DeFi

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.
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.

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.
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.

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.
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.

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.

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.

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.
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.





