Restaking TVL Passes a Key Milestone, but Systemic Risk Questions Linger
EigenLayer-style protocols now secure tens of billions in restaked ETH, raising fresh concerns from researchers about correlated slashing.
Anya Verma//Sep 4, 2025//6m
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Aave V4 Launches with Unified Liquidity and Cross-Chain Credit
The largest on-chain money market has shipped its biggest architectural overhaul since 2020, consolidating fragmented liquidity into a single hub.
Sebastian Cole//Nov 26, 2025//6m
Aave Passes 'Aave Will Win' Vote, Routes 100% of Product Revenue to DAO
After a months-long fight with Aave Labs over fee redirection, the DAO passed a landslide proposal sending all product revenue to AAVE token holders.
Sebastian Cole//Apr 13, 2026//6m
Uniswap's Fee Switch Finally Flips, with a 'Token Jar' Twist
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.
Riya Mehta//Dec 18, 2025//6m
Stablecoin Supply Reaches Record as Payment Rails Eat Into SWIFT
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.
Olivia Chen//Sep 10, 2025//5m
Aave Labs Wins MiCA Approval, Push GHO Ramps Go Live
The Central Bank of Ireland authorized Aave Labs' fiat-to-crypto subsidiary, enabling zero-fee euro conversions for GHO and other supported stablecoins.
Olivia Chen//Sep 25, 2025//5m
CoWSwap Fee Redirect Sparks Aave Governance Crisis
Delegates discovered an integration that quietly diverted swap fees away from the DAO treasury, igniting one of the most contentious governance fights in DeFi.
Anya Verma//Dec 22, 2025//6m
BGD Labs Exits Aave, Citing Governance Tensions
The core infrastructure team behind Aave V3 announced its departure, calling out unresolved tensions with Aave Labs as the central reason.
Sebastian Cole//Apr 4, 2026//5m
Uniswap DAO Approves DUNA Wyoming Wrapper Ahead of Fee Switch
Token holders voted to incorporate the DAO as a Decentralized Unincorporated Nonprofit Association under Wyoming law, a prerequisite for any fee-switch activation.
Riya Mehta//Aug 19, 2025//5m
Société Générale Pilots DeFi Lending on Uniswap and Aave
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.
Olivia Chen//Oct 30, 2025//5m
EigenLayer Slashing Goes Live for First AVSs
After a careful staged rollout, slashable Active Validated Services on EigenLayer began enforcing their first real economic penalties this week.
Anya Verma//Aug 5, 2025//5m
Ethena's USDe Crosses $10B Supply on Yield-Bearing Demand
The synthetic dollar has grown into one of the largest stablecoins on-chain, defying earlier scepticism around its delta-neutral funding model.
Sebastian Cole//Jul 8, 2025//5m
MakerDAO Rebrands as Sky, Spark Spinout Launches Standalone
The original DeFi blue-chip completed its long-telegraphed Endgame restructuring, splitting into Sky for the stablecoin layer and Spark for the lending business.
Riya Mehta//Sep 18, 2024//6m
Pendle's Yield Trading Hits Record TVL Above $7B
The yield-tokenization protocol has emerged as an unexpected centrepiece of the points-and-airdrop economy, vacuuming up restaked-ETH liquidity.
Anya Verma//May 20, 2025//5m
Hyperliquid On-Chain Perp DEX Crosses $1B Daily Volume
The order-book derivatives venue has grown into a serious competitor to centralized exchanges, with token holders absorbing fees through a unique buyback mechanism.
Sebastian Cole//Apr 2, 2025//6m
RWA Tokenization on DeFi Crosses the $20B Mark
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.
Carmen Diaz//Dec 4, 2025//6m
Lido stETH Maintains DeFi Collateral Dominance Despite Decline
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.
Anya Verma//Aug 28, 2025//5m
Pump.fun's Revenue Is Still the Anomaly of the Cycle
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.
Theresa Volkov//Mar 14, 2025//5m
Stablecoin Yield Wars Heat Up Among USDe, USDC, and USDT
Issuers are competing for stablecoin TVL by passing more of the underlying treasury yield through to holders, reshaping the long-static stablecoin landscape.
Olivia Chen//Jan 22, 2026//5m
PancakeSwap V4 Launches with Hooks on BNB Chain
The largest BNB Chain DEX has shipped its biggest architectural overhaul, mirroring Uniswap V4's hook-based extensibility model.
Riya Mehta//Feb 12, 2025//5m
Curve Finance Recovers After Vyper Re-Entrancy Aftermath
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.
Sebastian Cole//Jan 8, 2025//5m
CLARITY Act Passes House 294-134, Heads to Senate
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act passed the House with bipartisan support, defining when a token is a security versus a commodity and clarifying SEC vs CFTC jurisdiction.
Marcus Webb//Jul 17, 2025//5m
Restaking Is Eating Itself, and Nobody Wants to Say It
The economic primitive was novel at small scale and has become structurally fragile at large scale. Pretending otherwise is increasingly costly.
Anya Verma//Feb 26, 2026//6m
Bitcoin's Treasury Imitators Will Define the Bear Market Casualties
MicroStrategy made the playbook look easy. The next downturn will reveal which copies were genuinely operational and which were leveraged caricatures.
Helena Cross//Jan 9, 2026//6m