DeFi

DeFi
Oasis Vault Is Giving Away a CryptoPunk
Oasis Vault bought CryptoPunk 909 and is raffling it off. The case for why everything valuable about crypto is downstream from self-custody, and how a 2/3 multisig wallet tries to make holding your own keys workable.

DeFi
HashKey Joins Stacks as Bitcoin Staking Launch Partner and sBTC Signer
HashKey Cloud, the institutional staking arm of Hong Kong-listed HashKey Group, is joining Stacks as a launch partner for self-custodial Bitcoin Staking. It will participate in the first Stacks Genesis Bond and join the signer set that secures sBTC.
DeFi
Uniswap Labs Bought Pons Token for 'Long-Term Alignment'
Pons said Uniswap Labs purchased its token "for long-term alignment" four weeks after Uniswap Labs put a rival launchpad on Robinhood Chain. Neither company disclosed the size of the purchase, the price paid, or the wallet holding it.
DeFi
Lighter Leads Perp DEX Token Rally
LIT rose 13% to $4.21 and has doubled in 30 days as traders position for a U.S. perpetuals opening that Lighter has not applied for. Robinhood order flow now supplies 17% of the exchange's daily volume, against 12% on a 30-day basis, while perp DEX volume across the sector fell 30% over seven days.
DeFi
Trading Terminals Post First $1 Billion Day Since January 2025
Terminal volume crossed the mark on Sept. 2 with GMGN taking almost half of it, and 91% of GMGN's trades settled on Robinhood Chain. DEX volume across all networks rose 26% over 30 days. GMGN's Solana volume was flat.

DeFi
Polymarket Launches Perps With 20x Leverage
The prediction market listed 67 perpetual futures contracts on stocks, crypto, indices and commodities. Order placement is blocked from the United States.
DeFi
Curve Hands Its Risk Mandate To Two Resupply Developers
veCRV holders backed yRisk with 536.9 million votes and none against, then funded the mandate on Sept. 2 with 125,000 frxUSD and 568,181 CRV. yRisk's two contributors are the primary developers of Resupply, which lost $9.6 million to an exploit in June 2025, a fact absent from the proposal and from Curve's own comparative review.

DeFi
21shares to Participate in Stacks Genesis Bond, Advancing Institutional Bitcoin Staking
Stacks announced that 21shares, one of the world’s leading digital asset managers with over $6.5B in assets under management, will participate in the Stacks Genesis Bond, the inaugural institutional cohort for Bitcoin Staking on Stacks.
DeFi
Nomura's Laser Digital Moves Into DeFi Fixed Income
Laser Digital will act as risk governor for lending markets built with Keyring Network, with the first markets readied for Euler Finance. Neither company disclosed committed capital, fee terms or a launch date.

DeFi
Ethena Launches Pay App on Avalanche With Tiered Rate Up to 6%
The iOS beta starts with 400 users, while official terms cap boosted balances and put cashback at up to 5% — not 10%.





