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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
Asia Morning Briefing: Bittensor’s dTAO Shows a Retail Path to AI Exposure Beyond Robinhood’s SPVs
18.9.2025
Staking into Bittensor’s subnets offers one of several emerging routes for retail investors to gain exposure to decentralized AI’s early days – which might have more upside than comparatively mature OpenAI or Nvidia
21Shares Hits 50 Crypto ETPs in Europe With Launch of AI and Raydium-Focused Products
17.9.2025
AFET tracks a group of decentralized AI protocols, while ARAY offers exposure to Solana-based decentralized exchange Raydium's token
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...
Ethereum Foundation Starts New AI Team to Support Agentic Payments
15.9.2025
Research scientist Davide Crapis announced a new EF unit focused on AI payments, coordination and standards like ERC-8004 to ensure decentralized, verifiable infrastructure
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...
The Graph vs. the Gatekeepers: Can Decentralized Indexing Save Web3?
14.9.2025
Blockchain indexing is a crucial process that makes decentralized application (dApp) data accessible and usable. Despite The Graph’s success, challenges remain, particularly with data portability and fragmentation across different blockchains. Blockchain Indexing: Making DApp Data Usable The rise...
Bittensor Ecosystem Surges With Subnet Expansion, Institutional Access
13.9.2025
Yuma’s "State of Bittensor" report highlights accelerating growth, institutional entry and academic engagement as decentralized AI gains traction
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...
Linea Launches $1 Billion Token Incentive Program
5.9.2025
Linea has launched Ignition, a ten-week incentive program distributing 1 billion LINEA tokens to boost liquidity across major DeFi protocols. Brevis ZK Proofs Drive Linea’s New Liquidity Rewards Program Linea is rolling out Ignition, a 10-week growth initiative distributing 1 billion LINEA tokens...
Curve Finance Debuts New Pool for Foreign Exchange Trading
3.9.2025
Curve Finance has launched FXSwap, a new type of cryptopool specifically designed for foreign exchange and low-volatility trading pairs onchain. Curve’s New AMM Design Aims to Bring Forex Markets Onchain The implementation introduces a “refuel” mechanism where a stream of external funds maintains...
Chainlink and Solv Protocol Launch Secure Exchange Rate Feed
1.9.2025
Solv Protocol and Chainlink have launched a new Secure Exchange Rate feed for the SolvBTC wrapped bitcoin asset hosted on Ethereum. Chainlink Proof of Reserve Tech Used for Solv Protocol’s Exchange Rate Solv Protocol has launched a Secure Exchange Rate feed for its SolvBTC wrapped bitcoin asset...
Solv and Chainlink Bring Real-Time Collateral Verification to SolvBTC Pricing
1.9.2025
The SolvBTC-BTC Secure Exchange Rate feed combines exchange rate calculations with real-time proof of reserves, offering a robust on-chain redemption rate
Joe Lubin tips 100x Ether as Wall Street adopts decentralized rails
1.9.2025
Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin says Ether will flip Bitcoin as a “monetary base” as Wall Street adopts staking and DeFi infrastructure into their ecosystems