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DeFi Traders Increase Leverage As Markets Rally

Stablecoin borrowing rates have climbed to double digits on major lending protocols, with outstanding loans growing 20% to $8 billion in 2024.

Euler Finance Seeks Redemption Arc With V2 Deployment

Euler's TVL crashed to less than $100,000 after suffering a $197M exploit in early 2023.

Gauntlet Quits As Aave Risk Steward Citing Clashes With Community

The risk management firm “will be terminating its payment stream as soon as possible.”

Aave Moves To Launch $5M Quarterly Incentives Program

Aave proposes “Merit” program to reward GHO minters and LST depositors.

Universal Liquidity Protocol Pike Finance Goes Live

In beta, the protocol allows users to natively deposit collateral on one chain while borrowing funds on another.

DeFi Loan Volume Climbs to Highest Since August 2022

Loans on top seven lenders increased to $6 billion, the highest in over a year.

Contango Taps Spark For DeFi Native Perps

Contango’s Spark integration comes one month after launching Aave-based perpetuals

Tron’s JustLend Surpasses Aave As Largest Web3 Lending Market

JustLend’s TVL tags all-time high of $6B, ranking third among DeFi protocols

Prisma Finance Pulls In $30M With LST-backed mkUSD Stablecoin

Increased Debt Limit Of $10M Was Hit In Under Two Hours

ZRX-backed Loan On Aave V2 Gets Closer To Liquidation

Lending Market Has Been Frozen Since November 2022 But Limited Liquidity For 0x Protocol’s Governance Token Could Result In Bad Debt If ZRX Drops Sharply

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Holograph Brings Total Funding to $11M with Strategic Round Led By Mechanism and Selini Capital to Advance Omnichain Gaming

EigenLayer to Drop Token on May 10

The highly anticipated Ethereum restaking protocol has launched a claim portal for airdrop recipients, who were allocated 5% of the EIGEN supply in Season 1.

Ethereum Foundation Wants To Use AI to De-Risk ETH Ecosystem

The move aims to address rollup hacks.

Bitcoin Jesus is Back– Roger Ver Wants to Clear His Name

One of the earliest Bitcoin advocates is staging a comeback.

Omnity Introduces Cross-Chain Transfer Functionality For Runes

Runes users can now move their assets across Layer 1 and Layer 2 networks.

DoJ Opposes Motion to Dismiss Charges Against Tornado Cash Developer

The Department of Justice said Roman Storm profited to the tune of millions while working on Tornado Cash.