The Trump family’s DeFi protocol was forced to sell $5 million of BTC today to cover an Aave loan.

The move comes amid a broader Aptos TVL decline and less than two years after Merkle closed a $2 million seed round with participation from Aptos Labs.

The proposal also includes requiring any new deployment to guarantee at least $2 million in annual revenue to Aave.

The move comes as crypto prediction markets continue to rise in popularity, seeing record volumes.

Tether's $100 million investment in Anchorage Digital underscores a commitment to secure, regulated financial systems, reinforcing Anchorage's status as the first federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S.

The stablecoin protocol ended its “Frontier” rewards phase with a dollar-denominated token airdrop.

The funding round comes right after the platform had a record month for revenue and trading volume.

The prediction market on Base recorded a spike in trading volumes at the end of January.

Creators can now launch tokens on Solana via Solana DEX Raydium.