DeFi

How Robinhood Chain’s biggest launchpad made $12 million and disappeared

Noxa, the largest token launchpad on Robinhood Chain, stopped operating after earning an estimated $12 million in fees, according to DefiLlama, in the past...

Aave Brings V4 to Avalanche as Tokenized Asset Market Grows

Decentralized lending protocol Aave has launched V4 on Avalanche, marking the first expansion of its latest lending infrastructure beyond Ethereum and setting the stage...

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,...

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Crypto-Backed PAC Scales Back Ad Spending in Massachusetts Primary

An affiliate of the political action committee (PAC) Fairshake,...

Citi, Goldman, other global banks and asset managers team up on stablecoin venture

The group will focus first on a U.S. dollar...

Blockticity Moves Trade Records Tied to $7.7 Billion in Assets Onchain

Blockticity is moving more than 1 million authenticated trade...

Gate AI, XYO Launch Head-to-Head Crypto Prediction Game

Gate AI and XYO launched Crypto Cards, a head-to-head...

Japanese regulator requests tax filing exemption for trust-type stablecoins in 2027 reform

Japan’s FSA requested to exempt trust-type stablecoins from mandatory...