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Aave V3 crossed $100 million on Monad within 48 hours of its 2 July deployment, powered by a $15 million incentive commitment from the Monad Foundation and a treasury acquisition of 10 million GHO — the sort of anchor tenancy new Layer-1s used to have to fight for.
Kleros founder Clément Lesaege posted a 'Validator Redirected Revenue' proposal to ethresear.ch on June 21 that would let validators redirect 0-10% of staking rewards to public goods. If a majority signals support, the redirect becomes mandatory for the entire validator set.
NUVA, co-developed by Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs, has linked $19 billion of Figure Technologies' tokenised assets — including a $18.4 billion HELOC portfolio — to Ethereum DeFi through two new products: nvYLDS and nvPRIME.
A coordinated industry rescue has raised $160 million to cover Aave's bad debt from the KelpDAO exploit, with total pledges exceeding $300 million after Consensys committed 30,000 ETH on Sunday.
Crypto protocols have lost $606 million to exploits in the first 18 days of April, driven by two enormous bridge attacks attributed to North Korea's Lazarus Group, making it the worst month for crypto security since the Bybit breach in February 2025.
The SEC's Division of Trading and Markets has exempted providers of self-custodial crypto wallet interfaces from broker-dealer registration, subject to more than 20 conditions and a five-year expiry that leaves the industry reliant on temporary relief rather than permanent rules.
The platform launched Polymarket USD, a wrapped stablecoin backed one-to-one by USDC, alongside a rebuilt trading engine and upgraded smart contracts that cut gas costs for its 300,000-plus active traders.
The foundation's new subsidy programme covers up to 30 per cent of audit costs for any Ethereum mainnet team, with more than 20 firms including Certora, Quantstamp and Spearbit ready to take on the work.
The USDC issuer has announced a wrapped bitcoin token backed one-to-one by native BTC with onchain-verifiable reserves, aimed at institutional counterparties including OTC desks, market makers, and lending protocols.
Privy, the Stripe-owned wallet infrastructure provider, has integrated the Uniswap API to offer native token swaps across 18 chains. The move gives developers building on Privy access to Uniswap's $4.3 trillion in cumulative liquidity with a single API call.
Privy, the Stripe-owned wallet infrastructure provider, has integrated the Uniswap API to offer native token swaps across 18 chains. The move gives developers building on Privy access to Uniswap's $4.3 trillion in cumulative liquidity with a single API call.
AllianceBernstein's research division predicted on January 7, 2026, that tokenization of real-world assets will drive a supercycle in crypto adoption.
Uniswap has unveiled Continuous Clearing Auctions, a permissionless protocol built for Uniswap v4 that aims to replace the chaotic free-for-all of early token trading with a structured, block-by-block auction mechanism.
Pump.fun raised $500 million in under 12 minutes in July 2025, achieving one of the fastest token sales in crypto history.
Coinbase's Base layer 2 network ran the 'Onchain Summer' campaign throughout summer 2024, driving total value locked to over $7 billion and daily transactions exceeding Ethereum mainnet volumes.
SOL rallied from $8 post-FTX lows to $100 by December 2023 as daily transactions topped 40 million and DeFi TVL grew tenfold.
MakerDAO has increased DAI stablecoin's debt ceiling through community voting, enabling the stablecoin supply to reach $100 million as demand for the cryptocurrency-collateralized asset grows.
