AAVE, ZRO, LDO, and ENA tokens plunged 10–22% as market repriced risk across DeFi protocols exposed to a bad debt event, with LayerZero priced as equally culpable as the originating lender.

Attacker minted unbacked rsETH through Kelp's LayerZero bridge, then borrowed WETH on Aave V3 and V4 before markets could freeze.

Solana announced wXRP is live on Titan Exchange, Real, Phantom, Jupiter, and Meteora, expanding cross-chain asset availability on the blockchain.

Morpheus Research's report alleges that the $7.7B fintech is exaggerating its use of blockchain technology, while Figure and asset manager Van Eck dispute the findings.

Lido's token is the only top DeFi token in the green over the past 30 days, fueled by a $20 million treasury repurchase program.

Sky's native stablcoins are being deployed on Avalanche via Skylink, Sky's crosschain bridge protocol built on LayerZero infra.

Tether is leading a $150M recovery initiative for Drift Protocol; the plan will also shift the perp DEX's primary settlement asset to USDT on Solana.

TRON founder escalates feud with Trump-linked DeFi project, alleging coercion and frozen voting rights.

Aave Checkpoint combines automated AI analysis with mandatory human verification to review all DAO proposals before onchain execution.

The platform's new Earn feature lets its thousands of institutional clients deposit their stablecoin to DeFi's top lending protocols directly on Fireblocks.