A breakdown of DeFi’s yield sources reveals that borrowing demand, trading fees, and funding rates drove the bulk of returns, while more than half of stablecoin deposits in the Ethereum ecosystem are earning less than U.S. Treasuries. Decentralized finance (DeFi) produced roughly $8 billion in onchain yield in 2025, according to a detailed analysis published…
The Sky-backed stablecoin incubator’s inaugural class of eight projects marks the protocol’s biggest push yet to diversify beyond crypto-native yield sources. Obex, the stablecoin incubator administered by Framework Ventures and backed by a $2.5 billion mandate from the Sky ecosystem, on Tuesday announced its inaugural cohort of eight projects and began deploying up to $1…
The integration gives DeFi protocols direct access to institutional-grade order book, spot, and futures data from the largest US crypto exchange. Coinbase has integrated Chainlink’s DataLink service to publish its premium exchange data onchain for the first time, the companies announced on Tuesday. DataLink is an institutional-grade data publishing service powered by the Chainlink data…
An independent government review warned that crypto assets could channel foreign money into British politics. The United Kingdom has imposed an immediate moratorium on all cryptocurrency donations to political parties, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Wednesday. The move follows the publication of the Rycroft Review, a 50-page independent assessment of foreign financial interference in…
Circle stock fell 19% after the latest Senate draft of the Clarity Act included restrictions on stablecoin yield. Crypto markets dipped slightly on Tuesday as geopolitical uncertainty persisted and investors considered the implications of the U.S. Senate’s revised draft of the crypto market structure bill, or Clarity Act. Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at around $70,000,…
Bank of Montreal enables clients to convert dollars into tokenized cash on CME and Google Cloud’s Universal Ledger for round-the-clock margin, collateral and B2B payments. Bank of Montreal announced it will allow clients to convert dollars into tokenized cash and deposits on CME and Google Cloud’s Universal Ledger infrastructure, enabling 24/7 settlement for margin, collateral…
Securitize will become the first digital transfer agent eligible to mint blockchain-based securities on NYSE’s upcoming Digital Trading Platform The New York Stock Exchange and real world asset (RWA) tokenization platform Securitize have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on tokenized securities infrastructure, the two companies announced on Tuesday. Under the deal, Securitize will…
The EF’s Post-Quantum and Cryptography teams have consolidated an 8-year research push into an open resource with a roadmap and specifications. The Ethereum Foundation on Tuesday launcheda dedicated website consolidating the organization’s post-quantum (PQ) security work into a single public resource. The site represents the public-facing culmination of what the EF describes as an 8-year…
Activity-based rewards are allowed, but anything ‘economically equivalent to interest’ is barred. Crypto industry leaders reviewed the draft stablecoin yield language in the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act during a closed-door session on Capitol Hill on Monday, and the opening reaction was that the text was overly narrow and unclear, according to CoinDesk. The draft,…
Bittensor subnet tokens’ cumulative valuation has climbed to $1.5 billion as nearly every token in the ecosystem posts double- or triple-digit 30-day gains. Decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) protocol Bittensor’s native TAO token has rallied roughly 90% over the past month from around $180 at the start of March to above $332 as of March 24,…