.
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…
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