DeFi news
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Polygon Extends Its Stablecoin Payments Infrastructure to Solana
The expansion gives Solana businesses one integration to connect bank funding, embedded wallets, cross-chain transfers and global payouts, with cross-border firm Kira among the first adopters.
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Bitcoin lending and yield could drive next wave of institutional demand, Rootstock says
A new report argues that putting institutional Bitcoin holdings to work through lending, collateral and financing could create demand beyond its store-of-value role.
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NYSE owner takes steps to bring Hyperliquid perpetual futures to U.S.
The planned ICE[XYZ] venue would offer 24/7 perpetual futures on stocks, commodities and crypto, pending CFTC approval. ICE is investing in Trade[XYZ].
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Curve Finance launches on Stellar in first native deployment outside EVM ecosystem
Curve Finance has launched on Stellar mainnet, its first native deployment outside the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) ecosystem.
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SparkLend Has $11.95 Million in USDT Available as Utilization Holds Near 96%
Suppliers were earning about 6.9% APY, while borrowers faced roughly 7.70% APR after liquidity tightened earlier this week.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Former Swift CEO joins stablecoin firm OpenTrade as chairman
Lazaro Campos takes the board role as the London-based company reports $300 million in assets locked and more than $1 billion in annual transaction volume.
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Tokenized GOOGL Drops Nearly 12% Alongside After-Hours Stock Selloff
A Uniswap pool handled about $603,000 in five minutes as Alphabet-linked tokens repriced. The underlying shares also traded sharply lower after the regular close.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Peer Adds Alipay-Funded USDC Trading on Base in Beta
Buyers pay individual sellers in yuan, while Peer says it has no official partnership with Alipay.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Chip Maker SK Hynix Posts Record Quarter as AI Memory Demand Overwhelms Supply
SK Hynix's quarterly revenue topped 100 trillion won for the first time, and the chipmaker says memory demand will outrun supply through 2030, with DRAM and HBM sold out through 2029.
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Aviva’s £50m tokenized fund: What changes for investors
Aviva’s £50 million investment in tokenized fund shares illustrates what changes when a conventional investment adds blockchain-based ownership records. Announced on October 26 , the new share class gives eligible investors access to Aviva Investors’ Sterling Liquidity Fund through digital tokens...
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Privacy Pools v2 Brings Shielded Payments and Yield to BNB Chain
The deployment supports BNB and stablecoins including USDT, FDUSD and U, while private spending still requires 0xbow's deposit-screening approval.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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More Americans Have Tried Crypto, But Few Are Sticking With It: Survey
A survey conducted by Ipsos for the DeFi Education Fund found that 22% of Americans have ever owned or used crypto, up from 18%, while past-year use held flat at 13%.
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Aave Raises Bitcoin and Ether Collateral Borrowing Limits Across V3 and V4
Core WBTC and cbBTC borrowers gain about 11% more capacity against the same collateral, but drawing the new maximum leaves less room for a price drop.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Yield Basis Discloses Fee-Bypass Route, Proposes WETH Fix
The proposed policy adds a debt-ratio check for deposits alongside Pyth-linked swap fees. Yield Basis voting is scheduled to end Oct. 29.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Crypto isn’t a partisan fight, proven by data
Treating crypto as a political battleground only makes it harder to build the secure, transparent, American-made financial system that most Americans say they want, argues DeFi Education Fund’s Jennifer Rosenthal.
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Centralized Exchange and DeFi Losses Dominate 2026 Crypto Hacks Despite Hardware Wallet Failures
Bitcoin Magazine Centralized Exchange and DeFi Losses Dominate 2026 Crypto Hacks Despite Hardware Wallet Failures Crypto hacks have produced roughly $2.35 billion in net losses so far in 2026 after freezes and returns, according to a report by Lightning.news shared with Bitcoin Magazine. A security...
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Why a Liquidity Pool Can Earn Fees and Still Trail Holding
A hypothetical $200 position grows to $400 before fees, but unchanged holdings reach $500 at the same final prices.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Robinhood earnings miss, crypto weakness fail to shake Wall Street’s bullish outlook
Bernstein sees Robinhood’s crypto business shifting toward infrastructure as new products like prediction markets and perps gain ground.
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Robinhood Adds Eight Stock and ETF Tokens to Its Chain
DefiLlama tracks $246.7 million in real-world assets deployed in DeFi on the network, where stock tokens already support trading and collateralized borrowing.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Pump.fun Sets Nov. 9 Start for Elysium Trading in Its App
The planned addition follows the app's live Hyperliquid perps rollout; Elysium is a separate rollup that settles to HyperEVM.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Coinbase adds Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin across retail, exchange and Prime platforms
RLUSD is live on Coinbase with 1:1 USD conversion on XRP Ledger, Ethereum and Base, capping a big week of news for Ripple.
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Kamino Opens USDC Loans Against Backpack Tokenized Stocks
Borrowers can access up to 40% of collateral value, while the market holds its last equity price outside US trading sessions.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Avail launches ShieldTX privacy tool targeting copy-trading bots on Hyperliquid
Avail launched ShieldTX, a Hyperliquid privacy tool that creates a separate wallet for each perpetual futures position.
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How Aave’s Variable Borrow Rate Changes an Existing USDT Loan
Aave’s Ethereum USDT curve now raises borrowing costs sooner as liquidity tightens. Existing debt keeps its accrued interest; a new rate changes how the balance grows from then on.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Moody's Rates Ripple's $2.6B RLUSD Stablecoin A2, a Day After OCC Bank Approval
The ratings agency cited RLUSD's Treasury-heavy reserves, but noted that holders have no direct ownership interest in them for now.
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Ethena Pay Rolls Out Earn+ With Up to 12% Target Rewards
The Upshift vault targets roughly 11 times leverage on Aave, with depositors bearing losses and an initial $4.5 million capacity limit.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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XRP Ledger developers propose creating wallets with zero XRP for stablecoin payments
An experimental change would let companies cover the reserve for customer and AI-agent accounts, allowing users to start with stablecoins without first acquiring XRP.
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Moody’s assigns investment-grade ratings to Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin
Moody's Ratings assigned the RLUSD A2 long-term and P-1 short-term ratings, citing credit quality and market value of its reserve assets.
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Tranche Vault on Avalanche Drained of 1.01 Million USDC
Blockaid says a flash loan let the attacker mint inflated tranche shares and redeem the vault's USDC. A balance check showed none left in the identified contract.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Robinhood Taps Ripple's Stablecoin, Treasury Software and Trading Loans
Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin is live on Robinhood Chain and Bitstamp, and heads to the Robinhood app later this year as the companies deepen ties in treasury and institutional trading.