Alpen Is Bringing USDC to Bitcoin Finance—So Holders Can Borrow Without Selling
Alpen plans to bring USDC and Circle’s CCTP to its Bitcoin platform, enabling BTC-backed lending and trading. Here’s the opportunity—and the risks.
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Flying Tulip Brings Total Return Swaps Onchain With a Different Take on Leverage
Flying Tulip launches Trade and Total Return Swap on Ethereum and Sonic, offering crypto traders a new approach to leverage with borrowing-based financing.
Uniswap v4 Hooks Can Hide a Trap Behind the Best Quote
New 0x research warns that malicious Uniswap v4 hooks can advertise attractive swap quotes but deliver worse execution to unsuspecting traders.
Spark Pulls in $56M in 40 Minutes as Stablecoins Become DeFi’s New Savings Accounts
Spark’s spUSDC V2 attracted $56 million in under 40 minutes as stablecoin holders increasingly move idle capital into automated DeFi yield.
OKX Brings Spark’s DeFi Yield to Exchange Users Holding USDT
Spark integrates its USDT Savings vault with OKX, letting eligible users access DeFi yield directly from USDT held on the exchange.
Flare Cuts Inflation to 3% as FLR Burn Rate Jumps More Than 10X
Flare’s tokenomics overhaul cuts FLR inflation to 3% as staking reaches 21.5 billion tokens and the network’s burn rate jumps more than 10X.
Enso Brings One-Transaction Flashloans Across 8 DeFi Protocols and 19 Chains
Enso launches Flashloan Actions, enabling fintechs and asset managers to execute complex DeFi strategies across 8 protocols and 19 chains in one transaction.
Firelight Raises $8 Million to Tackle DeFi's Massive Protection Gap
Firelight raises $8M to build DeFi protection infrastructure, using XRP and other assets to help cover smart contract and protocol risks.
KuCoin Makes $3 Million Institutional Credit Easier to Access With Lending Upgrade
KuCoin cuts its institutional lending threshold from 30M to 10M USDT and integrates interest-free borrowing with its Unified Trading Account.
City Protocol Raises $11M to Bring Structured Investment Products Onchain
City Protocol raises $11M from Dragonfly, Jump Crypto, CMT Digital and others as its Venzo platform reaches $30M in TVL.
MoonPay Brings Solana DeFi Lending to ChatGPT and Claude With Kamino
Ask MoonPayMoonPay adds Kamino to PayBox, allowing eligible ChatGPT and Claude users to lend, borrow and earn yield on Solana directly through AI conversations.
Everything Protocol Solves DeFi With One Protocol
Everything Protocol has published a whitepaper proposing a unified DeFi architecture that combines swaps, lending, leveraged trading and limit orders into a single liquidity reserve. The model aims to improve capital efficiency while reducing the complexity and fragmentation of today's decentralized finance ecosystem.
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