Balancer exploit and Stream contagion expose DeFi’s fragile core: Finance Redefined
Balancer and Stream Finance incidents totaling over $200 million shook DeFi as RedStone and major…
Blockchain
Commonware secures $25M from Tempo as Stripe, Paradigm deepen blockchain bet
Tempo leads an investment round in startup Commonware to advance blockchain infrastructure for real-world payments.
How TradFi banks are advancing new stablecoin models
Stablecoins are shifting from crypto-native experiments to instruments embedded in existing banking and payment infrastructure.
Bitcoin ETFs snap six-day outflow streak with $240M inflows
Spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $240 million in inflows after six days of redemptions, signaling renewed…
Bitcoin.com, Concordium partner on age-verified crypto payments
Bitcoin.com and Concordium have teamed up to introduce age-verified stablecoin payments to 75 million wallets,…
RedStone unveils DeFi risk ratings weeks after $20B crypto market wipeout
RedStone expands beyond price oracles with Credora, integrating risk analytics across DeFi protocols Morpho and…
Citadel Securities, Fortress back Ripple’s $500M raise at $40B valuation
Ripple’s massive valuation highlights increasing Wall Street confidence in blockchain and stablecoin innovation.
UN agency to launch blockchain education, advisory programs for governments
The United Nations is preparing to launch a blockchain academy for governments and a UN-led…
Crypto’s growth engine stalls as Wintermute warns of ‘recycled liquidity’
Wintermute said inflows across stablecoins, ETFs and digital asset treasuries have plateaued, leaving crypto liquidity…
NFTs hit the brakes: Market cap tanks 46% in just 30 days
CoinGecko data shows the NFT market value has nearly halved in a month, with even…
CZ pardon was considered with ‘utmost seriousness,’ White House says
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says Donald Trump’s pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao…
DeFi sleuths trace $284M in loans and stablecoin risk linked to Stream Finance
Yields and More maps out over $284 million in DeFi debt tied to Stream Finance,…
Cipher Mining rockets 32% after $5.5B data center deal with Amazon
Fellow miner IREN also signed a multi-year GPU cloud services contract with Microsoft worth $9.7…
Michael Saylor’s Strategy kickstarts November with $45M Bitcoin buy
Strategy’s Bitcoin acquisitions rate is significantly down since September, threatening to limit Bitcoin’s price recovery,…
DeFi needs higher certainty, not higher yield
High yields mean nothing without execution certainty. Institutional DeFi adoption demands predictable transactions over speculative…