DeFi

DeFi
0x Co-Founder Will Warren Steps Down as Co-CEO
Will Warren is transitioning out of his co-CEO role at 0x, the DEX protocol powering billions in monthly trading volume across Coinbase, Robinhood, Phantom, and Kraken.

DeFi
Coinbase Lands Hyperliquid Stablecoin Role Eight Months After Governance Vote Picked Native Markets
Native Markets is selling its brand assets to Coinbase as USDC becomes the protocol's canonical quote asset.

DeFi
Grove Launches Basin With up to $1 Billion in Daily Liquidity for Tokenized Real-World Assets
Grove has launched Basin, a DeFi protocol providing instant onchain stablecoin liquidity for tokenized real-world assets with up to $1 billion in daily liquidity capacity.

DeFi
Ethena's ENA Token Launches on Solana via Sunrise DeFi: Solana
Ethena's ENA stablecoin is now live on the Solana blockchain through integration with Sunrise DeFi.

DeFi
Aave Proposes Babylon-Powered Native BTC Borrowing Spoke for V4: Governance Temp Check
Aave DAO is seeking approval to integrate Babylon protocol for native Bitcoin collateral in Aave V4, eliminating reliance on wrapped BTC or custodial intermediaries.

DeFi
Court Greenlights Arbitrum DAO Vote to Move $71M in Recovered Kelp ETH to Aave
The court order allows the on-chain Constitutional AIP vote and transfer to proceed without violating the restraining notice, but the freeze itself extends to Aave LLC.

DeFi
NEAR Intents Expands Crosschain Swaps to Support 100+ Tokens Into Zcash: NEAR
NEAR Intents upgraded its frontend to enable single-flow swaps from over 100 tokens directly into ZEC, leveraging intent-based architecture for crosschain transactions.

DeFi
xStocks Assets Surge Past $100M on Ethereum, $30M on BNB Chain: xStocks
Tokenized stock protocol xStocks has crossed $100M market cap on Ethereum with 1,000% YTD growth, while expanding to BNB Chain with $30M in commodities-linked assets.

DeFi
Ripple Prime Secures $200M Debt Facility to Expand Lending Capacity
Funds managed by Neuberger Specialty Finance committed the facility to grow margin financing for the multi-asset prime broker.

DeFi
Stream Finance Breaks Six Month Silence With Wind-Down Plan
A newly formed Delaware entity will consolidate and liquidate remaining assets, with "strategic alternatives" coming in the next few weeks.




