DeFi

Ostium Pauses Trading After Apparent Oracle Exploit Targets OLP Vault

Decentralized trading protocol Ostium paused trading Wednesday after blockchain security firms Blockaid and CertiK reported an apparent exploit of its OLP liquidity vault.Blockaid estimated...

DTCC moves tokenized securities into live trading, marking a milestone for Wall Street’s blockchain push

DTCC safeguards more than $114 trillion in securities, making it one of the most important pieces of financial market infrastructure. Every day, it records...

Ostium loses $18 million in oracle attack that gamed its own price-feed infrastructure

An attacker drained approximately $18 million in USDC from Ostium's liquidity vault on Arbitrum in an oracle manipulation exploit detected by blockchain security firm...

A timeline of the Ethereum Foundation’s ongoing shakeup

Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s tech newsletter covering the most important stories in blockchain. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, a reporter at CoinDesk.We’re giving you a...

Bitcoin, ether hold steady after rising on U.S. inflation report: Crypto Markets Today

Bitcoin BTC$64,650.29 and ether (ETH) consolidated during Asian and European hours after rallying on Tuesday following a weaker-than-forecast U.S. inflation figure.Bitcoin, while more than...

Ripple joins card giants backing x402 as 75 million payments move just $24 million

Coinbase, among others, filled that gap in May 2025. Under x402, a server that wants payment answers a request with a 402 and a...

Bitcoin’s BIP-110 sparked a fight over who gets to decide the future of Bitcoin

Bitcoin's consensus rules have historically treated valid transactions equally regardless of purpose. BIP-110 prompted concerns that rules aimed at discouraging one category of transaction...

For pension funds, tokenization’s real play is balance sheet management, not just 24/7 liquidity, Fidelity’s Lai says

Tokenized products already exist, though mainly for investing. The most popular category is tokenized money market funds, primarily backed by U.S. Treasuries. The largest,...

Why multi-billion dollar crypto networks are missing from Wikipedia

The lack of Wikipedia coverage is a more acute concern in an era where more users get their information from AI tools like ChatGPT....

Dragonfly Pushes Back on DeFi AI ‘Hackpocalypse’ Fears

Fears that artificial intelligence would trigger a wave of catastrophic decentralized finance (DeFi) hacks in what was coined as a “hackpocalypse” have not materialized,...

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The most popular bitcoin options bet has slipped $10,000 lower to a $70,000 strike: Crypto Daily

The implication does not stop there. According to Imran...

Balaji Seeks Malaysia Deal After Network School Probe

Network School founder Balaji Srinivasan is seeking a memorandum...

Galaxy launches onchain yield vaults for institutions

Galaxy Digital (GLXY) has launched an institutional vault curation...

Bitcoin Liquidity Magnets Determine BTC’s Directional Price Moves

Increased activity across Bitcoin’s (BTC) futures markets is playing...

Fed Chair Warsh Rules Out A Crypto Bailout

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh told the...