Every Zipp story tagged #DeFi, newest first.
Record swap counts test whether broad fee activation across v2, v3 and v4 can turn throughput into measurable UNI burns, with $4M of protocol fees over 30 days still small against $44M flowing to LPs.
Lazarus moved $30M through Hyperliquid the same day Payward-Bitnomial talks surfaced. CME's lobbying case against Hyperliquid just got a national-security hook no swaps-classification brief can match.
The 172-country footprint positions self-custody as a payments proposition, with USDC bridging DeFi access and card spending.
Payward's Bitnomial hands Hyperliquid the CFTC-licensed derivatives stack it could not build alone, and the deal lands as Trump's CFTC openly courts offshore perps back onshore.
The second straight gain puts Ethereum's established ecosystem and Robinhood Chain's rise in the same frame, showing the move was not confined to DeFi's long tail.
Aave's grip on the market is the read: 48% share at $12.5B in active loans, with Morpho ($5.1B) and Spark ($2.1B) well behind.
The 40% valuation jump in a matter of months reflects how fast regulated prediction markets are scaling, with the Trump administration actively suing states that try to constrain them.
The Mango Markets playbook strikes twice in four days, draining two lending markets through the same illiquid-token loophole that cost Avraham Eisenberg's victims $116M in 2022.
Record staking demand has collided with the network's deliberate 57,600-ETH-per-day activation cap, and the queue's economics are now the price of admission to ETH's validator set.
The precautionary halt widens the event from a DeFi protocol incident to a broader operational risk for Cronos users, lenders and ecosystem projects.
The institutional plumbing is built. The market isn't there. WBTC and cbBTC sit at 116K and 98K BTC respectively, exposing a 2,900x scale gap no trust charter alone can close.
The 2% to 6.5% rate jump and a $93,500 knock-in barrier sitting roughly 20% above current BTC expose the structural cost of converting a cheap short-cycle facility into a longer, more expensive one.
The weekend tape was orderly on the DEX layer, but Coinbase's onchain clock now runs continuously while the underlying equities still settle on business days.
The number matters less than its staying power: persistent deposits and activity would turn a fast inflow into a durable adoption signal.
The real bottleneck holding back institutional RWA flow is T+1 redemption, not demand; protocols that collapse settlement cycles into a single auction are already shifting the constraint from…
Tokenized-equity perp volume grew from $85B in January to $470B by June. Bybit's options layer hands retail the same 24/7 toolkit Wall Street gets only nine hours a day.
The pivot widens Ethena's collateral universe from $2.5T of crypto to $120T of equities, but the test is whether USDe can rebuild to the $7.5B threshold for ENA buybacks before the new trade gets…
Equity perpetuals carry a 70-times-larger underlying market than crypto and funding that rarely turns negative.
Hyperliquid's 58% share and 21% growth show perp-DEX volumes are consolidating fast, with one venue pulling further from the pack each month.
The 24% APY figure is the marketing ceiling, paired with the platform's own risk caveat, and the launch is being promoted through a sponsored Altcoin Daily segment alongside the bipartisan policy…
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