DeFi's Near-Death Moment | Mike Silagadze on Ether.fi, Security, and What Comes Next
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Wall Street is buying DeFi tokens again, even as everyone worries the code is unsafe
The total value locked (TVL) on DeFi fell from $172 billion to $148 billion as the sector logged $635 million in exploit losses ac...
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A 'Bitcoin DeFi' project just shut down with a brutal post-mortem: Users just didn't care
"It did not work," Botanix said. "At least not in this market and not in this timeline."
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Botanix to shut down after 4 years, cites weak demand for Bitcoin DeFi
The Spiderchain developer told users to withdraw assets by July 9 after concluding demand for Bitcoin-native DeFi was not sufficie...
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Crypto’s killer app may be selling stocks after its own tokens failed retail
A Delphi Consulting analysis of 652 CEX listings from January 2025 onward found that a user buying every new token across Binance,...
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Aave Proposes Binding New Risk Framework Following the $292 Million KelpDAO Exploit
The post Aave Proposes Binding New Risk Framework Following the $292 Million KelpDAO Exploit appeared first on Unchained.
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CLARITY Act momentum slows to a crawl as lawmakers clash over crypto ethics rules
Bipartisan Senate talks over crypto ethics turned rocky this week after a Democratic source described an “about-face” by GOP membe...
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Morpho Raises $175M at $2B Valuation as Paradigm and A16z Back DeFi Push
Morpho has raised $175 million in a funding round led by Paradigm, A16z Crypto, and Ribbit Capital. The DeFi lending protocol is n...
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Is the Crypto Bull Market Over? Why This 50% Crash Is Different From 2018 and 2022
Bitcoin has halved from its all-time high of $126,200 and now trades near $61,000. Total crypto market capitalization has contract...
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Anthropic Splits the AI Frontier in Two: What the Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Launch Means for Crypto, Markets, and Everyone Else
Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 are, by Anthropic’s own description, the same underlying model. One is available to anybody wit...
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Circle wants wrapped Bitcoin to look bank grade before institutions trust it as collateral
Circle has launched cirBTC on Ethereum, but the larger play is to make wrapped Bitcoin look like collateral infrastructure institu...
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Anthropic’s public Claude Fable release has crypto on edge
The crypto community is getting antsy over today’s public release of Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 artificial intelligence (AI) softw...
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Aave Proposes Protocol-Wide Risk Framework After KelpDAO Exploit
Aave governance is weighing a protocol-wide risk framework that would apply to every asset on Aave V3, V4, and Aave Horizon, with...
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Trump family’s $2.3B crypto windfall matched by $2.25B in investor losses, Reuters finds
President Donald Trump’s family has turned crypto into one of the most lucrative businesses tied to its name, outpacing some of th...
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Crypto Industry Heavyweights Urge Senate to Pass Clarity Act With Developer Protections Intact
Bitcoin Magazine Crypto Industry Heavyweights Urge Senate to Pass Clarity Act With Developer Protections Intact More than 60 of th...
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Crypto Lending Protocol Morpho Raises $175 Million to Aid Wall Street’s DeFi Push
Decentralized lending platform Morpho has secured $175 million in its latest funding round, highlighting the rise of curated lendi...
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Ethena lands Janus Henderson backing as asset manager invests in ENA, eyes USDe distribution
The deal underscores the trend of traditional asset managers backing DeFi infrastructure, following BlackRock's Uniswap and Apollo...
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Cardano Isn’t Fading Away, DEX Aggregator Says As DeFi Metrics Rise
Cardano’s total value locked dropped close to 30% in June, sliding from $129 million to $92 million — a fall that closely tracks A...
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