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The core infrastructure team behind Aave V3 announced its departure, calling out unresolved tensions with Aave Labs as the central reason.
Issuers are competing for stablecoin TVL by passing more of the underlying treasury yield through to holders, reshaping the long-static stablecoin landscape.
Delegates discovered an integration that quietly diverted swap fees away from the DAO treasury, igniting one of the most contentious governance fights in DeFi.
After years of debate, the protocol-level fee switch is live — diverting between one-quarter and one-sixth of fees into a contract that UNI holders can burn into.
Tokenized U.S. Treasuries, private credit funds, and money-market products now represent a meaningful slice of on-chain TVL, led by BlackRock's BUIDL.
The largest on-chain money market has shipped its biggest architectural overhaul since 2020, consolidating fragmented liquidity into a single hub.
The French bank's digital-asset arm has begun running live euro-stablecoin lending pilots on permissionless protocols, a first for a globally systemic institution.
The Central Bank of Ireland authorized Aave Labs' fiat-to-crypto subsidiary, enabling zero-fee euro conversions for GHO and other supported stablecoins.
Total stablecoin float has hit a fresh all-time high above $312 billion, with corporate payments accounting for a meaningful share of monthly transfer volume.
Even as Lido's market share of staked ETH has eroded post-Pectra, stETH remains the single most-deposited collateral asset across major lending markets.
Token holders voted to incorporate the DAO as a Decentralized Unincorporated Nonprofit Association under Wyoming law, a prerequisite for any fee-switch activation.
After a careful staged rollout, slashable Active Validated Services on EigenLayer began enforcing their first real economic penalties this week.
The synthetic dollar has grown into one of the largest stablecoins on-chain, defying earlier scepticism around its delta-neutral funding model.
The yield-tokenization protocol has emerged as an unexpected centrepiece of the points-and-airdrop economy, vacuuming up restaked-ETH liquidity.
The order-book derivatives venue has grown into a serious competitor to centralized exchanges, with token holders absorbing fees through a unique buyback mechanism.
The Solana launchpad continues to generate hundreds of millions in annualized fees from a single core product — at a fraction of the headcount of any comparable startup.
The largest BNB Chain DEX has shipped its biggest architectural overhaul, mirroring Uniswap V4's hook-based extensibility model.
Two years after the Vyper compiler exploit nearly broke the protocol, Curve has steadily rebuilt liquidity and is again the dominant venue for stablecoin pairs.
The original DeFi blue-chip completed its long-telegraphed Endgame restructuring, splitting into Sky for the stablecoin layer and Spark for the lending business.
