DeFi insurance protocols debuted with huge ambitions during the 2020 crypto boom. But as hacks evolved and users chased yields over protection, most of the sector collapsed under the same risks it was built to cover.
For protocol founders and security researchers, the incident reinforced a broader shift underway across crypto: DeFi is no longer primarily battling coding bugs. It’s battling complexity.
The token jumped 5% after a Senate committee moved the market-structure bill forward, reviving hopes that legal clarity can pull deeper institutional money into XRP products.
A long-skewed liquidation cascade flushed leverage across the major tokens overnight, with the move tracking a global bond selloff and the worst session for U.S. stocks since March.
Arkham Intelligence data shows that over $1 billion in bitcoin has left wallets attributed to Bhutan in the past year, flowing to exchanges and trading firms. The country says it has not sold any.
As the Commodity Futures Trading Commission takes on a growing task to police U.S. crypto trading, senior lawmakers are saying it needs bipartisan leadership.
Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company has accelerated plans for its blockbuster public offering, with trading expected to begin as early as June 12 after a faster-than-expected SEC review.
The chairman of droppRWA has secured $12.5 billion in mandates to tokenized real estate and his plans are to go beyond properties to bring trillions of dollars onchain.
The shift comes after the Kelp DAO exploit drained $292 million from its LayerZero-powered bridge, increasing concerns over the security of cross-chain infrastructure.
CME Group and ICE have reportedly warned the CFTC and Capitol Hill officials that Hyperliquid’s decentralized perpetual futures platform could enable market manipulation and sanctions evasion.
The latest conflict involving Iran has produced an unexpected proving ground for financial infrastructure, and an unlikely winner has emerged, argues Huang.
XRP stayed pinned below resistance even as derivatives activity surged ahead of a key Senate vote that could formally reinforce the token’s commodity status.
Led by Michael Saylor, the company aims to retire half of its outstanding 0% 2029 converts as it restructures liabilities tied to its bitcoin treasury strategy.