DeFi
DeFi

MAYAChain’s $1.36 million exploit spiraled into nearly $11 million of pool damage

A 23-message transaction corrupted pool accounting before CACAO fell 88.7%, widening the damage that Maya’s recovery plan still must reconcile.…
Aug 20, 2026
DeFi

US debt tops $40T stoking debate on what it means for Bitcoin

Analysts say the $40 trillion debt milestone could bolster Bitcoin’s long-term case, even as Treasury yields, dollar strength and liquidity…
Aug 20, 2026
DeFi

Treasury buybacks could set up Bitcoin’s next move toward $180,000, says strategist

Longtime bond market investor Mark Connors sees routine government bond buybacks improving liquidity and bringing bitcoin’s next rally closer. Read…
Aug 20, 2026
DeFi

Trump’s Hack-Back Memo Isn’t a License for Cyber Vigilantes, Crypto Lawyers Say

On DEX in the City, a former government lawyer and a crypto podcaster argued a barely-noticed White House memo deputizing…
Aug 19, 2026
DeFi

Cantor Fitzgerald Opens Institutional Block Trading in Kalshi Event Contracts

The investment bank will act as an introducing broker for privately negotiated prediction-market trades, with Susquehanna Predictions supplying the pricing…
Aug 19, 2026
DeFi

Bitcoin price hits $69,500 because US just doubled Treasury buybacks to crush long-term yields

Bitcoin and Ethereum surged above $69,500 and $2,000 on Wednesday after the US Treasury doubled planned buybacks of long-dated government…
Aug 19, 2026
DeFi

Crypto Long & Short: Where DeFi yield really comes from (and why it broke this spring)

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short, Solstice Finance’s David Plisek argues that most of the money lost in DeFi…
Aug 19, 2026
DeFi

Maya Protocol Exploit Drains $1.7 Million From Shared Liquidity

Founder Aaluxx said he would ‘work to fix and recover in full,’ while routing service LeoDex reported that Maya had…
Aug 19, 2026
DeFi

Gnosis Chain to Abandon Its Validator Set and Settle to Ethereum

GnosisDAO approved a strategic shift from standalone Layer 1 to an Ethereum-settled rollup, unlocking about 350,000 GNO and ending treasury-funded…
Aug 19, 2026
DeFi

Hayden Adams Says AMMs Will Win The Biggest Markets. A Former XTX Trader Says They're Going To Zero

The Uniswap founder’s first blog post since 2019 argues tokenized stocks will trade against index funds instead of dollars. The…
Aug 18, 2026