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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.
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%.
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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.
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%.
Firelight Raises $8 Million to Backstop DeFi Vaults With Staked XRP
The Sentora-incubated cover protocol already holds $76 million in staked XRP on Flare. Its first cover integrations go live this month, into a market where onchain protection covers about 0.1% of DeFi.
Securitize's HINC Becomes Collateral on Solana's Loopscale
Eligible investors can now borrow USDG against a fund holding high-yield corporate bonds and CLO tranches, collateral whose value moves daily with credit spreads.
Bloomberg: Hyperliquid in Advanced Talks With Kraken Parent on US Perpetuals Push
The reported plan would route U.S. traders through CFTC-regulated Bitnomial, while neither Payward nor Hyperliquid has confirmed a deal.
Balancer Warns Legacy V1 LPs to Exit After Pool-Draining Bug
Balancer said the deprecated pools are non-pausable, while SlowMist attributed a roughly $234,000 V1 drain to a fixed-point rounding flaw.
Bullish Provides USD.AI $100 Million Facility for GPU-Backed Loans
The commitment will fund more GPU loans; USD.AI’s API reported $265 million in loan reserves and $491 million in TVL.
Stellar RWA Assets Outgrow Its DeFi Markets
RedStone puts tokenized real-world assets on Stellar above $3 billion in July, against DeFi value it measures at $213 million.
Ethena Plans Equity-Perpetual Basis Trades for USDe Backing
The announced rollout is still forthcoming, with the first partner exchange announcements and deployments expected in the coming weeks.
Aave V4 Deposits Reach $806 Million After 30% Weekly Gain
EtherFi Cash was V4’s second-largest market at $257 million, while Aave V3 retained a much larger $31 billion deposit base.