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DeFi
Valinor Raises $25M Seed Round to Bring Private Credit Onchain
The ex-Blackstone team wants to move beyond crypto-collateralized loans and into ‘real economy credit’ as the tokenized RWA sector continues to grow.

DeFi
Aave V4 Launches on Ethereum Mainnet
Announced at EthCC in Cannes, the upgrade enables institution-specific borrowing environments, structured credit products, and RWA-backed lending within a unified liquidity system.

Blockchains
Metals.io Brings Tokenized Gold, Uranium, and Rare Earth Metals to Tezos
Built by Tezos R&D hub Trilitech, the new web app brings tokenized rare earth metals on-chain alongside gold and uranium as AI-driven industrial demand intensifies.
Podcast
Omer Goldberg: The DeFi Exploit That Exposed a Bigger Problem
A new DeFi exploit triggered millions in losses, but the deeper story is about risk. In this episode, Omer Goldberg, founder of Chaos Labs, explains how the attack unfolded, why the damage spread across lending markets, what vault curators got wrong, and whether DeFi is truly ready for mainstream adoption. If you want to understand stablecoin risk, oracle design, curator incentives, and the future of safer onchain finance, this is the conversation to watch.

Blockchains
Gnosis and Zisk Unveil 'Ethereum Economic Zone' Framework
Co-funded by the Ethereum Foundation, the EEZ promises synchronous composability between Ethereum mainnet and Layer 2 networks, aiming to address ecosystem fragmentation.

Markets
World Foundation Completes $65 Million Worldcoin Token Sale: World Foundation
The World Foundation sold $65 million in WLD tokens through over-the-counter block trades with four private counterparties at an average price of $0.2719 per token.

Research & Opinion
ECB Study Concludes DeFi DAOs Aren't as Decentralized as They Claim
A new working paper from the European Central Bank examined four major protocols and found that a small number of actors control the bulk of governance token holdings.

DeFi
NYSE Owner ICE Pours Another $600 Million Into Polymarket
Intercontinental Exchange has now deployed nearly $2 billion into the onchain prediction market, underscoring Wall Street's growing conviction that event-based trading is here to stay.

Markets
Bitcoin Hits Two-Week Low as $443M in Longs Get Wiped Out
Iran escalation and $171 million in ETF outflows drive BTC below $66,000.

TradFi & Fintech
MARA Sells 15,000 BTC for $1.1 Billion to Retire Convertible Debt
Largest U.S. Bitcoin miner offloads roughly a quarter of its treasury to buy back $1 billion in zero-coupon notes at a 9% discount, dropping to third among corporate BTC holders.




