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A damaged PancakeSwap pool releases USDT through a pipe while two hooded figures stand behind it and a broken lock exposes liquidity risks.

Locked liquidity did not stop this $14 million crypto pool drain

Liam 'Akiba' Wright Oct 9 1 min read

XRP sits at the center of four branching paths representing stablecoins, infrastructure, global transfers and tokenized assets.

XRPL’s $1.34 billion stablecoin base doesn’t tell us how much XRP users need

Liam 'Akiba' Wright Oct 9 3 min read

S&P Global Ratings sheet beside a locked case of crypto assets, with institutional and technology symbols surrounding the scene.

S&P brings ratings-style scrutiny to $10 billion crypto vault market as $6 million Base incident exposes risks

Oluwapelumi Adejumo Oct 7 2 min read

Symbolic representation of users crossing a fractured path away from a collapsing network toward a larger blockchain ecosystem.

Why Abstract is killing its Ethereum L2 instead of launching a token to save it

Gino Matos Oct 7 3 min read

A large $67M AUSD PT stack points toward a smaller $30M Dec. 17 stack beneath an hourglass and Aave mark.

Aave and Pendle may have found a way to keep yield capital from ever leaving DeFi

Oluwapelumi Adejumo Oct 6 4 min read

Frozen padlock and chain bind several digital tokens, illustrating how one restricted asset can obstruct access to others under CIP-113.

Cardano just added the kind of token controls Wall Street wants and DeFi may hate

Oluwapelumi Adejumo Oct 6 4 min read

GHO and sGHO weigh against USDC and USDT on a balance scale, with a 4.50% rate marker and liquidity conditions nearby.

Aave hikes GHO borrow rates to rescue depleted stablecoin pools

Liam 'Akiba' Wright Oct 5 4 min read

An operator carries a 32 ETH burden toward a 2,048 ETH validator tower while smaller 2.4 ETH and 1.3 ETH staking routes appear nearby.

Lido’s proposed staking route needs over 13 times the default entry bond

Liam 'Akiba' Wright Oct 4 5 min read

fed interest rate hike stablecoins bitcoin borrowers

The same Fed rate hike can help stablecoins and hurt Bitcoin borrowers

Andjela Radmilac Oct 4 5 min read

Cardano’s DeFi has shrunk by more than half and RealFi is betting credit can revive it

Cardano’s DeFi has shrunk by more than half and RealFi is betting credit can revive it

Oluwapelumi Adejumo Oct 2 4 min read