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Open Jupiter, tell it you want to swap SOL for USDC, check the price, and press the button. From the user's point of view, there is not much more to it. So it's only natural to assume that Jupiter is where the trade happens. In reality, Jupiter is closer to a search engine for liquidity. […] The post Why 90% of your DeFi trades are quietly being routed back to Wall Street market makers appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Why would anyone want to trade a healthcare stock for a memecoin like BONER? Why wouldn’t they, ask the degens on Robinhood Chain who are building a strange new corner of DeFi. The HIMS token is designed to track shares of the teleheath company Hims & Hers, which trade on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). On Robinhood Chain, traders can buy and sell the tokenized stock alongside other crypto assets like memecoins. And that’s what happened with BONER. The deliberately ridiculous memecoin was paired with HIMS in a liquidity pool, where traders could swap between the two tokens. Read more

The bill’s ethics section remained largely unchanged despite being one of the main points of contention ahead of a pivotal Senate vote. A revised version of the CLARITY Act would direct United States regulators to determine whether people or groups controlling “non-decentralized finance trading protocols” must comply with securities, commodities and anti-money laundering (AML) requirements. The revised text, posted on Senator Cynthia Lummis’ website, defines such a protocol as one whose functionality, operation, or rules can be materially altered by a person or coordinated group. The definition also covers protocols whose controllers can restrict users or whose transactions are not governed solely by transparent, pre-established code. Under the proposal, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) would develop activity-based rules addressing registration, conduct, disclosure, recordkeeping and supervision. Meanwhile, the Treasury would establish how existing B...

Anthias projects lower monthly debt accrual under unchanged market conditions, while reserve transfers and supplier cash access remain unverified. The post DeFi lender proposes bad-debt fix, but user USDC funds remain locked appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Imagine someone who bought ETH for $1,000, watched it climb to $4,000, and now wants to cash out $1,000. Selling one-quarter of the ETH would provide the cash, but it would also realize a $750 gain under US tax treatment of digital assets held for investment. However, DeFi offers another way. The owner can deposit […] The post How the “buy, borrow, die” tax trade is quietly loading DeFi pools with hidden credit risk appeared first on CryptoSlate.

CME and ICE told Washington in May that Hyperliquid's pseudonymous, always-on markets could let sanctioned state actors circumvent enforcement. On Aug. 31, an Arkham analysis reviewed by CoinDesk found that wallets linked to North Korea's Lazarus Group had sold more than $30 million of Bitcoin through Hyperliquid over the prior three weeks. The proceeds were […] The post North Korea’s $30M crypto cashout just handed legacy finance its best weapon to kill DeFi’s US debut appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Abstract: In H1 2026, TRON bucked broader market headwinds through a twin-track strategy: solidifying its core DeFi engine while aggressively expanding into AI. As recurring deflationary mechanics anchored value across DeFi protocols, a rapid wave of AI product launches unlocked new vectors for ecosystem growth. Throughout the first half of 2026, global crypto markets faced […] The post TRON H1 2026 Strategy Report: Dual-Engine Growth via DeFi and AI Delivers Record Traction appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Full Sail confirmed vault losses, Virtue reported 47 liquidations and Volo paused withdrawals while Sui and IOTA remained online. The post Cross-chain oracle compromise triggers liquidations and frozen vaults across multiple DeFi networks appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The protocol aims to give fintechs and investors a faster way to recover losses from DeFi hacks, while letting XRP, bitcoin and XLM holders earn yield by backing that protection.

