DeFi news
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Strive (ASST) Posts $474.8 Million Common Net Income as Bitcoin Yield Hits 63.2%
Bitcoin Magazine Strive (ASST) Posts $474.8 Million Common Net Income as Bitcoin Yield Hits 63.2% Strive reported $474.8 million of net income attributable to common stockholders for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, a print that arrived Friday alongside a company claim that Class A total return...
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Gnosis Pay breach exposes customer addresses
Gnosis Pay, a firm that issues white label stablecoin cards, has announced a data breach affecting those cards. Specifically, it claims that earlier this week on November 3rd that they “detected unauthorised access to the system powering Gnosis Pay-branded cards (our B2C business line), resulting...
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Coinbase Opens USDC Borrowing Against PAX Gold
The gold-backed token joins Coinbase’s collateral options, while its loan-health pricing updates only during gold-market hours.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Aave Labs buys Avon team in fixed-rate lending push
Aave Labs acquired the team and technology of Avon, an onchain fixed-rate and floating-rate lending protocol.
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What Are Crypto Derivatives? Futures, Perpetuals and Options Explained
Futures bind both sides to settlement obligations. Options give buyers a right in exchange for a premium, while sellers take the corresponding obligation.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bitcoin Gains Drive Strive's $474.8 Million Q3 Profit
SATA and SATS imply about $287.4 million in annual dividends at November rates and Oct. 30 share counts, a cost excluded from its Bitcoin Yield metric.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Safe Says $12.4 Billion of Smart-Account Assets Sits in DeFi
The figure is net of $2.37 billion in borrowing. Safe's published third-quarter report gives the $57.64 billion total but not the DeFi split.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bank of Russia Clears Bitcoin, Ether and USDT Rules for Nov. 17
Non-qualified investors face testing and a 300,000-ruble annual purchase cap per intermediary, while Moscow Exchange targets a Dec. 1 rollout.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Nigeria’s central bank introduces stablecoin licensing rules, bans algorithmic versions
Nigeria's central bank issued new virtual asset regulations requiring stablecoin issuers and other service providers to obtain local licenses.
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Greece approves 10% tax on crypto gains and 15% levy on DeFi income
Investors will have 12 months to declare past crypto gains without late-filing penalties, though questions remain over crypto-to-crypto swaps.
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Hyperliquid Strategies seeks futures registration for perps
The HYPE treasury company spent $785 million on tokens during the quarter and wants to bring Hyperliquid-based perpetual futures to the US.
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Trump-backed World Liberty Financial plans token buyback after 66% year-to-date slide
The crypto venture may use fees from its USD1 stablecoin reserves to fund token purchases as it seeks to boost governance.
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Loopscale Partly Restores Loan Functions, Keeps Vault Withdrawals Frozen
Repayments and collateral withdrawals remain disabled for USDC Genesis-funded loans as the Solana lender details two attack paths.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Hyperliquid Strategies files to become CFTC-registered FCM, posts $13.3 million in quaterly revenue
Hyperliquid Strategies posted $13.3M in revenue and $620.6M net income, and filed with the CFTC to become an FCM for U.S. HIP-3 perp markets.
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Kalshi, Coinbase stock perps under threat ahead of CFTC deadline
Tomorrow will be a climactic moment in a competitive battle between the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), Kalshi, and Coinbase over stock “perps,” a crypto-inspired derivative that uses perpetually-rolling futures funding to create leveraged instruments for betting on stock prices. Despite a...
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EEZ Launches Rollup X With Swaps Filled by Mainnet Liquidity
The Ethereum Economic Zone ran three demonstrations at Devcon in Mumbai. Rollup X is a devnet whose batches are attested by a designated signer rather than proven.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Aave Schedules Vote on Babylon Native Bitcoin Collateral for V4
LlamaRisk has proposed a 300 BTC collateral cap, but activating the market would still require a separate onchain governance vote.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Groma Launches Real Estate Issuance and Redemption on Uniswap
The GRO/USDC pool on Base uses net asset value pricing, with wallet eligibility enforced by Uniswap v4’s Permissioned Pools Hook.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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U.S.-Sanctioned Moscow Exchange Will List Bitcoin on Dec. 1 as Russia Pulls Crypto Trading Home
Bitcoin Magazine U.S.-Sanctioned Moscow Exchange Will List Bitcoin on Dec. 1 as Russia Pulls Crypto Trading Home Moscow Exchange, Russia's largest trading venue, will begin trading bitcoin, ether and Tether's USDT on Dec. 1, the exchange announced this week, calling it the country's first organized...
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Payward-affiliated fund and clients buy AAVE token stake on secondary market
Payward disclosed neither the size nor price of the AAVE purchases and said it may acquire more tokens.
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Lido Adds Firelight Loss Protection to Earn Vaults
First-period Firelight limits are about $12.1 million for EarnETH and $4 million for EarnUSD, ahead of the DAO’s existing share-burn buffer.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Kalshi Opens Single-Stock Perpetual Futures Trading
AAPL and AMZN contracts showed estimated leverage near five times, while a court challenge threatens the regulatory basis for stock perps.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Samsung Wallet launches USDC accounts on Solana for US Galaxy users
Samsung Wallet's Stablecoin Account is now live for eligible U.S. Galaxy users, allowing them to use USDC on Solana.
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Kraken parent Payward and its clients buy AAVE tokens in DeFi investment push
The investment follows talks first reported by CoinDesk in June that included a proposed equity stake in Aave Group.
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Tether and Tron Quietly Scrapped T3 Crime Unit Two Months Before $6.3 Billion Binance Hack
Bitcoin Magazine Tether and Tron Quietly Scrapped T3 Crime Unit Two Months Before $6.3 Billion Binance Hack The T3 Financial Crime Unit, the anti-crime alliance Tron, Tether and TRM Labs launched in 2024 and later expanded to Binance, quietly shut down in late August, Bloomberg reported Wednesday,...
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Stablecoins Go Mainstream as Samsung Wallet Adds USDC on Solana
Eligible U.S. Galaxy users can now buy, hold, send and receive USDC on Solana directly in Samsung Wallet, without a separate crypto app or private keys to manage.
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Paraguay USDT Offers Show 13% Premium After Ueno Closure
Bybit listings show a sharp gap between buying and selling USDT, while Paraguay’s central bank prepares deposit-guarantee payments for Ueno savers.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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France’s Budget Rejection Shelves Stablecoin Tax and Wallet Reporting
The Assembly voted 458–0 against the revenue section. The crypto measures could return through amendments in the Senate, whose budget debate is scheduled to begin Nov. 20.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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France budget rejection sidelines stablecoin tax, wallet reporting
Three adopted amendments, including stablecoin taxation and self-custody reporting, fall away but could be reintroduced in the Senate.
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ChatGPT Is Getting a GIF Maker Powered by OpenAI's Unannounced Images 2.6 Model
OpenAI is rolling out animated GIF creation in ChatGPT, with frame-by-frame editing and speed controls.