Standard Chartered Bank has initiated coverage of Sky, calling it "DeFi's federal bank," and expects SKY to rise $0.325 by 2028.
Monthly volume on real-world-asset perpetual futures grew from $85 billion in January to an August record of $799.5 billion, with stocks accounting for 62.3% of that total on both DeFi and centralized venues, according to CoinMarketCap. Trading venues are moving away from single-asset margin toward unified portfolio accounts, where a trader's entire holdings back every […]
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The Sept. 15 cloture vote would open negotiations while ethics, stablecoin rewards and Tribal demands remain unresolved.
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The proposed curve change adds 13 to 89 basis points across a $323.8 million debt snapshot.
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The wallet and infrastructure businesses now operate independently, while Monad products and private networks complicate the link to ETH demand.
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Private Visa files size the loans, smart contracts collect repayment, and undisclosed terms determine who takes the first loss.
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The wallet now supports more than 10 networks, including Robinhood Chain and Monad, plus perps, prediction markets, and tokenized stocks.
Uniswap Labs has launched StablePair Hook, a Uniswap v4 tool that uses dynamic fees for stablecoin pairs such as USDC/USDT.
Speculative trading may seed inventory for lending and vaults, but the full adoption flywheel remains unproven.
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The LAPTOP project said it will add pool incentives and expects early prediction-market burns to cut supply.
This follows last month's security breach at shipping provider ShipMonk, which exposed the personal information of Trezor customers.
Lido captured just 5.7% of H1 staking growth, while a negative NEST budget shows why deposits alone cannot fund purchases.
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Substack subscribers were reportedly able to claim 4,276 LAPTOP tokens each, with some quickly selling their allocations.
The separation is expected to be completed by the end of 2026, with the existing entity rebranding as MetaMask under CEO Joe Lubin.
A group of crypto firms has launched Charter Foundation to offer a new framework to help founders reduce the cost of launching tokens.
Bitcoin holders who need cash do not necessarily have to sell their BTC. They can borrow against it instead, keeping exposure to Bitcoin while using its value as collateral for a loan. The complication is that the loan they want may exist on another network. Many blockchain lending applications run on Ethereum, which keeps its […]
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Renzo Basis will first support BTC and HYPE and is designed to let users earn yield from funding rates through automated positions.
About 30% of the supply is tied to 30 public real-world events that either burn or donate the tokens depending on the results.
PONS reached an all-time high valuation of over $970 million on Friday, with the token up over 200% in the last week alone.
On Oct. 10, 2025, Hyperliquid’s OI fell by around 56% in a single day, from $14.7 billion to just $6.5 billion.
The rollback reversed legitimate activity alongside the attack, while $9.19 million remains unrecovered, according to Cronos.
ZKsync developer Matter Labs has open-sourced the permissioning engine of Prividium, its DLT platform for financial institutions.
Data tracked by lending platform Curve data tracked 704 soft-liquidation instances lasting a median 14.5 days, showing how some DeFi loans can survive for weeks after entering the 'danger zone.'
A subsequent rollback reversed roughly $111.2 million, but $9.19 million had already left the chain and remains unrecovered, Cronos says.
Ethereum is targeting full post-quantum security by 2029, starting with account abstraction and censorship resistance upgrades for Hegotá.
Anthias projects lower monthly debt accrual under unchanged market conditions, while reserve transfers and supplier cash access remain unverified.
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With the same reserve and cover rates, one modeled default leaves 90,000 tokens of vault loss; ten smaller loans leave 4,500.
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HIP-3* adds venue-scoped controls without changing existing permissionless markets.
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The Liquid Network attacker said they would return most of the roughly 4,000 BTC once the software bug affecting the network is patched.