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Vitalik wants DeFi price crashes to stop triggering automatic liquidations

Vitalik Buterin is challenging one of DeFi’s most familiar safety mechanisms: the automatic liquidation that closes a debt-backed position when collateral falls below the required…
AI

Polymarket Books First On-Chain Institutional Block Trade

A six-figure trade settled against the Ornn Compute Price Index pushes the world’s largest prediction market into TradFi-style risk transfer, with FalconX signing on as…
AI

Tom Lee predicts ether will hit $250,000 as corporate validators take over network control

The Bitmine chairman said DeFi and AI could push the Ethereum network’s value into the multi-trillion range, making current prices “future optionality at a discount”.…
DeFi

Bitcoin faces an 'identity crisis' and DeFi devs need to stop acting like tech bros

Solstice Labs CEO Ben Nadareski says developers must act like financial managers to win back institutional trust amid ongoing security exploits. Read Full Story at…
DeFi

Grayscale Sets 0.29% Fee for Hyperliquid Staking ETF, Kicking Off a Price War Among HYPE Issuers

Grayscale filed S-1 Amendment 6 with a 0.29% sponsor fee for its Hyperliquid Staking ETF (HYPG), undercutting 21Shares’ THYP at 0.30% and Bitwise’s BHYP at…
DeFi

Vitalik Buterin Proposes Options-Based DeFi to End Forced Liquidations and the Real-Time Oracle Problem

Vitalik proposed replacing CDPs with options-based index-tracking assets, using slow oracles to reduce reliance on real-time price feeds that have proven vulnerable to manipulation. The…
DeFi

DeFi protocol Radiant to wind down after failing to recover from 2024 hack

Radiant says its frontend and smart contracts will remain accessible and users will still be able to withdraw, repay, and manage their positions. Read Full…
DeFi

Vitalik Buterin Proposes Options-Based DeFi to Replace Liquidation-Driven Debt Model

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed splitting 1 ETH into two paired option assets that always sum back to 1 ETH, eliminating forced liquidations and letting…
DeFi

Anchorage Digital Pushes Federally Chartered Settlement Into Non-Custodial DeFi With Coordinated Multiparty Layer

The OCC-chartered crypto bank is positioning its Atlas network as a coordinated multiparty settlement layer for institutional trading on Hyperliquid, Lighter, and Aave — letting…
DeFi

Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin is rethinking how DeFi handles market crashes

In a research post published Monday, Buterin proposed creating index-tracking assets using options contracts rather than the debt-based structures that underpin much of DeFi today.…