Category: DeFi Digest
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‘Crypto-native’ asset managers quadruple onchain holdings since January
Crypto-native asset managers have increased their onchain holdings from $1B to $4B since January 2025, leveraging DeFi protocols like Morpho. Institutions are adopting DeFi as back-end infrastructure for yield and borrowing services.
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DeFi lending protocols hold nearly $60B in assets amid new wave of adoption: report – CoinJournal
DeFi lending TVL surged to nearly $60B, up 60% in a year, driven by institutional adoption and ‘DeFi mullet’ trend where apps embed DeFi for loans/yield. Tokenized RWAs are gaining traction as collateral.
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Can GHO Liquidity Incentives Push AAVE Beyond $100 Resistance? News ETHNews
Aave V4 testnet introduces gas efficiency and privacy upgrades while GHO stablecoin expands with liquidity incentives. AAVE price struggles below $100 resistance amid broader DeFi downturn.
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PancakeSwap surpasses Tether with $24.6M daily revenue, driven by record $10B trading surge
PancakeSwap generated $24.6M in daily revenue, surpassing Tether, driven by a record $10B trading volume, marking its second-highest day ever in both revenue and trading activity.
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EigenLayer Reveals EigenCloud and $70 Million Investment from A16z – “The Defiant”
EigenLayer introduces EigenCloud, a developer platform enhancing blockchain trust and verifiability for on-chain and off-chain applications, backed by a $70M investment from A16z, despite EIGEN token’s poor performance.
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Ethereum and the battle for yield: What is ETH’s future?
Ethereum staking yields are declining, falling below 3%, while yield-bearing stablecoins and DeFi protocols offer higher returns, raising questions about ETH’s competitive future.
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Lion Group ‘Secures $600 Million’ to Launch HYPE Treasury – “The Defiant”
Lion Group Holding Ltd. secured $600M to launch HYPE Treasury, making HYPE its primary reserve asset alongside Solana and Sui, signaling growing interest in crypto treasury reserves.
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How the Next Wave of RWAs is Becoming Crypto’s Real Edge
Tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) like reinsurance are transforming crypto by offering stable, scalable yield and new financial structures, moving beyond traditional finance replication.
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BlackRock’s BUIDL Fund to Become Accepted as Collateral on Crypto.com and Deribit
BlackRock’s BUIDL fund, a tokenized money market fund, will be accepted as collateral on Crypto.com and Deribit, offering traders a 4.5% annual yield with reduced volatility.
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Important Binance Announcement Affecting These Viral Meme Coins: Details
Binance added TRUMP, S, PNUT, VIRTUAL, SSV, HOME, and RESOLV as loanable assets, launched MYX perpetual contracts with 50x leverage, and announced delistings of CATI/FDUSD, ONE/BTC, and TLM/FDUSD pairs.
