DEFI

Today in crypto, US President Donald Trump raises global tariff rate to 15%, US spot Bitcoin ETFs logged five straight weeks of outflows. Meanwhile, Bitcoin’s price held steady despite renewed trade uncertainty after the US Supreme Court…
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BGD Labs, a core technical contributor to decentralized finance protocol Aave, said it will conclude its involvement with the project’s DAO on April 1 after four years.In a Friday forum post on Aave, BGD cited an “asymmetric organizational…
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Update (Feb. 19 at 7:21 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include a statement from the Crypto Council for Innovation.The White House has held another meeting between representatives from the cryptocurrency and banking industries on…
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The US CLARITY Act, a highly anticipated bill aimed at providing greater clarity for the US crypto industry, could make it through Congress in just over a month, according to crypto-friendly US Senator Bernie Moreno. “Hopefully by April,”…
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Starknet developer StarkWare has integrated EY’s Nightfall privacy protocol to let institutions run private payments and decentralized finance (DeFi) activity on public Ethereum-aligned rails, targeting banks and corporates that need…
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Joachim Nagel said euro-pegged stablecoins would offer the bloc more independence from US dollar-pegged coins soon to be allowed under the GENIUS Act.Joachim Nagel, president of Germany’s central bank, the Deutsche Bundesbank, supported the…
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Blockchain transactions per second (TPS) numbers are often treated as a performance gauge, but they don’t tell the full story of whether a network can scale in practice.Carter Feldman, founder of Psy Protocol and a former hacker, told…
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US-based ETF issuer Roundhill Investments has filed with the US securities regulator to launch six exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tied to event contracts on the outcome of the 2028 US presidential election.ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said in…
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Anchorage Digital has partnered with Kamino and Solana Company to roll out a structure that allows institutions to borrow against staked Solana without moving assets out of regulated custody, potentially addressing a key friction between…
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New analysis published Wednesday by the Federal Reserve proposes that crypto be categorized as a distinct asset class for initial margin requirements used in “uncleared” derivatives markets, including over-the-counter trades and other…
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