Aave’s community overwhelmingly approved a proposal to license a centralized version of its lending protocol for deployment on Kraken’s Ink blockchain. A proposal for the decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol Aave to launch a centralized version of its service on the crypto exchange Kraken’s Ink blockchain has received widespread approval among the community. An Aave request for comment (ARFC) for the deployment of a whitelabel version of Aave v3 for the Ink Foundation, the organization behind the Ink blockchain, was approved with 99.8% of the votes cast in favor. An ARFC acts as a preliminary offchain vote before proceeding with a full decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) vote. The next phase involves drafting an Aave improvement proposal (AIP) that will be voted onchain. Read more
BitGo confidentially submits S-1 filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission amid $100 billion in assets under custody and growing international expansion. Digital asset custodian BitGo has filed paperwork to pursue an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States, highlighting the crypto industry’s continued push toward mainstream financial markets. On Monday, BitGo announced it had confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a proposed IPO of its Class A common stock. At the time of filing, no determination was made on the number of shares or price range of the stock offering. As of publication, the registration statement had not yet appeared on the SEC’s EDGAR database. Read more
The European Union recorded an average general government deficit to GDP ratio of 81.8% at the end of the first quarter of 2025. Romania was below this level, with 55.8%, 16th in the debt-to-GDP ranking of the 27 countries, Eurostat data show.
CryptoPunks remained the top NFT collection by market capitalization, with a valuation of $1.8 billion, according to NFT Price Floor. Ethereum-based non-fungible tokens (NFT) collections took over the latest seven-day sales rankings, accounting for nine of the top 10 collections by total sales volumes. On Monday, CryptoSlam data showed nine of last week’s top 10 collections by sales volume were Ethereum-based NFTs, including popular collections CryptoPunks, Pudgy Penguins, Moonbirds and Azuki. The only non-Ethereum collection in the top 10 was the Polygon-based Courtyard NFTs. Read more