Tag: DeFi

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VanEck’s tokenized fund lands on Euler as DeFi courts Wall Street institutions

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols built for crypto assets are increasingly retooling themselves for Wall Street, and VanEck's tokenized Treasury fund arriving on lending platform...

OpenZeppelin Pushes Back After Ex-CTO Declares All of DeFi Unsafe

The smart contract security firm distanced itself from Manuel Aráoz's warning that AI coding agents have made DeFi impossible to defend, calling the threat...

Base launches AI tool that lets ChatGPT manage crypto wallets and DeFi apps

Coinbase’s Ethereum Layer 2 network Base has launched a new tool that lets artificial intelligence agents directly interact with users’ crypto wallets and decentralized...

Ripple-linked blockchain could close its biggest DeFi gap if new proposal passes

One of the XRP Ledger's biggest weaknesses as a DeFi venue might be on its way out.A draft amendment titled "AMM Swappable Curves" was...

DeFi Hacks Shake Institutional Confidence as Risks Outpace Yields

Security exploits are weighing on institutional appetite for decentralized finance (DeFi), even as broader crypto adoption continues through stablecoins and tokenized assets.In an April...

Variational predicts RWA perpetuals will soon be the biggest contract class in DeFi

Variational, a peer-to-peer onchain derivatives trading protocol, said it raised $50 million in a round led by global investment fund Dragonfy with participation from...

MoonPay expands into tokenized assets and DeFi markets with new platform for banks

MoonPay is betting institutions want broader access to onchain financial products beyond simple crypto purchases.The crypto payments firm said Thursday it started MoonPay Trade,...

VerifiedX Brings Native Bitcoin Redemption And FROST Privacy To Base DeFi With Fireblocks Integration

The VerifiedX foundation has announced the launch of vBTC.b on Base with support for Fireblocks, aimed at bringing Bitcoin’s digital gold qualities...

A DeFi exchange becomes the first to offer equity perpetuals powered by Nasdaq data

The partnership underscores both the rapid growth of equity perpetuals in onchain markets and Nasdaq’s broader strategy to support tokenized equity trading infrastructure.

Amid the Clarity Act fanfare is some worry over how a last-minute deal may punch DeFi

The crypto market structure bill saw a high-stakes, 11th-hour gambit to get Democrats on board for a bipartisan committee vote, but it might carry...

Stripe-backed Tempo taps $7.5 billion DeFi lender Morpho to expand beyond payments

The move brings onchain yield and lending to the payments-focused chain in a bid to offer full-stack onchain finance platform to companies building on...

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...