DeFi news
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Bitcoin’s Institutional Era Has Arrived | Robinhood VP of Crypto Institutions Nicola White
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin's Institutional Era Has Arrived | Robinhood VP of Crypto Institutions Nicola White Robinhood is bringing crypto perpetual futures to US customers, with up to 10x leverage on Bitcoin and Ether. Nicola White, Robinhood's vice president of institutional crypto, explains how...
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MetaMask exits Lido validators as it investigates security incident
MetaMask said it has found no immediate threat to its wallets, while Lido warned the precautionary validator exits could result in lost rewards and downtime penalties.
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MetaMask Staking Exits Lido Validators After Infrastructure Compromise
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Dogecoin Is Getting Apps as DogeOS Opens Its Public Testnet
The team behind the MyDoge wallet opened a public test of DogeOS, a layer that lets developers build lending platforms and games on top of the meme coin network.
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Uniswap Labs Plans OUSD Rewards Hook for Liquidity Providers
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Arc Packages USDC Funding and Morpho Lending for Apps
Circle's Arc blockchain has packaged stablecoin purchases, lending and bitcoin-backed borrowing into three developer kits for apps on its mainnet. Arc's Sept. 30 announcement brings together Onramp Kit, Earn Kit and Borrow Kit. The software lets developers put those functions inside their own......
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Bloomberg brings onchain stablecoin data to its Terminal
Bloomberg’s Allium-powered dashboard gives Terminal users hourly data on stablecoin supply, issuance, transfers and activity across blockchain networks.
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Open USD Launches as Stripe's Default Stablecoin
Open Standard launched Open USD (OUSD) on Sept. 30, opening business access through Stripe, BVNK and a limited Visa rollout, with Coinbase access scheduled to begin Oct. 1. Stripe said OUSD on Tempo is now its default stablecoin configuration. Businesses can use the token across its payments,......
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Lloyds and Visa Settle $750,000 in USDC in Cross-Border Pilot
Lloyds Banking Group settled $750,000 of payment obligations with Visa using USDC in a seven-day live pilot, the companies announced Sept. 30, testing cross-border settlement outside banking hours. The U.S. dollar obligations were booked through Lloyds' Corporate Markets branch in Jersey and......
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Aave V4 TVL Climbs 82% in September as Arc Reaches $181 Million
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ESMA Proposes MiCA Rules for DeFi Gateways, Staking and Lending
The European Securities and Markets Authority has proposed a new regulated category for crypto firms that connect clients to DeFi, alongside targeted staking and lending requirements under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation, or MiCA. In its response to the European Commission’s MiCA......
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Abracadabra blames hacks for shutdown amid ‘looting’ claims
Embattled DeFi project Abracadabra has proposed “an orderly wind down,” blaming a string of security incidents which leave its stablecoin MIM with “no viable path back to parity.” The vote , set to close Wednesday evening, has received just two votes at the time of writing: 100 million SPELL votes...
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Open USD takes on Tether, Circle with a different stablecoin model that's 'building money'
The “overwhelming majority” of Open Standard’s equity will be distributed over time to partners based on how much they help grow the stablecoin, CEO Zach Abrams said.
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Morning Minute: Robinhood Adds Perps, Weekend Stocks, and AI Traders
Robinhood is leaning deeper into crypto as they look to unlock their “everything app” vision.
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US Senator Blumenthal Calls Tether's USDT a 'Superhighway' for Iranian Sanctions Evasion
The Connecticut Senator's subcommittee released its report on Monday and referred the findings to Treasury and the Justice Department.
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Gate BEN Market Logs 92 Liquidations After Scheduled Dividend Adjustment
Gate’s BENUSDT perpetual market logged 92 liquidation orders in the 65 seconds after a scheduled stock-dividend adjustment on Sept. 30, according to the exchange’s public liquidation feed. Gate’s Sept. 28 announcement assigned a $0.33 Franklin Resources dividend adjustment to BENUSDT, payable at...
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Bitcoin stalls near $83,000 while lighter drops 17% on Robinhood perps plan
Bitcoin held near $83,000 as the 30-year Treasury yield topped 5.6%, while DeFi tokens reversed and lighter fell after Robinhood unveiled U.S. perps.
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HSBC Names Hong Kong Stablecoin 'RedCoin' Ahead of Retail Rollout
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OpenAI seeks $30 in funding at whopping $1.4 trillion valuation after delaying IPO
The ChatGPT maker is pursuing fresh funding after delaying its public listing, while expanding its AI tools despite mounting safety concerns.
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Kalshi to end liquidity incentive program amid wash trading allegations
Its monthly volume reached $52.98 billion in September as of Sept. 29, marking an all-time high, even as September data remains incomplete.
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European stablecoin issuer AllUnity launches USD stablecoin USDAU
AllUnity is launching USDAU, its fourth fiat-backed stablecoin, expanding a MiCA-regulated lineup that already covers the euro, Swiss franc and Swedish krona.
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Lighter Token Drops After Robinhood Perps Plan
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Morgan Stanley Sets Up Lab to Test Stablecoins and DeFi
Morgan Stanley has established an internal Digital Asset Lab to test stablecoins, tokenization and decentralized finance applications without exposing its core systems to the experiments, executives told Bloomberg. Megan Brewer, who leads market innovation and labs, said the initiative sits...
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Robinhood announces AI agent for customers that trades around the clock, plus 10x crypto perps
Robinhood users could soon access an AI agent that trades on behalf of them even at 2 am. Plus, they will get to trade crypto perpetuals.
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Illinois draft crypto tax rules detail DeFi, stablecoin treatment
Illinois’ draft rules spell out how its 0.2% digital asset transaction tax would apply to stablecoins, DeFi platforms, crypto bridges and self-custody transfers.
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Robinhood to launch perps, weekend stock trading for US users
The trading platform also introduced Robinhood Agents, which allows users to build their own AI agents within the app.
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Binance Pay lets visitors spend USDT at PayPay merchants in Japan
Binance Pay will let overseas users spend USDT at most PayPay-supported merchants in Japan through HIVEX, while stores receive yen.
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Robinhood Begins US Crypto Perps Rollout With Up to 10x Leverage
Robinhood began rolling out crypto perpetual futures to U.S. traders on Sept. 29, announcing eight supported assets and leverage of up to 10 times. The contracts have no expiration dates, allowing customers to take leveraged long or short positions without periodically replacing expiring...
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Robinhood adds AI agents, perps and weekend trading in push to win active traders
The brokerage is expanding its trading hours and adding leveraged crypto products and automated trading tools to attract more active investors.
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Ethereum Gets Another Privacy Boost as Aztec Brings Back zk.money
Aztec Labs relaunched its self-custodial zk.money wallet on Aztec Network, letting users make private stablecoin payments using readable tags.