DeFi
DeFi

Félix Raises $200 Million in a16z-Led Round to Take Stablecoin Rails Beyond Remittances

The WhatsApp remittance service settles most transfers in USDC without its customers ever touching crypto, and now plans to add…
Sep 2, 2026
DeFi

Robinhood Chain DEX Volume Jumps to $1.6 billion

Trading on the Ethereum Layer 2 climbed 61% in a matter of days as DeFi deposits and stablecoin holdings approached…
Sep 1, 2026
DeFi

Robinhood Chain DEX Volume Hits $1.49 Billion As Pons Takes Two-Thirds Of Launchpad Fees

The two-month-old Arbitrum network ranked second among all chains by decentralized exchange volume over 24 hours, ahead of Ethereum, BNB…
Sep 1, 2026
DeFi

Firelight raises $8 million, expands beyond XRP as it aims to make DeFi less scary for fintechs

The protocol aims to give fintechs and investors a faster way to recover losses from DeFi hacks, while letting XRP,…
Sep 1, 2026
DeFi

Phemex puts 82 tokens on notice over liquidity and project compliance concerns

Each market met at least one risk criterion, but Phemex did not disclose which issue applied to each pair. The…
Aug 31, 2026
DeFi

Russia's Sberbank Sees $46 Billion in Crypto Trading, Plans Ethereum and USDT-Backed Loans

Deputy Chairman Anatoly Popov told state media that trading could hit 4 trillion rubles in its first year, as the…
Aug 31, 2026
DeFi

A Memecoin Called BONER Has Cornered Half the Tokenized Hims & Hers Float

The BONER/HIMS pool on Robinhood Chain holds 31,198 of the 58,714 tokenized Hims & Hers shares that exist. With the…
Aug 31, 2026
DeFi

Cronos Halts Its Blockchain After $75 Million Exploit at Lending Protocol Tectonic

An attacker inflated Tectonic’s own governance token roughly 100-fold and borrowed against it, and Cronos validators froze the entire network…
Aug 31, 2026
DeFi

Cronos halts blockchain after $75 million lending exploit hits lending app Tectonic

An attacker allegedly pushed Tectonic’s thinly traded TONIC token up 100-fold, used it as collateral to borrow real assets and…
Aug 31, 2026
DeFi

US treasury relies on stablecoins to fund short-term debt, but they can’t fix its $28B long-bond problem

GENIUS reserves stop at 93 days while Treasury expands liquidity buybacks across 10- to 30-year debt. The post US treasury…
Aug 30, 2026