DeFi

Brian Armstrong outlines how stablecoins, DeFi, tokenized stocks, and Bitcoin are expanding financial services to billions outside traditional banking.

Ethereum's "Tapered Issuance Burn" proposal to cut staking rewards at 50% supply staked ignites debate over validator incentives and DeFi protocol health.

The crypto analytics platform now supports tokenized equities across its full suite of tools as the segment grew 114 percent in market cap during H1 2026.

ASTER rose on the back of a new perpetual trading competition offering $10,000 in rewards and an active staking epoch, though the move tracks the broader altcoin rally.

Open interest in Ethereum derivatives is rising, but the concentration of retail longs at 72.1 percent historically precedes sharp volatility.

HIP-3 permissionless perpetuals reached peak daily volume, with real-world asset contracts now the protocol's largest trading category.

Circle's stock surged after acquiring 680 patent families from IBM, fueling demand for Ondo Finance's tokenized equity wrap.

Only 1.5 percent of the $4.2 billion combined market cap of Tether Gold and PAX Gold is deployed on Aave v3 and Morpho, despite resilience during March liquidations.

Ethereum's proposed cut to staking rewards faces opposition from staking providers and DeFi builders who warn of reduced decentralization and disruption to lending protocols.

The integration enables immediate USDC redemptions across Janus Henderson and NYLIM funds via an on-chain RFQ marketplace.

The institutional crypto lender rebuilt after 2022 with a 99 percent repayment rate on over $15 billion in cumulative originations.

A breach of Coldcard hardware wallets hit 7,300 Bitcoin addresses across three attack waves, with other major protocols and bridges also targeted in the month's second-worst security toll of 2026.

Ripple and Clearpool are building an institutional lending market on XRPL using RLUSD, shifting DeFi yield from speculative trading to loans backed by operating companies.

Ondo Finance's IVVon tokenized ETF grew to $69.6 million this year, pushing the total tokenized ETF market beyond $500 million while controlling nearly two-thirds of the category.

Yield Basis launches an impermanent loss-free AMM for wrapped native assets and tokenized real-world assets, establishing secondary markets and native yield infrastructure.

Flying Tulip founder argues governance concentration and emergency controls have pushed most protocols away from true immutability.

Circle issued 249.96 million USDC tokens on-chain, adding directly to circulating supply as Bitcoin trades at $72,718.

Aave governance proposes closing V3 markets on Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium and Aptos, with $98.1 million in supplied assets and $15.6 million in debt affected.

The institutional credit platform has originated over $15 billion in cumulative loans since shifting to overcollateralized positions after 2022's market collapse.

Hardware wallet breach, DeFi hacks and bridge exploits made July the second-worst month for stolen digital assets in 2026

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan expects crypto valuations to at least double as protocols increasingly route revenue to native token buybacks and burns.

Robinhood Chain has reached 100 million transactions across 120 countries, but U.S. investors remain locked out of Stock Tokens.

Uniswap's founder argues automated market makers will capture tokenized-asset trading as on-chain RWA deposits hit $3.98 billion, drawing a sharp rebuttal from a professional market maker.

Gnosis Chain will abandon its independent proof-of-stake validator set and operate as an Ethereum Layer 2 using a centralized sequencer under the Execution Zones framework.

Hyperbot data shows 10 of 11 new whale positions over $1M are long ETH, with the largest single bet a 25,000 ETH long worth roughly $47.93M.

Governance proposal targets Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium, and Aptos, retiring 50 low-use reserves and 21 Pendle PT listings.

The hardware wallet breach alone accounted for at least $100 million in stolen Bitcoin, impacting 7,300 wallets across confirmed attack waves.

KPMG U.S. issued an unqualified opinion on Tether International's 2025 financials, verifying $6.81B in reserves above liabilities, but Tether will not publish the full statements.

On-chain data shows 360 BTC wiped from the position; the remaining 1,440 BTC short faces a liquidation trigger at $65,041.72.

TokenWorks debuts FWAir as FWA weekly fees sit at $424,168, down from a $1.63M single-day peak, betting new collections restore protocol volume.

Cut off from correspondent banking, Venezuela settles international transactions in dollar-pegged stablecoins — a live stress test no sandbox could replicate.

KPMG issued an unqualified opinion on Tether International's 2025 financials, verifying reserves $6.81 billion above liabilities, but Tether will not release the full statements.

Wallet 0x6aF3 launched 牛来 without buying any allocation, watched it peak near $29M FDV, then chased returns through three follow-on tokens.

The on-chain trader who booked $1.42M in peak unrealized gains on AKE has opened a 2x leveraged GPS position worth $450,000 on Aster DEX.

The whale trimmed his short twice but still lost 288 BTC to forced liquidation; a 512 BTC short worth $33M remains open with a liquidation price at $64,665.18.

The fixed-rate, fixed-term lending protocol launched on Base has doubled its loan book in 14 days, with cbBTC/USDC pairs anchoring early volume.

Pump.fun's native token hits $0.003000 intraday as its first 50/200-day EMA crossover since its mid-2025 launch is backed by $11.52M in weekly protocol revenue.

Analyst Ceteris argues speculative meme coin volume creates conditions for protocol experiments, even if the tokens themselves are worthless.

The dashboard now covers tokenized stocks and ETFs on BNB Chain, pulling holder counts, spot DEX activity and lending deposits into a single view as RWA value on the chain hits $4B.

Cut off from correspondent banking, Venezuela is settling cross-border trade in USDT and USDC — a live stress test for on-chain dollars at sovereign scale.

RedStone's Q1 report shows XAUT and PAXG weathered gold's worst weekly drop in 40 years, yet just $63M of $4.2B in supply is deployed as collateral on Aave and Morpho.

Transaction volume jumped 147 percent year over year to $5.3 billion, but revenue slipped 5 percent and adjusted EBITDA swung to a $5.5 million loss.

The meme token's 24-hour trading volume on Aster DEX reached $4.47M on listing day as the broader 牛来 market printed $73.7M in volume.

KPMG U.S. issued an unqualified opinion on Tether International's 2025 financials, the issuer's first full audit, but the underlying statements remain unpublished.

A single buyer grabbed 84.6M MARSCOIN, sold half for 16.4 BNB to recover the entry cost, and held the rest at zero cost basis.

RWA.xyz data shows monthly active addresses up 35% to 572,000, with Ondo, Kraken and Binance leading on distributed value.

On-chain data shows wallet 0xacbf bought 6.15M $MARSCOIN for 133K USDT after CZ's token burn, then sold for 22.4K USDT after CZ abandoned his public address.

CoinZoom users can locate receive addresses via the wallet tab or deposit screen, but wrong network selection or a missing memo means funds are gone for good.

The synthetic dollar's $53.6M supply is locked as Neutrl discloses an unspecified reserve problem and pauses protocol functions on legal advice.

Evgeny Gaevoy named regulation and throughput as Hyperliquid's two biggest long-term risks in an Aug. 11 interview, as the platform pursues a U.S. regulatory pathway.