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Zora
DeFi

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 DAO
DeFi

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
DeFi

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
DeFi

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
DeFi

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
DeFi

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
DeFi

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
DeFi

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.
HashKey Joins Stacks as Bitcoin Staking Launch Partner and sBTC Signer
DeFi

HashKey Joins Stacks as Bitcoin Staking Launch Partner and sBTC Signer

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.
Uniswap Labs Bought Pons Token for 'Long-Term Alignment'
DeFi

Uniswap Labs Bought Pons Token for 'Long-Term Alignment'

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.