Fira debuted its fixed-rate DeFi lending protocol with $450 million in pre-launch deposits, seeking to make long-term decentralized lending rates more predictable.
Resolv’s USR dollar stablecoin is trading at just $0.24 after an attacker minted 80 million unbacked tokens, forcing a full protocol pause and reopening fears over stablecoin risk.
Some lenders are willing to accept Bitcoin and recognize crypto holdings when considering a mortgage application, but issues around risk remain.
The platform remains subject to regulatory approval and would mark a cautious step toward onchain markets.
India wants BRICS members to discuss linking their CBDCs for trade and tourism at a future summit, according to a Reuters report.
Bitcoin faces rising downside risk as macro pressure and weak technicals point to a possible drop toward $80,000 on a rising-wedge breakdown.
South Korea’s customs agency charged three suspects over a more than $100 million crypto-linked remittance scheme using WeChat Pay and Alipay, per Yonhap.
Vitalik Buterin warns that Ethereum’s push to add new features while preserving backward compatibility is inflating protocol complexity, calling for a “garbage collection” process.
Crypto’s interoperability layer reveals a gap between the industry’s decentralization narrative and how value actually moves across blockchains.
Security failures don’t just drain funds, they often destroy trust, leaving most hacked crypto projects unable to recover despite fixing the technical flaws.