DeFi

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams announced that the protocol's annualized UNI token burn rate has exceeded $250 million, driven by increased decentralized exchange volume on Robinhood Chain.

The XRP Ledger's XLS-66d lending amendment has gained support from 71.4% of validators, moving closer to the 80% threshold needed for activation. The amendment would introduce native uncollateralized lending primitives t...

Aave is considering a proposal to grant emergency Guardian powers that would allow lending pools to be frozen quickly during active exploits, balancing rapid response with transparency concerns.

An Arbitrum community proposal aims to disqualify three DeFi protocols from future DAO grant allocations citing reporting failures and misuse of prior incentives. The proposal remains at the discussion stage and is not y...

Two major banks demonstrated rapid settlement of a USD payment over the weekend using Swift's Digital Ledger, a blockchain platform designed to enable 24/7 financial transactions while traditional banking rails were clos...

A technical analysis of XRPL's lending protocol reveals that loan structure significantly affects how losses are distributed between brokers and depositors when loans default, despite identical reserve levels.

A Solana Foundation payment system designed to process over one million transactions per second can leave merchants unpaid even after delivering services, due to complex recovery procedures and timing constraints when op...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin sees a 60% chance that advanced cryptographic technologies could eventually operate at less than 10 times the cost of ordinary computation, potentially reshaping privacy infrastructure...

Real-world asset perpetual futures trading surpassed $2 trillion in cumulative Q3 volume, more than doubling Q2's $1.2 trillion as decentralized exchanges gain ground over centralized platforms.

Retail borrowers nearly doubled their lending activity in 2026 while collateral choices shifted away from Bitcoin toward assets like Zcash, according to new data. BlackRock also lowered barriers to converting Bitcoin int...

Arbitrum's Watchdog Committee has given Good Entry, Limitless, and APX Finance a tentative September 10 deadline to address misuse findings or face off-chain votes on permanent exclusion.

Uniswap V4 has captured $59.1 million in tokenized-stock liquidity, representing 31% of the $192.6 million market. Rising protocol revenue is expected to accelerate UNI token burns once the fee switch activates.

Injective announced plans to build privacy capabilities into its layer-1 blockchain, targeting institutional-grade transactions, token issuance, and real-world asset functionality, though technical details remain undiscl...

Aave DAO voters are deciding whether to grant Risk Stewards limited control over V4 parameters on Ethereum and Avalanche, including no-delay emergency roles that cannot yet be used by current steward software.

Decentralized lending protocol Pencil Finance announced the completion of a $1 million student-loan cycle managed entirely on-chain, supporting thousands of students in Southeast Asia.

Robinhood's Arbitrum-based Layer 2 blockchain recorded $10.47 billion in decentralized exchange volume in a single week, nearly doubling the prior week's activity and positioning the chain among major DeFi platforms.

Uniswap's daily UNI token burns reached $1.15 million for the first time, driven by increased activity on Robinhood Chain where the decentralized exchange accounts for 98% of trading volume.

Uniswap v4's rapid hook adoption highlights a shift towards customizable, efficient DeFi solutions, potentially reshaping liquidity management. The post Uniswap v4 hits over 90K hooks initialized and linked to deployed p...

NBA star LeBron James teased an upcoming partnership with prediction marketplace Polymarket in a video posted Saturday, as the sector logs billions in monthly trading volume.

A recent academic study explores how traditional tax-avoidance strategies adapted for decentralized finance can create hidden credit risks for lending pools.