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DeFi

Bitcoin faces an 'identity crisis' and DeFi devs need to stop acting like tech bros

Solstice Labs CEO Ben Nadareski says developers must act like financial managers to win back institutional trust amid ongoing security…
DeFi

Zcash Pauses Orchard Pool for Emergency Fix as ZEC Surges Past $600

As Zcash devs tended to Orchard transactions, ZEC traders slammed the buy button. Read the full story at Bankless →
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Bitcoin drops toward $69,000 as Saylor sale spooks investors while AI tokens buck the trend

The price of bitcoin fell to its lowest since April 7 as Strategy’s sale dented sentiment, while AI tokens H…
DeFi

Grayscale Sets 0.29% Fee for Hyperliquid Staking ETF, Kicking Off a Price War Among HYPE Issuers

Grayscale filed S-1 Amendment 6 with a 0.29% sponsor fee for its Hyperliquid Staking ETF (HYPG), undercutting 21Shares’ THYP at…
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Vitalik Buterin Proposes Options-Based DeFi to End Forced Liquidations and the Real-Time Oracle Problem

Vitalik proposed replacing CDPs with options-based index-tracking assets, using slow oracles to reduce reliance on real-time price feeds that have…
Data

Rhea Lend TVL surges 12.3% to $0.12B

Rhea Lend protocol TVL moved 12.3% in 24h to $0.12B. Category: Lending. Active on Near. Read the full story at…
DeFi

DeFi protocol Radiant to wind down after failing to recover from 2024 hack

Radiant says its frontend and smart contracts will remain accessible and users will still be able to withdraw, repay, and…
DeFi

Vitalik Buterin Proposes Options-Based DeFi to Replace Liquidation-Driven Debt Model

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed splitting 1 ETH into two paired option assets that always sum back to 1 ETH,…
DeFi

Anchorage Digital Pushes Federally Chartered Settlement Into Non-Custodial DeFi With Coordinated Multiparty Layer

The OCC-chartered crypto bank is positioning its Atlas network as a coordinated multiparty settlement layer for institutional trading on Hyperliquid,…
DeFi

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin is rethinking how DeFi handles market crashes

In a research post published Monday, Buterin proposed creating index-tracking assets using options contracts rather than the debt-based structures that…