Falcon Finance Launches $10M Onchain Insurance Fund

Falcon Finance has launched an onchain insurance fund with an initial $10 million contribution to enhance risk management and protect users of its USDf stablecoin ecosystem. $10M Backstop: Falcon Finance Establishes Onchain Safeguard According to the release shared with Bitcoin.com News, Falcon Finance has established an onchain insurance fund, seeding it with an initial $10 … Read more

Hemi Raises $15M to Power Bitcoin DeFi Programmability

Hemi has closed a $15 million growth round led by YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs), Republic Digital and HyperChain Capital, bringing total project funding to $30 million as the company positions itself as an infrastructure layer for Bitcoin programmability within EVM-compatible decentralized finance. The startup says its Hemi Virtual Machine embeds a full Bitcoin node … Read more

Aave Labs Launches Horizon to Bridge Traditional Finance and DeFi

Aave Labs has launched Horizon, a new institutional platform enabling stablecoin borrowing against tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). The platform aims to merge institutional-grade compliance with the deep liquidity of decentralized finance (DeFi). Centrifuge, Circle, Vaneck Among Partners for Aave’s Horizon Launch Built on the Aave protocol, which holds over $62 billion in net deposits, Horizon … Read more

Top DEX Platforms Clear $425 Billion in a Monthlong Frenzy of Onchain Trading

Decentralized finance (DeFi) finished the last 30 days with higher total value locked (TVL), broad green across leading chains, and trading concentrated on a handful of decentralized exchange (DEX) venues. From Swap to Tsunami Over the past month, aggregate DeFi TVL sits near $159.6 billion. That total is consistent with Ethereum’s $96.697 billion representing 60.57% … Read more

Lombard Launches Community Sale to Advance Liquid Restaking and Onchain Bitcoin Capital Markets

Lombard announced the upcoming pre‑launch Community Sale of its native token, BARD, on Buidlpad, a compliant token access platform that connects protocols with verified communities. The sale will distribute BARD to users as part of Lombard’s effort to broaden participation in its bitcoin-focused decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol and allow community members to engage in staking, … Read more

Core and Hex Trust Unlock Institutional Bitcoin Staking in APAC and MENA

Core Foundation and Hex Trust have partnered to introduce bitcoin staking for institutional clients in APAC and MENA, enabling secure yield generation through Core’s dual staking model. The move combines bitcoin and CORE token staking within Hex Trust’s licensed custody platform. Hex Trust Brings Core’s Bitcoin Staking Solution to Institutional Clients Core Foundation has expanded … Read more

Wormhole Foundation Counters Layerzero’s Stargate Acquisition Bid

On Wednesday, the Wormhole Foundation announced its intent to submit a competing bid to acquire Stargate, directly challenging a proposal from cross-chain messaging rival Layerzero. This move potentially disrupts a pending acquisition and could lead to a bidding war for the prominent bridge protocol. Rival Bid Emerges for Cross-Chain Protocol Stargate Wormhole stated that Stargate’s … Read more

Bit Mining Proposes Rebrand to SOLAI in Strategic Solana Pivot

Bit Mining Limited announced plans to rebrand as SOLAI Limited, reflecting a strategic shift from cryptocurrency mining toward building onchain intelligent financial infrastructure within the Solana landscape. Bit Mining Unveils Plan to Rebrand as SOLAI The company, currently traded on the NYSE as BTCM, will seek shareholder approval to change its name and adopt the … Read more

USDf Explained: The Synthetic Stablecoin Climbing the Ranks

With the stablecoin economy now valued at $276.8 billion, the sector has experienced striking growth—and one token has muscled its way into the top ten. In recent times, Falcon Finance’s synthetic stablecoin USDf has crossed the $1 billion mark in market capitalization, securing its place as the ninth-largest fiat-pegged token by value. USDf Unpacked: How … Read more

Stablecoins Projected to Hit $1 Trillion in Payments by 2030 With DeFi on Overdrive

Stablecoins are poised to move $1 trillion a year by 2030, disrupting global payments and unlocking trillions in capital, according to a newly released industry report. Stablecoins Set to Move $1 Trillion Annually by 2030—Legacy Rails Can’t Compete Crypto liquidity provider Keyrock released a detailed report this week in collaboration with Latin American crypto platform … Read more

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