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USDT Leads Payments, USDC Dominates DeFi

The world’s biggest stablecoins are increasingly becoming chain-specific financial products, with Tether’s USDt (USDT) and Circle’s USDC (USDC) serving distinct roles across the crypto...

DeFi protocol Summer.fi halts Lazy Summer vaults after $6 million exploit

Decentralized finance protocol Summer.fi has paused its Lazy Summer vaults after an exploit that drained about $6 million from the Ethereum-based yield platform, according...

Aave Deploys V3 on Monad as High-Speed EVM Chain Seeks Core DeFi Liquidity

Aave has deployed V3 on Monad, bringing lending, borrowing and its GHO stablecoin to the high-performance Ethereum-compatible blockchain.The launch gives Monad a core DeFi...

Aave logs biggest network-growth day in nearly 5 years as DeFi interest returns

Several threads are feeding the attention. Aave is rolling out the Ethereum version of its V4 upgrade, a rebuild of how the protocol handles...

MetaMask Launches Money Account With 4% DeFi Yield

Update, June 30, 6:13 pm UTC: This article has been updated to correct the availability of MetaMask Money Account. Consensys said the Money Account...

Can AI drain DeFi? Separating Claude Mythos hype from reality

Claude Mythos and DeFi: Real threat or overblown fear?When Anthropic introduced Claude Mythos-class models as its most advanced AI system for cybersecurity, it drew...

EU Lawmakers Back Review of DeFi, Staking and NFT Regulation

The European Parliament's economic affairs committee has urged the European Commission to assess whether crypto lending and borrowing, staking, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralized...

Does Botanix’s Failure Prove Bitcoiners Don’t Care About DeFi?

For the past two cycles, Bitcoin DeFi has lived more as a promise than a category.Programmable Bitcoin has remained a vision held by a...

Kraken eyes 15% stake in DeFi lender Aave in deal valuing protocol at $385 million

Aave is the largest decentralized lending protocol, allowing users to lend and borrow crypto assets without intermediaries. Depositors earn yield by supplying tokens to...

DeFi TVL Down by $45B in 2026 Despite More Resilient Market Structure

Total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (DeFi) has fallen by about 39% in 2026 so far, declining to just over $70 billion from...

Taiko Bridge Exploited for Up to $1.7M in DeFi Hack

Taiko, an Ethereum layer-2 blockchain, has urged its users to withdraw assets from the network’s bridges after an exploit on one of its bridge...

Crypto Industry Looks to Stablecoin and DeFi Revisions in MiCA 2.0

In May, the European Commission opened a comment period, seeking feedback on regulations for the cryptocurrency and blockchain industries. The comment period will precede eventual...