Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has questioned the legitimacy of popular USDC yield strategies, arguing they don’t follow the principles of true decentralized finance (DeFi). His critique was in response to crypto analyst C-node, who said that most modern DeFi focuses on speculative gains instead of building genuinely decentralized infrastructure. Critique of Modern DeFi C-node challenged […]
Farcaster co-founder Dan Romero said on January 22 that the decentralized social protocol is not shutting down, pushing back against online claims that followed its acquisition by Neynar earlier this week. He also said Merkle, Farcaster’s parent entity, plans to return the full $180 million it raised to investors. The comments came after days of […]
Ethereum reported strong growth across decentralized finance (DeFi) and stablecoin activity in 2025. This was mainly because lower transaction costs and expanding infrastructure contributed to increased usage across the network. DeFi and Stablecoin Activity Increase In a New Year’s post shared via X, the chain revealed that it recorded over $99 billion in total value […]
Core Foundation has issued a detailed statement commenting on its dispute with Maple Finance after the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands granted an injunction against Maple over alleged breaches of commercial agreements related to the development of lstBTC, a Core-powered liquid-staked Bitcoin token. The injunction was granted after the Court found a “serious issue […]
Embattled crypto gambling platform ZKasino has started returning a portion of investor funds following a $33 million scam that left thousands of users in limbo. The refunds come nearly six months after Dutch authorities arrested a suspect linked to the platform’s alleged rug pull, marking a tentative step toward restitution for affected users. ZKasino Founder […]
The Balancer v2 exploit on November 3rd resulted in losses of around $120 million across its main protocol and multiple forks. According to the SlowMist security team’s post-incident analysis, the exploit stemmed from a precision loss flaw in the integer fixed-point arithmetic used to calculate scaling factors inside Composable Stable Pools, which are designed for […]
Stream Finance’s staked stablecoin, XUSD, lost its peg early Tuesday, falling by more than 60% after the DeFi protocol disclosed that an external fund manager had lost approximately $93 million in managed assets. The event shook the DeFi circles, causing XUSD to plummet to a new all-time low of $0.30, according to data from CoinGecko. […]
Solana’s revenue engine has matured at a pace few in the industry could have anticipated, and has now clearly surpassed Ethereum’s early growth trajectory. From meme coin mania, DeFi, AI, and RWAs, Solana has managed to capture several on-chain revenue streams that Ethereum couldn’t monetize early, a new report suggests. Solana’s Early Growth Curve According […]
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the operator of the New York Stock Exchange, announced a major strategic investment in Polymarket, a decentralized prediction market platform that aggregates probabilities for global events spanning politics, sports, and culture. Under the agreement, ICE will invest up to $2 billion in the company, which will place Polymarket’s pre-investment valuation at $8 […]
Ripple is executing a strategic pivot that could redefine the role of Ripple (XRP) in global finance. Alexis Sirkia, Captain of the Yellow Network, believes the launch of Ripple USD (RLUSD) and the first U.S.-based XRP ETFs could reignite transaction volume on XRPL. RLUSD-XRP Synergy Fuels Liquidity and Adoption Sharing his views with CryptoPotato, Sirkia […]