Arbitrum watchdog proposes bans for three DeFi projects

[ad_1] Arbitrum’s Watchdog Committee, a grant oversight body, has given three DeFi projects until a tentative Sept. 10 deadline to answer high-severity misuse findings and return funds it considers unresolved, or face... Read more »

DeFi attacks expose $84 million price manipulation risk

[ad_1] Malicious actors exposed two decentralized finance (DeFi) lenders to over $84 million in losses over four days, using variations of a price-manipulation strategy previously targeted by US regulators. The larger incident... Read more »

Tokenized assets near $4B enter DeFi despite record hacks

[ad_1] DeFi recorded 99 hacks in the second quarter of 2026, more than any quarter on record in DeFiLlama’s database. Real-world tokenized assets in use inside DeFi protocols have since climbed to... Read more »

DeFi hacks are turning high yields into a hidden liquidity tax

[ad_1] DeFi’s latest exploit chatter is pointing traders toward a cost that does not appear in pool APYs: the price of staying connected while bridges, keys, frontends, oracles, and contract logic remain... Read more »

US starts clock to bring in ID checks for converting dollars to stablecoins but DeFi stays outside the rules

[ad_1] US regulators have started the compliance clock for stablecoin issuers, with a proposed customer-identification rule that would make direct minting, redemption, and account relationships look more like bank onboarding. The bigger... Read more »

Does Botanix’s Failure Prove Bitcoiners Don’t Care About DeFi?

[ad_1] For the past two cycles, Bitcoin DeFi has lived more as a promise than a category. Programmable Bitcoin has remained a vision held by a certain breed of Bitcoin maxi who... Read more »

Tokenized stocks as DeFi collateral arrive before the borrowing risk is settled

[ad_1] Venus Protocol has turned the use of tokenized stocks as DeFi collateral into a 2026 BNB Chain test by adding bStocks markets to its Core Pool, creating a way to assess... Read more »

Solstice CMO on SLX and Sustainable DeFi Yield

[ad_1] Crypto yield has always carried a credibility problem. The same market that learned to demand proof after incentive-heavy protocols unwound still tends to compress risk into a single APY. That tension... Read more »

Wall Street is buying DeFi tokens again, even as everyone worries the code is unsafe

[ad_1] The total value locked (TVL) on DeFi fell from $172 billion to $148 billion as the sector logged $635 million in exploit losses across April alone. Coinbase Ventures bought Ethena’s ENA... Read more »

A stablecoin tied to Strategy stock depegs putting a new DeFi dollar risk in focus as Bitcoin sells off

[ad_1] Apyx’s apxUSD fell below its dollar reference on June 4 as Bitcoin traded near $63,000, putting DeFi dollar peg risk back in focus. A Bitget report said the token briefly touched... Read more »