World Liberty Financial, the decentralized finance project co-founded by the Trump family, is hastily preparing to unlock a massive tranche of its WLFI tokens after a nearly two-year holding period. The impending release will likely target a portion of the remaining 80% of public investors' allocations to the project. According to Tokenomist data, this translates […]
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The project said it did supply WLFI as collateral and borrowed stablecoins, but it is 'nowhere near liquidation.'
Aave commands DeFi lending, with DefiLlama showing $24.51 billion in total value locked and $17.526 billion in borrowed funds. The margin against Morpho, its closest rival, is roughly 4.1 times. Spark, the third-largest competitor, sits at $967.52 million in borrowed funds. Aave ended 2025 with 61.5% active loan market share and 52.4% lending TVL share, […]
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Chaos Labs is the latest major Aave contributor to walk away from the project following the departure of BGD Labs and ACI.
On Mar. 31, Moody's assigned provisional Ba2 ratings to up to $100 million in taxable revenue bonds for the Waverose Finance Project. The bonds are secured by a loan to NH CleanSpark Borrower Trust 2026-1, with Bitcoin (BTC) as the pledged collateral. Those numbers set the conditions under which traditional finance agreed to work with […]
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Tesseract tested its vault architecture with six pilot participants, including crypto ETP issuer 21Shares.
Aave V4 features a hub-and-spoke architecture that concentrates liquidity to supply a wider range of markets and use cases with credit lines.
OKX Wallet users can supply assets, including USDT0, xBTC, and xETH, to earn yield that compounds automatically without giving up custody.
Bitcoin is moving deeper into US household finance as homebuyers squeezed by high borrowing costs and limited supply look for new ways to fund a down payment without selling their digital assets. On March 26, Better Home & Finance and Coinbase launched a structure that lets eligible borrowers pledge Bitcoin or USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin […]
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Aave’s upcoming V4 upgrade introduces a reinvestment module designed to put idle liquidity to work and boost yields.
Silo V3, unveiled Tuesday, adds a protocol-level insolvency protection mechanism to reduce the dependency on DEX liquidity.
The attack used a donation mechanism to bypass Venus's supply cap, a similar mechanism to the infamous Mango Markets exploit in 2022.
A crypto trader lost over $50 million in Aave-wrapped USDT on March 12 after sending a single large order through the DeFi lending protocol's swap interface and clearing a slippage warning on a mobile device. Data from Etherscan shows the wallet swapped $50.43 million aEthUSDT for 327.24 aEthAAVE through CoW Protocol in Ethereum block 24,643,151. […]
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Ammalgam combines lending, borrowing, and trading into a liquidity system, providing a platform for creating unlimited trading strategies.
The remarks follow a recent Aave DAO governance dispute that saw key contributors BGD Labs and ACI step back from the protocol.
The product will tap diversified lending strategies on protocols such as Aave, Morpho, and Pendle as well as market-neutral basis trades.
The Aave Chan Initiative, a major Aave DAO delegate and service provider founded by Marc Zeller, will not renew its engagement with the DAO.
Safe Labs is rolling out a way for users to earn euro-denominated yield using a EUR CoinVertible vault on Morpho.
Project 0's new Pay feature offers a way for users to pay off their credit cards by borrowing against their crypto investment portfolios.
BlackRock, Apollo, and Citadel have acquired or agreed to acquire DeFi tokens. Here’s why and what it really signals.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Newity has raised $11 million in new funding led by CMT Digital as it explores taking its small business lending platform onchain.
Eligible U.S. users, excluding those in New York, can now borrow up to $100,000 in USDC without selling the four tokens, Coinbase said.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Moonwell confirmed roughly $1.8 million in bad debt after a misconfigured oracle priced cbETH incorrectly and triggered liquidations.
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan said DeFi could help lead the market out of crypto winter, while Michael Saylor declared "spring is coming."
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
ZeroLend will wind down after operating losses as TVL fell 98% to $6.6 million and the ZERO token plunged.
Crypto asset manager Grayscale is looking to convert its closed-ended AAVE trust into an exchange-traded fund.
Polymarket traders are pricing the prospect of China legalizing onshore Bitcoin purchases at roughly 5%. At first glance, the number appears dismissive. Still, it raises the question of whether the Chinese government will explicitly permit citizens to convert renminbi into Bitcoin within mainland China by the end of 2026. That distinction matters because the regulatory […]
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