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Every DeFi read CryptoBloggers has picked: 316 so far, 272 in the last 30 days, strongest first under “Start here” and newest first below.
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Crypto vault deposits top $10 billion as lending risks draw regulatory scrutiny
Curator-managed crypto vaults have passed $10 billion in deposits, drawing regulatory scrutiny over collateral, liquidity and smart-contract risk.
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Crypto Long & Short: The GENIUS Act’s guarantees don’t cover DeFi lending
Ajna's founders argue that a fully backed stablecoin gives no protection against governance votes or faulty price feeds in DeFi lending.
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Pendle just put Partners Group's $2.1B infra fund onchain through NGI+
Pendle integrated Partners Group's $2.1B infrastructure fund via NGI+, with KYC and AML gated at entry and exit, making it the first closed traditional fund wired this way.
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Binance hackers move 81% of stolen Solana, route funds via THORChain
Most of the stolen Binance SOL has moved, and the attackers are laundering it through THORChain after the protocol resumed swaps.
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My “price converges at expiry” code passed its unit test, was wrong by 26 points, and then the fix exposed a free arbitrage, post-mortem.
A builder's post-mortem on a pricing engine for a 90-minute match-linked derivative: a unit test passed while the price was off by 26 points, and the fix exposed a free arbitrage.
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Hyperliquid leapfrogs Bybit, Kraken and OKX in open interest as Q3 positions grow 80%
Hyperliquid's share of open interest reached 11.7% across itself and eight major centralized rivals, passing Bybit, Kraken and OKX.
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Ethereum treasury firm BTCS sold ether at a loss to keep $64 million Aave loan healthy
BTCS sold ether at a loss to keep a $64 million Aave loan healthy; the loan could be liquidated if ether falls near $1,700.
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Maple Finance’s strategy rift sends co-founder, COO to the exits
Maple Finance co-founder and COO are leaving over strategy disagreements while SYRUP falls despite revenue growth.
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🏴 Variational's Broker Bet Goes Public
Variational's Omni exits private beta with a single-dealer design that now faces a larger public test.
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Sky Advisor Proposes Halting New Core Vault Borrowing
Sky advisor proposes halting new core vault borrowing, with 376.33M USDS in debt across 771 vaults; repayment stays possible.
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Katana's revenue buys back KAT and stakers get all of it, starting Nov 17
Katana is routing a share of chain fees to buy back KAT for stakers starting Nov 17, a concrete tokenomics change worth tracking.
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Jupiter adds Anchorage-backed USDGO to its $1 billion Solana lending platform
Anchorage-backed USDGO is added to Jupiter's Solana lending market, where other holders can earn onchain at borrower-set rates.
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Securitize, Ethena Open BUIDL Facility With $100M Capacity
Securitize and Ethena open a BUIDL facility with $25M each in USDC and BUIDL, with further funding conditional rather than a $100M pool.
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Securitize and Ethena’s $100 million BlackRock BUIDL liquidity facility goes live
Securitize and Ethena launch a $100M facility letting BUIDL holders swap into stablecoins 24/7.
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EU DeFi proposals could push users to riskier platforms, says Coinbase exec
Coinbase's EU policy chief warns that suitability tests extended beyond lending could limit access to DeFi and fragment liquidity.
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Katana Plans Revenue-Funded Buybacks for KAT Stakers
Katana will retire emissions voting and shorten its unstaking cooldown on Nov. 17, with revenue-funded KAT buybacks to follow.
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Aave V3.8 Goes Live With New Reentrancy Guard
Aave V3.8 adds a pool-wide reentrancy lock across 15 networks after governance approval with no opposing votes.
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A DEX wants streamers calling leveraged trades live and hasn’t said how it checks their records
A DEX is recruiting streamers to call leveraged trades live without explaining how it verifies their trade records, a transparency gap worth knowing about.
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LlamaRisk Asks Aave to Freeze StakeWise, Lombard and Rocket Pool Tokens on Its V3 Core Market
LlamaRisk asks Aave to freeze five liquid staking and restaking tokens on its V3 core market, a notable risk governance move.
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LlamaRisk Proposes Borrowing Speed Limits for Aave V3
LlamaRisk proposes timed borrowing buffers and a steward-run route for large clients on Aave V3; parameters are provisional and votes are pending.
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Across Back Online After Namecheap Social Engineering Handed Domain to Attacker
Across's domain was handed to an attacker through Namecheap social engineering; the site is back under the protocol's control, though the loss estimate is unconfirmed.
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Moonwell Cuts Collateral Limits, Drops VELO and wrsETH
Moonwell's MIP-X75 cuts collateral backing for existing loans on Base and Optimism, so borrowers near their limits face liquidation unless they repay or add eligible collateral.
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Crypto Long & Short: The GENIUS Act’s guarantees don’t cover DeFi lending
Ajna's founders argue that a fully backed stablecoin gives no protection against governance votes or faulty price feeds in DeFi lending.
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Maple Co-Founder Flanagan Exits Over Strategy Split
Maple co-founder Joe Flanagan exits after a strategy split; transition agreed and direction stated unchanged.
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Nomura’s Laser Digital helps launch Saudi SME credit vault targeting $100 million on BNB Chain
Nomura's Laser Digital is advising on a tokenized Saudi SME credit vault targeting $100 million on BNB Chain, a deal announcement.
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Meet Spiko, the largest tokenized fund in the world you’ve probably never heard about
Spiko's SAFO tokenized money-market fund reached $2.39 billion in AUM, making it a notable tokenized fund to know.
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Kraken's xStocks adds 200 UK and EU shares as its assets top $1.1 billion
Kraken's xStocks now holds over $1.1 billion and added 200 UK and EU shares; each token gives no ownership of the stock.
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Boros is now ~75% of all onchain funding rate OI, and Pendle cut incentives 58% to get there
Pendle's Boros now holds about 75% of onchain funding rate open interest while Pendle cut emissions about 58%, a notable sign onchain rate trading is scaling.
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Across Protocol warns users to avoid app amid reports of drained wallets
Across Protocol is investigating a possible domain-level security incident, with users reporting drained wallets; avoid the app until resolved.
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LlamaRisk Proposes $1.33B Collateral Exit From Aave Core
LlamaRisk proposes freezing and exiting $1.33B of collateral from Aave Core, with borrowers asked to migrate to V4.
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Moody’s Pilot With Chainlink Puts Test Ratings on Several Blockchains in One Pass
Moody's and Chainlink ran a test-network-only pilot publishing stand-in ratings to several chains at once.
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MetaMask Adds Mobile Limit Orders Across Four Chains
MetaMask adds mobile limit orders on four chains using revocable permissions and a 3% default tolerance, with no guaranteed fill at target price.
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Crypto is now teamed up with U.S. government in two legal battles over perps
Crypto firms twice sided with the CFTC on the view that perpetual futures are not swaps, a legal position with real market-structure stakes.
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Binance Labs-backed Initia hacked again, $3.3M lost in three weeks
Initia lost $3.3M across two hacks in under three weeks, more than its remaining TVL.
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Compound V2 Users Face Nov. 10 COMP Rewards Deadline
Compound V2 COMP rewards claim deadline of Nov. 10, with unclaimed tokens returning to the treasury.