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Kaiser Khan is a London-based entrepreneur and publisher with thirty years in business, media, and financial content. He is Editor in Chief of Money Guide and of Digital Assets UK, covering UK personal finance, HMRC crypto tax and FCA rules. At Decentralized Finance Publication he leads editorial direction across DeFi research, cryptocurrency news, and blockchain ecosystem coverage.
Back to aboutOn 25 August 2026 a thin Pendle YT-reUSD tape moved PT-reUSD about 3% and Morpho liquidated roughly $36 million of looped debt in 14 minutes. Lenders were made whole. The lesson is oracle window, LLTV and looping — not a hack.
Leader Thune filed cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633. The first 60-vote test is 2:15 p.m. ET on 15 September — it is not final passage. CFTC Chair Selig has said the agency can still write rules if the bill stalls.
US agencies did not publish final GENIUS Act payment-stablecoin rules by the statutory 18 July 2026 date. NPRMs remain. The Act’s default effective date is 18 January 2027 unless finals start the 120-day clock first — a path that needed roughly mid-September 2026.
On 22 August 2026 Stani Kulechov said Aave deposits crossed $30 billion. That is a protocol deposit print, not DeFiLlama TVL, and it sits below 2025 peaks. Treat it as a recovery datapoint, not a buy call.
Aave V4 went live on Ethereum on 30 March 2026 with Hub & Spoke accounting, a new liquidation engine, and a user risk premium on borrows. V3 did not disappear. This is the launch recap and who should not migrate yet — not a click-path.
Curve’s July recap and early-August gauge votes put LlamaLend V2 on Ethereum with Inverse Finance sDOLA and Frax sfrxUSD as the first yield-bearing markets. Convex now votes those gauges on-chain; Resupply remains the CDP that sits on Curve Lend and Fraxlend collateral — adjacent, not the same product.
Convex’s Resupply Summer campaign is live: extra RSUP and CVX for Curve Lend and Fraxlend collateral, gauge weight, and a structural positive-carry borrow. Round 1 began 3 August 2026. This is a growth programme, not a price forecast.
Aave, Morpho, SparkLend, and Compound supply APYs have compressed in mid-2026 as TVL rebounds post-restaking stress. We break down where borrowers still pay premium rates and where LPs earn real yield.
Hyperliquid continues to lead decentralised perpetual futures by volume in mid-2026 — processing more daily notional than GMX, dYdX, and Drift combined on many sessions. We analyse what is driving the shift to on-chain order books.
Solana DeFi TVL and DEX volume rebounded in June 2026, led by Jupiter aggregators, Kamino lending, and liquid staking flows into JitoSOL and mSOL. Alpenglow upgrade anticipation adds a protocol roadmap tailwind.
Lido and Rocket Pool are the two most significant decentralised ETH liquid staking protocols. Both let you stake ETH without running a validator, but they differ in decentralisation, token liquidity, yield, and risk profile. Here is the definitive 2026 comparison.
Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism are the three dominant Ethereum Layer 2 networks for DeFi in 2026. Each has different liquidity depth, fee structures, DeFi ecosystem maturity, and decentralisation trade-offs. This guide helps you choose the right L2 for your needs.