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RWA Protocol Ondo Finance Cleared by SEC Ahead of New York Summit
Ondo Finance (ONDO) has confirmed that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) formally closed a confidential investigation that began two years ago and ended the probe without charges. For Ondo,...
Uniswap’s Adams: Citadel ‘Weaponizing’ SEC to Classify DeFi Devs as Broker-Dealers
The cold war between decentralized finance (DeFi) and Wall Street incumbents turned hot Tuesday, with Uniswap Labs founder Hayden Adams accusing Citadel Securities of engineering a regulatory kill-switch for the...
Inside the Chaos at Trump Family-Linked ALT5: Hidden Suspensions and Sudden Firings
ALT5 Sigma, the treasury partner to the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial DeFi project, is facing another wave of controversy after reports emerged about violations in its SEC filing. This...
Crypto Hacks Surge 10x in November as ‘Code Fragility’ Costs DeFi $127 Million
The cryptocurrency sector suffered a catastrophic security regression in November, with total losses from exploits and hacks surging nearly 1,000% month-over-month. According to a forensic report by blockchain security firm...
Yearn Finance yETH Glitch Triggers $3 Million Drain to Tornado Cash
An infinite-mint vulnerability in Yearn Finance’s yETH contract triggered a multi-million dollar liquidity drain Sunday, forcing the protocol to isolate the affected legacy pool. An attacker exploited the flaw to...
Why 2030 Is The Target Date For A Unified Global Financial System
Decentralized finance is no longer a niche idea sitting on the edge of the crypto world. According to Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov, DeFi has already covered about 30% of its...
Hyperliquid Launches a New “Growth Mode” That Cuts Trading Fees by 90%
Hyperliquid has launched an aggressive new strategy to expand its derivatives market share. The protocol brought out “HIP-3 Growth Mode” on Wednesday. This structural upgrade enables permissionless market deployment and...
Ondo Finance Wins EU Approval for Tokenized Stocks as ONDO Price Stalls
Ondo Global Markets has received a regulatory move this week after securing approval to offer tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) across Europe. The authorization, granted by the Liechtenstein Financial...
CoinMarketCap CEO Offers ‘Helping Hand’ As DappRadar Winds Down
DappRadar, a leading Web3 analytics platform, has officially announced it is shutting down. The company cited “financial unsustainability” as the primary reason for ending its seven-year operation. The announcement immediately...
Uniswap’s UNInception: Why the Protocol Is Finally Turning On the Fee Switch
Uniswap founder Hayden Adams has submitted a landmark governance proposal. The plan, titled “UNInception,” aims to activate protocol fees and align incentives across the ecosystem. Adams stated this is the...
‘Peak Degen Warfare’: Attacker Wipes Out $3M Collateral to Inflict $4.9M Loss on Hyperliquid’s HLP Fund
A new, bizarre form of market attack has been identified on the Hyperliquid derivatives platform. Lookonchain reports that an attacker intentionally lost $3 million in collateral to inflict a $4.9...
Polygon’s Big ZK Gamble Is Starting to Show Real DeFi Numbers Through Katana
Polygon’s growing bet on zero knowledge technology has started to show concrete results as co-founder Sandeep Nailwal drew fresh attention to Katana, a DeFi focused Layer 2 that is now...
Stream Finance Pauses All Deposits and Withdrawals After Discovering a $93 Million Loss in Assets
DeFi Protocol Stream Finance has halted all withdrawals and deposits on its platform following the disclosure of a $93 million loss. In its latest post on X, the DeFi Protocol...
StakeWise Recovers $20.7 Million From Balancer Exploit, To Reimburse Users Pro Rata
StakeWise has pulled off a rare recovery in the DeFi world, retrieving the majority of assets lost in the recent Balancer exploit that rocked the ecosystem. The liquid staking platform...
Attackers Steal Over $120M From Balancer in One of 2025’s Largest DeFi Hacks
Decentralized exchange and liquidity protocol Balancer has suffered a major security breach, with attackers stealing over $120 million in digital assets. Blockchain analytics firms Lookonchain and Nansen report that the...
Maple’s SYRUP Token Rallies 12% on Record October Revenue
Maple Finance achieved a record monthly protocol revenue of approximately $2.16 million in October, which represents a notable jump compared to other months. Following the news, the price of the...
21Shares Seeks 2x Long HYPE ETF as Spot HYPE and SEI Trust Filings Advance
Crypto asset manager 21Shares has submitted an S-1 registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The filing seeks approval to launch the 21Shares 2x Long HYPE ETF....
Risk Curator Protocols TVL Nears $10B as Investors Adopt Risk-Managed DeFi
As of October 28, 2025, CryptoRank data showed Risk Curator Protocols nearing $10 billion in total value locked. Capital moved toward products that target predictable, rules-based yield instead of direct...
Scallop Becomes Core DeFi Protocol on Sui With $102M in TVL
The decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Scallop (SCA) has emerged as one of the leading projects on the Sui blockchain, according to a recent report from crypto research firm Messari. The...
Hackers Chase $200K Attackathon Reward to Test XRPL Lending Protocol Security
Ripple and Immunefi launched a $200,000 Attackathon to battle-test the proposed XRPL Lending Protocol, with training underway and a bug-bounty window from October 27 to November 29 2025. The program...
Falcon Finance (FF) Soars 42% as $300 Million Flows In and USDf Holds Firm
Falcon Finance (FF) has staged an impressive rebound, soaring over 42% in the past 24 hours to trade at around $0.1578. The surge follows a major influx of liquidity, with...
Can Polymarket’s $9 Billion Valuation Redefine How Wall Street Sees DeFi?
Polymarket, the blockchain-based prediction-market platform, secured a $2 billion strategic investment from the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), parent of the New York Stock Exchange. The transaction, announced October 7 2025, lifted...
DeFiLlama Delists Aster After Binance Correlation Sparks Market Fall
DeFi analytics platform DeFiLlama removed Aster’s perpetual-futures volume data after detecting a near-identical trading pattern to Binance. The delist came after its co-founder 0xngmi said Aster’s reported volumes showed a...
KuCoin Lists Falcon Finance (FF) as DeFi Collateral Liquidity Expands
Global cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin has confirmed the listing of Falcon Finance (FF). This project is building the first universal collateralization infrastructure for digital and real-world assets. Designed to unlock liquidity...
XRP Liquid Staking Expands While Critics Warn of Yield Risks
Digital Asset Investor, a well-known XRP commentator, has expressed caution over yield in response to recent sales promising between 8% and 10% annual returns on XRP holdings. In a public...
