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Here is why a massive $1.6 billion in crypto liquidity is sitting idle and wasting away
18.7.2026
About $542 million weekly sat outside active trading ranges, meaning this capital earned zero fees and provided no market depth
Stripe and Swift race to control the next generation of global payments infrastructure
17.7.2026
Crypto and blockchain experts say this week's moves show the two established finance companies are increasingly competing for control of the infrastructure behind digital payments
DeFi’s Newest Threat: How Malicious Liquidity Pools Are Trick-Quoting Ethereum and Polygon Users
17.7.2026
DeFi infrastructure firm Enso has identified a new class of malicious liquidity pools called “toxic pools.” Unlike traditional exploits that steal funds directly, these pools manipulate transaction simulations. A ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ Tactic A newly uncovered class of malicious...
UK HMRC Says Crypto Lending Will Trigger No Capital Gains Tax Until Economic Disposal
17.7.2026
HMRC will treat certain crypto lending and liquidity pool transactions as “no gain, no loss” from April 2027, deferring Capital Gains Tax until users make an economic disposal. The measure is expected to affect about 700,000 individuals and simplify tax reporting for DeFi users. HMRC Defers Capital...
Galaxy targets institutional stablecoin yield with new DeFi vaults
16.7.2026
The crypto financial services firm launched Galaxy Curator, a Morpho-based platform that gives Fireblocks' 2,400 institutional clients access to onchain yield strategies
Quickswap Adopts Orbs Layer 3 Perps Stack After 81.8% Vote, Challenging CEX Execution
16.7.2026
Quickswap is integrating Orbs’ perps as its default perpetual futures infrastructure across all supported blockchain networks. A New Era for Decentralized Derivatives Quickswap has adopted Orbs’ Perpetual Hub Ultra 2.0 as its default infrastructure for perpetual futures trading across all supported...
Robinhood Chain Surges: L2 Posts More Than $3 Billion in DEX Volume With 7 Million Daily Transfers
13.7.2026
Robinhood Chain processed more than $3 billion in trading volume during its first full week of public operation, according to defillama.com data, but most of that volume came from meme coins rather than the tokenized stocks the network was built to support. The Arbitrum Orbit layer two (...
Aave rolls out vaults for yield-hungry fintech investors
9.7.2026
Aave's new Stable Vaults product lets wallets, exchanges and payment apps offer yields on stablecoin deposits
BonkDAO Treasury Loses $20M in Malicious Governance Attack, BONK Slides 8%
6.7.2026
BonkDAO, the decentralized autonomous organization overseeing the BONK meme token ecosystem on Solana, confirmed on Monday that it was the victim of a targeted governance attack resulting in the loss of approximately $20 million in BONK tokens. The incident highlights a critical vulnerability...
Variational Introduces Swaps with $1B TradFi Liquidity
6.7.2026
Variational is introducing a new trading instrument called Swaps with institutional TradFi liquidity on Arbitrum. Swaps are designed…
Summer Finance Pauses Vaults After $65.4M Flash Loan Attack Triggers $6M Loss
6.7.2026
On Monday, July 6, the DeFi protocol Summer Finance was hit by a sophisticated flash loan and price manipulation attack, resulting in an estimated loss of $6 million. Security Firms Flag Breach Blockchain security firms reported Monday, July 6, a major security breach targeting Summer Finance,...
DeFi protocol Summer.fi halts Lazy Summer vaults after $6 million exploit
6.7.2026
The protocol’s SUMR token fell by over 18% after the incident
Banks have stopped asking if stablecoins belong in finance, now they're considering how
5.7.2026
Financial institutions are racing to become the secure gateways for stablecoins as digital asset volume is projected to explode by 2030
Tokenization's next use case is personalized portfolios, NYLIM executive says
4.7.2026
Thomas Sy, head of multi-asset solutions at the $800-million asset manager, says blockchain can enable complex portfolio construction that's not yet possible in traditional finance
THEA Raises $8 Million to Build Solana-Based AI Settlement Network
4.7.2026
THEA has raised $8 million in strategic funding to expand its behavioral AI infrastructure and develop Thea Network. The project aims to create a trust-minimized settlement layer for AI services, using off-chain compute, Solana anchoring and zero-knowledge proofs. Maven 11 and Spartan Back THEA’s...
This sanctioned Russian stablecoin claims it processes billions, but blockchain analysts disagree
3.7.2026
A7A5 claims crypto data providers understate its trading activity, while blockchain analytics firms say the ruble-backed token's volumes have fallen sharply this year
EToro invests in onchain derivatives platform Extended as brokers race into DeFi
2.7.2026
The broker plans to bring perpetual futures into Zengo wallet and expand DeFi products to its core platform as rivals like Robinhood expand onchain offerings
Anchorage Digital Adds Lido Support, Opens Liquid Staking Access for Institutions
2.7.2026
Anchorage Digital, the only federally chartered crypto bank in the United States, has integrated with Lido, the largest liquid staking protocol on Ethereum. The announcement shared with Bitcoin.com News says that the integration lets institutional clients connect to the Lido dApp directly from...
BNB Chain Unveils AI Agent Studio With Wallets, Payments and AWS Cloud Integration
2.7.2026
BNB Chain has launched BNB Agent Studio, a developer platform for creating AI agents with wallets, onchain identities, payments and cloud hosting from a single prompt. The tool is built with AWS infrastructure and is designed to make autonomous agents easier to deploy, own, and operate. AWS and...
Morpho poised to scale as DeFi infrastructure play, Standard Chartered says
1.7.2026
The bank initiated coverage of Morpho with a $60 end-2030 price target, saying its DeFi lending and onchain infrastructure businesses are positioned to benefit from tokenization growth