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Crypto lending turns to Wall Street credit rules to win back institutional trust after 2022 collapse
Celsius froze withdrawals in June 2022 before filing for Chapter 11 in July 2022, and Genesis froze redemptions after…
Does Botanix’s failure prove Bitcoiners don’t care about DeFi?
The failure of Botanix suggests that Bitcoiners still prefer Ethereum DeFi to Bitcoin L2s. How can Bitcoin L2s change…
Kraken, Maple launch onchain warehouse facility for crypto-backed institutional loans
Kraken's new facility with Maple brings a traditional warehouse financing model onchain, allowing the exchange to exp…
Kraken expands OTC lending through an onchain warehouse facility with Maple
Maple’s lenders will provide a revolving line of funding to supply USDC liquidity for Kraken's over-the-counter bor…
Bitcoin miners face deepening margin squeeze as revenue falls below production costs
An estimated 20% of miners are now unprofitable at current prices, and the stress shows up at the network level, too.
Aave positioned to capture tokenized asset growth in DeFi: Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered said tokenized assets moving into DeFi could drive deposits into Aave and help the protocol rebuil…
Ethereum’s much-hated staking 'tax' may already be obsolete
Ethereum’s latest “funding crisis” has triggered a fierce debate over whether to tax staking rewards or to purs…
Starmer steps down: What Andy Burnham means for crypto in the UK
Burnham brings a dose of optimism to the UK crypto industry, having previously supported the blockchain industry as m…
Goldfinch set to shutter Prime after community vote backs wind-down proposal
The protocol facilitated roughly $100 million in loans, but a handful of borrower pools later encountered "serious pe…
Crypto industry looks to stablecoins and DeFi revisions in MiCA 2.0
The European Commission is seeking comment on how it can tweak MiCA, its regulatory framework for the crypto and bloc…
Base targets June 25 mainnet launch for Beryl upgrade and new B20 token standard
Base's Beryl upgrade introduces the B20 native token standard, cuts withdrawal delays to 5 days, and activates on mai…
CryptoQuant says bitcoin microtransactions now make up 80% of daily transactions
Bitcoin transactions below 0.01 BTC now make up about 80% of all daily transactions, up from about 44% in 2023, Crypt…
DeFi’s next institutional wave may come from users who never see “behind the scenes” – CEO of Katana
For years, DeFi's growth strategy was to pull users on-chain, and the next institutional wave is testing where users …
Ledn adds Tether Gold as loan collateral, expanding Bitcoin-backed lending model
Ledn’s addition of Tether Gold lending comes as tokenized commodities expand, with the sector accounting for nearly…
Zama, Morpho and Steakhouse launch first ‘confidential DeFi yield’ vault on Ethereum
Zama, Morpho and Steakhouse launch the first confidential DeFi yield vault on Ethereum, letting firms earn yield with…
Coinbase unveils ‘System Update’ unlocking an AI advisor, global unified liquidity, options trading and more
Coinbase's latest System Update includes a new AI-powered advisor and global unified liquidity between its U.S. and i…
Squid adds Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin for cross-chain swaps
Cross-chain platform Squid has integrated Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin, allowing users to swap into and out of RLUSD acr…
SpaceX’s debut: A win for crypto price discovery, a fail for tokenized access
SpaceX’s blockbuster debut didn’t just mint a trillionaire; it became a real-world stress test for crypto’s pro…
Bitcoin is being packaged for income investors, but the yield comes with a trade-off
Bitcoin's protocol rewards miners through block subsidies and transaction fees, leaving holders who sit on coins with…
Deprecated Aztec Connect Contract Exploited For $2.19M, SlowMist Says
SlowMist says a deprecated Aztec Connect smart contract was exploited for $2.19 million, highlighting the risks left …
Bitcoin mining difficulty drops 10% in second-largest negative adjustment of 2026
The cut hands surviving miners roughly 11% more bitcoin per unit of active hashrate, but all-in production economics …
Japan’s SBI is using XRP to solve a banking problem
SBI Shinsei Bank is reportedly offering crypto deposit rewards to customers, with vouchers worth 20% of their interes…
The Incentive Dynamic Engine: io.net’s Shift to Sustainable Tokenomics
DePIN Needs a Tokenomics Reset In recent years, DePINs have surged in prominence, offering a revolutionary model fo…
Lenders want AI to turn months of private-credit paperwork into one-day on-chain loans
The $650 million equipment-finance target gives RWAs a real-economy use case, but loan performance will still depend …
Bitcoin takes back seat to stablecoins and tokenization among financial advisors: Bitwise CIO
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan said financial advisors are now showing more interest in stablecoins and tokenization than bi…
Solana infrastructure firm Helius acquires Light Protocol to expand onchain privacy
The acquisition comes amid a moment of consolidation in the crypto industry and during a resurgent interest in onchai…
Ethereum could become a fully zero-knowledge proof-based protocol in 3 to 5 years, Joe Lubin says
Ethereum needs infinite capacity to meet the infinite demands of being a World Computer, making L2s necessary, Joe Lu…
AI deepfake election ad in Minnesota raises transparency concerns
A deepfake campaign attack ad in the US state of Minnesota has raised questions around the ethics of using AI in poli…
Curve launches Llamalend v2 first on Optimism supported by 250,000 OP token grant
Llamalend v2 now supports markets for multiple collateral and borrow assets beyond crvUSD and introduces LlamaRisk as…
Pyth launches 24/7 proprietary indices for US equities, oil and metals
Pyth is aggregating data from onchain and offchain sources to provide continuous price discovery for major equities a…