Whale Loses $8.2M in ARC Liquidation on Lighter as Protocol Contain Losses
A big crypto trader lost $8.2 million after a leveraged bet on the ARC perpetuals market unraveled on the decentralized...
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Analysts Reject Jane Street Bitcoin Manipulation, Bitcoin ETF Demand Rises
This week, rumors of a “10 a.m. Bitcoin dump” blamed on quantitative trading company Jane Street gained traction online after...
Grvt Integrates Aave for Traders to Earn Yield on Perp Collateral
Decentralized perpetual futures exchange (perp DEX) Grvt said it has integrated the Aave lending protocol to let traders earn yield...
Kraken Launches Flexline Crypto-Backed Loans with 10–25% APR
Crypto exchange Kraken has launched Flexline, a crypto-backed loan product that allows Kraken Pro users to borrow against their digital...
Vitalik Buterin Cuts ETH Holdings by 17K after $45M Privacy Pledge
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has reduced his Ether balance by about 17,000 ETH in one month after announcing plans to...
Curve’s Egorov Calls for Sustainable DeFi Yield
Decentralized finance (DeFi) can no longer rely on inflationary token incentives to sustain growth, according to Curve Finance founder Michael...
Core Technical Contributor to Cease Involvement with Aave DAO
BGD Labs, a core technical contributor to decentralized finance protocol Aave, said it will conclude its involvement with the project’s...
IoTeX Investigates Token Safe Incident as Analysts Estimate $4.3M Loss
Decentralized identity protocol IoTeX has confirmed that it is investigating unusual activity tied to one of its token safes after...
Wall Street Adds BMNR Stock; DeFi Lenders Are Pressured by Illiquidity
Large institutional investors continued to add exposure to crypto treasury companies over the past week, even as bear-market illiquidity forced...
SOL Traders Lose Reasons To Hold As Solana Activity Slumps
Key takeaways:SOL is struggling to hold $80 as a 75% drop in futures’ open interest shows that traders are heading...
How Aave Could Help End Crypto Winter, According to Bitwise
Bitwise exec said that Aave's governance proposal stands out as a positive development for DeFi during the crypto downturn. Even...
Starknet Taps EY’s Nightfall for Institutional Privacy on Ethereum Rails
Starknet developer StarkWare has integrated EY’s Nightfall privacy protocol to let institutions run private payments and decentralized finance (DeFi) activity...
Apollo Partners With Morpho To Support Lending Infrastructure
Traditional finance giant Apollo Global Management Inc. has signed a partnership agreement with decentralized lending platform Morpho to take a...
Lombard to Launch Bitcoin Smart Accounts for Institutions
Lombard said it plans to launch Bitcoin Smart Accounts, designed to allow Bitcoin held in institutional custody to be used...
Anchorage Enables SOL Borrowing Without Moving Custody
Anchorage Digital has partnered with Kamino and Solana Company to roll out a structure that allows institutions to borrow against...
BlackRock Enters DeFi Via UniSwap, Bitcoin Stages Modest Recovery
BlackRock made its first formal move into decentralized finance this week, listing its tokenized Treasury fund on Uniswap, with Bitcoin...
Trump-Linked World Liberty Financial To Enter Foreign Exchange Market
World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform backed by the family of US President Donald Trump, announced on...
BlackRock Brings $2.1B BUIDL Fund to Uniswap
Asset management giant BlackRock is making its first formal move into decentralized finance by bringing its tokenized US Treasury fund...
Vitalik Buterin Slams ‘Fake’ DeFi, Backs ETH-Based Algo Stablecoins
Buterin criticized modern DeFi as centralized in disguise, arguing USDC yield farming misses core principles. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has...
Aave Shutters Avara Brand and Family Crypto Wallet
Aave Labs says it is sunsetting its “umbrella brand” Avara in the company’s latest move to refocus on decentralized finance...
Base Fixes Transaction Delays After Config Error, Maintains L2 Lead
Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 network Base said recent slow or missing transactions were caused by a configuration error that has been...
Bitcoin Dips to $60k, TRM Labs Reaches Crypto Unicorn Status
Cryptocurrency markets experienced a brutal sell-off this week as investor concerns grew over stagnating US liquidity following US President Donald...
