DeFi
DeFi

Tokenized stocks as DeFi collateral arrive before the borrowing risk is settled

bStocks tied to Tesla, Nvidia, and SpaceX exposure are now in Venus’ Core Pool, but launch caps keep the borrowing…
Jun 22, 2026
DeFi

Controversial Ethereum Proposal Would Fund Development From Validator Rewards

A new proposal from Clément Lesaege would let a validator majority redirect up to 10% of staking rewards to ecosystem…
Jun 22, 2026
DeFi

ETH stakers could see rewards cut as Ethereum fights to fund its future

Ethereum core contributors are debating a structural overhaul that could redirect Ethereum staking rewards toward ecosystem development. The protocol-level proposal…
Jun 22, 2026
DeFi

Instant Bitcoin checkout arrives, but risk now shifts to settlement control

GoMining’s live SDK and API give merchants instant BTC acceptance, while its own pool becomes the trust layer to watch.…
Jun 22, 2026
DeFi

Franklin Templeton Files for Two ETFs That Reinvest Stock Dividends Into Bitcoin

Bitcoin Magazine Franklin Templeton Files for Two ETFs That Reinvest Stock Dividends Into Bitcoin Franklin Templeton filed for two new…
Jun 21, 2026
AI

OpenRouter's Fusion Promises Claude Fable-Level AI for Cheap—Right as Fable 5 Goes Dark

OpenRouter’s compound-model API stacks budget AI models—and beat GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 outright in benchmark testing. Read Full Story…
Jun 20, 2026
DeFi

Bitcoin shrugged off Japan’s rate hike – The bigger liquidity test came from Washington

The Bank of Japan raised its benchmark interest rate to 1% on June 16, the highest level the country has…
Jun 20, 2026
DeFi

Crypto industry looks to stablecoins and DeFi revisions in MiCA 2.0

The European Commission is seeking comment on how it can tweak MiCA, its regulatory framework for the crypto and blockchain…
Jun 20, 2026
DeFi

Bitcoin’s ‘digital credit’ yield trade breaks below par as margin calls hit $10 billion market

Bitcoin’s emerging digital-credit trade broke below its promise of calm this week. This week, Strategy’s STRC preferred shares fell as…
Jun 20, 2026
DeFi

Wall Street Loves Ethereum, So Why Doesn’t the Market Love ETH?

Ethereum is winning the institutional platform war, and it isn’t even close. Asset manager Janus Henderson, all $480 billion of…
Jun 19, 2026