DeFi

EtherFi Cash was V4’s second-largest market at $257 million, while Aave V3 retained a much larger $31 billion deposit base.

FRIEND rose 28-fold within an hour of the post, and friend.tech fees jumped. Machi would buy the X account and the domain as the trading contracts have belonged to the null address since 2024.

A new framework assigns protocol IP and value accrual to the Ethena Foundation, while a live vote would use effectively 100% of net revenue for ENA purchases.

The savings app supports bank and stablecoin deposits; a July proposal described swaps and foreign exchange as additions planned for 2026.

A wallet bought yield tokens in a $9 million Pendle pool, pushing the principal token price down 2.8% and clearing out looped positions on a Morpho market carrying $52 million in borrows. No bad debt was incurred.

Four tokens covering Nvidia, Apple, Meta and Alphabet went live for non-US users, with about $4.5 million minted and $3 million of DEX liquidity on day one. Chainlink price feeds run 24/5 while the tokens trade 24/7.

Justin Sun's individual claims will be heard in open court, and the two sides must negotiate which of the claims brought by his corporate plaintiffs go to a private arbitrator. No written order had been entered on the docket as of Thursday afternoon.

The Uniswap founder's first blog post since 2019 argues tokenized stocks will trade against index funds instead of dollars. The replies split between investors who called the thesis disruptive and traders who asked who would want to sell NVIDIA for SPY.

Printr said it will cease all operations by Aug. 31 and will not hold the token generation event or airdrop it had promised. The launchpad raised $4.5 million last October and collected 84% of its lifetime fees in a single month.

Google Trends set its five-year high for "prediction market" the week the 2026 World Cup opened, and its single-day high on the day of the final. Category volume hit a record in July. August is pacing lower on both, and Polymarket is falling behind Kalshi faster than the mindshare data suggests.