DeFi

Decentralized perpetuals exchange Extended will move its settlement layer from Starknet to Circle's Arc blockchain on October 22, 2026, with USDT and wBTC holders required to convert or withdraw by October 21.

Xaman's Flare yield route can cost small XRP depositors more in fees, with break-even taking over a year for a 100 XRP deposit under illustrative assumptions.

Fhenix has launched its CoFHE mainnet on Ethereum and Arbitrum, enabling smart contracts to compute on encrypted data while preserving onchain rule enforcement.

Dolomite has integrated $100 million in BTCcx, Concrete's custody-native Bitcoin token backed 1:1 by coins held at BitGo, as collateral in its lending markets.

Pump.fun now routes cross-chain trades through its own Pump Bridge by default, citing faster execution and fewer errors than the Relay provider it previously used.

CME Group recorded its first block trade in Uniswap (UNI) futures on October 20, 2026, one day after the contracts launched. FalconX and GSR executed the trade.

ENA climbed from $0.18 to $0.20 as analysts highlight Ethena's $1 billion in real fees and an upcoming buyback mechanism, while technicals show a potential trend shift.

Abracadabra DAO has approved a wind-down of the DeFi protocol after reducing its quorum requirement from 3 billion to 300 million SPELL, with just two voters participating.

Fixed-rate, fixed-term lending could unlock institutional demand for real-world assets by matching loan duration to collateral redemption timelines, according to Peter Gaffney of O2O Capital Partners.

Injective has permanently removed more than 7.2 million INJ from circulation through its monthly Community BuyBack and an earlier burn auction.

Galaxy Research data shows crypto-collateralized lending declined 16.8% in Q2 2026, with CeFi loans exceeding DeFi for the first time since Q3 2023.

Bitwise reports Ethereum ended Q3 with a record 43.8 million ETH staked, while staking yields fell and tokenized stock trading surged on Solana, Hyperliquid, and Robinhood Chain.

Probly wrapped up its participation as a Gold Sponsor of TOKEN2049 Singapore and co-host of the WHALE3RA Afterparty, promoting its on-chain prediction market platform.

A 1.3 billion-share unlock makes SpaceX stock eligible for sale as Aave Labs weighs accepting tokenized SPCXc as collateral, with LlamaRisk recommending a 55% collateral factor.

LayerZero will launch its Zero mainnet and ATLAS trading infrastructure on November 30, with Open ATLAS debuting more than a dozen trading venues on a shared engine.

Injective has signed a memorandum of understanding with South Korean digital asset custodian BDACS, under which Injective KRW1 will serve as the exclusive Korean won settlement asset for tokenized real-world assets on th...

Citi Research calls Aave a leading collateral mobility protocol for tokenized capital markets, but AAVE's price has slipped below $150 as active loans recover from April's security incident.

Aster DEX has burned over 5.44 million ASTER tokens in the past two weeks, bringing its cumulative burn past 210 million, while the token's price has remained range-bound between $0.60 and $0.78 since early February.

Trueo has integrated its onchain prediction markets into DeFiLlama's analytics dashboards, letting users bet on DeFi metrics like protocol revenue and exploit risk.

NEAR Business lets companies manage payments, swaps, and treasury balances across more than 35 blockchains with confidential transactions and self-custodial multisig controls.