Chaos Labs Leaves Aave Due to Budget, Risk Disagreements
Chaos Labs has parted ways with the Aave ecosystem after serving as the crypto lending protocol’s main risk service provider...
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Aethir Stops Bridge Hack After Contract Exploit
Aethir, a decentralized GPU cloud infrastructure designed for artificial intelligence, confirmed an attack on its bridge contracts and said it...
World Liberty Moves Toward WLFI Unlock Vote After Complaints
Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform World Liberty Financial said Friday it plans to put forward next week a governance proposal that...
North Korean Cyber Spies Are No Longer Just Remote Threats
This month’s $285 million exploit on Drift, a decentralized exchange (DEX), was the largest crypto hack in over a year,...
Polymarket Grabs 97% of Onchain Prediction Market Fees After Overhaul
Polymarket has become one of decentralized finance’s most profitable protocols after a pricing overhaul, generating about $7.1 million in fees...
Expert Says North Korean IT Workers Helped Build Top Protocols During DeFi Summer
North Korean developers weren't faking resumes, said Taylor Monahan, who went on to add that they were actively building...
Perp DEX Trading Cools as Volumes Slides For Five Straight Months
Onchain perpetual futures trading has cooled for five straight months since peaking in October 2025.Perp volume on decentralized exchanges (DEXs)...
Crypto Token Glut Is Diluting Value And Breaking Investor Returns
The rapid growth in the number of crypto tokens is outpacing the value they generate, creating an “existential” problem for...
Drift Seeks Contact With The Hacker After $280M Exploit
Drift Protocol, a Solana-based decentralized exchange (DEX), said Friday it had opened onchain contact with wallets tied to funds stolen...
Aave V3 Avoided Unrecovered Bad Debt From 2023 to 2025: Study
A Bank of Canada staff paper found that Aave V3 reported zero non-performing loans in 2024, with overcollateralization and automated...
DeFi Is Optimizing For gas, Not For Markets
Opinion by: João Garcia, DevReal lead at Cartesi.Decentralized finance presents itself as a transparent alternative to Wall Street. Yet, what...
Lido DAO Mulls $20M LDO Buyback to Boost Token Price
Lido’s decentralized autonomous organization is considering a one-off $20 million buyback of its governance token to address so-called price dislocation,...
OKX Integrates Aave on Ethereum L2 X Layer
OKX’s X Layer is the 21st blockchain to integrate Aave, which recently surpassed the $1 trillion mark in cumulative lending...
Aave Deploys V4 on Ethereum After Governance Approval
Decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform Aave has launched its V4 protocol on Ethereum after a binding onchain governance vote cleared...
Lummis Says CLARITY Act Offers Strong DeFi Protections
US Senator Cynthia Lummis has dismissed claims that the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act fails to protect decentralized finance innovators...
Bitcoin DeFi on Cardano Reaches Milestone With First BTC-ADA Atomic Swap
This development opens the doors for Cardano users to initiate trustless transactions involving BTC and ADA, with low gas...
ECB Study Questions How Decentralized DeFi Governance Really is
The European Central Bank published a working paper on March 26, finding that governance in four major DeFi protocols was...
Resolv Pauses Protocol After 80M USR Exploit
Resolv Labs has temporarily paused its protocol after an exploit on Sunday in which an attacker minted 80 million unbacked...
Lombard, Bitwise Partner to Unlock Bitcoin Yield Without Custody Transfer
Lombard, a company building Bitcoin-based lending infrastructure, will team with Bitwise Asset Management to enable institutions to earn yield and...
Post-Hack Pressure Pushes Balancer Labs to Wind Down Operations, Restructure Protocol
Facing declining TVL and post-hack pressure, Balancer plans to overhaul its model, cut emissions, and reduce costs to stabilize...
Fidelity Requests More Clarity From SEC on Tokenized Assets and DeFi
Fidelity Investments told the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday that it should continue to develop the regulatory...
Resolv Says No Assets Lost After USR Stablecoin Exploit
Resolv Labs moved Sunday to reassure users after an exploit hit the issuance mechanics of its USR stablecoin, knocking the...
