For years, DeFi occupied the sides of institutional technique, a curiosity for crypto-native funds, and a compliance headache for everybody else. However, regulatory strikes are slowly altering this stance. Among conventional hedge funds already holding digital belongings, 43% now plan to broaden into DeFi over the subsequent three years, primarily by tokenised funds, tokenised belongings,…
Two headlines hit the web inside hours of one another this week, and collectively they map the present state of DeFi’s safety theater. StakeWise DAO executed contract calls to get well roughly $19.3 million in osETH, together with a further $1.7 million in osGNO, from the Balancer V2 exploit that drained between $110 million and…
For years, Balancer stood as certainly one of DeFi’s most dependable establishments, a protocol that had survived a number of bear markets, audits, and integrations with out scandal. However, that credibility collapsed on Nov. 3, when the blockchain safety agency PeckShield reported that Balancer and several other of its forks have been beneath an energetic…
Solana (SOL) processes roughly 70 million transactions per day and recorded over $143 billion in month-to-month DEX quantity as of Oct. 30, in accordance with DefiLlama. The community operates with 1,295 consensus validators throughout 40 international locations, and a Nakamoto Coefficient of 20, in accordance with the Foundation’s June 2025 Network Health Report. Production throughput…
On Oct. 20, a hiccup in Amazon’s US-EAST-1 area set off a sequence response throughout the crypto business. Coinbase reported degraded service, Infura and Alchemy posted AWS-related incident notes, and a number of other wallets and rollups started timing out. None of those failures got here from the blockchains themselves. Consensus was nice. The problem…
The subsequent main Ethereum upgrade, known as Fusaka, a hybrid of “Fulu” (consensus) and “Osaka” (execution), will modify how the community handles information and charges with out altering the first person expertise. Beneath the floor, it’s a press release of path: Ethereum’s primary chain is staying the ultimate settlement and data-availability hub, whereas on a…
Unite DeFi is a flagship initiative by 1inch to deliver collectively builders, protocols, and liquidity throughout decentralized finance via shared infrastructure and interoperability. The program embodies 1inch’s mission to make DeFi less complicated, safer, and extra linked—bridging the hole between on-chain innovation and world finance. Earlier this month, 1inch held one other version of Unite…
Japan has formally stepped into the regulated stablecoin period with the launch of JPYC EX, the nation’s first totally licensed digital yen below the revised Payment Services Act. This milestone marks a pivotal second for Japan’s monetary sector, bridging conventional banking infrastructure with the Web3 ecosystem. Building on earlier variations of JPYC, the brand new…
Perpetual decentralized exchanges (perp DEXes) registered $1.049 trillion in monthly volume as of Oct. 24, marking the primary time on-chain derivatives markets crossed the $1 trillion threshold and establishing a brand new benchmark for decentralized buying and selling infrastructure. DefiLlama knowledge exhibits roughly $1.241 trillion in 30-day volume as of Oct. 24. Yet on-chain open…
In one other blow to the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, Bunni DEX, a Uniswap V4-based decentralized trade, has introduced its everlasting shutdown following an $8.4 million exploit that crippled its operations. The crew cited an incapacity to cowl relaunch and audit prices, marking one of the important DeFi collapses of 2025. The exploit, which occurred…