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Societe Generale-FORGE Opens Ethereum Access for Regulated Euro and Dollar Tokens
30.9.2025
Societe Generale-FORGE, the digital assets unit of France’s third-largest bank, is pushing its euro and dollar stablecoins deeper into decentralized finance (DeFi) with new deployments on Morpho and Uniswap. EURCV, USDCV Go Live on Morpho Vaults With Curation by MEV Capital With vaults live, pairs...
Starknet Unveils BTCFi: Trustless BTC Staking, Partners, and 100M STRK Incentives
30.9.2025
Starknet today announced BTCFi, a trilogy of initiatives aimed at deepening bitcoin’s role as a global settlement asset by embedding BTC into Starknet’s security and consensus. For the first time on any L2, BTC holders can stake without losing custody to secure Starknet and earn rewards;...
Flying Tulip Raises $200M, Targets $1B in Combined Funding Across Token Sales
30.9.2025
Flying Tulip, a newly launched full-stack on-chain exchange founded by Andre Cronje, has successfully raised $200 million in a private funding round. The Full-Stack Onchain Ecosystem Flying Tulip, a newly launched full-stack on-chain exchange, recently secured $200 million in a private funding...
The End of Retail Banking as a Place to Store Your Money
29.9.2025
For generations, retail banks were seen as the safest place to keep money. Checking accounts offered convenience, savings accounts promised growth, and branches stood as symbols of security. That model worked in the past. Today, it no longer adds up. Leaving money in a retail bank has become one...
Aster, Hyperliquid, and More: Nearly $1 Trillion in Perp DEX Trades Recorded in Just 30 Days
28.9.2025
With the perpetual decentralized exchange (DEX) wars blazing hotter than a meme coin rally, defillama.com shows the battlefield tally: nearly a trillion dollars in trades over the last week, with a cool $869.189 billion stamped on the books. Aster and Hyperliquid Command 52.80% of $869B Perp...
Ripple’s Vision for Institutional DeFi Is Taking Shape Fast on XRP Ledger
28.9.2025
Ripple is accelerating institutional DeFi as the XRP Ledger hits $1 billion in monthly stablecoin volumes, unlocks real-world asset momentum, and builds compliant blockchain credit infrastructure. Ripple Drives Institutional DeFi Forward as XRP Ledger Enters Its Most Ambitious Phase Yet Ripple...
Hypervault Goes Dark, Users Register $3.6M in Losses
26.9.2025
Reports indicate that Hypervault, a project part of the Hyperliquid ecosystem, has disappeared overnight with over $3.6 million in user funds. Peckshield highlighted that most of these funds were bridged to Ethereum, and then 752 ETH was sent to Tornado Cash. Hypervault Rugpulls, Leaves Users...
2025’s Perp DEX Wars: New Money, New Tech, No off-Switch
26.9.2025
Perpetual futures have become crypto’s main event, and the perp DEX wars—led by Hyperliquid, Aster, GMX, DYdX, ApeX, Drift, Jupiter, EdgeX, and Sunperp—are where the action won’t quit. From Order Books to Onchain: Inside 2025’s Perp DEX Dogfight Perpetuals are derivatives without an expiry; funding...
Wall Street Wants in on DeFi. Here’s How to Make It Happen
25.9.2025
Programmable yield, automated compliance, and access to FedNow could bring decentralized finance, or “DeFi,” into the financial mainstream
From Minting to Vaults: FXRP Unlocks New Utility for XRP on Flare
24.9.2025
The Flare mainnet has launched its first Fasset, FXRP v1.2, to enable XRP holders to use their assets in decentralized finance. The Dawn of XRP DeFi: Flare’s Fassets Go Live The Flare mainnet has officially launched its first Fasset, FXRP v1.2, marking a significant milestone for the XRP community....
SEC Task Force Examines DeFi Lending Rules in Meeting With Crypto Firm
22.9.2025
DeFi lending landed back on the SEC’s agenda as regulators met with industry players to examine token classification, smart contracts, and paths toward compliant crypto loans. SEC Crypto Task Force Discusses DeFi Lending Regulation The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Crypto Task Force...
Tron’s Sunperp Debuts as Perp DEX Competition Intensifies
21.9.2025
Tron’s latest entrant in decentralized derivatives, Sunperp, has opened for traders, adding a new venue to a field crowded by perp players like Hyperliquid, Avantis, Aster, Dydx, GMX, and Jupiter. Sunperp Opens on Tron; Traders Eye Fees, Slippage, and Funding Positioned as a perpetuals-focused...
Vitalik Buterin: Low‑Risk DeFi Could Be Ethereum’s “Search” Moment
21.9.2025
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin argued in a blog post Sept. 21, 2025, that “low‑risk” decentralized finance (DeFi) could become for Ethereum what search was for Google, providing the primary, sustainable revenue engine while preserving the platform’s broader cultural and technical goals....
From Mempool Hunters to Math Proofs: Grvt’s $19M Onchain Play
20.9.2025
Grvt just closed a $19 million Series A to fuse privacy and scale into onchain finance, pitching a zero-knowledge (ZK) exchange that makes institutional polish feel retail-friendly. Grvt’s $19M Lift Targets MEV Pain and Compliance Friction Grvt (pronounced gravity) — a decentralized exchange (DEX)...
DeFi TVL Nears 2021 Peak as $160B Locks In
20.9.2025
Decentralized finance (DeFi) TVL has climbed to $160.985 billion, nearing the $177.421 billion peak from November 2021, per defillama.com. DeFi TVL Eyes Its All-Time High Defillama shows total value locked (TVL) dipped 1.17% in the past 24 hours, but the stack hasn’t looked this hefty since...
DeFi TVL Rebounds to $170B, Erasing Terra-Era Bear Market Losses
18.9.2025
After three years of rebuilding, decentralized finance has returned to pre-Terra levels with more measured growth and rising institutional adoption
Is Ethereum’s DeFi Future on L2s? Liquidity, Innovation Say Perhaps Yes
16.9.2025
Ethereum is in the midst of a paradox. Even as ether hit record highs in late August, decentralized finance (DeFi) activity on Ethereum’s layer-1 (L1) looks muted compared to its peak in late 2021. Meanwhile, layer-2 (L2) networks like Arbitrum and Base are booming, with billions in total value...
Defillama Criticizes Misleading RWA Metrics, Calls out Figure Co-Founder Allegations
15.9.2025
0xngmi, founder of Defillama, has called out some companies for promoting what he called fake RWA metrics, replicating database movements onto blockchains to simulate activity. The post comes as an answer to Figure, which claims that Defillama has repeatedly refused to list their volumes due...
Coinbase Welcomes Sensible Co-Founders in Corporate Lift-out
10.9.2025
Sensible was an investment platform that allowed users to earn “up to 8%” yield on deposited crypto. Coinbase Makes Strategic Talent Grab, Acquires Team From Sensible The two co-founders of crypto investment platform Sensible, Jacob Frantz and Zachary Salmon, have now joined Coinbase as part of...
Active Tokenized Private Credit Loans Near $16 Billion, APR Slips Below 10%
6.9.2025
Active loans in tokenized private credit now top $15.95 billion, signaling rapid growth but also sharper fault lines in protocol performance. Loan Counts Fall as Tokenized Credit Market Consolidates Tokenized private credit has grown significantly since mid-June, adding more than $2 billion...