Articles Tagged “DEFI”
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How Stablecoins Work: Reserves, Redemption and Sending Money
How do stablecoins work? Our guide explains the 4 types, how USDC reserves and 1:1 redemption work, and how to send a stablecoin transfer abroad safely.
Coinbase Fixed-Rate Bitcoin Loans Arrive via Morpho Midnight
Coinbase now offers fixed-rate USDC loans against bitcoin through Morpho Midnight on Base, adding certainty to a lending business with $1.4B in loans.
Circle Arc Mainnet Launches With USDC Paying Gas Fees
Circle opened Arc's public mainnet with 11 founding validators, 100+ apps live, and gas priced in USDC rather than a volatile native gas token.
Zama Opens 16 Confidential Morpho Vaults on Ethereum
Zama expanded encrypted DeFi to 16 Morpho vaults and launched a confidential swap protocol after its first vault reached $40M TVL in seven weeks.
Visa Opens Settlement Data to Onchain Card Lenders
Visa is combining VisaNet settlement data with onchain credit so stablecoin card programs can borrow working capital, after $2.5B financed, no defaults.
Blockchain Oracles Explained: How Data Gets On-Chain
Blockchain oracles feed real-world data to smart contracts. Here is how push and pull feeds, aggregation and staleness checks work in practice today.
Ether.fi Neobank Adds Tokenized Stocks, Metals, Loans
Ether.fi's Summer release brings 90+ tokenized assets, Aave-backed borrowing near 4%, and 30+ fiat rails to its 500,000 self-custody members.
Solana Slot Times Fall to 350ms on the Road to 200ms
Solana cut testnet slot times to 350ms on August 6, the first of four steps toward 200ms blocks, with Agave v4.2 mainnet targeted for August 17.
Zama Brings FHE Privacy Tokens to 70M Revolut Users
Zama's FHE confidentiality token listed on Revolut across the EEA on August 11, reaching 70 million customers with zero fees and self-custody withdrawals.
Jupiter Lend v2 Lets One Solana Deposit Earn Twice
Jupiter Lend v2 lets deposits double as trading liquidity, so the same capital earns lending interest and swap fees across $1.9B in deposits.
1inch Aqua Opens Shared DeFi Liquidity on 13 Chains
1inch opened its Aqua protocol to all users across 13 EVM chains, letting providers back multiple positions from one self-custodied balance.
Uniswap Permissioned Pools Move Compliance On-Chain
Uniswap v4's Permissioned Pools check issuer allowlists inside the pool, letting tokenized funds and equities trade on an AMM within the rules.
Ethereum Tokenized Assets Top $19B, Lead All Chains
Ethereum's L1 now hosts over $19.3B in tokenized real-world assets — about 65% of all public-chain value — as institutional adoption accelerates in 2026.
XRP Ledger Crosses $4 Billion in Tokenized Real-World Assets
The XRP Ledger now hosts roughly $4 billion in tokenized real-world assets across 500+ products, a 4x RWA jump this year that puts XRPL among tokenization leaders.
Sui's Confidential Transfers Beta Brings Compliance-Friendly On-Chain Privacy
Sui launched Confidential Transfers in public beta on June 10, adding compliance-friendly on-chain privacy aimed at broader institutional adoption of blockchain.
MetaMask's Agent Wallet Gives AI Traders DeFi Access on a Tight Leash
MetaMask's new Agent Wallet lets AI agents trade across 10 chains inside user-set rules, with Guard Mode limits, transaction simulation, and $10K protection.
Hyperliquid Pivots to USDC With Coinbase as Treasury Deployer — A New Stablecoin Revenue-Share Model
Coinbase became the official USDC treasury deployer on Hyperliquid on May 14, 2026 — sunsetting USDH and bringing a yield-share framework that could reshape stablecoin economics across DeFi.
Ethereum's Glamsterdam Upgrade Targets 10,000 TPS and 78% Lower Fees
Ethereum's next hard fork Glamsterdam is on track for June 2026, raising the gas limit from 60M to 200M, cutting fees by 78%, and targeting 10,000 transactions per second.
Alabama Gives DAOs Full Legal Status — Making It the Second U.S. State After Wyoming
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed the DUNA Act on April 1, granting DAOs formal legal entity status with property rights, contract authority, and member liability protection effective October 2026.
Polygon's Giugliano Hardfork Activates Today, Cutting 2 Seconds From Finality
Polygon mainnet activated the Giugliano hardfork at block 85,268,500 on April 8, delivering a 2-second finality improvement as part of the Gigagas scalability roadmap.
U.S. Banking Regulators Declare Blockchain 'Technology Neutral' — Clearing Banks to Hold Tokenized Securities
The Fed, FDIC, and OCC jointly rule that tokenized securities receive the same capital treatment as traditional ones, removing the last major barrier for bank participation in on-chain markets.
Circle Crushes Q4 Estimates as USDC Circulation Hits $75 Billion and Shares Surge 19 Percent
Circle’s Q4 revenue jumped 77% to $770M as USDC circulation reached $75B. Onchain transaction volume tripled year over year to $11.9 trillion.
ProShares Launches First GENIUS Act-Compliant Stablecoin ETF — And It Debuted at $17 Billion
ProShares launches IQMM, the first GENIUS Act-compliant stablecoin reserve ETF, generating record-breaking $17 billion in first-day trading volume as institutional crypto demand surges.
Aave Becomes the First DeFi Protocol to Cross $1 Billion in Real-World Asset Deposits
Tokenized Treasuries, bonds, and private credit are pouring into DeFi as Aave's Horizon market doubles deposits in a single month.