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Ondo puts three "BlackRock-powered" portfolio tokens onchain — with BlackRock disclaiming most of the work
Ondo Finance launched three tokenized model portfolios built on nondiscretionary strategies from BlackRock, available only to eligible investors outside the U.S.
CertiK Pins ~$2B of 2025 Crypto Theft on North Korea, or About 60% of All Losses
Blockchain security firm CertiK says North Korea–linked hackers stole about $2.06 billion in crypto in 2025 — roughly 60% of all theft losses — and $6.75 billion across 263 incidents since 2016.
Galaxy Puts $100M of Sky's sUSDS on Its Balance Sheet, Approves It as Collateral
Galaxy Digital said it added $100 million of Sky Protocol's yield-bearing sUSDS to its treasury, approved the token as trading collateral, and bought an undisclosed amount of SKY, deepening existing lending ties between the two firms.
CFTC to Launch Public "Frontier Forum" Roundtables, Starting With AI and Agentic Finance
The CFTC's Innovation Task Force will launch a Frontier Forum roundtable series on financial technology, opening October 28, 2026 with a session on AI and "agentic finance.
S&P Global buys OpenZeppelin, moving from rating token issuers to auditing their code
S&P Global has agreed to buy smart-contract auditor OpenZeppelin for undisclosed terms, extending the ratings company's onchain risk push from rating token issuers to rating the code they run on.
Zama opens 16 confidential Morpho vaults, adds private swaps on Ethereum
Confidentiality protocol Zama opened 16 confidential Morpho lending vaults on Ethereum on September 15 and launched a private swap protocol, after its first vault reported reaching $40 million in deposits.
Balancer proposes to wind down and hand its treasury back to BAL holders
Balancer's treasury council has proposed shutting down the DeFi protocol and distributing at least $9 million in treasury assets to BAL holders who burn their tokens, with a governance vote set for Sept. 25–29.
Symbiosis recovers ~15 BTC after Bitcoin bridge exploit, dangles 20% bounty at attacker
Symbiosis says it recovered about 15 BTC after a Sept. 11 exploit of its Bitcoin Bridge minted roughly 46.1 billion unbacked syBTC, though security firms peg the attacker's actual take at about $336,000.
Hunter Biden's LAPTOP token craters 99% on day one; team blames "sniper bots"
Hunter Biden's LAPTOP memecoin spiked above $300 and a nominal $110 billion market cap in its first hour before falling more than 99%, with analysts estimating most traders lost money.
Cronos Rolled Back Two Hours of Transactions to Undo a $111M DeFi Exploit
Cronos reversed a roughly $111 million DeFi exploit by rolling back about two hours of on-chain transactions, according to Decrypt — a move that overrode the ledger's normal immutability.
A $1 token factory briefly outearned Pump and Hyperliquid on Robinhood's chain
Pons, an independent memecoin launchpad on Robinhood Chain, generated about $5.95 million in fees in 24 hours as roughly 25,000 tokens launched on September 2, according to DefiLlama data cited by CoinDesk.
Arbitrum DAO reports $6.19M in first-half income as Robinhood Chain becomes a fee engine
The Arbitrum Foundation says its DAO booked $6.19 million of income in the first half of 2026 across four revenue lines, with fees from the new Robinhood Chain quickly becoming a major contributor.
Robinhood Chain sets a revenue record; ARB rallies 30% on a payout holders don't receive
Robinhood Chain posted a record $1.92M in 24-hour revenue, sending Arbitrum's ARB token up more than 30% even though the network's fees flow to a treasury, not to token holders.
North Korea's Lazarus Group moved $30M+ through Hyperliquid while Washington courts the platform
Blockchain data from Arkham, reviewed by CoinDesk, shows wallets tied to North Korea's Lazarus Group sold over $30 million in bitcoin on Hyperliquid in three weeks, even as the Trump administration weighs bringing the platform onshore.
