DeFi
DeFi
Robinhood Chain Overtakes Base on Daily Active Users Three Weeks After Launch
The Arbitrum Orbit network posted 324,000 daily active users and a record $588.9 million in TVL on July 21, edging out Coinbase's L2 on activity — though memecoins, not the tokenized stocks it was built for, are driving most of the volume.

DeFi
Ostium to Reopen Trading July 23 After $23.8M Vault Exploit
Positions will be marked to the live market price at reopen, and new OLP liquidity-provider deposits stay paused as the protocol works through recovery.

DeFi
Ground Expands Its Onchain Yield Infrastructure Into Tokenized Assets, Deepens Executive Bench adds Stephanie Vaughan as COO, to Drive Institutional Growth
Following a recent fundraise, Ground is growing beyond blockchain native yield by embedding a diverse suite of RWAs, enabling instant access to everything from highly liquid tokenized treasuries and structured credit through a single API.

DeFi
Ondo Enables Tokenized Stock Collateral on OndoPerps
Ondo Stocks holders can now back perpetual futures positions with SPYon and QQQon, subject to an initial $100,000 per-asset notional cap.

DeFi
Pump.fun Adds 'BOOST' Liquidity Mode for Every New Coin
The Solana launchpad's co-founder says the change adds about 20% liquidity to each newly migrated coin, with all figures the company's own projections.

DeFi
Morpho Launches Fixed-Rate Lending Protocol Midnight on Base
The DeFi lender also released a new Markets App that lets users set their own rates and terms, starting on Base with more networks to follow.

DeFi
Lynq Partners With Nonco to Enable 24/7 Stablecoin Liquidity for Institutions
Institutional settlement network Lynq has partnered with digital asset liquidity provider Nonco to give clients around-the-clock access to stablecoin liquidity.

DeFi
Lighter Makes Stock Tokens Eligible Collateral on Robinhood Chain
The perpetuals exchange now accepts Robinhood's tokenized equities as margin, expanding beyond the USDG stablecoin and delivering on a plan to broaden collateral in the third quarter.

DeFi
Hyperliquid to Open HIP-4 Prediction Markets Behind 500,000 HYPE Stake
Deployers can set fees of up to 50% but face slashing by validator vote for poorly defined or unsettled markets, under terms Hyperliquid calls preliminary.

DeFi
Tokenized Stock Lending TVL Reaches $23M as DEX Volume Climbs
Token Terminal data shows QQQ and SPY trackers gaining onchain trading and collateral use, but the totals remain a rounding error next to broader DeFi.