A Multicoin Capital-linked wallet moved 92,380 HYPE tokens worth roughly $8.34 million to Coinbase Prime, drawing attention to potential institutional distribution of the Hyperliquid token. The transfer does not confirm...
MetaMask Staking is withdrawing its validators from Lido after a compromise of staking infrastructure, with Lido estimating a roughly 45-day exit, withdrawal and re-entry cycle. Aave's founder says its markets...
MetaMask has disclosed a security incident affecting parts of its infrastructure, though no direct threat to user wallets has been found. The breach highlights the vulnerability of centralized backend services...
Standard Chartered's first Ethena coverage projects USDe will reach $40 billion by 2028 and sets a $2 year-end target for ENA, arguing the protocol's 95% fee-switch buyback can only normalize...
Solv Protocol says a blocked BTC+ redemption is a one-off risk review, not a systemic failure, while a user claims roughly 50 BTC has been stuck for over two months....
Tether's excess reserves dropped to about $4.1 billion in June, pressured by gold and Bitcoin volatility and rising secured lending. Its new $400 million StableFund private credit vehicle, targeting up...
Standard Chartered has initiated coverage on Ethena, forecasting ENA will reach $2 by 2028 — about 10x upside. The bank frames Ethena as the fourth-largest stablecoin issuer and the fastest...
Balancer token holders have voted to wind down the protocol, rejecting a fork proposal. Pausable pools will move to withdrawals-only on October 30, and BAL redemptions for treasury assets will...
Global DeFi total value locked rose 38% in Q3 2026 to about $95.27 billion, ending three consecutive quarters of decline. Three straight monthly gains suggest genuine capital re-entry, though price...
Aave now accepts tokenized Apple and Nvidia shares as collateral, blurring the line between TradFi securities lending and DeFi money markets. A proposed AAVE burn mechanism adds a value-accrual narrative,...
Bitget's PoolX ETH lockup offers a headline 37.11% APR against a fixed 500,000 USDT reward pool, with a 1,500 ETH per-user cap and a lockup window ending October 5. The...
A yen-pegged stablecoin deviated sharply from its target after listing in Korea, exposing how liquidity, market making and arbitrage access — not just reserves — determine whether a peg holds....
A nearly $400 million crypto theft shows that private keys were not stolen — the trust chain authorizing wallet signatures was. The incident exposes a critical gap in exchange and...
The Bitget hacker attempted to launder stolen funds through Chainflip, a cross-chain AMM, but the deposit was rejected by a broker and returned. The incident highlights the challenges of preventing...
Stablecoin profits are increasingly captured by distribution channels rather than issuers. Circle's revenue-share with Coinbase, the GENIUS Act's compliance burden, and falling interest rates are reshaping who really earns from...
Ether.fi is ending its final structural link to EigenLayer this quarter, with under 1% of assets still restaked. The unwind reflects collapsing restaking yields, persistent slashing risk, and a broader...
Polymarket VP Josh Stevens says the prediction market is rebuilding its Rust-based CLOB — the source of most technical issues — with end-to-end tests in October and production traffic mirroring...
Restaking protocols hold over $10 billion in TVL yet generated only about $100,000 in weekly fees, roughly 53 times less revenue per dollar than plain liquid staking. Top protocols' combined...
NEAR Intents blocked over $50 million of Bitget hack funds from moving cross-chain, with only $166,000 slipping through. The incident showcases intent-based bridges as effective AML tools and raises questions...
Bubblemaps warns that the top 10 traders on fomo show over $50 million in unrealized gains, but fixed-price leaderboard valuations ignore market impact and slippage. The gap between paper PnL...
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