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The Defiant

Securitize's HINC Becomes Collateral on Solana's Loopscale

Eligible investors can now borrow USDG against a fund holding high-yield corporate bonds and CLO tranches, collateral whose value moves daily with credit spreads.

2 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

Robinhood Chain Tops Ethereum In Daily App Revenue

Applications on the two-month-old Arbitrum network earned $2.66 million in 24 hours, ranking second behind Solana, with a memecoin launchpad as the biggest single source.

2 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

Bloomberg: Hyperliquid in Advanced Talks With Kraken Parent on US Perpetuals Push

The reported plan would route U.S. traders through CFTC-regulated Bitnomial, while neither Payward nor Hyperliquid has confirmed a deal.

2 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

A Memecoin Called BONER Has Cornered Half the Tokenized Hims & Hers Float

The BONER/HIMS pool on Robinhood Chain holds 31,198 of the 58,714 tokenized Hims & Hers shares that exist. With the NYSE closed on Sunday night, the tokenized stock printed $132.64 against an equity that had closed Friday at $28.84.

2 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

Ontology Halts Mainnet Block Production Over Potential Security Concern

The explorer’s last block was created at 4:24 a.m. ET, leaving transactions and Ontology-side bridge transfers unable to settle while validators review the network.

2 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

Traders Make a September Rate Increase the Favorite as Bitcoin Holds $78,000

Polymarket prices a quarter-point hike at 55.5% after Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole speech, against 28% on Friday afternoon. Bitcoin is down 0.7% on the day and 24.5% higher since the start of August, while 88 of the 125 largest non-stablecoin tokens fell.

2 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

Sberbank Plans Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tether as Loan Collateral

The expansion is contingent on new crypto rules taking full effect and the Bank of Russia permitting the assets for public circulation.

2 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

Strategy Restarts Bitcoin Buying With $370 Million Purchase

The company funded 4,603 BTC entirely with MSTR share-sale proceeds, leaving its $5.10 billion USD Reserve untouched for preferred dividends and debt interest.

2 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

Fogo Mainnet Has Been Stopped For 46 Hours With No Restart Timeline

The chain has produced no blocks since Saturday, the halt notice is still the Foundation's most recent update, and an impersonator account is circulating a fake compensation vote.

2 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

Balancer Warns Legacy V1 LPs to Exit After Pool-Draining Bug

Balancer said the deprecated pools are non-pausable, while SlowMist attributed a roughly $234,000 V1 drain to a fixed-point rounding flaw.

2 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

Ninth Circuit Says Kalshi Sports Contracts Aren’t Swaps, Splitting With Third Circuit

The panel affirmed the dissolution of Kalshi’s Nevada injunction after finding no likely federal preemption, reaching the opposite preliminary conclusion from the Third Circuit.

2 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

Bullish Provides USD.AI $100 Million Facility for GPU-Backed Loans

The commitment will fund more GPU loans; USD.AI’s API reported $265 million in loan reserves and $491 million in TVL.

2 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

Stellar RWA Assets Outgrow Its DeFi Markets

RedStone puts tokenized real-world assets on Stellar above $3 billion in July, against DeFi value it measures at $213 million.

2 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

Bitcoin Drops Below $78,000 After Warsh Speech

Bitcoin fell 3% over 24 hours to $77,955 by early Friday afternoon, leaving it 0.7% higher on the week after trading as high as $81,479.50 overnight. Gold fell 2.4% and U.S. equities turned negative after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh told the Jackson Hole symposium the central bank has "work

2 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

Bitwise Solana ETF Is First to Cross $1 Billion

Glassnode reported $138 million of Solana ETF inflows over 10 days, while BSOL captured nearly four-fifths of cumulative flows among six products tracked by Farside.

2 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

Solana Validators Approve Doubling Disinflation in First Governance Vote, With Kraken Reversing Late

SGP-0002 passed with 176.29 million SOL in favor against 66.19 million opposed, hours after Kraken's largest validator switched roughly 8.1 million SOL from against to for.

2 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

StarkWare Says it Confirmed a Quantum Safe Bitcoin Transaction on Mainnet

The onchain record confirms a 10,000-satoshi input and 5,179-satoshi fee; claims about quantum resistance come from StarkWare and the method’s author.

2 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

FRIEND Soars After Machi Big Brother Bids $1 Million For Friend.tech

FRIEND rose 28-fold within an hour of the post, and friend.tech fees jumped. Machi would buy the X account and the domain as the trading contracts have belonged to the null address since 2024.

2 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

Ethena Proposes Sending All Net Revenue to ENA Buybacks

A new framework assigns protocol IP and value accrual to the Ethena Foundation, while a live vote would use effectively 100% of net revenue for ENA purchases.

2 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

Schwab Crypto to Add SOL, AVAX and LINK to Bitcoin-and-Ether Lineup

The retail platform began rolling out in May, while a separate advisor-channel crypto service is targeted for mid-2027.

2 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

39 State Banking Groups Form BankChain Alliance for 2027 Blockchain Launch

The industry-owned network is still selecting a technology partner and would support tokenized deposits, stablecoins, smart payments and automated settlement.

3 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

Term Finance Permanently Shuts Meta Vaults After Exploit PeckShield Estimated at $8.5 Million

Withdrawals remain open, but Term’s Aug. 23 update did not quantify remaining vault assets and only said it would explore ways to address any shortfall.

3 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

LayerZero Unveils ATLAS Exchange Engine

The headless exchange routes 75% of post-venue trading fees into ZRO buybacks and burns, and pays trading venues rebates of up to 65%.

3 weeks ago read on source ↗
The Defiant

Coinbase Launches Tokenized Stocks On Base

Four tokens covering Nvidia, Apple, Meta and Alphabet went live for non-US users, with about $4.5 million minted and $3 million of DEX liquidity on day one. Chainlink price feeds run 24/5 while the tokens trade 24/7.

3 weeks ago read on source ↗

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