DeFi

DeFi
Lighter Names USDC as Preferred Stablecoin in New Circle Partnership
The agreement spans spot and perpetual trading, settlement, liquidations, and onboarding flows on the decentralized exchange.

DeFi
Securitize Taps Jump and Jupiter to Launch Regulated Trading for Tokenized Equities
The three-way partnership pairs Securitize's broker-dealer rails with Jump's PropAMM liquidity engine and Jupiter's Solana-wide aggregation layer.

DeFi
Drift Sets Out Token-Based Recovery Framework for $295M April Exploit
The Solana-based perpetuals exchange will issue burn-on-redeem recovery tokens funded by exchange revenue, a $127.5M Tether commitment, and another $20M from partners.

DeFi
Stellar Gets Its First Regulated, Yield-Bearing Stablecoin with YLDS Launch
YLDS is an SEC-registered, USD-pegged stable asset from Figure.

DeFi
World Liberty Financial Sues Justin Sun for Defamation
The move is the latest in an escalating feud and comes just weeks after Sun filed a lawsuit against World Liberty Financial for freezing his WLFI, alongside other allegations.

DeFi
DTCC Sets July Launch Window for Tokenized Securities Pilot
The DTC unit will begin processing limited tokenized trades in July before opening the service more broadly in October.

DeFi
Aave Asks Court to Vacate Restraining Notice Targeting Recovered Kelp DAO Assets
The emergency motion challenges a New York court order redirecting recovered Kelp DAO exploit funds toward decades-old terrorism judgments against North Korea.

DeFi
Lawyer Attempts to Seize Frozen ETH Linked to Kelp Exploit From Arbitrum DAO
A U.S. attorney is attempting to claim ETH frozen by Arbitrum following the Kelp DAO exploit — on behalf of victims of North Korean state hackers from prior incidents.

DeFi
Aave Deposits on MegaETH Cross $575M as Post-TGE Liquidity Pours In
MegaETH’s DeFi TVL has doubled since Thursday’s MEGA token launch, with USDM and Terminal Points farming pulling in fresh capital.

DeFi
TradeXYZ Launches Pre-IPO Perpetuals
IPOP markets reference anticipated public equity, convert to standard perps once shares list, and settle by TWAP if the listing fails.





