Latest DeFi News

Compound Announces $52M Program for Onchain Credit
The DeFi protocol plans to expand real-world asset support, improve capital efficiency, and provide integration tools for institutions building onchain…

BitGo Takes Lead in $26.6B Real-World Asset Market With 27.5% Share
Securitize, Ondo Finance, and BlackRock follow BitGo as RWA activity continues to expand across issuers and blockchain networks.

Derive Opens XRP Derivatives Trading Through Flare’s FXRP
The integration gives XRP holders a new DeFi route to trade derivatives using FXRP as collateral while keeping their assets…

EtherFi Moves Cash Credit Backend to Aave V4 on OP Mainnet
EtherFi Cash is shifting its lending infrastructure to an Aave V4 deployment on OP Mainnet, giving the product a new…

FATF Sets New DeFi Framework Using ‘Control or Influence’ Test
The new framework could bring DeFi protocols under AML rules if regulators find that individuals or entities have meaningful control…

Panther Protocol Hit by Governance Attack, 5.12M ZKP Drained on Base
Panther Protocol's Base deployment was exploited after an attacker used Reality.eth's optimistic governance process to pass a malicious proposal, draining…

Hyperliquid Active Traders Hit ATH While Volume Declines
Hyperliquid set a record for active perp traders despite lower daily volume and a slight dip in open interest.

Base Hacker Steals $500K USDC but Loses 74% in Costly Uniswap V4 Swap
The attacker executed the entire swap without setting a minimum output amount, exposing the trade to extreme slippage in a…

Uniswap Launches Pools.trade Token Launchpad on Robinhood Chain
Uniswap launched Pools.trade on Robinhood Chain, offering Crowd and Instant token launches with permanently locked Uniswap v4 liquidity.

Cloudflare Launches Wallets Completing Its Stablecoin Payment Rails for AI Agents
The wallets are the buyer-side complement to its Monetization Gateway, giving Cloudflare both sides of a machine-native payments market.

Coldcard Hacker Swaps Bitcoin to ETH via THORChain and Tornado Cash
CertiK has flagged suspicious movements of funds linked to the incident, with two separate 200 ETH deposits into Tornado Cash…

Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 Tops $4B in Open Interest for First Time
HIP-3 open interest reached a record $4.12B, driven by rising trading activity despite signs of broader market cooling.

Pump.fun Hits Highest Weekly Revenue Since March
Pump.fun's weekly revenue climbed to a five-month high, signaling renewed memecoin trading activity despite ongoing scrutiny.

Ostium Post-Mortem Confirms $23.75M Vault Loss, Blames Off-Chain Signer
The entire hit fell on the public OLP vault; trader collateral was untouched, and the liquidity-provider recovery plan is still…

Aave to Wind Down 50 Low-Adoption Reserves & 6 Chains Holding $98.1M
The plan, filed as a governance proposal by risk provider LlamaRisk and publicly backed by Aave Founder Stani Kulechov, still…

Uniswap Activates v4 Protocol Fees as Adams Rebuts LP-Cut Claims
Founder Hayden Adams rejected claims the fee cuts liquidity providers' earnings, calling it additive.

Trade.xyz to Cover SK Hynix Perp Losses While Insisting Its Oracle Worked
The builder behind the Hyperliquid market says a real trade on a thin Korean venue, not a malfunction, drove the…

Crypto DAO Drained for $8.2M on BNB Chain via Access-Control Bug
An elementary access-control exploit drained $8.2M from Crypto DAO’s Pro token contract, raising questions about basic smart contract security.

A Single Trade Crashed Hyperliquid’s SK Hynix Perp 18% and Wiped Out Longs
The xyz:SKHX contract fell from about $1,128 to a low near $927 before recovering, in a stress test of who…

Pons.family Now Runs More Than Half of Robinhood Chain’s Transactions
Dune dashboards show pons.family processed 1.65 million trades and $116.8 million in volume in 24 hours, against 3.08 million total…

Garden Finance Halts App After $450K USDT Exploit Hits Four Blockchains
The attack unfolded across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and BNB Smart Chain, where the attacker exploited fraudulent HTLC settlement requests after…

WEMIX Hacked Again: $6.25M Stablecoin Exploit Forces Network Shutdown
An attacker seized control of WEMIX$'s smart contract, minted $5.22 million in unauthorized tokens, laundered the funds across multiple blockchains,…

Crypto Loses Over $47M in a Week as AFX Trade, Wanchain, Verus Get Hacked
Bridge exploits dominated the week, accounting for the majority of the nearly $48 million stolen across six separate crypto attacks.

Phantom Pulls the Plug on Monad Less Than a Year After Launch
Users who fail to migrate before August 26 will lose Monad functionality in Phantom, though their assets will remain safely…

Triple-A Hot Wallets Drained of $9.3M Across TRON, Ethereum, TON & Solana
On-chain investigators report over $9.3M siphoned from payment gateway Triple-A's hot wallets across four blockchains and bridged to Ethereum—the latest…

Ethereum DeFi Protocol Lien Finance Hacked for $542K in USDC Exploit
An attacker exploited Lien Finance's permissionless bond registration and flawed OTC pricing logic to overvalue fake bond tokens and drain…

$44.4M ETH Moved: Drift Protocol Exploiter Breaks 3-Month Silence
After three months of dormancy, the Drift Protocol exploiter laundered 23,095 ETH ($44.4 million) through Tornado Cash while still holding…

Odos Urges Users to Move Assets Before July 30 Shutdown
The non-custodial swap aggregator will enter read-only mode on July 27, with users advised to secure their assets before the…

Uniswap Launches Permissioned Pools for Tokenized Assets
The Permissioned Pools aim to allow tokenized securities and regulated assets to trade onchain while enforcing issuer-defined compliance rules.

Verus Ethereum Bridge Exploited Again for $7.54M in Repeat Attack
Blockaid and exvulsec confirmed the exploit after an attacker abused Verus Bridge's submitImports function to drain $7.54 million across seven…