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Pump.fun Lets Creators Launch Coins Priced In Tokenized Stocks
Pump.fun opened token launches to quote assets beyond SOL and USDC on Wednesday afternoon, putting the count at 93 pairs including tokenized Nvidia, Tesla and the S&P 500. Half the revenue from the new pairs goes to the PUMP buyback-and-burn contract. The deepest of the new quote assets holds $3.07 million of liquidity.
Zora Co-Founder Dee Goens Replaces Jacob Horne as CEO
Goens said Zora is now under 10 people after a headcount reduction this year and named ZORA buybacks among his first priorities. Fees from the protocol’s Base deployment are down 99% from a year ago.
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Constant Finance Opens Public Beta for Fixed-Rate, Fixed-Term DeFi Lending
Constant Finance, a fixed-rate, fixed-term DeFi lending protocol, today announced that the public beta of its lending product is now available on Ethereum’s Sepolia testnet, giving borrowers and lenders a hands-on way to explore loans with an agreed rate and maturity.
Pump.fun Lets Creators Launch Coins Priced In Tokenized Stocks
Pump.fun opened token launches to quote assets beyond SOL and USDC on Wednesday afternoon, putting the count at 93 pairs including tokenized Nvidia, Tesla and the S&P 500. Half the revenue from the new pairs goes to the PUMP buyback-and-burn contract. The deepest of the new quote assets holds $3.07 million of liquidity.
Zora Co-Founder Dee Goens Replaces Jacob Horne as CEO
Goens said Zora is now under 10 people after a headcount reduction this year and named ZORA buybacks among his first priorities. Fees from the protocol’s Base deployment are down 99% from a year ago.
Arbitrum Watchdog Seeks Permanent Bans For Three Grant Recipients
The committee behind Arbitrum's grant-misuse bounty program wants Good Entry, Limitless and APX Finance barred from all future DAO programs. None has replied to the forum thread, and three Snapshot votes could open as early as Sept. 10.
Consensys Software Inc. Splits In Two, Rebrands As MetaMask
The company behind the MetaMask wallet will keep the wallet and rename itself MetaMask, with Joe Lubin as CEO. Linea, Besu and the institutional infrastructure business move into a newly formed company that carries the Consensys name. Completion is expected by the end of 2026.
Compound Opens Institutional Market With 87% LTV
The market takes ETH, wstETH, WBTC and cbBTC as collateral against USDC at loan-to-value ratios of up to 87%. Compound says borrowing is open to anyone, with approval required only for the 200,000 USDC in supplier rewards.
EagleSwap Announces Milestone of 10,000 Completed Swaps
EagleSwap, a non-custodial cryptocurrency swap platform, today announced that it has reached 10,000 completed swaps, marking a new stage in the platform's operations.
Morpho Expands Fixed-Rate Midnight Markets to Ethereum
USDC markets backed by WBTC and cbBTC are live, while roughly $5 billion held in Morpho Vaults remains unable to enter Midnight pending DAO action.
Router Protocol Plans Sept. 30 Shutdown and 303 Million ROUTE Burn
DefiLlama shows $9,879.92 locked and no bridge volume over 30 completed days; Router’s notice only instructs centralized-exchange holders to withdraw by venue deadlines.
Oasis Vault Is Giving Away a CryptoPunk
Oasis Vault bought CryptoPunk 909 and is raffling it off. The case for why everything valuable about crypto is downstream from self-custody, and how a 2/3 multisig wallet tries to make holding your own keys workable.