DeFi
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
DeFi

Veteran Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr exits OCEAN pool – Will hash power follow him to new pool?

OCEAN still represented 2.45% of trailing-day blocks after buying out its co-founder, while CONVOY disclosed no operational footprint. The post…
Aug 30, 2026
DeFi

Crypto market makers are cashing in on bitcoin's rally – without betting on direction

As bitcoin surges back above $80,000, sophisticated trading firms are quietly collecting yield rather than making directional bet. Read Full…
Aug 30, 2026
DeFi

Crypto market makers are cashing in on bitcoin's rally – without betting on direction

As bitcoin surges back above $80,000, sophisticated trading firms are quietly collecting yield rather than making directional bet. Read Full…
Aug 30, 2026
DeFi

Crypto stock tokens barely move over weekend, revealing markets become illiquid when Wall Street goes offline

Four Aerodrome pools showed $6.07 million in displayed liquidity while official Aave V3 records listed none of the B20 assets.…
Aug 30, 2026
DeFi

How $739B in new US debt could absorb crypto’s liquidity before buybacks even reach Bitcoin

The US Treasury expects to borrow $739 billion from July through September while paying investors to hand back some of…
Aug 30, 2026
DeFi

Ethena is targeting the $120 trillion Wall Street stock market to hunt yields 5x higher than Bitcoin

Ethena is expanding USDe into equity perpetual-basis trades, targeting funding yields more than five times higher than Bitcoin’s as the…
Aug 28, 2026
AI

Bullish Provides USD.AI $100 Million Facility for GPU-Backed Loans

The commitment will fund more GPU loans; USD.AI’s API reported $265 million in loan reserves and $491 million in TVL.…
Aug 28, 2026