The world's largest asset manager will list the USDe synthetic dollar as an approved asset on its institutional risk platform, while its BUIDL fund becomes the primary backing for Ethena's whitelabel stablecoins.

Aave confirmed Saturday that Aavenomics 3.0 is now active, with automated AAVE token buybacks running and DAO operational spending reduced, completing a governance roadmap the protocol has built toward since mid-2024.

Aave founder Stani Kulechov previewed Aavenomics 3.0 on X Thursday, an automated on-chain buyback mechanism that would route all protocol and GHO revenue to AAVE holders by default, replacing the existing discretionary committee-directed program.

The founder said all Aave protocol and GHO revenue flows to the AAVE token and that the brand and software belong to holders, responding to a report that Kraken is in talks to buy a 15% stake at a $385 million valuation.

Abracadabra.money declared emergency measures after its MIM stablecoin fell roughly 50% below its $1 peg, triggering interest rate hikes across all Cauldrons, a halt to Curve bribes, and a suspension of direct incentives.

Spark, Uniswap, and Sky are launching shared stablecoin liquidity infrastructure, beginning with a $150 million USDS migration to Uniswap v4 pools designed to serve a multi-issuer stablecoin economy.

Teams can now launch token auctions directly from the Uniswap Web App using Continuous Clearing Auctions, with no code required.

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.

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.