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Galaxy targets institutional stablecoin yield with new DeFi vaults

The crypto financial services firm launched Galaxy Curator, a Morpho-based platform that gives Fireblocks’ 2,400 institutional clients access to onchain…
DeFi

ARK pushes back against a16z’s ‘TradFi wants blockchain, not DeFi’ claim

ARK Invest’s director of research disputed a16z crypto’s thesis that traditional finance will adopt permissioned blockchain infrastructure instead of decentralized…
DeFi

Aave Deploys Its V4 Lending Protocol on Avalanche

The rollout is the first time Aave’s new Hub and Spoke architecture has run on a chain other than Ethereum,…
DeFi

SummerFi to Wind Down After Seven Years, Citing Exploit

Aave founder Stani Kulechov called the DeFi access point ‘an OG’ as its team said it would sunset the UI.…
Data

R25 TVL surges 12.1% to $0.12B

R25 protocol TVL moved 12.1% in 24h to $0.12B. Category: RWA. Active on Pharos. Read the full story at DeFiLlama…
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How Morgan Stanley plans to bring crypto custody, staking and lending support in-house

Preliminary OCC approval outlines a bank that could consolidate key crypto functions, while outside venues and infrastructure remain essential. The…
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Ostium pauses trading as security firms report multimillion-dollar oracle exploit

Ostium halted trading and advised revoking contract approvals after blockchain security firms reported an apparent oracle-related exploit of its OLP…
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Another DeFi Exploit: Perp DEX Ostium Loses $18 Million in Oracle Attack

Hackers manipulated Ostium’s price feed by compromising an oracle signer key, allowing them to drain roughly $18 million from the…
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Aave launches V4 on Avalanche, laying groundwork for tokenized credit markets

The deployment marks Aave V4’s first expansion beyond Ethereum and introduces lending infrastructure designed to support future markets for tokenized…
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BitMine made $46 million staking Ethereum then lost twice that betting on it

BitMine’s push to turn one of the world’s largest corporate Ethereum holdings into a source of recurring income generated nearly…