DeFi


CoinEx To Shut Down Exchange After Nearly Nine Years

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CoinEx will wind down after nine years, ending spot trading Sept. 29 and withdrawals Dec. 22 amid lower liquidity and ri... Read more

Liquid Network Drained Of $320 Million As Cache Bug Lets Attacker Mint Unbacked Bitcoin

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A range-proof cache bug in the Elements codebase let an unknown actor mint unbacked L-BTC, drain 95% of the federation r... Read more

Nansen Becomes First Front End To Support Outcome.xyz HIP-4 Markets

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Nansen has integrated Outcome.xyz’s HIP-4 markets into its trading platform, becoming the first front end to support t... Read more

5 Top Embedded Verification SDKs For DeFi In 2026

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Identity verification is becoming a core part of the DeFi stack as developers look to embed reusable credentials, privac... Read more

Pi Network Ships A DEX While The Market Looks Away

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Protocol 26 tightened the smart contract layer, Protocol 27 is bringing automated market making to testnet, and a decent... Read more

XRP Had Its Best Month Since The SEC Settlement And The Network Is About To Change Underneath It

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XRP rallied 37% in August on a wave of record ETF inflows. The market is pricing momentum. It is not pricing the Sept. 1... Read more

Robinhood Chain Hit $945M In Daily DEX Volume And Nobody On Crypto Twitter Noticed

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A two-month-old Layer 2 built by a stock brokerage is now processing more daily decentralized exchange volume than chain... Read more

Mantle Expands RWA Yield Offering From CeFi To DeFi

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Mantle has expanded its real-world asset yield business into DeFi with a non-custodial stablecoin vault after its Bybit-... Read more

The $8.5M DAO Heist That Cost $951 To Pull Off: How Term Labs Got Governance Hijacked

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An attacker bought a controlling stake in a DAO governance token for less than $1,000, passed malicious proposals, and d... Read more

The CLARITY Act Dropped From 82% To 10% Odds: What Killed Cryptos Best Shot At US Regulation

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Galaxy Digital slashed its passage odds to 10%. Polymarket fell from 82% to under 20%. The bill that was supposed to giv... Read more

Compound Approves $52M Institutional DeFi Program

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Compound named a new leadership team and approved a milestone based $52 million program to build institutional lending a... Read more

Farcaster Seeks New Operator Seven Months After Sale

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Neynar is seeking a new operator for Farcaster and Clanker less than seven months after acquiring the decentralized soci... Read more

How Zero-knowledge Proofs Work And Why They Matter For Privacy

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You can prove you are over 18 without revealing your birthday. You can prove you have enough money for a transaction wit... Read more

What Are Blockchain Rollups And How Do They Scale Ethereum

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Ethereum can process roughly 15 transactions per second. That is less than a single Starbucks checkout line. Rollups are... Read more

What Are Intent-based DEXs And How Do They Differ From AMMs

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Most people who trade on decentralized exchanges do not realize they are acting as their own market makers. Intent-based... Read more

What Are Blockchain Oracles And Why Smart Contracts Cannot Work Without Them

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Smart contracts are powerful, but they are also blind. They cannot see prices, read weather data, or verify that a payme... Read more

XRP As DeFi Collateral: How Ripples RLUSD Lending Play Through Flare And Morpho Could Reshape A $70 Billion Asset

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Flare’s FXRP token has been approved as collateral in an institutionally curated Morpho vault on Ethereum, letting XRP... Read more

CLARITY Act Backers Say Sheriffs Misread DeFi Rules

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Blockchain Association disputes sheriffs’ DeFi claims as the CLARITY Act remains unscheduled before the Senate’s Aug... Read more

Psalion Launches $50M Blockchain Venture Fund

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Psalion launched a $50 million Singapore VCC fund for seed-stage blockchain projects and disclosed a $4 million Beezie r... Read more

EU Parliament Targets DeFi And NFTs In Post-MiCA Crypto Push

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EU lawmakers have approved a policy position calling for a review of whether decentralized finance, staking, crypto lend... Read more