Ethena moves to end VC unlocks and put 95% of revenue into ENA buybacks — once USDe supply recovers by half
Ethena's foundation says it bought out locked ENA from seed investors who had been selling, will release the rest of the VC unlock in one tranche from Oct. 5, and has put a 95%-of-revenue buyback to a vote — contingent on USDe supply recovering to $7.5 billion.
Moonwell drained for about $8.7 million in a MAMO price-manipulation attack — its fourth pricing failure in under a year
An attacker inflated the price of the thinly traded MAMO token on Base, borrowed against it and drained roughly $8.7 million from Moonwell's lending markets, forcing a protocol-wide borrowing freeze.
LayerZero announces ATLAS exchange backend, with 75% of net fees pointed at ZRO buybacks
LayerZero announced ATLAS, a "headless" exchange backend on its Zero blockchain that routes 75% of net trading fees into ZRO buy-and-burn; the token jumped roughly 16% on the news.
One wallet's yield trade, a 3% dip, and $36.4M of Morpho liquidations
A single wallet's yield-token trade knocked PT-reUSD down about 3%, triggering roughly $36.4 million in liquidations on Morpho against looped positions that had under 3% of headroom.
Maya Protocol Halts Network After Six-Bug Exploit Drains $1.4M in Bitcoin
Maya Protocol halted its network on Wednesday after attackers chained six separate bugs to take roughly $1.4 million in Bitcoin, per a Decrypt report; the team has not published its own accounting.
Tokenized Invesco Treasury fund shares go live as collateral on Kamino
Kamino says tokenized shares of Invesco's $950M short-duration Treasury fund, issued by Superstate as USTB, can now be posted as collateral in its Solana lending markets, though loan terms went undisclosed.
Robinhood Chain's deposits are climbing. Its tokenized-stocks pitch isn't.
Total value locked on Robinhood Chain topped $540 million in mid-August, up more than 45% this month, while tokenized real-world assets shrank to 6% of the chain from roughly a third on July 7.
Hyperion DeFi posts $31M quarter as HYPE mark rises — and half its treasury goes out on loan
Hyperion DeFi reported $31 million in second-quarter net income, up from $8.8 million, as the value of its roughly 2 million HYPE tokens rose to $133 million.
Harmony confirms unauthorized mint of 4 billion ONE, says it is weighing a rollback
Harmony says an attacker minted 4 billion ONE tokens without authorization; on-chain researcher Juiceberg estimates about 97% has already reached exchanges, and the token fell roughly a third on Wednesday.
Cardano Foundation votes yes on a 120 million ADA treasury withdrawal for AlphaGrowth's "Cardano PRIME"
The Cardano Foundation said on August 11 that it voted yes on a treasury withdrawal of 120 million ADA to fund AlphaGrowth's "Cardano PRIME" liquidity program, publishing an on-chain vote hash but no program terms.
Standard Chartered puts a $200 tag on LINK by 2030, and shows its arithmetic
Standard Chartered initiated coverage of Chainlink with a $200 end-2030 target for LINK, roughly 25 times its current $8, built on a forecast that tokenized assets reach $4 trillion by 2028.
Tokenized real-world assets grew to $7.4 billion while the rest of DeFi shrank, CoinShares report says
A CoinShares and Token Terminal report says tokenized real-world asset deposits into lending markets and DEXs rose from $2.3 billion to $7.4 billion year over year while total DeFi deposits fell about 15%.
Tokenized real-world assets tripled to $7.4B in DeFi while the rest of DeFi shrank, CoinShares says
A CoinShares and Token Terminal report says tokenized real-world assets in DeFi lending and DEXs grew from $2.3 billion to $7.4 billion year over year while total DeFi deposits shrank about 15%.
Solomon Labs puts its USDv program on Solana mainnet — the stablecoin itself is still "coming"
Solomon Labs deployed its USDv "Chancery" program to Solana mainnet on August 5, publishing a program address, token mint and GitHub repo — but no issuer details, reserve disclosure or launch date for the token itself.
