In this week’s big DeFi news, announced on August 5, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) delivered long-awaited clarity on the regulatory treatment of liquid staking.

OB, the project reimagining Bitcoin’s place in DeFi, has raised $21 million across multiple strategic funding rounds to scale its hybrid chain and unlock new utility for Bitcoin’s $750B+ capital base.

A new chapter in real-world asset (RWA) adoption is unfolding. Mavryk Network has officially integrated with Fireblocks to supercharge the tokenization and trading of over $10 billion in premium real estate on MultiBank.io.

The Pharos Network is taking a major step toward building institutional-grade lending rails for real-world assets (RWA). In a new collaboration with Morpho, the leading onchain lending protocol with over $9 billion in deposits.

gTrade has rolled out its largest upgrade of the year with the launch of v10, bringing a wave of new features and performance improvements designed to position the platform as the most scalable and versatile perpetual futures DEX in DeFi.

OpenLedger, the AI blockchain designed for decentralized data and model infrastructure, has announced a new collaboration with Trust Wallet, the world’s leading self-custody Web3 wallet used by over 200 million people.