LayerZero has about eight monthly ZRO unlocks remaining, with the next 23.6 million-token release due October 20. A December fee-switch vote could add a new ZRO buyback and burn mechanism.
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A study in the Journal of Financial Crime counted 72 flash loan attacks among 254 DeFi exploits, with losses of $1.211 billion. Here is what the numbers cover.
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Plume’s new nFBND vault gives investors a tokenized claim on Fidelity’s FBND shares, but redemption and liquidity remain unconfirmed.
Clearpool plans to swap CPOOL for CLEAR and build private credit lending on the XRP Ledger, where the two ledger amendments it needs are still in voting.
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S&P Global's new framework grades risks across six areas of a crypto lending vault, but no vault has been assessed yet.
Kinetiq is offering eligible holders 50 million KNTQ at $0.26 for 10 days, putting a large discounted supply block on the market.
Blast says operating costs now exceed revenue. Users have until Oct. 26 to withdraw through its interface as about $63.5 million remains bridged.
Cardano DeFi TVL has fallen by more than half. RealFi's new credit tokens offer yield, but retail exits carry key risks.
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A Japan-focused DeFi project would use Uniswap v4 hooks for pool controls, but key details about enforcement, governance and deployment remain unclear.
Drift opened DFX claims for verified April exploit losses. The first redemption value is about 0.0104 USDT per token, backed by a 3.1 million USDT pool.
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ESMA wants to license DeFi gateways and tighten disclosure rules for staking and lending, while leaving most protocol contracts untouched.
StablePair uses a fixed reference price and cached data that can leave LPs exposed when a stablecoin weakens. The available data does not prove better returns.
XRPL validators are voting on lending changes that add closed-ended vaults, cash accounting and new restrictions for loan brokers.
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Morgan Stanley's new lab will test stablecoins, tokenized deposits and DeFi vaults away from core systems, with no client product announced.
Sentora wants to run Aave V4 lending markets on Ethereum and split revenue evenly with the DAO. The proposal has no live deployment or demand data.
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Balancer holders approved a wind-down. Here are the pool exit dates, withdrawal options, rejected fork and timeline for redeeming BAL.
Illinois’ draft rules would tax stablecoin activity and some DeFi platform fees, while excluding gas, NFTs and many ordinary wallet transfers.
Restaking fees lag ordinary staking as Ether.fi exits EigenLayer and Ether.fi shifts toward cards, borrowing and vaults.
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Aave’s new stock-token market keeps lending open while stock feeds freeze. Here’s why USDC suppliers may carry the gap when feeds reopen.
Validators moved 1.23M stolen ATOM to a recovery multisig, but a governance mandate is still required before funds can be returned.
THORChain is swapping funds linked to the Bitget hack into Bitcoin, reviving questions over who should stop stolen crypto.
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KelpDAO has sued LayerZero Labs and co-founder Bryan Pellegrino in British Columbia over the April 18, 2026 exploit of 116,500 rsETH worth about $292 million.
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Bitquery classified 58.4% of its $201.4B Solana DEX sample as circular or botlike trading over 30 days.
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A new Solana lending market on Kamino lets holders post sUSDai as collateral to borrow USDC, backed by a $280M loan book financing AI data centres.
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