Crypto lobby and sheriffs' group trade letters over Clarity Act's DeFi carve-out, with days left before recess
The Blockchain Association wrote to Senate leaders on Monday disputing the National Sheriffs' Association's claim that the Clarity Act would exempt DeFi from anti-money-laundering rules, days before an August recess.
Aave moves to retire 96 markets and exit six chains, with $98.1 million of deposits in scope
A LlamaRisk-authored governance proposal would retire 71 asset markets across 11 Aave V3 deployments and wind down six chains entirely, covering $98.1 million in supplied assets.
Ostium says $23.75M vault drain came from breached off-chain systems, not its contracts
Onchain perpetuals venue Ostium says its July 15 loss of 23.75 million USDC came from a breach of off-chain infrastructure used to feed fraudulent BTC-USD prices, not from its contracts.
1inch Launches 'Aqua' Shared Liquidity Layer, But Hard Details Are Thin
Decrypt reported on July 28, 2026 that 1inch launched Aqua, a "shared liquidity layer," though public details on how it works and what it holds remain scarce.
NY Attorney General James tells Senate the CLARITY Act would 'dilute' states' power to prosecute crypto fraud
New York AG Letitia James told a Senate subcommittee the CLARITY Act would preempt state investor-protection laws and weaken fraud prosecution, as backers push for a Senate floor vote before the August recess.
Ethereum, Solana and Avalanche got cheaper and busier as their tokens halved, Bitwise says
Bitwise's first quarterly staking report found Ethereum, Solana and Avalanche grew busier and cheaper to use over the past year, yet staking revenue and all three tokens fell by roughly half.
Tokenized stocks on Robinhood Chain grow fivefold to ~$70M — but still under a tenth of the chain's trading
Tokenized real-world assets on Robinhood Chain rose to about $70 million, roughly fivefold in under two weeks, though memecoins and stablecoins still account for most of the network's near-$600 million daily volume.
Peirce weighs in on crypto vaults and onchain lending — as a commissioner, not the Commission
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce published a personal statement on crypto vaults and onchain lending strategies on July 22, addressing how DeFi "curator" roles fit existing securities law.
Morpho ships Midnight, a fixed-rate lending protocol, on Base
Morpho publicly launched Midnight, a fixed-rate, fixed-term lending protocol, on Base, positioning it alongside its variable-rate Morpho Blue and pitching institutional credit use cases.
Ethereum Foundation's monthly launch roundup leads with Robinhood's L2 and Aztec's decentralization milestone
The Ethereum Foundation's monthly "shipping" thread touts a Robinhood Layer 2 that cleared $1B in DEX volume in a week and Aztec's Stage 2 decentralization, but nearly every figure is self-reported by the projects involved.
Hyperliquid to open prediction-market deployment to anyone — for a 500,000 HYPE stake
Hyperliquid says a coming update to its HIP-4 upgrade will let anyone deploy prediction markets on the exchange, requiring a 500,000 HYPE stake that validators can slash for bad settlement.
A "$HOOD" token for Robinhood shows up on Solana — announced by Solana itself, with most of the details missing
Solana's official account says a "$HOOD" token tracking Robinhood, issued by Backpack Securities via a system called Sunrise, is now trading across Solana apps — but the announcement omits price, backing and Robinhood's own role.
UK Defers Capital Gains Tax on Crypto Lending and Liquidity Pools From April 2027
HM Revenue & Customs will treat crypto lending and liquidity-pool deposits as "no gain, no loss," deferring Capital Gains Tax until an economic disposal, from 6 April 2027.
Stock perps now make up nearly half of Hyperliquid's trading volume, The Block reports
Perpetual futures tracking stocks like Nvidia and Tesla have grown from roughly 2% to nearly 50% of Hyperliquid's daily perp volume this year, according to The Block, with builder-deployed HIP-3 markets driving the shift.
