DeFi

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.

DeFi
ONDO Surges 68% in a Week amid US Tokenization Push
A four-firm pilot settling the first cross-border, cross-bank redemption of tokenized U.S. Treasuries on the XRP Ledger extended a rally sparked by Ondo's seat at the DTCC’s tokenization table.

DeFi
Tydro Keeps Markets Paused After Chaos Labs Flags Suspected Nation-State Attack
The largest DeFi protocol on Kraken's Ink Layer 2 network is onboarding Chainlink and RedStone feeds before resuming its lending markets.

Education
BChat: A Decentralized Privacy Messenger Built on the Beldex Network
A metadata-resistant alternative to Signal and Telegram routes messages through 2,680 masternodes, doesn’t require a phone number to sign up, and ties identity to a portable .bdx domain.

DeFi
Bitwise to Take Over Superstate's $267M Tokenized Crypto Carry Fund
Bitwise will become the investment manager of USCC on June 1, marking its first tokenized fund and Superstate's second handoff to a major asset manager this year.

DeFi
1inch Resolver TrustedVolumes Drained for $6.7M on Ethereum
Blockchain security firm Blockaid linked the exploit to the same operator behind the March 2025 1inch Fusion V1 incident, though it stems from a different vulnerability.

DeFi
Gnosis Treasury Redemption Vote Swings as Whale Counters Cofounder
Votes in favor of a redemption proposal that would let GNO holders claim roughly $170 per token from a $223M treasury have retaken the lead on Snapshot.

DeFi
Coinbase Taps Centrifuge as Preferred Tokenization Partner
The exchange's strategic investment cements Centrifuge as the go-to issuance layer for compliant onchain assets, starting with a tokenized S&P 500 product for non-U.S. users.

DeFi
Kelp DAO Accuses LayerZero of Deflecting Blame for $300M Bridge Hack
The liquid restaking protocol argues that the 1-of-1 verifier setup at the center of the April 18 exploit was LayerZero's own documented default.





