Galaxy’s Aug. 7 snapshot of Aave V3 Core discovered 19,073 loans on the protocol after making use of normal filters. Fewer than 9% of these positions are utilizing Aave’s E-mode setting, account for roughly half of all excellent debt on the platform, and present an Ethereum correlation trade. Galaxy places their debt-weighted loan-to-value close to…
Grayscale’s July 17 SEC filings mentioned its Ethereum and Solana staking ETFs would convert staking rewards to money and distribute them to shareholders not less than quarterly, with the modifications anticipated round Aug. 7. Solana and Ethereum are every weighing protocol modifications that would scale back that earnings on the supply. Solana builders want to…
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) gave World Liberty Financial, a DeFi enterprise related to President Donald Trump, preliminary conditional approval to constitution a nationwide belief bank constructed round its roughly $4 billion USD1 stablecoin. World Liberty Trust Company would finally deal with USD1 issuance and reserve custody instantly, transferring each below…
Solana Research Institute, a Solana-aligned analysis group, used an Aug. 14 post to revive a July open letter by Angus Scott to the UK Financial Conduct Authority and different regulators. SRI reported roughly $18 billion in liquidations over 14 hours in the course of the Oct. 10, 2025 crypto crash, together with $3.21 billion in…
DeFi Development Corp., which holds Solana’s SOL token as a treasury asset, reported a $27 million second-quarter loss. It can also be retrenching, closing its Treasury Accelerator to new offers, reducing prices, and repurchasing convertible debt under face worth. The company mentioned in an Aug. 12 shareholder letter that its web loss on digital property…
Solstice introduced a tranched product constructed on Strategy’s Bitcoin-related STRC most popular stock, and stated its senior tranche wouldn’t start absorbing losses till STRC trades beneath $47.66. STRC at present trades close to $95.315, placing that threshold roughly half of at present’s market price and about 52% beneath the safety’s $100 par worth. Solstice COO…
Jupiter has launched a Smart Debt characteristic by means of Jupiter Lend, permitting borrowed belongings to be deployed into DEX liquidity swimming pools the place they’ll earn buying and selling charges. The product, launched in collaboration with Fluid, additionally consists of Smart Collateral. The concept is to make borrowed belongings extra productive moderately than leaving…
Hashdex will cease buying and selling its DEFI Bitcoin ETF after the Aug. 17 shut, giving investors a last window to exit before the fund is liquidated. According to an SEC filing, investors who stay after buying and selling ends will obtain cash from the liquidation of its Bitcoin holdings by Aug. 28. The eventual…
The following is a visitor put up and opinion piece by Andre Cronje, Founder and CEO of Flying Tulip. Decentralization was the start line for DeFi. But it is not the full working mannequin for many protocols, and our language ought to evolve with the trade. This isn’t an argument towards decentralization. It is an…
An Ethereum staking proposal would decrease the native-yield baseline underpinning SharpLink’s strategy to make its company ETH treasury extra productive, rising its reliance on variable and higher-risk sources of return. EIP-8363 would progressively burn a bigger share of consensus rewards as the quantity of staked ETH rises. At 60.25 million ETH, the mannequin reaches a…