Active Tokenized Private Credit Loans Near $16 Billion, APR Slips Below 10%

Active loans in tokenized private credit now top $15.95 billion, signaling rapid growth but also sharper fault lines in protocol performance. Loan Counts Fall as Tokenized Credit Market Consolidates Tokenized private credit has grown significantly since mid-June, adding more than $2 billion in active loans and $4.3 billion in cumulative lending. As of Sept. 6, … Read more

Linea Launches $1 Billion Token Incentive Program

Linea has launched Ignition, a ten-week incentive program distributing 1 billion LINEA tokens to boost liquidity across major DeFi protocols. Brevis ZK Proofs Drive Linea’s New Liquidity Rewards Program Linea is rolling out Ignition, a 10-week growth initiative distributing 1 billion LINEA tokens to strengthen liquidity across Etherex, Aave, and Euler. Unlike traditional reward schemes, … Read more

Curve Finance Debuts New Pool for Foreign Exchange Trading

Curve Finance has launched FXSwap, a new type of cryptopool specifically designed for foreign exchange and low-volatility trading pairs onchain. Curve’s New AMM Design Aims to Bring Forex Markets Onchain The implementation introduces a “refuel” mechanism where a stream of external funds maintains high liquidity density around the market exchange rate. This design ensures traders … Read more

Chainlink and Solv Protocol Launch Secure Exchange Rate Feed

Solv Protocol and Chainlink have launched a new Secure Exchange Rate feed for the SolvBTC wrapped bitcoin asset hosted on Ethereum. Chainlink Proof of Reserve Tech Used for Solv Protocol’s Exchange Rate Solv Protocol has launched a Secure Exchange Rate feed for its SolvBTC wrapped bitcoin asset issued on the Ethereum blockchain. The feed is … Read more

Apriori Raises $20M to Build Institutional-Grade Onchain Trading Infrastructure

Apriori Network Inc. announced that it has raised $20 million in a strategic funding round led by prominent participants including Hashkey Capital and Pantera Capital Management LP, with additional support from Primitive Ventures, IMC Trading, GEM Labs, Gate Labs, Ambush Capital and Big Brain Collective. Founded in 2023 by former quants and engineers from Jump … Read more

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