Defi

• Project 0’s new Pay feature offers a way for users to pay off their credit cards by borrowing against their crypto investment portfolios

MegaETH and Euphoria’s Casey Craig discuss on‑chain options, exploring new DeFi use cases and UX. Focus on consumer DeFi and UX abstraction, simplifying complex financial products

• Framework Ventures acquires 10% stake in mortgage firm Better. • Partnership aims to launch $500M DeFi credit program on Sky. • Tokens tied to mortgages will generate yield in st

• Step Finance, Solana NFT analytics, SolanaFloor, and Remora Markets shut down after $27M hack. • Hack occurred Jan 31, 2024, draining 261,854 SOL from treasury wallets. • Securit

• Solana Company launches ‘Pacific Backbone’ to build low‑latency network across Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong. • Infrastructure supports staking, validation, and trading, tar

• Curve founder says DeFi must ditch token emissions for real revenue Curve founder Michael Egorov told Cointelegraph that protocols cannot ’live without real revenues flowing’ as

• BlackRock, Apollo, and Citadel have acquired or agreed to acquire DeFi tokens. • Here’s why and what it really signals.

• The Ethereum Foundation’s Commitment to DeFi Supporting the builders shaping decentralized finance and strengthening Ethereum as the global financial settlement layer Posted by C

• Specialized AI detects 92% of real-world DeFi exploits New research claims specialized AI dramatically outperforms general-purpose models at detecting exploited DeFi vulnerabilit

• Wall Street boosts Bitmine stakes as DeFi lenders buckle on liquidity: Finance Redefined Crypto illiquidity is pressuring DeFi lending companies, but Wall Street giants continue

• Chaos Labs’ Craig La Riche and Lido’s Will Shannon said BlackRock’s purchase of UNI marks a turning point for institutional DeFi adoption.

• Hyperliquid launches DeFi lobby amid ‘critical time’ for US policy The Hyperliquid Policy Center says it will advocate on Capitol Hill for policies, particularly those related to

• Hyperliquid starts DeFi lobbying group with $29 million token backing Jake Chervinsky, CEO of the Hyperliquid Policy Center, said markets are migrating to blockchain, and the U.S

• Hyperliquid Foundation donates $29M worth of HYPE tokens to launch DeFi policy advocacy group. • New group aims to influence U.S. regulations to support decentralized finance gro

• Moonwell confirmed roughly $1.8 million in bad debt after a misconfigured oracle priced cbETH incorrectly and triggered liquidations.

• Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan believes decentralized finance can revive crypto markets post-winter. • Michael Saylor predicts a bullish ‘spring’ for Bitcoin, echoing optimism across th

• Flow has formalized its expansion deeper into consumer DeFi in a published strategy built around stablecoin-based consumer finance and enshrined protocols, a small set of default

• ZeroLend will wind down after operating losses as TVL fell 98% to $6.6 million and the ZERO token plunged.

• DeFi protocol ZeroLend shuts down after three years, citing inactive chains and hacks The protocol is shutting down after three years, citing unsustainable economics, thin margin

• Polygon surpassed Ethereum in daily transaction fees for first time, driven by Polymarket activity. • Friday fees: Polygon $407k vs Ethereum $211k, a significant gap. • Saturday

• DeFi lender ZeroLend shuts down, blames illiquid chains ZeroLend founder ‘Ryker’ says several blockchains the lending protocol operates on are now ‘inactive,’ leading to periods

Stacks Q4 2025 shows 120% DeFi TVL growth. STX price drops 57%, market cap falls 57%. Dual Stacking introduces BTC-native yield pilot. Protocol revenue declines 32%, daily transact

• Stablecoin market cap rose 0.58% to $307.7B, with USDC up 3.30% and USDT up 7.08%. • Active addresses fell 2.85% while monthly volume surged 62.21%. • Transaction volumes dropped

• TVL plunged 63.5% QoQ to $157.2M, stablecoin supply dropped 33.4%, reflecting DeFi deleveraging. • Lending protocols Yei Finance and Takara Lend drove 76.1% of the quarterly TVL

• Balancer hack analysis and guidance for the DeFi ecosystem TL;DR - The root cause of the hack was a rounding direction issue that had been present in the code for many years. • -