DeFi
DeFi

Tether Asserts Stablecoin Dominance Over Circle's USDC Amid Major Crypto Hacks

Tether’s USDT market cap hit an all-time high, with DeFi users appearing to favor the stablecoin over USDC as a refuge from industry fallout. Read…
DeFi

Aave Partially Unfreezes WETH After Kelp Bridge Exploit

After attackers deposited rsETH from an exploited Kelp bridge and borrowed Wrapped ETH, Aave had frozen WETH across multiple markets. Read Full Story at Thedefiant.io…
DeFi

Aave Faces Up to $230 Million in Losses After Kelp DAO Exploit, Incident Report Finds

An Aave Labs and LlamaRisk incident report puts bad debt exposure at $124 million to $230 million depending on how Kelp DAO socializes losses from…
DeFi

DeFi Protocols Launch Joint Escape Hatch for Aave ETH Lenders and Loopers

Fluid’s aWETH Redemption Protocol, launched with Lido, Ether.fi, 1inch, 0x and Kyber, has processed $136M out of Aave’s frozen WETH pool in 48 hours. Read…
AI

Playdate Gaming Handheld Maker Bans Generative AI Tools for Development

Panic, the firm behind the Playdate handheld, now prohibits creative AI applications while preserving developer productivity aids. Read Full Story at Decrypt.co →
DeFi

North Korea’s crypto heist playbook is expanding and DeFi keeps getting hit

More than $500 million was siphoned across the Drift and Kelp exploits in just over two weeks. What once looked like isolated breaches now resembles…
DeFi

Aave could face up to $230 million in losses after Kelp DAO bridge exploit triggers DeFi chaos

Aave published a report outlining two possible outcomes: around $123 million in losses if damage is shared across all rsETH, or up to $230 million…
DeFi

Aave Models $124M to $230M in Bad Debt From Kelp Exploit

In a detailed incident report, Aave service providers quantified the protocol’s exposure for the first time and outlined two scenarios depending on how Kelp DAO…
DeFi

Bitcoin faces near-term pressure as liquidity tightens, Hilbert Group CIO says

Russell Thompson warned of a sharp tightening in global liquidity that could weigh on risk assets and bitcoin in the near term, before expected U.S.…
DeFi

Six years after “DeFi Summer” is the sun already setting on the decentralized finance revolution?

KelpDAO’s $292 million rsETH exploit landed at the wrong moment for DeFi. Roughly $10 billion left the sector over the weekend, after confidence had already been shaken by…