DeFi

Tether has hired Jed Nazif as Expansion Manager for Tokenization to develop real-world asset initiatives across the Asia-Pacific region using its Hadron platform.

The Acala network, operating on Polkadot, is implementing tokenomics changes and the Exodus EVM+ upgrade to enhance its decentralized finance ecosystem. Network activity and token burn mechanisms are expected to influenc...

The ECB executive board member argues that central-bank money on blockchain is no longer optional, warning that dollar stablecoins could threaten European monetary sovereignty if public money stays off-chain.

Uniswap's weekly trading volume for tokenized stocks increased by $325.2 million, driven by both v4 and v3 protocols. Tokenized equities now represent over 4% of decentralized exchange spot activity, up from 0.1% a year ...

The stablecoin protocol is targeting the $120 trillion equities market through perpetual futures, seeking funding yields five times higher than Bitcoin as it works to rebuild USDe supply to $7.5 billion.

Decentralized exchange trading in tokenized equities has grown to represent over 4% of total DEX spot volume year-to-date, with Uniswap recording $325.2 million in weekly tokenized stock volume across its v4 and v3 proto...

Pakistan's virtual assets regulator is consulting Hong Kong on designing tokenized capital markets to expand access to Pakistani assets for global investors.

Ripple is recommending the removal of over 10,000 lines of unused XChainBridge code from the XRP Ledger while its new Lending Protocol V1.1 undergoes an AI-powered security audit, part of broader efforts to reduce attack...

Spark, the lending arm of the Sky ecosystem, has merged SparkLend and Isolated Markets into a single platform called Spark Borrow, offering users consolidated management of positions across $7.96B in protocol-wide total ...

The protocol behind synthetic dollar USDe is diversifying its collateral strategy beyond crypto into equity perpetual futures, which carry over $6 billion in open interest. The move follows earlier efforts to broaden bac...

Sonic's blockchain upgrade enabling Bundle Transactions has driven decentralized exchange volume to $2.46 million, its highest level in approximately two months, while perpetual market activity remains elevated.

Asian infrastructure provider HashKey Cloud will deploy Bitcoin through Stacks' Genesis Bond program, becoming the second announced institution in the pilot. The bond allows participants to lock Bitcoin on the base layer...

Virtu Financial and Tradeweb executed an onchain repurchase agreement using USDM1, a sovereign digital bond issued by the Marshall Islands, settling the transaction in under 10 minutes on the Canton Network.

A new decentralized trading platform called Granola has demonstrated the ability to facilitate atomic swaps between different ecash tokens without intermediaries, using the Cashu protocol and Nostr for coordination.

Multyr, a non-custodial protocol on Arbitrum One, has announced presale terms for its MTRY governance token and confirmed it is automating manual vault rebalancing through on-chain allocation rules and constraint layers....

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes argues that AI agents require a dedicated token to directly exchange for computing resources, launching the Flop Labs project to address what he sees as an inefficient market for compute tr...

TermMax, a fixed-rate lending protocol, has announced strategic backing from YZi Labs as it expands infrastructure for tokenized assets across multiple blockchain networks.

TermMax, a fixed-rate lending protocol deployed across 10 blockchain networks, has received strategic investment from YZi Labs as it expands infrastructure for tokenized asset financing.

TronBid, a peer-to-peer marketplace for TRON network resources, has expanded its platform with new tools for renting Energy and Bandwidth, including a B2B API for businesses processing frequent TRC-20 transactions.

TermMax, a fixed-rate lending protocol, has received strategic backing from YZi Labs to advance on-chain financial infrastructure. The protocol currently operates across 10 blockchain networks with over $10 million in to...