The crypto stablecoin arena has a new rising star, and its name is Ethena. This is thanks, in large part, to its flagship synthetic dollar, USDe, which has been one of the top-performing assets among the crypto top 100 in recent months. By August 2025, USDe’s supply had surged to
Stablecoins aren’t just for parking crypto profits and hedging volatility anymore: they’re now yield machines powering this year’s booming DeFi landscape. With the sector exploding to a $15B market cap for yield-bearing stables, savvy farmers are stacking APYs from synthetic dollar protocols that utilize delta-neutral strategies to source yield from
Chorus One is taking stablecoin yield generation to a new level. The institutional staking provider has joined forces with Morpho and Steakhouse Financial to launch Chorus One Earn, a non-custodial stablecoin yield platform designed for institutional investors, DAOs, and on-chain treasuries. The new product gives investors the ability to earn
The rebrand from Zekret Protocol follows a $1M pre-seed round backing Entry’s push to combine AI-powered compliance with zero-knowledge privacy for regulated DeFi. Entry, the compliance-native infrastructure bridging institutions and decentralized finance, has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding to fuse AI-powered compliance with zero-knowledge privacy. The round, led by
Cryptocurrencies worth more than $6 million have been drained from a DeFi wallet. A malicious actor was able to transfer stETH and aEthWBTC through illegitimate approvals. A victim had earlier lost their funds via an address poisoning scam. Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao recently underlined how hackers were beginning to approach
Introducing Bitcoin (BTC) staking represents a major joining of Bitcoin’s security with DeFi innovations on Starknet, Ethereum’s Layer-2 scaling solution. Stakeholders will be able to stake and earn network rewards for their BTC in the mainnet that generally launches on September 30. Bitcoin’s staking power is set at one-quarter in
The Sui-based DeFi platform Nemo Protocol has said that the compensation plan would be made available for the recent $2.4 million hack victims. To recover their losses, the platform is launching a debt token called NEOM that will pay the victims so that the community can gain back trust. NEOM
The growth and evolution of DeFi has been defined by one recurring truth: chasing yield is complicated. Users are constantly bridging assets, juggling chains, managing LP positions across protocols, and trying to time markets — all while bearing the ever-encroaching risk of impermanent loss and APR dilution. Innovative DeFi protocol
Customers who had their funds stolen in the recent Arcadia Finance theft were reimbursed by Crypto-native insurance alternative Nexus Mutual. An notification made public on Monday said that Nexus Mutual has paid out around $250,000 to customers who had their money stolen in the Arcadia Finance attack. A theft occurred in
Origin of Stablecoins Stablecoins made their debut in 2014. It aims to combine the steady value of fiat currencies with the openness and flexibility of blockchain technology. The first of its kind, BitUSD, was introduced in July 2014 as a credit-backed stablecoin on the BitShares platform. Tether (USDT), which was