Malicious actors exposed two decentralized finance (DeFi) lenders to over $84 million in losses over four days, using variations of a price-manipulation strategy previously targeted by US regulators. The larger incident hit Tectonic on the Cronos blockchain, where security firm GoPlus estimated roughly $75 million was affected. Three days earlier, Moonwell’s MAMO lending market on […] The post DeFi protocols just lost $83 million to an attack financial regulators already warned about appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Direct callers now need API keys, while Sui builders had to align their SDK, endpoint and on-chain package. The post Pyth Network’s API overhaul threatens to freeze unpatched smart contracts across 300 DeFi protocols appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Comparable single-security or narrow-index contracts outside the joint listing regime would move under SEC oversight. The post FalconX asks SEC to bring single-stock perpetuals from DeFi under swap rules appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Brussels is reviewing whether crypto lending should fall under MiCA, but DeFi lending vaults are making it harder to determine who, exactly, should be regulated. MiCA left crypto lending outside its original rulebook — but now Brussels is considering whether to bring it in. On May 20, 2026, the European Commission asked stakeholders to weigh in on areas left outside the original Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) framework. These include issues around decentralized finance (DeFi) and crypto lending and borrowing. One area of contention involves lending vaults, which can channel billions of dollars into onchain credit markets without looking like conventional lending. Their legal status currently depends on non binding interpretations that they fall outside of MiCA and EU fund rules. Read more

Even after its estimated C$22 million unencumbered crypto, roughly C$12.2 million of the illustrative gap remains. The post This Solana treasury company may sell SOL as a DeFi loan ties up more than half its treasury appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) gave World Liberty Financial, a DeFi venture associated with President Donald Trump, preliminary conditional approval to charter a national trust bank built around its roughly $4 billion USD1 stablecoin. World Liberty Trust Company would eventually handle USD1 issuance and reserve custody directly, moving both under federal […] The post Trump-linked World Liberty Financial wins OCC bank approval as $112 million DeFi position sits near liquidation appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Flying Tulip founder Andre Cronje contends that DeFi protocols have evolved into a new financial paradigm of “onchain finance,” but have sacrificed some of their inherent immutability and decentralization. Most decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols are no longer truly decentralized, according to Andre Cronje, founder of DeFi platform Flying Tulip and creator of Fantom Network. “I don’t think DeFi exists anymore outside of those very small niches,” Cronje told Cointelegraph during Thursday’s Chain Reaction X Spaces show.  He argued that “true DeFi” needs to be decentralized, immutable and without an intermediary, adding: “That statement isn’t really true for pretty much any other protocols running today.” Read more

Solstice announced a tranched product built on Strategy's Bitcoin-related STRC preferred stock, and said its senior tranche would not begin absorbing losses until STRC trades below $47.66. STRC currently trades near $95.315, putting that threshold roughly half of today's market price and about 52% below the security's $100 par value. Solstice COO David Plisek described […] The post Strategy sold $100M to defend STRC’s $100 stock price as DeFi packages the risk into a 7% ‘safer’ trade appeared first on CryptoSlate.

EIP-8363 would drive net consensus yield to zero at 60.25 million ETH staked, shifting the burden toward variable fees, MEV and DeFi returns. The post A proposed Ethereum upgrade threatens to kill native yield and force SharpLink’s $125M treasury into high-risk DeFi appeared first on CryptoSlate.

DeFi recorded 99 hacks in the second quarter of 2026, more than any quarter on record in DeFiLlama's database. Real-world tokenized assets in use inside DeFi protocols have since climbed to nearly $3.97 billion, a fresh all-time high. DeFi gives tokenized assets something to do on-chain, turning them into collateral, lending liquidity, or inputs that […] The post Wall Street put $7B into tokenized funds, but under 1% is actually being used in DeFi appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Tokenized real-world assets moved beyond issuance as RWA deposits more than tripled to $7.4 billion, while lending and trading activity expanded despite a broader industry slowdown. Real-world assets (RWAs) are gaining momentum as tokenized versions of traditional investments move beyond issuance and become active parts of onchain financial markets. RWA deposits across decentralized finance platforms more than tripled year over year to $7.4 billion in the second quarter of 2026, while total DeFi deposits fell about 15%, according to a joint report by CoinShares and Token Terminal published Thursday. CoinShares CEO Jean-Marie Mognetti said the divergence shows that RWA demand is being driven by practical use cases rather than broader market conditions. Read more