Cronje: call it onchain finance, not DeFi
Flying Tulip's CEO argues the 2020 DeFi trust model no longer fits modern protocols. Upgradeability, circuit breakers and equity-based margin are the new baseline.
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Flying Tulip's CEO argues the 2020 DeFi trust model no longer fits modern protocols. Upgradeability, circuit breakers and equity-based margin are the new baseline.
The rollout broadens Coinbase's product reach, pairing U.S. equity access with its stated effort to unite traditional and onchain finance.
The pivot bakes in a hard institutional requirement the original Ondo Chain couldn't meet: keep order flow off public mempools.
The deal folds 60M+ created wallets and a deep embedded-wallet developer stack into Kraken, while Magic's core team spins out as Newton Labs to ship its onchain authorization layer.
Direct Morpho access inside the main app turns DeFi yield into a brokerage-native product instead of a separate wallet workflow.
The Hyperliquid co-founder argues the AI boom is pulling top founders away from on-chain finance, just as the sector is being rebuilt from first principles.
The platform is consolidating tokenized equities, AI tools, derivatives, and onchain finance under one roof, betting that vertical integration is the next competitive moat for US crypto venues.
A new nonprofit with Joe Lubin on board pairs ETH's base-layer credibility with named institutional backers, signalling that onchain-finance infrastructure is now a coordinated industry push rather…
The investment is a footnote; the partnership is the real signal — a synthetic-dollar distribution channel into 100M+ Coinbase users starting next week.
Franklin Templeton and MoonPay have formed a partnership to integrate BENJI — Franklin Templeton's tokenized fund…
The upgrade pushes core exchange functions — matching, margining, liquidation, settlement, risk — down to the protocol layer, letting anyone spin up spot, perps, or outcome markets on shared…
Plume has secured a digital asset license from Bermuda, positioning itself as what it claims is the first regulated…
Wall Street plumbing is moving onchain: DTCC goes live in July, NYSE and Nasdaq are building settlement rails, and a $1.43B tokenized RWA market just printed 26% monthly growth.
The pivot is the clearest signal yet from a major crypto-native distribution platform that the investable frontier has moved from primary token issuance to secondary rails for real-world assets.
The shutdown is another data point in the on-chain consumer-app winter: a venture-backed DeFi app, a multi-investor cap table, and a clean wind-down inside 60 days.
PAXG and XAUT cleared $90.7B in a single quarter — a setup that turns tokenized gold from a niche reserve trade into a structural allocation leg on its own.
Securitize is the first broker-dealer cleared to underwrite onchain IPOs and custody tokenized securities — an atomic-settlement unlock that puts the firm at the center of Wall Street's tokenization…