Together, the court-entered orders restrict marketing across deposit, exchange, investment, withdrawal and trading products, including assisted activity.
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Hester Peirce, aka "Crypto Mom", issued a statement clarifying that onchain vaults and lending may fall under the SEC's remit.
Morpho has launched Midnight, a fixed-rate, fixed-term lending protocol on Base that complements its existing variable-rate lending protocol.
Empery disclosed two February calls, but missing collateral data now hides which treasury would be forced to act first.
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Galaxy will act as the sole intermediary between the accredited borrowers and the blockchain-based lending protocols.
Expected to launch in September, v1 will enable users to margin their entire Polymarket portfolios to place additional leveraged bets.
The verifier accepted identity inputs as proof, letting 250 SAUCE support $9.05 million in principal borrowing.
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Tether is already the world's largest stablecoin issuer, with approximately $141 billion in direct and indirect exposure to US Treasuries. It reported $15 billion in revenue in 2025 and $1.04 billion in net profit for the first quarter of 2026, mostly from that yield alone, making it one of the more unusual companies in global […]
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Stable Vaults will continuously “optimize capital allocation” across DeFi yield strategies, like Aave V3 and V4 markets.
Sui has crossed the $1 billion total value locked mark on DeFiLlama, giving the Move-based network a clearer claim to serious DeFi liquidity.
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BlackRock's 1% to 2% Bitcoin allocation range reads as a bullish nod to advisor adoption, but it also works as a boundary. Once Bitcoin is included in a model portfolio, its upside runs through rebalancing bands, tax location, and sometimes a loan that keeps the position intact. BlackRock Investment Institute frames 1% to 2% as […]
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The 140-partner model challenges USDC reserve economics while leaving issuer, reserve and redemption tests unresolved.
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Symbiotic now powers shared collateral infrastructure that can support multiple DeFi use cases like insurance, credit, and RWAs.
Ripple is trying to move the XRP Ledger (XRPL) deeper into institutional credit, a push that could expand the network’s role beyond cross-border payments and give XRP a broader claim on the next phase of onchain finance. The company is backing a proposed lending upgrade that would allow institutions to borrow against assets they hold […]
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Celsius froze withdrawals in June 2022 before filing for Chapter 11 in July 2022, and Genesis froze redemptions after FTX's collapse and filed for bankruptcy in January 2023, owing approximately $3.4 billion to its 50 largest creditors. BlockFi, Celsius, Genesis, and Voyager together accounted for 40% of the crypto lending market and 82% of CeFi […]
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The failure of Botanix suggests that Bitcoiners still prefer Ethereum DeFi to Bitcoin L2s. How can Bitcoin L2s change to win hodlers over?
Kraken's new facility with Maple brings a traditional warehouse financing model onchain, allowing the exchange to expand its institutional crypto lending business using blockchain-based structured credit.
Maple’s lenders will provide a revolving line of funding to supply USDC liquidity for Kraken's over-the-counter borrowers.
Standard Chartered said tokenized assets moving into DeFi could drive deposits into Aave and help the protocol rebuild its position as a dominant onchain lending platform.
The protocol facilitated roughly $100 million in loans, but a handful of borrower pools later encountered "serious performance issues."
For years, DeFi's growth strategy was to pull users on-chain, and the next institutional wave is testing where users may never know they're touching DeFi at all. Matt Fisher, CEO of Katana, shared with CryptoSlate how the front end owns the user. If a credit card, a fintech app, or an exchange routes deposits into […]
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Ledn’s addition of Tether Gold lending comes as tokenized commodities expand, with the sector accounting for nearly 17% of the $43 billion RWA market.
Bitcoin's protocol rewards miners through block subsidies and transaction fees, leaving holders who sit on coins with no claim on the network's output, no interest, no dividend, no staking reward of any kind. Wall Street is building income products around it anyway, and two events landing within days of each other show how far that […]
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SBI Shinsei Bank is reportedly offering crypto deposit rewards to customers, with vouchers worth 20% of their interest payments redeemable for BTC, ETH, or XRP through SBI VC Trade. A three-month campaign launched on June 10, with a broader rollout planned for fall, covering ordinary deposits and time deposits from three months to five years, […]
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The $650 million equipment-finance target gives RWAs a real-economy use case, but loan performance will still depend on underwriting, collateral, servicing, and investor liquidity.
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Llamalend v2 now supports markets for multiple collateral and borrow assets beyond crvUSD and introduces LlamaRisk as a market curator.
Morpho plans to build an open blockchain-based credit network to connect decentralized finance, Wall Street, and global markets.
The Clearing House plan gives banks 24/7 tokenized settlement while keeping customer money inside regulated deposit accounts.
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Morgan Stanley announced on June 5 that eligible wealth management clients can now lend Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Solana to Galaxy Digital and receive shares of spot crypto exchange-traded products in return. Galaxy will coordinate an in-kind creation with an authorized participant, then deliver ETP shares directly into the client's chosen account. Onboarding timelines that previously […]
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Vitalik Buterin is challenging one of DeFi's most familiar safety mechanisms: the automatic liquidation that closes a debt-backed position when collateral falls below the required backing for the loan. In a June 1 Ethereum Research post, Buterin proposed building synthetic, index-tracking assets on top of options, with collateralized debt removed from the base design. The […]
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