The cross-chain lender that once held more than $300M in deposits now has $2.21M in total value locked, a sub-$2M market cap, and no remaining major-exchange listing — the slow end-state of an October 2024 exploit Mandiant traced to North Korea.

A court-ordered restraining order pushed Circle to blacklist Zama's cUSDC wrapper on Ethereum. The privacy protocol is not a defendant but every depositor in the pooled contract is locked out alongside the targeted funds.

Two regulated consumer finance platforms serving more than 75 million users across the US, UK, and EU have listed RAY within a month.

The founder of the company that owns the New York Stock Exchange praised the small decentralized exchange and its SpaceX pre-IPO market, even as ICE presses regulators over how to police perpetual futures.

Base introduces Model Context Protocol integration enabling AI agents to execute swaps, trades, and portfolio management across leading DeFi protocols.

On May 21, ARIQO, an onchain financial platform, made its first public appearance at Southeast Asia Blockchain Week (SEABW) in Bangkok.

Token Terminal reports that tokenized stocks have become the leading category of tokenized assets on Ethereum, with xStocks and Ondo Finance leading the sector.

Venture builder Improbable has invested $2 million in Otomato, the portfolio-aware DeFi intelligence layer that monitors users' on-chain positions 24/7 and alerts them when something materially changes their risk, cost, or opportunity.

As the DeFi sector rushes to integrate zero-knowledge proofs and privacy pools, defi.com CEO Neil May has issued a sharp rebuke to the industry: the vast majority of privacy solutions are solving the wrong problem.

Pump.fun now allows coin creators to launch with USDC-paired liquidity pools instead of SOL, raising starting market caps to $4k and increasing early-stage supply costs by 67% to improve token distribution and ecosystem health.