Firelight's Oct. 6 Switch Turns Staked FXRP Into Cover Backing
Firelight's October 6 activation moved existing staked FXRP into pooled cover backing. Exits now run 30 to 60 days and emissions stop at unstake.
XRPFLR +1 moreFirelight's October 6 activation moved existing staked FXRP into pooled cover backing. Exits now run 30 to 60 days and emissions stop at unstake.
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Chainlink Data Feeds and Data Streams are live on Stellar, as the Stellar Development Foundation covers oracle costs for $3.5 billion in RWAs.
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Hypercall has traded $592 million in options since June, $536 million of it in September, while the S&P 500 options market it targets trades trillions a day.
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Binance will remove all EPIC and QUICK spot pairs on October 28, with margin, futures, deposits and withdrawals closing on their own dates before then.
BNY and Citadel Securities moved a tokenized 2-year Treasury in minutes, then pledged it in an overnight repo. What the trade changes, and what it does not.
A Hyperliquid trader with 15 closed trades and one loss opened a roughly $60.7 million ETH long during a selloff that liquidated $774.14 million.
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Hyperliquid's Assistance Fund has bought over 48 million HYPE for $1.36 billion. The stake is worth about $3.95 billion, but whether it is burned is unsettled.
ENS founder Nick Johnson drafted a DAO proposal to activate ENSv2. New .eth registrations pause for a few hours, and the renewal rules conflict.
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Autheo's THEO fell 92% after 19 million tokens were minted on Base and swapped for 700.8 ETH, PeckShield said. Autheo says do not trade or bridge THEO.
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Derive's governance forum carries a proposal to fund a US-regulated derivatives venue. The document sets no spending figure, no launch date or named regulator.
Papertrade says it is restricting exposure onchain and through relayers after manipulation allegations, but the specific limits are not yet public.
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Aero launches October 21, 2026 across seven chains. AERO converts one for one and VELO about 0.044. Coinbase migrates both from November 2 to 4.
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GMX has built a significant presence in decentralized derivatives, reporting $561 billion in total trading volume while expanding leveraged markets beyond crypto.
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DWF Labs-linked firms DWF Maas and Falcon Digital are suing BitGo for $141 million, alleging it sold Falcon Finance and ESPORTS tokens before contractual lock-ups expired.
Citrini Research's report names Securitize, Coinbase, Circle, Aerodrome, Aave and Ondo as tokenization winners, and says fees matter more than activity.
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Chainlink says CCIP Vault Adapters are live, letting one network's DeFi vault take single-click deposits from 80+ blockchains.
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Solana-based decentralized exchange Orca and lending platform Loopscale have merged to create a new company called Formation, combining trading, credit and
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Lido contributors proposed Lido Lend, a modified Morpho Blue fork for stETH staking loops. Governance, market parameters and audits are still unpublished.
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Ledger's Crypto Loan lets you pledge cbBTC or wBTC and borrow USDC or USDT inside Ledger Wallet, with variable rates and approval on your device.
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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.
