DeFi
DeFi

Bitcoin liquidity clusters determine BTC’s price direction as futures flow fuels price

Bitcoin futures traders are propping up the current market move, while liquidation heatmap data provides hints on where BTC price may go next. Read Full…
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Alpaca raises $135M to fund tokenized agent-first infrastructure

The BNP-backed brokerage infrastructure provider is expanding into tokenized markets and AI-native financial services as both DeFi and TradFi companies pursue onchain business. Read Full…
DeFi

Some DeFi Pools Are Rigged to Fake a Good Price, Enso Finds

Enso says it found two real pools, on Ethereum and Polygon, engineered to pass a wallet’s pre-trade simulation with an attractive quote and then execute…
DeFi

Morning Minute: Base Hands Its App Over to Cobie

Plus, Stripe makes a $53 billion move that could crown a stablecoin king. And Ostium gets drained of $18M in the latest DeFi exploit. Read…
DeFi

Aave Deploys Its V4 Lending Protocol on Avalanche

The rollout is the first time Aave’s new Hub and Spoke architecture has run on a chain other than Ethereum, though the tokenized-asset markets it…
DeFi

How Morgan Stanley plans to bring crypto custody, staking and lending support in-house

Preliminary OCC approval outlines a bank that could consolidate key crypto functions, while outside venues and infrastructure remain essential. The post How Morgan Stanley plans…
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Ostium pauses trading as security firms report multimillion-dollar oracle exploit

Ostium halted trading and advised revoking contract approvals after blockchain security firms reported an apparent oracle-related exploit of its OLP liquidity vault, with estimated losses…
DeFi

BitMine made $46 million staking Ethereum then lost twice that betting on it

BitMine’s push to turn one of the world’s largest corporate Ethereum holdings into a source of recurring income generated nearly $46 million from staking last…
DeFi

Ostium suffers $18 million exploit as oracle attack wave continues to hit DeFi

A hacker used Ostium’s own price-reporting infrastructure against the protocol, submitting falsified future-dated oracle data to manufacture fake trading profits and trigger an $18 million…
DeFi

Banking Groups Push Senate to Tighten CLARITY Act Stablecoin Rules, Warning of Deposit Flight

A coalition of bank trade groups told Senate leaders the bill’s yield language could pull deposits from community banks, as Democrats escalate a separate ethics…