The project has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding led by Galaxy Ventures and plans to launch USBD on Ethereum in early summer 2026.
The firm has deployed $216 million to acquire approximately 7.3 million HYPE tokens since its inception in December 2025.
Ekubo Protocol lost roughly $1.4 million in WBTC after attackers exploited a flaw in its EVM swap router contracts.
About 20% of Ledger users will be able to access Hyperliquid's onchain perps markets from their hardware wallets.
DeFi’s latest hack wave is likely to add pressure on liquid and yield-focused crypto funds already navigating a tough market.
The Coinbase Stablecoin Yield Fund aims to generate yield by lending stablecoins and private credit investment opportunities.
Solana Ventures, Solana Labs' Anatoly Yakovenko and Solana Foundation’s Nick Ducoff have all participated in the round.
The bank said DeFi’s $300 million-plus rescue effort and structural upgrades reinforce its long-term $2 trillion real-world asset thesis.
Following a major backend overhaul, Ostium pitches itself as a “decentralized execution layer” for global markets.
Curve founder Michael Egorov proposed a new way to recover bad debt in DeFi lending markets amid industry debates on the KelpDAO incident.
Protocols and individual DeFi users have collectively pledged enough to cover the Kelp DAO exploit losses.
3F has raised $4 million in funding led by Maven 11, with participation from Fidelity's F-Prime, GSR, and others.
JPMorgan said persistent hacks appear to push investors toward Tether's USDT, as users move funds out of DeFi during stress.
Circle Chief Economist Gordon Liao proposed raising USDC borrowing rates on Aave to ease post-KelpDAO liquidity strains.
"A creator earns 1.5% of all of the volume in the market as a fee when the market successfully settles," said Gensyn's Ben Fielding.
Sui-based liquid staking platform Volo reported that it was exploited for roughly $3.5 million from its WBTC, XAUm, and USDC vaults.
Aftermath conditions from Kelp DAO’s exploit has opened a broader debate over DeFi’s security model, after billions left Aave.
X402 creator Erik Reppel noted agentic commerce is already reshaping activation costs with bots accessing services on a per-use basis.
Coinbase's facility allows UK users to borrow up to $5 million in USDC against bitcoin, ether, and cbETH via Morpho on Base.
The entire total value locked in the DeFi sector fell 7% in the past 24 hours to $86 billion, according to DefiLlama data.
Edge is a permissionless platform delivering ultra-fast onchain market data over DoubleZero's global fiber network.
The Stablecoin Development Corporation is a publicly-traded holding company with an approximately 2.15 billion SKY token treasury.
ETHGas is a marketplace for Ethereum blockspace futures that allows blockspace to be bought and sold in advance for guaranteed execution.
The project said it did supply WLFI as collateral and borrowed stablecoins, but it is 'nowhere near liquidation.'
Pumpcade's prediction markets are embedded into livestreams, supporting markets that can resolve in a matter of minutes or seconds.
Midnight maintains its own ledger, consensus mechanism, smart contract environment, and dual-token system.
ECB research finds large percentages of DeFi governance tokens are tied to exchanges and protocol-linked wallets.
Moonwell is facing a governance attack after a $1,800 token purchase was used to push a proposal that could drain over $1 million.
Onchain protocols and apps will now be able to stream Coinbase's order book and derivatives trading data directly.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.