Behind Russia's public crypto plans, bank recruitment notices describe a more detailed buildout from cross-border liquidity to DeFi risk, The Coinformer found.

BitMart originally put its 2021 hack at about $150 million and promised to make users whole. Its new restructuring plan tells a completely different story.

Ostium has settled a roughly $15 million lender fight. Its largest hack victims still don't know how much they'll ultimately get back.

Nearly $8.4 million in Compound DAO reserves was converted into COMP that later became part of the Foundation's voting power on its own $52 million funding proposal.

Switchboard is shutting down just weeks after an oracle compromise cost two DeFi protocols hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Base looked like crypto's biggest stablecoin network in August until a stricter filter erased 99.9% of its reported transfer volume.

Ethereum's plan to let users pay gas with stablecoins could leave sponsors exposed if users move their tokens before transactions land on-chain.

Coinbase temporarily restricted ex-Solana strategy lead after a routine transfer, echoing account access problems the exchange admits can persist indefinitely.

Deel lets contractors earn "rewards" on their pay, while the product underneath routes opted-in balances into a Bitcoin-backed DeFi lending vault.

The Compound Foundation cast nearly half of all votes for the $52 million development program it proposed, an analysis by The Coinformer found.

The value of loans on DeFi apps halved from last year's peak, putting centralized lenders back on top.

An SEC warning about crypto vaults arrived just as Coinbase, Robinhood and Aave pushed the products toward mainstream users.

Regulators are struggling to find anyone to license in the DeFi sector, built to operate without a conventional company in charge.

Anton Bukov says 1inch fired him eight months ago and removed him from its operations, although he remains a co-founder and 50% shareholder.

Andreessen Horowitz's crypto arm says institutions want tokenized assets, not financial systems they can't control.

Ondo Finance sold its new Solana tokens as real stock trading, then Backpack's CEO dragged the argument to the only place marketing hates, the exit.

DeFi portfolio tracker Zapper will shut down its website, mobile apps and API on Aug. 3.

DefiLlama says new owners have taken over DL News and its assets, weeks after the crypto publication said it was shutting down.

Stream Finance, a DeFi yield manager whose xUSD token collapsed after a reported $93 million loss, has started collecting claim information from victims.

DefiLlama is launching a new service to verify off-chain data just a few days after a proof-of-reserves failure triggered chaos.

Dreamcash sunsets its CASH markets on Hyperliquid, saying the hoped-for neutrality between deployers on HIP-3 didn't materialize.

Kraken is reportedly weighing a stake in Aave, turning the DeFi lender's post-crisis rebuild into part of Payward's broader expansion before a possible IPO.

MSUSD crypto, a dollar-pegged token meant to stay near $1, plunged after verification provider Accountable said MainStreet failed to meet its standards.

Aave is considering becoming one of the first DeFi protocols on Arc, under a proposal that guarantees at least $2 million in annual revenue.

ASTER buyback now uses 99% of daily platform fees, with Aster matching each buyback by burning the same amount from reserves.

AAVE price could rise to $175 within a year if stablecoins, tokenization and regulation help DeFi lending grow, Grayscale Research said.

Crypto trading platform Ventuals shuts down, ending an experiment that brought pre-IPO and traditional markets on Hyperliquid.

Botanix shuts down its network after a four-year bet on tokenless Bitcoin DeFi failed to generate enough real usage.

Claude Fable is already drawing pushback from crypto security researchers who say Anthropic's new model falls back too quickly.

Aave might be getting a stricter risk framework that could block tokens with weak controls after the KelpDAO hack rattled its lending markets.

MetaDAO is considering a $2 million USDC proposal to seed an activist fund that would invest only in MetaDAO raises.

Stacks wants to give Bitcoin holders native BTC yield, but the plan comes with a catch for STX holders.

Radiant Capital is winding down active development after failing to recover funds from a $50 million-plus exploit tied to North Korean hackers.

The Arbitrum Foundation is asking the DAO for roughly $43.5 million for another year, while Arbitrum reported about $23.5 million in gross profit in 2025.

MegaETH TVL is under scrutiny after DefiLlama said it removed some TVL for a chain "that was inflating it."

OpenZeppelin co-founder says even big protocols like Aave, MakerDAO or Compound are unsafe.

DeFi lending has been cut in half from its 2025 peak after a rough first quarter of exploits, falling token prices and users pulling money from markets.

Ex-Monad head of DeFi says the recent Polymarket exploit could have been way worse.

The developers said they decided to sunset points "after reviewing data," though they didn't disclose which metrics pushed them to shut the campaign early.

HYPE is close to becoming one of the top three best-performing tokens among the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap over the past 30 days.

The post-mortem report suggests the hacker risked about $370,000 in bonded RUNE to enter the validator set two days before the attack.

The company now says its own verifier will no longer sign as the sole required attestor.

The exchange says insurance fund depositors will be able to withdraw when the protocol relaunches, angering victims still waiting for compensation.

AI Financial, a Nasdaq-listed firm tied to World Liberty Financial, warned that its losses raise doubt about whether it can keep operating in 2027.

The protocol urged users to bridge the token back to Ethereum mainnet by June 15.

THORChain paused trading after detecting abnormal vault activity, saying the loss appears limited to protocol-owned funds.

Hyperliquid tried to move beyond USDC with USDH, but the final deal looks more like a renegotiation than a retreat.

The joint venture will deploy capital across DeFi liquidity protocols and other on-chain yield-generating strategies.