MiCA left crypto lending outside its original rulebook — but now Brussels is considering whether to bring it in. On May 20, 2026, the European Commission asked stakeholders to weigh in on areas left …
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CFTC Sues Goliath Ventures Over Alleged $397M DeFi Liquidity Pool Ponzi
by adminby adminThe complaint says $87 million went to Ponzi payments, $174 million to recruiter commissions and $48 million to CEO Christopher Delgado’s personal spending, with recoveries for roughly 1,600 customers now running through a bankruptcy …
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1inch launches Aqua to the public, introducing the first shared liquidity layer for DeFi
by adminby adminFollowing its developer launch in November 2025, Aqua now offers a risk-controlled alternative to DeFi’s pool-based model. 1inch unveils a Merkl-powered liquidity incentive program for Aqua, funded with 10 million 1INCH by the 1inch …
Decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens have held up unusually well against Bitcoin over the past month, suggesting the market may be “quietly re-rating” the sector, says crypto index fund maker Bitwise. Bitcoin (BTC) fell about …
Crypto yield has always carried a credibility problem. The same market that learned to demand proof after incentive-heavy protocols unwound still tends to compress risk into a single APY. That tension sits at the …
- Bitcoin & Ethereum
DeFi Users Warned to Revoke Approvals Before Anthropic’s Mythos AI Launches
by adminby adminToken approvals often accumulate unnoticed over time, creating potential exposure if previously trusted contracts become compromised. Anthropic is reportedly set to release a public version of its Mythos AI model, and crypto analyst The …
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TradFi will sit out DeFi growth until security issues are resolved, executives say
by adminby adminThe long-term value of decentralized finance (DeFi) depends on its ability to transform the back-office operations of global banking institutions rather than providing alternative trading environments, according to asset management and banking executives. Speaking …
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$6 Million Vault Exploit Forces DeFi Platform Summer.fi to Wind Down
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Summer.fi will wind down operations after a $6.04 million exploit hit its Lazy Summer Protocol on July 6, wiping out the capital the team needed to rebuild. The five-year-old Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platform said …
Bitcoin & Ethereum
Solana Exchange Raydium Hit With $1.34 Million Exploit as DeFi Attacks Grow
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In brief Solana DEX Raydium was hit with a $1.3 million exploit on Wednesday. The exploit affected five deprecated liquidity pools from an older version of its automated market maker program. The incident joins …
Bitcoin & Ethereum
Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin is rethinking how DeFi handles market crashes
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is exploring a new way to build crypto investment products that could reduce one of decentralized finance’s biggest risks: sudden liquidations. In a research post published Monday, Buterin proposed creating …
