Infrastructure
DeFi

Aave to Overhaul Collateral and Listing Standards After $293 Million KelpDAO Exploit

Aave Labs will add cybersecurity and architecture reviews to its asset listing process following the April KelpDAO bridge exploit, with the goal of setting a…
AI

Bitcoin miners using AI as a bear market escape plan just got a new rival in Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has turned one of the world’s largest artificial intelligence clusters into a commercial compute product, creating a new challenge for Bitcoin miners…
Infrastructure

Solv Protocol Will Dump LayerZero, Migrate $700M Tokenized Bitcoin Tech to Chainlink

Solv Protocol will move its tokenized Bitcoin infrastructure to Chainlink, following Kelp DAO’s lead after it blamed LayerZero for a hack. Read Full Story at…
DeFi

Tydro Keeps Markets Paused After Chaos Labs Flags Suspected Nation-State Attack

The largest DeFi protocol on Kraken’s Ink Layer 2 network is onboarding Chainlink and RedStone feeds before resuming its lending markets. Read Full Story at…
Infrastructure

Tether executive warns the 2026 midterms could have 'seismic impact' on crypto industry

Jesse Spiro, Head of Government Affairs at Tether, said at Consensus Miami 2026 that the midterms will be a key test for whether crypto’s recent…
AI

Amazon Builds AI Agent Payments With Coinbase and Stripe

Bedrock AgentCore Payments turns Amazon’s agent platform into a transactional layer, with Coinbase supplying x402 stablecoin rails and Stripe contributing wallet infrastructure via Privy. Read…
Infrastructure

Polygon reduces block time to 1.75 seconds as payments push accelerates

Polygon delivered its first block time reduction upgrade since genesis, as the network seeks to position for more high-frequency applications such as private stablecoin payments.…
Infrastructure

Kraken Parent Acquires Asian Stablecoin Firm Reap for $600 Million: Bloomberg

The deal marks Kraken’s largest acquisition as it pushes into Asian cross-border payments through stablecoin infrastructure. Read Full Story at Decrypt.co →
Infrastructure

Ondo, JPMorgan, Mastercard and Ripple Complete First Cross-Border Tokenized Treasury Settlement on XRP Ledger

Four financial heavyweights settled tokenized U.S. Treasuries across borders and banks in under five seconds, connecting the XRP Ledger to JPMorgan’s correspondent banking network. The…
DeFi

Bitcoin lenders say institutions want crypto credit to look more like TradFi

At Consensus 2026 in Miami, executives from Two Prime, Ledn and Lygos Finance said institutional borrowers increasingly prioritize custody, transparency and standardized lending structures over…