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Fidelity’s Dollar Stablecoin Taps Curve and Uniswap as Its DeFi Liquidity Layer
The Fidelity Digital Dollar stablecoin deployed Curve Finance Stableswap LP positions and Uniswap LP positions simultaneously in a single Ethereum block Thursday evening, with Curve founder Michael Egorov noting the same-block execution as evidence of DeFi operational expertise.
MetaMask Launches Agent Wallet in Early Access, Giving AI Agents Self-Custody Acces
The Consensys-owned wallet provider opened early access Monday for autonomous AI agents to trade across 25+ EVM chains and Hyperliquid, with transaction simulation and $10,000 in loss coverage as the security pitch.
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Fidelity’s Dollar Stablecoin Taps Curve and Uniswap as Its DeFi Liquidity Layer
The Fidelity Digital Dollar stablecoin deployed Curve Finance Stableswap LP positions and Uniswap LP positions simultaneously in a single Ethereum block Thursday evening, with Curve founder Michael Egorov noting the same-block execution as evidence of DeFi operational expertise.
MetaMask Launches Agent Wallet in Early Access, Giving AI Agents Self-Custody Acces
The Consensys-owned wallet provider opened early access Monday for autonomous AI agents to trade across 25+ EVM chains and Hyperliquid, with transaction simulation and $10,000 in loss coverage as the security pitch.
PENDLE Token Goes Live on Revolut, Reaching 20M EEA Crypto Traders
The yield-tokenization protocol's $233M-mcap token is now buyable inside Revolut's MiCA-licensed crypto app across the UK, EU, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein — the second on-chain yield protocol to land on the fintech's regulated rails after Maple's SYRUP in April.
BlackRock's BUIDL Pushed Avalanche's Tokenized Asset Total Past $1.16B
A single allocation of BlackRock's $2.85B USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund drove more than half of Avalanche's distributed real-world asset total on a 58% two-week jump, putting the network behind only Ethereum among institutional tokenization venues.
Anchorage Digital Becomes Collateral Manager for Ethena's Institutional Lending
The OCC-chartered crypto bank will hold borrower collateral in segregated custody and run real-time margining for Ethena's overcollateralized loan book, configuring DeFi-native lending around bank-grade controls.
Coinbase Ventures Buys ENA on the Open Market as Coinbase and Ethena Strike Distribution Deal
The exchange's venture arm bought ENA tokens directly on the open market rather than through a private round, the first such disclosed purchase, alongside a partnership to push Ethena's onchain dollar and savings products into Coinbase's userbase.
Vitalik Buterin Proposes Options-Based DeFi to Replace Liquidation-Driven Debt Model
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed splitting 1 ETH into two paired option assets that always sum back to 1 ETH, eliminating forced liquidations and letting synthetics rely on slow, prediction-market-style oracles.
Anchorage Digital Pushes Federally Chartered Settlement Into Non-Custodial DeFi With Coordinated Multiparty Layer
The OCC-chartered crypto bank is positioning its Atlas network as a coordinated multiparty settlement layer for institutional trading on Hyperliquid, Lighter, and Aave — letting funds touch live DeFi without moving assets offshore or prefunding venues.
Radiant Capital Winds Down to a $2M Husk, 20 Months After DPRK-Linked $50M Heist
The cross-chain lender that once held more than $300M in deposits now has $2.21M in total value locked, a sub-$2M market cap, and no remaining major-exchange listing — the slow end-state of an October 2024 exploit Mandiant traced to North Korea.
Circle Freeze on Zama's Confidential USDC Locks $12.6M of User Funds in DeFi 'Crossfire'
A court-ordered restraining order pushed Circle to blacklist Zama's cUSDC wrapper on Ethereum. The privacy protocol is not a defendant but every depositor in the pooled contract is locked out alongside the targeted funds.