DeFi

A new DePIN initiative on Solana is building a decentralized sensor network using self-driving cameras and robotics, aiming to create a blockchain-native marketplace for real-world data with crypto-based incentives for participants.

Vitalik Buterin’s insights on decentralized stablecoins offer a nuanced roadmap for DeFi’s future emphasizing resilient design, risk mitigation and community-centric models that could shape the next era of digital finance.

South Korea faces a deep policy debate over who should issue stablecoins—banks, fintech firms, or tech companies—as regulators struggle to balance innovation, financial stability, and consumer protection in a fast-evolving digital asset market.

Binance Smart Chain’s major network upgrade, the Fermi hard fork, is scheduled for January, promising performance boosts, enhanced protocol features and improvements designed to strengthen BNB Chain’s decentralized infrastructure.

The decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem is once again grappling with a major security breach after Balancer, one of Ethereum’s leading automated market makers, suffered a devastating $116 million exploit.

Circle exploring reversible transactions for its stablecoin amid fraud concerns.

Mega Matrix files $2 billion shelf to back Ethena’s ENA token treasury.

XStocks launches on Ethereum with 60 tokenized stocks for DeFi.

Bitcoin shifts from a passive store to a yield-earning asset with on-chain yield.

Treasury considers embedding ID in DeFi; critics say privacy’s at risk.