DeFi news
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Anchorage Positions Itself as Custody Backbone of US-Mexico Stablecoin Corridor
An expanded deal with Bitso puts Anchorage Digital Bank’s custody beneath both sides of the US-Mexico remittance route.
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Bitcoin Wallet Maker Keystone Pulls Devices as Stolen Key Opens Door to Fakes
Attackers obtained the factory key that proves Keystone's hardware wallets are genuine, and 25,964 buyer records were affected. The company says recovery phrases and private keys were not involved.
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Circle’s Arc Tops $1 Billion in USDC
Stablecoin market cap rose 32% in a week in DefiLlama’s daily data, while four addresses hold about 73% of the network’s USDC.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Circle Pushes Deeper Into Latin America With USDC Settlement in Colombia
A collaboration with payments-tech firm ACI Worldwide will pilot folding USDC settlement into Colombia’s instant-payments network.
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Uniswap Fee Switch: Deployment Status, TokenJars and UNI Burns
A version-and-chain reference separates governance approval, activated fee settings, collected assets and completed UNI burns.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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US Charges Six in Alleged Madagascar NFT Wallet-Draining Scheme
An FBI affidavit estimates at least $516,695 in losses across 74 victim-linked wallets and describes unlimited USDT spending approvals.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Aave vs. Bitso USDC Prime: What Lenders Hold and What Limits Exits
A direct Aave deposit earns through one reserve; Bitso’s Morpho vault delegates allocations to a curator. Neither balance guarantees immediate USDC withdrawals.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Crypto.com and OG.com launch US crypto perps with up to 5x leverage
The contracts have no expiration date and allow traders to bet on crypto prices rising or falling.
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Canton-based trading platform Cancore raises $7.2 million at $60 million token valuation
Cancore, a Canton-based trading platform connecting assets on the network with liquidity on public blockchains, has raised $7.2 million in seed funding. Paper Ventures, dao5, ArkStream Capital, X Ventures, MH Ventures and Proof of Talk backed the round. There was no formal lead investor, though...
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Brazilian companies turned to stablecoins on election day to dodge a currency crash
USDT volume on crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin jumped nearly 800% and bitcoin volume surged 865%. Binance’s USDT/BRL market tripled while the global BTC/USDT pair fell.
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Predict.fun Pledges Full Refunds for Roughly 400,000 USDT Theft
The platform says a preliminary investigation points to a possible compromise of its third-party API documentation site, which it has taken offline.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Robinhood taps Ripple’s $2.5 billion RLUSD stablecoin despite backing rival USDG
Robinhood helped launch a rival dollar-backed token, USDG, but will also offer Ripple's stablecoin to retail customers later this year.
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USDC overtakes USDT in euro stablecoin trading as EU rules reshape market: Kaiko
USDC’s share of euro stablecoin trading has climbed to 56% since January 2024, with deeper liquidity as exchanges restrict USDT under MiCA.
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NEAR Adds Confidential Jio Pre-IPO Trading Ahead of Listing
The contract offers up to 5x leverage and is expected to become an equity perpetual after listing, without delivering shares or IPO allocations.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Ondo Brings 15 Stock Tokens to Robinhood Chain With Uniswap Pools
Eleven pools pair Ondo and Robinhood tokens tied to the same assets, opening a potential weekend arbitrage route through Ondo’s redemption platform.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Robinhood Opens Earn to All Eligible Users for Onchain USDG Lending
Deposits go to a Steakhouse-curated Morpho vault on Robinhood Chain, with rewards topping up lending interest and withdrawals dependent on vault liquidity.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Galaxy Digital swings to $323 million quarterly profit, announces new $200 million share buyback
Galaxy returned to profitability in the third quarter as trading volumes and lending increased, with a new $200 million buyback authorized.
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Crypto Market Structure Explained
Crypto market structure is the architecture behind digital asset markets. It explains who participates, where trades happen, how liquidity forms, how prices are discovered, how derivatives and funding rates work, and how market design affects execution, fairness, risk, and resilience.
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Bitget Wallet Brings USD and EUR Virtual Accounts to 100 Million Users
Bitget Wallet launched Virtual Account, giving users personal USD and EUR account numbers from licensed partner Noah inside the self-custodial wallet. Incoming deposits via ACH, Fedwire, SEPA and SWIFT convert automatically to USDT or USDC.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Stop-Loss vs. Stop-Limit: Why a Trigger Is Not a Fill
A matched price-gap example shows why one order may sell below its trigger while the other leaves tokens unsold. Onchain swaps add liquidity and transaction checks.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Janus Henderson Announces Tokenized Nasdaq-100 Fund on Stellar
JQQQ targets non-US professional investors with a 100,000 USDC minimum, while Centrifuge's investment portal says subscriptions are not yet open.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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UTXO’s Duke Waldrop: Bank of Japan “Liquidity Shock” Could Impact Bitcoin
▶ Bitcoin Magazine UTXO's Duke Waldrop: Bank of Japan “Liquidity Shock” Could Impact Bitcoin Bitcoin fell to $79K this weekend, and this week both the Fed and the Bank of Japan decide on rates. Duke Waldrop, Head of Asia Markets at UTXO Management, joins Grace Remington and Sean Hagan to explain...
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Japan's top yen stablecoin falls short of its target in a disappointing first year
CEO Noritaka Okabe blamed a 1 million yen per-transaction cap for Type II funds transfer providers, which has slowed corporate adoption.
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Bitcoin drops below $80,000 as crypto ignores Asian tech rally, Fed meeting begins
Bitcoin fell 0.4% to around $79,700 since midnight UTC while Asian tech stocks rallied. The DeFi index dropped 1.8%, and the Fed is set to begin a two-day meeting.
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Crypto wallet maker Keystone to destroy almost 19,000 devices after security breach
The breach exposed 25,964 buyer records, some kept past Keystone’s 180-day deletion policy after an automated tool failed without the firm noticing.
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Ripple Wins Final OCC Approval for Trust Bank Behind $2.6B RLUSD Stablecoin
The federally supervised bank will manage RLUSD's reserves and offer custody, as banking groups fight crypto charters in court.
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Binance Seeks Brazil Crypto License as It Delists 22 Tokens
Lending and margin restrictions take effect Oct. 27, while an on-time application allows existing providers to operate during the central bank's review.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Circle faces up to 20% revenue risk from AI agents, Mizuho says
Mizuho cited 10-20% medium-term reserve revenue downside risk as AI agents steer USDC holders toward higher-yielding fiat alternatives.
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RedotPay weighs confidential US IPO filing by year-end: Bloomberg
The stablecoin payments company previously disputed reports that its US listing had been delayed.
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BlackRock joins SBI and Startale to link tokenized MMFs with Japanese yen stablecoins
BlackRock, SBI Holdings, and Startale will explore connecting tokenized money market funds with SBI's Japanese yen-pegged stablecoin JPYSC.