DeFi News
Abracadabra Exploit Drains $1.8M in MIM Stablecoin, DAO Says Issue Contained
A security flaw on the Abracadabra DeFi lending platform allowed a hacker to steal around US$1.8 million (AU$2.7m) worth of the protocol’s...
DeFi Fees Surge 76% to $600M as Protocols Pivot Toward Sustainable Tokenomics
DeFi fee revenue rebounded in September to roughly US$600 million (AU$918 million), up from a 12-month low of US$340 million (AU$520 million...
Midas and Interop Labs Launch mXRP to Unlock Dormant XRP With Yields Up to 8%
Midas and Interop Labs have introduced mXRP, a tokenised product that converts idle XRP holdings into yield-generating assets. Announc...
Trump Family Nets $1.3B Boost from Bitcoin Ventures and DeFi Gains
The Trump family’s collective wealth increased by US$1.3B (AU$1.97) this week following the trading debut of American Bitcoin (ABTC) and g...
Messari Q2 Report: Flow Hits Record $68M TVL as Stablecoins, Disney, and DeFi Fuel Breakout Quarter
The quarterly report by crypto analytics firm Messari reveals that Flow delivered its strongest quarter yet in Q2 2025, with total value loc...
Chamath Returns: $250M SPAC Targets AI, DeFi, Energy & Defence
Chamath Palihapitiya is returning to the SPAC market with a US$250M (AU$388M) vehicle, American Exceptionalism Acquisition Corp A (AEXA), fi...
Man Who Lost 8,000 BTC in Landfill Abandons Search, Launches DeFi Token Instead
Well, after 12 years, James Howells officially abandoned his bid to recover a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin from a landfill in Newport...
Chainlink Unveils Real-Time Data Streams for U.S. Stocks and ETFs, Fueling DeFi’s Expansion Into Traditional Finance
Chainlink has released a new service called Data Streams to provide real-time pricing for US equities and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on-ch...
Ethereum’s New Safety Net: EIP-7983 Caps Transaction Gas at 16.77M to Thwart DoS Attacks
Ethereum may soon put a hard ceiling on how much gas any single transaction can burn under a new proposal: EIP-7983, a draft from Vitalik Bu...
Cardano Eyes $100M ADA Investment to Boost DeFi Ecosystem
Cardano’s co-founder Charles Hoskinson is pushing for a proposal that would allocate US$100M (AU$153M) in ADA toward growing its DeFi ecos...
SEC Rejection Stalls DeFi Development’s $1 Billion Solana Fundraise
DeFi Development Corp has withdrawn its attempt to raise US$1B (AU$1.56B) to buy more Solana (SOL) through a public offering. This is becaus...
Ripple Execs Confirm XRPL EVM Sidechain Mainnet Launch Slated for Q2 2025
Ripple Labs is preparing to launch an Ethereum-compatible sidechain for the XRP Ledger by the end of Q2. The announcement was made on the op...