DeFi
DeFi

Some DeFi Pools Are Rigged to Fake a Good Price, Enso Finds

Enso says it found two real pools, on Ethereum and Polygon, engineered to pass a wallet’s pre-trade simulation with an…
Jul 16, 2026
DeFi

Morning Minute: Base Hands Its App Over to Cobie

Plus, Stripe makes a $53 billion move that could crown a stablecoin king. And Ostium gets drained of $18M in…
Jul 16, 2026
DeFi

Morning Minute: Base Hands Its App Over to Cobie

Plus, Stripe makes a $53 billion move that could crown a stablecoin king. And Ostium gets drained of $18M in…
Jul 16, 2026
DeFi

Galaxy targets institutional stablecoin yield with new DeFi vaults

The crypto financial services firm launched Galaxy Curator, a Morpho-based platform that gives Fireblocks’ 2,400 institutional clients access to onchain…
Jul 16, 2026
DeFi

Galaxy targets institutional stablecoin yield with new DeFi vaults

The crypto financial services firm launched Galaxy Curator, a Morpho-based platform that gives Fireblocks’ 2,400 institutional clients access to onchain…
Jul 16, 2026
DeFi

ARK pushes back against a16z’s ‘TradFi wants blockchain, not DeFi’ claim

ARK Invest’s director of research disputed a16z crypto’s thesis that traditional finance will adopt permissioned blockchain infrastructure instead of decentralized…
Jul 16, 2026
DeFi

Aave Deploys Its V4 Lending Protocol on Avalanche

The rollout is the first time Aave’s new Hub and Spoke architecture has run on a chain other than Ethereum,…
Jul 16, 2026
DeFi

How Morgan Stanley plans to bring crypto custody, staking and lending support in-house

Preliminary OCC approval outlines a bank that could consolidate key crypto functions, while outside venues and infrastructure remain essential. The…
Jul 15, 2026
DeFi

Ostium pauses trading as security firms report multimillion-dollar oracle exploit

Ostium halted trading and advised revoking contract approvals after blockchain security firms reported an apparent oracle-related exploit of its OLP…
Jul 15, 2026
DeFi

BitMine made $46 million staking Ethereum then lost twice that betting on it

BitMine’s push to turn one of the world’s largest corporate Ethereum holdings into a source of recurring income generated nearly…
Jul 15, 2026