Tagged: defi

October 8, 2026 @ 7:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise’s chief investment officer argues that NEAR Protocol’s investment case no longer depends solely on its longer-term ambition to serve autonomous AI agents. In an October 7, 2026 memo and related comments, Matt Hougan described the network as an operating blockchain business whose present activity… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 4:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aave founder Stani Kulechov has publicly challenged positions taken by European authorities as the European Commission reviews the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). In comments published on October 2, 2026, he said he was disappointed by the European Central Bank and the European Banking Authority’s… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 1:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

September 2026 was the worst month of the year for crypto theft, and it was not close. Immunefi reported that about $742 million was lost across 33 hacked entities, enough for the month alone to account for roughly a third of all money stolen in… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 1:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) is building research into the access layer of its digital-asset franchise, treating analysis of decentralized finance as infrastructure rather than a side commentary on Bitcoin. This year, the banking institution has placed a dedicated digital assets research desk beside ETF access… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 12:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) issued tokenized equities posted the sharpest weekly rise in deposits into decentralized finance venues among major issuers, according to fresh on-chain tracking from Token Terminal. Over the past seven days, balances of those Coinbase tokens sitting in DeFi protocols climbed by $5.6… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blast, the Ethereum Layer 2 network backed by Paradigm, is winding down after concluding that the cost of keeping the chain running has overtaken the revenue it produces. The project said on October 2, 2026, that it no longer sees a workable route to economic… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 6:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NEAR Intents suspended its services on October 1, 2026, after identifying a security incident that the team preliminarily linked to roughly $3.8 million in losses. The cross-chain trading protocol said the problem originated in a flaw involving the interaction between its Omni deposit and withdrawal… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 11:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FlawZano, a privacy-focused layer-1 network that hides amounts and transaction details by default, said on September 25, 2026 that a supply-integrity defect in its new Gateway Addresses feature had left developers with little option but to unwind roughly 24 hours of chain history. The team… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 11:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aero, the combined successor to Aerodrome and Velodrome, is scheduled to launch on October 21, 2026. The date was confirmed on September 25, 2026 after months of audits, public code review, and early “Aero Lite” deployments. The project is positioning itself as a single liquidity… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 3:11 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

  Unsurprisingly, digital asset insiders were focused on the CLARITY Act this week. Not completely, however. Read on to find some interesting takes on several other topics. The CLARITY Act “The nation’s banks continue to support creating a strong, durable regulatory framework for digital assets… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 2:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood Chain’s fee boom has unwound far faster than its traffic. After a memecoin-led spike made the young Ethereum layer-2 one of the costliest networks to use, daily gas revenue has collapsed while transaction counts and trading flows have stayed close to their recent peaks…. Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 6:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenEden has expanded its tokenized credit product HYBOND onto BNB Chain, pairing the deployment with RedStone’s pricing and planned settlement tools. The move marks the fund’s first network expansion after its original launch on Ethereum and brings a BNY-managed high-yield bond strategy into a larger… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 12:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Clearpool, a decentralized marketplace focused on on-chain institutional credit, has outlined plans to extend its lending stack to the XRP Ledger. The firm positions the move as its next growth chapter, arguing that XRPL is a mature network whose institutional credit market remains comparatively undeveloped…. Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 12:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) has opened coverage of Sky, the DeFi protocol formerly known as MakerDAO, with a long-dated bullish view on its governance token. Geoffrey Kendrick, the bank’s global head of digital assets research, put an end-2028 target of $0.325 on SKY—about five times… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 10:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Wyoming’s Stable Token Commission on September 14 published its fullest account of why the state’s Frontier Stable Token left LayerZero and now uses Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol as its only approved path between blockchains. The statement came from Keith Lawhorn, the Commission’s chief information security… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 7:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Balancer, one of DeFi’s longest-running automated market makers, is asking token holders to approve an orderly wind-down of the protocol and a return of remaining DAO assets to BAL holders. The plan was posted on the project’s governance forum by treasury council member and former… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 3:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DeFi Development Corp. (NASDAQ: DFDV), the firm that has built its balance sheet around accumulating Solana, has outlined plans for a new preferred-stock raise aimed at expanding that treasury. The company said it intends to offer up to $20 million of Variable Rate Series C… Read More

August 29, 2026 @ 6:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DeFi Development Corp. (NASDAQ: DFDV), the firm that has built its strategy around accumulating and compounding Solana, has introduced a public analytics platform meant to give investors and builders a clearer look at the network itself rather than only the price of SOL. The tool,… Read More

August 28, 2026 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Moonwell, a lending protocol on Base, said on August 27, 2026 that it was looking into a problem in its MAMO Core Market and had taken emergency steps to stop new loans. In its official statement, the team said borrow caps for every Core Market… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 12:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cosmos Labs, the organization responsible for maintaining key components of the Cosmos blockchain ecosystem, publicly addressed a developing security concern tied to its Cosmos EVM module. This open-source component enables Cosmos SDK-based networks to support Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible smart contracts, allowing developers to deploy familiar… Read More