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A pivotal week for crypto regulation and adoption
DeFi protocols — a striking gap that points to deep structural friction between tokenized assets and decentralized finance…million of that is actively deployed within DeFi. The rest sits idle, locked behind compliance wrappers that make
Decentralized derivatives protocol Variational has closed a $50 million Series A led by Dragonfly Capital, with Bain Capital…next leg of DeFi derivatives growth comes from depth, not just decentralisation
over the line may carry language that leaves decentralized finance exposed to a tougher regulatory framework than…supporters have been advertising. The concern is structural. DeFi protocols and DEXs operate without a central intermediary, which
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing
decentralized finance sector into another trust reckoning. The incident adds to a staggering cumulative $16.5 billion in DeFi
Despite $83 billion flowing through decentralized finance, less than 2% of that total value locked carries any insurance…million was lost to security events — and since DeFi was coined, uninsured lending protocols have shed $7.7 billion
exploit last month has become a defining moment for decentralized finance — not because a smart contract failed…software supply chains — web2 vulnerabilities wearing a DeFi mask. The incident is accelerating a broader rotation toward what
acquired Backprop Finance from Tensorplex Labs, bringing one of the highest-volume decentralized trading venues in the Bittensor…institutional conviction in the Bittensor DeFi stack at an early stage. Backprop Finance's trading volume credentials give
assets — originating on Figure Technologies' Provenance blockchain — into decentralized finance. The platform launches with two flagship products: nvYLDS…traded, lent, or posted as collateral across Ethereum DeFi protocols. "Nobody really has that unified global
Decentralized finance is moving from ideological experiment to everyday utility across Latin America, driven not by a change…local fintech firms building the abstraction layer DeFi always lacked — peso- and real-denominated stablecoins, fiat on-ramps
some of the sector's most active debates — decentralised finance architecture, real-world asset tokenisation, infrastructure scaling…tokenisation is drawing serious institutional attention and DeFi infrastructure is being stress-tested by rising on-chain activity
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