DeFi
DeFi

Aave chief defends protocol's 'resilience' after $8.45 billion bank run

The founder of the largest DeFi platform blamed “third-party” entities for decentralized finance’s vulnerabilities, while independent data highlights severe gaps in Aave’s own risk architecture.…
DeFi

Congress is weighing whether crypto tax relief should stop at stablecoins

A June 9 Ways and Means hearing pushes crypto policy into the tax code, where small payments, stablecoin use, network fees, mining, staking, and donations…
DeFi

Morgan Stanley’s Galaxy deal points to Bitcoin’s next institutional test: lending collateral

Morgan Stanley announced on June 5 that eligible wealth management clients can now lend Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Solana to Galaxy Digital and receive shares of…
DeFi

DeFi’s old hack vectors are fading – But the new risk can hit six chains at once

Decentralized finance has gotten a lot safer over the past six years, and a new review of protocol losses from 2020 through 2025 puts a…
DeFi

U.S. House tax committee weighs crypto bills, including relief for small transactions

Seven draft bills are being circulated by the House Ways and Means Committee ahead of a hearing next week, including proposals to ease small-gain, mining…
AI

AI-assisted Zcash flaw exposes the supply integrity gap an emergency fork could not fully close

The exploit that nearly broke Zcash originated inside the zero-knowledge proof circuit that powers Orchard, Zcash’s newest shielded pool, and the cryptographic core of its…
DeFi

A stablecoin tied to Strategy stock depegs putting a new DeFi dollar risk in focus as Bitcoin sells off

Apyx’s apxUSD fell below its dollar reference on June 4 as Bitcoin traded near $63,000, putting DeFi dollar peg risk back in focus. A Bitget…
AI

AI-Assisted Audit Uncovers Critical Zcash Orchard Vulnerability That Could Have Minted Unlimited Counterfeit ZEC

Security researcher Taylor Hornby used Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 to find a critical bug in Zcash’s Orchard pool that could have minted undetectable counterfeit ZEC, sending…
AI

Shielded Labs Proposes New Zcash Upgrade to Prove ZEC Supply After Orchard Bug

The Zcash developer said researcher Taylor Hornby used Anthropic’s latest AI model to find a flaw that could have minted undetectable counterfeit ZEC inside the…
DeFi

Bitcoin fell 21% after Strategy’s debt buyback news— Is a Terra Luna-style doom loop next?

Bitcoin price collapsed as Strategy faced tighter liquidity conditions and paused its BTC buying. Is it time to jump ship, or buy the dip? Read…