DeFi

The aggregator will cease operations July 30, giving users one week to withdraw assets after monthly volume collapsed from a $7.8B peak to $169M.

Supervisory Special Agent Patrick Steven Yarmoch, who held top secret clearance, allegedly pulled crypto keys from FBI systems and transferred more than $1 million in digital assets to his own wallets.

TokenWorks' FWA protocol generated $1.53 million in daily fees at its July 25 peak, briefly surpassing Tether and Circle in blockspace consumption.

Weekly spot volume on the Arbitrum-based network dropped from $2.1 billion to $1.6 billion, with turnover ratio collapsing from 9.25x to 1.68x as memecoin activity dried up.

A RedStone report shows tokenized bullion survived a sharp gold sell-off, with just $63 million in XAUT and PAXG deployed as collateral on Aave v3 and Morpho.

HashPort's wallet integration lets MOACT app users swap loyalty points for JPYC, adding to Polygon's $265 million in cumulative yen stablecoin transfers.

The web3 game publishing unit shut down Friday, cutting 35 jobs as YGG pivots its treasury toward a B2B pipeline supplying behavioral data to AI labs.

Coinbase's "other" transaction revenue, which includes Base, dropped to $47.4 million quarter-over-quarter as the L2 processed more stablecoin volume than any other blockchain.

The NYSE-listed Ethereum treasury company spent $73 million on ETH over the past week, lifting total reserves to 5.74 million ETH.

Trade.xyz will reimburse eligible traders after an external price feed caused its Hyperliquid-hosted SKHYNIX perpetual contract's mark price to drop nearly 19 percent on Monday.

The proposal covers 50 low-use reserves and 21 matured Pendle Principal Tokens across Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium and Aptos.

A revised executable draft removes the controversial plan to shift the ENS DAO's operational wallet to a new foundation entity.

Bots exploited stale price feeds in Metronome's swap module for months, minting unbacked msETH and msUSD and leaving a $15.7 million collateral gap.

The new product lets users deposit into Gauntlet-curated Morpho vaults directly from the Uniswap frontend, expanding the DEX beyond its core AMM model.

The stablecoin issuer's Q2 2026 net operating profit fell sharply from $4.9B a year earlier, slowing the accumulation of capital above USDT's 1:1 backing.

The five-day Ranger token sale runs Jan. 6–10 on MetaDAO, with fee revenue and post-sale DEX liquidity hinging on participation depth.

The investment sets the stage for Zengo wallet users to access Extended's perpetual futures platform natively, without surrendering self-custody.

Bitcoin closed the week up 1.6 percent, but on-chain flows split sharply toward decentralized infrastructure and gaming as L2s and tokenized treasuries shed capital.

The move, recommended by LlamaRisk, consolidates $98.1 million in supplied assets and $15.6 million in debt across Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium and Aptos.

Commissioner Hester Peirce said products involving discretionary management of pooled user assets could trigger U.S. securities law compliance requirements.

The Layer-1 blockchain halted its perpetual DEX on July 29 and will close its network Aug. 13, citing no viable path to commercial success.

Ethereum perpetual futures markets show gradual open interest growth, stable funding rates and diversified positioning across centralized and decentralized exchanges.

The Ranger token sale generated a temporary on-chain volume spike but left MetaDAO's fee revenue flat, pushing governance toward a tokenomics overhaul.

Tokenized real-world assets drove 52 percent of Hyperliquid's $48.2 billion weekly volume from July 13 to July 19, the first time RWAs led all asset categories on the platform.

South Korean payment processor KSNET will pilot Solana Pay across 330,000 merchants, routing 130 million monthly transactions onto the Solana blockchain

The Aave Risk DAO targets illiquid long-tail markets with $15.6 million in outstanding debt, aiming to cut oracle costs and reduce protocol complexity.

The first half of 2026 logged the highest verified on-chain exploit count on record, even as total dollar losses fell below prior comparable periods.

The burn-and-mint system moves tokens directly between blockchains, eliminating pre-funded liquidity pools that make multi-chain scaling impractical.

High-frequency derivatives volume is consolidating on faster, cheaper scaling networks, forcing Ethereum to own its role as a base layer.

The closures point to deeper failures in product-market fit as capital flows toward RWA yields and integrated L2 infrastructure

Tokenized real-world assets accounted for 52 percent of Hyperliquid's $48.2 billion in total volume from July 13-19, the first week RWAs outpaced perpetual futures.

Non-empty wallet count surged from 150 million in early 2025, driven by ETF inflows and Layer 2 expansion across DeFi and NFT platforms.

The SEC registration lets Securitize formally advise asset managers and institutional clients on tokenized investment strategies alongside its existing transfer agent and broker-dealer licenses.

Capriole Investments founder Charles Edwards said AI is a major threat to decentralized finance protocols but not to Bitcoin's core technology.

The seven-year-old DeFi frontend is winding down after an exploit on its Lazy Summer Protocol smart contract layer forced it to shutter its user interface.

The HIP-4 proposal mandates a 500,000 HYPE token lock for six months, with slashing provisions for ambiguous or unresolved markets

Tokenized real-world assets on Hyperliquid generated $25.1 billion in weekly volume, the first time RWAs outpaced perpetual futures on the exchange.

The perpetuals exchange cited no viable commercial path, with trading stopping July 29 and its chain going dark Aug. 13.

Stablecoins now anchor DeFi liquidity, cross-chain transfers and tokenized asset settlement, with the GENIUS Act providing a federal reserve framework for issuers.

The deployment marks Aave V4's first expansion beyond Ethereum, establishing infrastructure for tokenized real-world asset markets.

Total stablecoin market capitalization reached $300 billion, extending the asset class deeper into cross-border settlements, decentralized lending and payments.

Hyperliquid's order book shows traditional equity perpetuals topping crypto derivatives volume, a milestone for on-chain derivatives markets.

Total stablecoin supply crossed $300 billion, driven by expanding roles in DeFi liquidity, cross-chain capital flows and global payments.

Founder Terence Kwok said the June incident stemmed from a compromised employee device, not a smart contract flaw.

The four-year-old protocol's operating company announced its permanent closure, leaving large-trade users to migrate to 1inch, ParaSwap and Matcha.

Tokenized real-world assets accounted for 52 percent of the DEX's total $48.2 billion volume from July 13 to July 19, a first for the platform.

The Stacks community approved SIP-045, enabling native Bitcoin staking and adjusting the STX emission schedule, with a hard fork targeting Bitcoin block 907,740.

The protocol's operating company announced permanent cessation of services Thursday, removing a major liquidity router from Ethereum, Polygon and Arbitrum.

The approval of HSP-027 ends NEAR's developer gas rebate program, redirecting all network transaction fees to burning.

The platform gives financial institutions direct API access to mint, redeem and manage RLUSD across multiple blockchain networks.