DeFi

DeFi's new front: VerifiedX bets bitcoin's next chapter is programmable, private

VerifiedX says its Bitcoin sidechain enables programmable, privacy-preserving transactions without synthetic wrappers, targeting growing institutional demand for native DeFi on the original blockchain system.

DeFi Yields Are Too Damn Low! Here's Why

DeFi is approaching a breaking point. After a wave of hacks and growing concerns around smart contract risk, liquidity risk, and hidden dependencies, the biggest...

Grove Launches Basin With up to $1 Billion in Daily Liquidity for Tokenized Real-World Assets

Grove has launched Basin, a DeFi protocol providing instant onchain stablecoin liquidity for tokenized real-world assets with up to $1 billion in daily liquidity...

Coinbase Lands Hyperliquid Stablecoin Role Eight Months After Governance Vote Picked Native Markets

Native Markets is selling its brand assets to Coinbase as USDC becomes the protocol's canonical quote asset.Coinbase will become the official treasury deployer of...

Dune Analytics Cuts 25% of Staff, Doubled Down on AI and Institutional Crypto Data

The crypto data platform laid off a quarter of its workforce this week while refocusing on AI-powered dashboards and institutional adoption of onchain assets.Dune...

Circle Launches Agent Marketplace for DeFi-Native Service Discovery and Integration

Circle introduced Agent Marketplace as part of its Agent Stack, enabling autonomous agents to discover and pay for trusted services through programmable, usage-based economic...

Jump Crypto’s ‘Firedancer’ is taking a slow and steady approach to its long-awaited Solana infrastructure rollout

In an interview with CoinDesk, the lead engineer at Firedancer gives an update on how the new client, also known as a software, is...

Crypto users are choosing juicy yields over protection, putting billions at risk of hacks

DeFi insurance protocols debuted with huge ambitions during the 2020 crypto boom. But as hacks evolved and users chased yields over protection, most of...

THORChain Opens Refund Portal After $10M Hack

THORChain has confirmed a $10 million exploit and launched a recovery portal, giving affected users a self-custodial path to revoke malicious token approvals and...

Spark Publishes Risk Framework for Sky Agent Network Built on Sky Protocol Security Principles

Spark has released a comprehensive risk framework for the Sky Agent Network, detailing how losses are absorbed and risk is bounded across Spark Savings,...

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