DeFi

DeFi
Aave Proposes Protocol-Wide Risk Framework After KelpDAO Exploit
LlamaRisk has submitted two Aave governance proposals covering a four-layer protocol-wide risk standard and a PT oracle upgrade to Chainlink CRE. Founder Stani Kulechov says assets that fail the new standard will be off-boarded.

DeFi
Morpho Raises $175M in One of DeFi's Largest-Ever Funding Rounds
Morpho Association has raised $175 million in a round co-led by Paradigm, a16z Crypto, and Ribbit Capital, with Apollo Funds and VanEck among the strategic participants. The round, which values Morpho at $2 billion, is among the largest fundraises in DeFi history.

DeFi
MetaMask Launches Agent Wallet in Early Access, Giving AI Agents Self-Custody Acces
The Consensys-owned wallet provider opened early access Monday for autonomous AI agents to trade across 25+ EVM chains and Hyperliquid, with transaction simulation and $10,000 in loss coverage as the security pitch.

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PiggyBank's LAB Hedge Fails, Cutting USDC Vault NAV by 15%
A Solana yield protocol's bet on a contested mid-cap token turned a dollar-stable vault into one nursing double-digit losses. Depositors are waiting on a promised post-mortem.

DeFi
Chainlink CCIP Draws $1.1 Billion in Value in One Week as Virtuals Join Migration Wave
Chainlink's CCIP drew over $1.1 billion in token value this week as Virtuals Protocol, Pleasing Market, and Zest Protocol joined a migration wave that has now moved nearly $5 billion in total value away from LayerZero since April's Kelp DAO exploit.

DeFi
apxUSD Loses Dollar Peg as Bitcoin Slide Squeezes STRC-Backed Collateral
Apyx Finance's apxUSD stablecoin slipped to $0.94 after Bitcoin fell to $63K, the first concrete peg break in the chain linking Strategy's BTC treasury to on-chain dollar instruments.

DeFi
0x Opens Cross-Chain API to All Developers with 12 Bridge Partners on Day One
0x Protocol has opened its Cross-Chain API to general availability with 12 bridge providers live from day one, including Circle, LayerZero, Stargate and Across — accessible through a single API integration.

DeFi
Sky Launches Fixed-Rate Yield Product Built on Pendle, Targeting $6B sUSDS Pool
Sky (formerly MakerDAO) launched Fixed Yield on Wednesday — a term-based alternative to the variable Sky Savings Rate built on Pendle Protocol v2, giving sUSDS depositors a locked rate to a named maturity date.

DeFi
PENDLE Token Goes Live on Revolut, Reaching 20M EEA Crypto Traders
The yield-tokenization protocol's $233M-mcap token is now buyable inside Revolut's MiCA-licensed crypto app across the UK, EU, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein — the second on-chain yield protocol to land on the fintech's regulated rails after Maple's SYRUP in April.

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Builder-Deployed Perp Markets Push Hyperliquid to Record Share of Global Perps Volume
Hyperliquid's HIP-3 framework — which lets anyone deploy a perpetual futures market on the protocol's settlement layer — cleared $62 billion in May volume, pushing the venue to a record 6.63% share of global perps and 14.4% against Binance.





