DeFi

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.

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.

HashKey Cloud, the institutional staking arm of Hong Kong-listed HashKey Group, is joining Stacks as a launch partner for self-custodial Bitcoin Staking. It will participate in the first Stacks Genesis Bond and join the signer set that secures sBTC.

Pons said Uniswap Labs purchased its token "for long-term alignment" four weeks after Uniswap Labs put a rival launchpad on Robinhood Chain. Neither company disclosed the size of the purchase, the price paid, or the wallet holding it.

LIT rose 13% to $4.21 and has doubled in 30 days as traders position for a U.S. perpetuals opening that Lighter has not applied for. Robinhood order flow now supplies 17% of the exchange's daily volume, against 12% on a 30-day basis, while perp DEX volume across the sector fell 30% over seven days.

Terminal volume crossed the mark on Sept. 2 with GMGN taking almost half of it, and 91% of GMGN's trades settled on Robinhood Chain. DEX volume across all networks rose 26% over 30 days. GMGN's Solana volume was flat.

The prediction market listed 67 perpetual futures contracts on stocks, crypto, indices and commodities. Order placement is blocked from the United States.

veCRV holders backed yRisk with 536.9 million votes and none against, then funded the mandate on Sept. 2 with 125,000 frxUSD and 568,181 CRV. yRisk's two contributors are the primary developers of Resupply, which lost $9.6 million to an exploit in June 2025, a fact absent from the proposal and from Curve's own comparative review.

Stacks announced that 21shares, one of the world’s leading digital asset managers with over $6.5B in assets under management, will participate in the Stacks Genesis Bond, the inaugural institutional cohort for Bitcoin Staking on Stacks.

Laser Digital will act as risk governor for lending markets built with Keyring Network, with the first markets readied for Euler Finance. Neither company disclosed committed capital, fee terms or a launch date.