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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A loan backed by approximately 2.3% of the total AAVE supply is slowly being liquidated on Thursday amid a major crypto market pullback.
Founders Fund and Galaxy-backed Citrea is aiming to unlock Bitcoin-denominated credit markets with a new mainnet and a Treasury-backed stablecoin designed for USD settlement.
Aave now controls 51.5% of the DeFi lending market share, the first time any protocol has crossed the 50% threshold since 2020. The milestone arrives not through competitor collapse but through steady accumulation: Aave's $33.37 billion in total value locked sits atop a $64.83 billion lending category that has consolidated around a single liquidity hub. […]
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Bitwise has joined Morpho as a vault curator, highlighting growing institutional demand for allocating capital onchain.
Risk managers Chaos Labs and Sentora will also operate the first three USDC vaults, allocating funds to protocols like Aave, Morpho and Sky.
Chainlink and Atlas will offer a loan liquidation auction tool for "non-toxic" MEV that pays both backrunning bots and protocols.
Anchorage tapped Spark to unlock onchain credit markets for its institutional clients who want to keep their assets in off-chain custody.
Galaxy Digital closed a $75 million tokenized CLO on Avalanche to finance Arch Lending’s crypto-backed lending facility.
The Trump family–backed crypto venture has rolled out World Liberty Markets, a new DeFi app built on Dolomite. DOLO rose by 57% following the announcement.
JupUSD is an Ethena whitelabel stablecoin backed primarily by BlackRock's tokenized USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund.
Loan settlements on Flow have been paused, freezing both repayments and defaults as ecosystem disruptions persist.
The lawsuit claimed Mark Cuban misrepresented Voyager multiple times prior to its filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
A dispute over who controls Aave’s brand and online assets has moved to a vote, sending the token sharply lower.
The firm holds about 6.8 million SOL tokens, more than the next three largest SOL DATs combined, according to The Block's SOL treasury data.
The partnership will focus on Tokenet, Digital Prime's institutional lending network, and introduce new features like regulated stablecoin collateral.
An AAVE token holder proposed that Aave DAO commandeer Aave Labs' IP and equity, essentially turning it into a DAO subsidiary.