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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...
Yield-bearing Version of XRP, mXRP, Sells Out in One Hour, Strobe Finance Increases Supply Cap
The launch of mXRP, a yield-bearing version of XRP, triggered intense demand on its first day. Strobe Finance, the XRPL-native DeFi platform behind the rollout, confirmed that the initial cap...
XRP Holders Can Now Mint Stablecoins on Flare with Enosys’ New Loan Protocol
Enosys has launched Enosys Loans, a collateralized debt position (CDP) protocol that lets XRP holders mint an overcollateralized stablecoin without selling their assets. It’s the first XRP-backed stablecoin loan service...
Ergo HTX Delisting Row Deepens as Hoskinson Steps In With Support
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson voiced strong support for Ergo (ERG) after the project revealed its token was being removed from the standard trading list at HTX. The exchange told Ergo...
After 600% Rally, ASTER Faces Crucial Test at Oct. 1 Unlock
ASTER, the native token of Aster DEX, delivered a 600% surge in its first week, pushing market cap near $1 billion. The token rallied 50% in 24 hours, hitting an...
Hayes backs ether.fi restaking as dashboard proves ARR leap from $18M to $80M
BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes called ether.fi’s liquid staking protocol “real users, spending real money, that goes back to token holders.” Hayes shared the remark in his latest X post on...
More Than 40% of Americans Are Open to DeFi, But Only with Regulations
A survey by the DeFi Education Fund (DEF) shows that 42% of Americans say they would try decentralized finance (DeFi) if proposed legislation is passed into law. That 42% breaks...
