DeFi News
Circle Unveils cirBTC to Bring Trusted Bitcoin Liquidity Into DeFi
Boosting institutional DeFi adoption using Bitcoin holdings is in the sights of USDC-issuer Circle, who announced this week it will launch a...
New ‘Ethereum Economic Zone’ Proposal Aims to Unite Fragmented Layer-2 Ecosystem
Developers from Gnosis and Zisk, supported by the Ethereum Foundation, have introduced a proposal to address fragmentation across Ethereumâ€...
USR Stablecoin Crashes After Exploit as Millions in Unbacked Tokens Flood Market
An attacker minted 80 million unbacked USR stablecoins in a 17-minute window using $200,000 in seed capital, extracting roughly $24 million ...
US$50M AAVE Trade Gone Wrong Leaves Trader With Just 324 Tokens
A massive DeFi trade collapsed after a US$50M USDT swap for AAVE hit a low-liquidity pool, leaving the trader with only a few hundred tokens...
Chainlink Bridges US$5B in Coinbase’s cbBTC to Monad, Expanding Bitcoin Liquidity in DeFi
Coinbase’s cbBTC can now access Monad’s DeFi ecosystem, adding US$5B (AU$7B) in Bitcoin liquidity to lending and trading markets. ...
US$3 Billion in ‘Idle’ XRP Heads to DeFi as Xaman and Flare Streamline Access
A wallet-level upgrade allows XRP holders to allocate funds to DeFi vaults without bridges, extra apps or separate key management....
Starknet Unveils Bitcoin-Based Token to Bring Privacy and DeFi Power to Ethereum Layer-2
Starknet has introduced strkBTC, a new Bitcoin-based asset designed to enable private balances and confidential transfers on its Ethereum la...
Ledger Integrates OKX DEX to Enable In-App Multichain Token Swaps
Ledger Wallet adds in-app decentralised liquidity routing via OKX DEX, keeping swaps hardware-signed and fully self-custodial....
Vitalik Buterin Draws Line on ‘Real’ DeFi, Slams USDC Yield Models
Vitalik Buterin has said that yield generated from lending protocols using centralised stablecoins like USDC isn’t genuine DeFi, but decen...
NYSE Plans Tokenised Securities Trading Platform, Pending Regulatory Approval
The NYSE is developing a platform for trading tokenised securities, which would allow companies to issue blockchain-based versions of tradit...
Uniswap Goes Live on X Layer: Faster, Cheaper DeFi—All in One Place
Uniswap's integration into OKX's X Layer network streamlines decentralised finance access, collapsing cross-chain friction through reduced ...
Trump-Linked World Liberty Financial Enters Onchain Lending With New DeFi Platform
World Liberty Financial launched a crypto lending and borrowing platform called World Liberty Markets, supporting collateral including ETH, ...