Gondor plans to let Polymarket users borrow against their whole portfolio to place bigger bets
Polymarket-focused startup Gondor says its v1 product will let users cross-margin their entire prediction-market portfolio to place leveraged bets, with a private test next week and a public launch targeted for September.
Robinhood built a chain for tokenized stocks. Two weeks in, memecoins own it
Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum layer-2 launched July 1 to host tokenized stocks, has drawn heavy early traffic driven mostly by memecoins, with real-world assets making up roughly $13 million of activity.
Robinhood Chain posts big week-one numbers — and its first scam-token warnings
Robinhood's crypto GM touted 17M transactions and $250M TVL a week into Robinhood Chain, as Relay Protocol warned of self-deleting scam tokens hitting buyers on the permissionless network.
Mantle shifts $2.5B Super Portal to Chainlink CCIP as LayerZero exodus tops $7 billion
Mantle is moving its $2.5 billion Bybit-built Super Portal from LayerZero to Chainlink's CCIP between July 9 and 15, part of more than $7.2 billion in announced bridge migrations since a March exploit.
Tokenized SpaceX shares drive on-chain equity trading to a record $3.86B in June
On-chain tokenized-equity trading jumped 145% to a record $3.86 billion in June, with tokenized SpaceX shares alone accounting for $1.19 billion after the company's $75 billion IPO, per a CoinDesk Data report.
Ondo says traders can now post tokenized stocks as collateral on its perps platform
Ondo Finance opened pre-alpha access to a perpetual-futures platform that lets non-U.S. traders post tokenized stocks as collateral, a claim reported by The Block and sourced to Ondo's own announcement.
Developers Are Testing Lending on the XRP Ledger — But "Missing Layer" Is Ripple's Framing, Not a Launch
Decrypt reported on June 29 that developers are testing native lending and credit features on the XRP Ledger, a long-promised capability Ripple describes as the network's "missing layer.
Uniswap DAO moves to claw back $42m in UNI loaned to delegates
Uniswap's DAO is voting to reclaim roughly $42 million in UNI tokens loaned to the Uniswap Foundation and top delegates in 2022–2023, with 53% in favor as of the May 8 close.
Wallet linked to accused $65M DeFi hacker Medjedovic moves $13.5M through Tornado Cash
On-chain records show a wallet tied to accused DeFi hacker Andean Medjedovic sent roughly $13.5 million in Ether to Tornado Cash, bringing funds laundered from his alleged thefts to nearly $25 million.
Drift's fix for its $295M hack: IOUs paid out of future revenue, possibly over eight years
Drift proposed compensating victims of April's $295 million hack with "recovery tokens" backed by future protocol revenue — a plan that, at 2025's earnings rate, could take roughly eight years to make users whole.
eToro leads $12.5M round in onchain perps exchange Extended
eToro said it led a $12.5 million strategic round in Extended, an onchain perpetuals exchange, alongside Jump Crypto, linking the deal to its recently acquired Zengo self-custody wallet.
Solana Ships Native Onchain Subscriptions and Spending Allowances
The Solana Foundation says it has deployed a native onchain program for recurring billing, delegated spending, and merchant subscription tiers on mainnet, with all details drawn solely from its own announcement.
MetaMask bundles yield, a debit card and trading into one "Money Account" — built on Monad, powered by its own stablecoin
Consensys launched MetaMask Money Account, a self-custodial hub bundling up to 4% DeFi-routed stablecoin yield, a Mastercard debit card and in-app trading, built on Monad and centered on its own mUSD stablecoin.
Symbiotic Rebrands From Restaking to "Collateral Markets" With Core V2 Launch
Symbiotic launched Core V2 on Wednesday, rebranding from restaking to shared "collateral markets" that pool capital across lending, insurance and tokenized-asset vaults, per The Block.