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BlackRock's tokenised money market fund BUIDL has been integrated into OKX's collateral framework, enabling institutional traders to use tokenised US Treasury positions as margin for cryptocurrency derivatives. The development marks a significant convergence between traditional finance and on-chain infrastructure.
Read analysis →Fluid Finance activated a $1 billion cap aWETH redemption mechanism integrated with Lido, EtherFi, 0x, and 1inch, allowing Aave depositors to redeem trapped ETH directly through liquid staking issuer queues — bypassing DEX slippage cascades entirely.
Read analysis →The $292M Kelp DAO rsETH exploit spilled across chains as Kamino Finance on Solana saw USDC lending pools reach 100% utilization, with lenders racing to exit before bad debt from bridged rsETH collateral materialized.
Read analysis →PancakeSwap launched on Coinbase's Base App chain with a full DeFi suite covering trading, liquidity provision, yield farming, and token launches through CAKE.PAD — giving Coinbase's regulated retail onramp direct access to the Binance-ecosystem DEX.
Read analysis →Security researchers sounded emergency alerts warning DeFi users to stop interacting with any dApps built on Vercel infrastructure after stolen GitHub and NPM keys raised the possibility of compromised JavaScript served directly to user wallets.
Read analysis →AAVE token fell 16% and $6 billion fled the protocol after attackers used drained rsETH to borrow wrapped ether, leaving Aave assessing its bad debt exposure from one of DeFi's most damaging contagion events.
Read analysis →Firepan HQ has removed the paywall on its professional DeFi vulnerability scanner, citing a dramatic increase in AI-generated smart contract exploits and urging developers to secure codebases before LLM-driven attacks identify weaknesses first.
Read analysis →A new joint study by Nomura and Laser Digital finds improving institutional sentiment across the board, with regulatory clarity, ETF approvals, and new product development driving deeper and more committed engagement with digital assets.
Read analysis →RAVE traded at $1.15 on Sunday, down from a $27.33 peak just two days earlier, wiping out more than $5.7 billion in market cap as Binance and Bitget opened formal investigations into the token's meteoric and suspicious rally.
Read analysis →Paxos Labs cofounder Chunda McCain argues that enterprises adopting stablecoin infrastructure can cut payment costs, unlock credit lines, and earn on-chain yield — but warns that not every company needs to issue its own token.
Read analysis →Decentralised finance has matured significantly since 2024. This updated comprehensive guide ranks the ten most important DeFi platforms of 2026 — from the dominant DEXs and lending markets to the innovative new entrants reshaping how capital moves on-chain.
Read analysis →US regulators have approved staking inside spot Ethereum ETFs, a decision that reshapes the competitive landscape between institutional staking wrappers and native DeFi liquid staking protocols like Lido and Rocket Pool.
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