Tagged: defi

November 3, 2026 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Late on Friday, October 30, 2026, security monitoring systems detected a coordinated front-end attack against decentralized finance websites. Blockchain security firm Blockaid issued an initial community alert identifying a potential frontend compromise affecting the official domains of Flap (flap.sh) and Kintsu (kintsu.xyz). The firm urged… Read More

October 31, 2026 @ 4:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Uniswap Labs, and the DeFi Education Fund jointly submitted formal comments to the Illinois Department of Revenue on proposed regulations implementing the state’s Digital Asset Tax Act. The groups argue that the draft rules, posted on September 28, risk… Read More

October 29, 2026 @ 6:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

More than $300 million in tokenized stocks has now been deposited into decentralized finance protocols, according to recent data from Token Terminal. The figure represents a 2,451.5% increase over the past year, underscoring how quickly holders are moving equity tokens from passive wallets into on-chain… Read More

October 27, 2026 @ 6:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Initia, the modular layer-1 blockchain designed to support a network of interconnected rollups, paused both its main chain and associated rollups on Friday, October 23, 2026, after a security incident. The halt took effect at 15:41:30 UTC. In an official statement posted on X, the… Read More

October 23, 2026 @ 5:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Uniswap Labs has rolled out Aggregator Hooks for Uniswap v4, converting the protocol into an active liquidity aggregator that draws on sources beyond its own pools. These hooks encapsulate external liquidity venues and surface them as native Uniswap v4 pools. The feature went live on… Read More

October 14, 2026 @ 2:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On-chain finance continues to draw capital at a steady clip, and the latest weekly figures from Token Terminal illustrate a clear split in where that money is landing. Real-world assets (RWAs)—tokenized versions of funds, U.S. Treasury bills, credit products, equities, and commodities—showed concentrated growth on… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 7:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise’s chief investment officer argues that NEAR Protocol’s investment case no longer depends solely on its longer-term ambition to serve autonomous AI agents. In an October 7, 2026 memo and related comments, Matt Hougan described the network as an operating blockchain business whose present activity… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 4:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aave founder Stani Kulechov has publicly challenged positions taken by European authorities as the European Commission reviews the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). In comments published on October 2, 2026, he said he was disappointed by the European Central Bank and the European Banking Authority’s… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 1:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

September 2026 was the worst month of the year for crypto theft, and it was not close. Immunefi reported that about $742 million was lost across 33 hacked entities, enough for the month alone to account for roughly a third of all money stolen in… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 1:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) is building research into the access layer of its digital-asset franchise, treating analysis of decentralized finance as infrastructure rather than a side commentary on Bitcoin. This year, the banking institution has placed a dedicated digital assets research desk beside ETF access… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 12:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) issued tokenized equities posted the sharpest weekly rise in deposits into decentralized finance venues among major issuers, according to fresh on-chain tracking from Token Terminal. Over the past seven days, balances of those Coinbase tokens sitting in DeFi protocols climbed by $5.6… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blast, the Ethereum Layer 2 network backed by Paradigm, is winding down after concluding that the cost of keeping the chain running has overtaken the revenue it produces. The project said on October 2, 2026, that it no longer sees a workable route to economic… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 6:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NEAR Intents suspended its services on October 1, 2026, after identifying a security incident that the team preliminarily linked to roughly $3.8 million in losses. The cross-chain trading protocol said the problem originated in a flaw involving the interaction between its Omni deposit and withdrawal… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 11:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FlawZano, a privacy-focused layer-1 network that hides amounts and transaction details by default, said on September 25, 2026 that a supply-integrity defect in its new Gateway Addresses feature had left developers with little option but to unwind roughly 24 hours of chain history. The team… Read More

September 28, 2026 @ 11:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aero, the combined successor to Aerodrome and Velodrome, is scheduled to launch on October 21, 2026. The date was confirmed on September 25, 2026 after months of audits, public code review, and early “Aero Lite” deployments. The project is positioning itself as a single liquidity… Read More

September 26, 2026 @ 3:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developer behind liquid restaking protocol KelpDAO has taken LayerZero Labs and its co-founder and chief executive, Bryan Pellegrino, to court over an April 2026 cross-chain exploit that released about 116,500 rsETH, then worth roughly $292 million. Evercrest Technologies, the company that builds and operates… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 3:11 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

  Unsurprisingly, digital asset insiders were focused on the CLARITY Act this week. Not completely, however. Read on to find some interesting takes on several other topics. The CLARITY Act “The nation’s banks continue to support creating a strong, durable regulatory framework for digital assets… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 2:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood Chain’s fee boom has unwound far faster than its traffic. After a memecoin-led spike made the young Ethereum layer-2 one of the costliest networks to use, daily gas revenue has collapsed while transaction counts and trading flows have stayed close to their recent peaks…. Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 6:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenEden has expanded its tokenized credit product HYBOND onto BNB Chain, pairing the deployment with RedStone’s pricing and planned settlement tools. The move marks the fund’s first network expansion after its original launch on Ethereum and brings a BNY-managed high-yield bond strategy into a larger… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 12:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Clearpool, a decentralized marketplace focused on on-chain institutional credit, has outlined plans to extend its lending stack to the XRP Ledger. The firm positions the move as its next growth chapter, arguing that XRPL is a mature network whose institutional credit market remains comparatively undeveloped…. Read More