Aave deployed on Monad and pulled in $100 million in deposits inside 48 hours — more than a quarter of the network's total value. Monad Foundation committed $15M in incentives to land the protocol.
Hexens found a critical type-confusion flaw in Aptos's Move VM: a $3,000 attack with near-90% success could have seized Wormhole, LayerZero, and USDC minting controls. Systemic risk: $70 billion. Patched in February.
Robinhood went live with its own Ethereum Layer 2 network on July 1, offering 24/7 trading in tokenized U.S. stocks across 120+ countries, perpetual futures, and AI agent accounts powered by the Trading MCP protocol.
New York Life Investment Management — a $807 billion asset manager — made its tokenization debut with a high-yield corporate bond fund that settles in USDC on Centrifuge's platform.
A 140-company consortium — Stripe, Visa, BlackRock, Google — launched Open USD to challenge USDC. The key selling point: reserve yield goes to all partners, not one issuer. Circle shares fell 8%.
Kraken is in talks to acquire a 15% equity stake in Aave Group at a $385 million valuation — the first time a centralized exchange takes corporate ownership in a DeFi protocol.
Hackers compromised a third-party vendor to inject malicious code into Polymarket's frontend, draining roughly $3M in PUSD from user wallets. The platform's second security breach in a month.
The most notorious sandwich bot on Ethereum lost $7.5M after an attacker spent weeks planting 66 fake token contracts that tricked it into signing its funds away.
The SEC proposed scrapping Rule 611, a 2005 order-protection standard that made it technically impossible for AMMs to trade US equities. The change could open DeFi markets to tokenized stocks.
Morpho, the DeFi lending protocol challenging Aave, closed a $175 million round led by Paradigm, a16z, and Ribbit Capital. With $11B in user deposits, it is the largest fundraise in DeFi history.
Consensys opened early access to MetaMask Agent Wallet — a self-custodial wallet that lets AI agents trade DeFi autonomously across 10 chains. Built-in threat scanning, spending limits, and $10K transaction coverage.
Circle has launched cirBTC, a 1:1 BTC-backed ERC-20 token for Ethereum DeFi. It targets the $12.5B wrapped bitcoin market, where WBTC and Coinbase's cbBTC currently dominate.
The H token crashed 86% after $32M was drained from the project's wallets. On-chain investigator ZachXBT says the exploit looks 'possibly staged,' pointing to wallets pre-funded weeks before the attack.
