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Polymarket Acquires DeFi Infrastructure Startup Brahma
Polymarket, a prediction markets platform valued at around $20 billion, is acquiring the DeFi infrastructure startup Brahma.Brahma will wind down its three main products...
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Aave Adds Shield After $50M DeFi Swap Loss
Aave will introduce "Aave Shield" to block swaps with a price impact above 25%.A user lost $50 million when converting USDT to AAVE due...
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Vitalik Buterin: Build Beyond DeFi
Vitalik Buterin urged the Ethereum ecosystem to build beyond finance, focusing on privacy tools and open coordination systems.He argued for creating "sanctuary technologies" that...
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Claude AI’s Vibe-Coded Bug Liquidates $1.8M in Moonwell DeFi
On Sunday, an Moonwell oracle error introduced in a pull request co-authored by Claude Opus 4.6 led to a significant exploit.The bug misreported cbETH's...
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DeFi Platform ZeroLend Announces Shutdown Amid Losses
DeFi lending platform ZeroLend announced it will shut down after three years, citing an unsustainable business model.The platform's native token, ZERO, plummeted 45% in...
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DeFi front-end attacks hit OpenEden, Curvance wallets
OpenEden and Curvance were targeted in front-end attacks on February 16, 2026, putting user funds at risk.Both incidents involved the AngelFerno wallet drainer, a...
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Buterin: Real DeFi Transforms Risk, Not USDC Yield
Vitalik Buterin criticizes yield products for centralized stablecoins like USDC as insufficiently transformative for risk.He argues true DeFi must reallocate risk, proposing two alternative...
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Crypto millionaires tap DeFi credit to fund luxe lifestyles.
Wealthy crypto holders use decentralized finance (DeFi) lending to get quick, flexible credit without selling assets.Cometh has secured a regulatory foothold in France with...
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a16z Drops ‘Crypto’ From Its Fund Name
Andreessen Horowitz rebranded its crypto fund to a16z Frontier, expanding into AI and biology while pledging continued crypto investmentBitcoin...
Banks lose $22.8B as AI bots access customer accounts
Five major US banks lost a combined $22.8 billion in market value.
The sell-off was triggered by a report that...
NY AG seeks $1.37B from NovaTech founders over Ponzi scheme.
New York Attorney General Letitia James seeks $1.37 billion from defunct crypto platform NovaTech's founders over an alleged Ponzi...
