DeFi

The cross-chain DEX restored signing, churning, swaps, and LP actions Tuesday morning, six weeks after an Asgard vault breach drained funds across four chains.

As the DeFi sector rushes to integrate zero-knowledge proofs and privacy pools, defi.com CEO Neil May has issued a sharp rebuke to the industry: the vast majority of privacy solutions are solving the wrong problem.

DeFi Saver has officially integrated Hyperliquid, the leading perpetual futures DEX, bringing futures trading and DeFi lending into one unified interface. A 50,000 USDC two-season incentives campaign opens June 8th.

Venture builder Improbable has invested $2 million in Otomato, the portfolio-aware DeFi intelligence layer that monitors users' on-chain positions 24/7 and alerts them when something materially changes their risk, cost, or opportunity.

On May 21, ARIQO, an onchain financial platform, made its first public appearance at Southeast Asia Blockchain Week (SEABW) in Bangkok.

Two regulated consumer finance platforms serving more than 75 million users across the US, UK, and EU have listed RAY within a month.

AI agents can now access 0x Protocol's Swap API by paying $0.01 per request in USDC directly from their own wallets, with no API key required, via the HTTP 402 and x402 standard built with Alchemy AgentPay.

Synthetix founder Kain Warwick published a detailed thread this morning acknowledging that sUSD has been depegged for over a year, taking personal responsibility for treasury mismanagement, and outlining a basis-vault-backed replacement stablecoin to run on the protocol's new v4 exchange.

Circle published a formal USDC method specification for the Machine Payments Protocol on Monday, standardizing how AI agents and automated services settle payments in USDC across EVM-compatible blockchains and Solana. The spec introduces the first crosschain MPP payment profile via Circle Gateway and adds USDCx on Stacks.

Securitize has been selected to tokenize economist Nouriel Roubini's Atlas America Fund into USAFi, a digital security issued under Dubai's VARA regulatory framework with BNY custody, designed for 24/7 institutional-grade collateral portability.