DeFi

Decentralized exchanges processed $273.8 billion in spot volume and $614.3 billion in perpetual futures volume over 30 days in October 2026, with DEX share of spot trading rising from 6.9% in January 2024 to 13.6% two ye...

The Spark Liquidity Layer, an automated capital allocator within the Sky ecosystem, has crossed $3 billion in total assets deployed across multiple DeFi venues as of October 16, 2026, making it the largest on-chain alloc...

The infrastructure company has completed its transformation away from consumer loyalty services, raising its full-year transaction-volume target to $3 billion while expanding into stablecoin payments and embedded finance...

Aave's proposed native Bitcoin lending market would separate fast liquidation from slower Bitcoin redemption, creating potential shortfalls that could affect WBTC liquidity providers unless specific protections are funde...

Uniform Labs' Multiliquid closed a seed round led by Polychain with $8 million in total funding to address settlement delays in tokenized finance, enabling instant conversion of blockchain-based Treasury and money market...

South Korean investment firm Meritz Securities has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Canton Foundation to investigate tokenizing domestic financial assets and connecting them with international institutional ...

Ripple's institutional brokerage division now offers round-the-clock trading on more than 100 traditional financial markets through perpetual swaps, with Virtu among early participants.

Two-thirds of newly funded x402 wallets now make payments within an hour, up from 4% a year earlier, signaling growing adoption of automated cryptocurrency transactions through Coinbase's Base blockchain standard.

StandX, a decentralized perpetual futures exchange founded by former Binance Futures head Aaron Gong, will gradually cease operations following a strategic review. The platform served over 237,000 users and peaked at $20...

Babylon Labs has submitted a proposal to enable Aave users to borrow stablecoins using native Bitcoin as collateral, with BTC remaining on the Bitcoin network rather than being wrapped or bridged.

Institutional capital continues flowing into Chainlink ETF products, but LINK token price struggles to gain traction as new inflows fail to offset asset value declines.

Boros officially launched spread markets on October 15, 2026, allowing traders to capture funding rate gaps between exchanges in a single tradeable instrument rather than executing complex multi-leg strategies.

Firelight, a DeFi cover protocol on Flare, automatically moved staked FXRP into a coverage phase on October 6, imposing 30-60 day withdrawal delays and exposing holders to pooled claims in exchange for fee-based returns....

Chainlink's data feeds are now live on Stellar, enabling DeFi applications across a network supporting $4 billion in tokenized real-world assets.

Rocket Pool's governance approved a proposal to introduce protocol-level withdrawal mechanics for rETH holders while keeping the 4 ETH bond requirement for megapool validators unchanged.

AI agents conducted over 138 million cryptocurrency transactions through Coinbase's x402 protocol to purchase data, computing power, and access to AI models, with U.S.-linked wallets accounting for 88.1% of identified pa...

The on-chain options platform built on Hyperliquid has seen significant trading activity, with S&P 500 contracts becoming its most popular product despite launching after SpaceX options.

Robinhood Chain has accumulated $111.97 billion in decentralized exchange volume since its July mainnet launch and now outtraces Coinbase's Base network on a 30-day basis, though activity has cooled since a gas subsidy e...

Ethereum layer-2 network Starknet has introduced Shadow Accounts, enabling users to interact with DeFi applications through separate wallet identities while keeping activities separate from their main accounts.

Ripple and Stripe-owned Privy are integrating wallet technology into payment applications, enabling developers to let customers transfer XRP and stablecoins without managing separate crypto wallets. AI agent payments on ...