DeFi lender proposes bad-debt fix, but user USDC funds remain locked

DeFi lender proposes bad-debt fix, but user USDC funds remain locked
Lending protocol Moonwell’s proposed rate changes could cut monthly interest accruing on bad debt by about 85%, according to Anthias Labs’ projection. Its Sept. 4 recovery update leaves access to USDC and a return to borrowing as separate hurdles. Moonwell said in the update that governance proposal MIP-X66 had entered its vote collection period. The … Read more

Australia cancels registration of crypto provider GetCoins following customer scam complaints

Australia cancels registration of crypto provider GetCoins following customer scam complaints
Australia’s financial intelligence regulator AUSTRAC said Sept. 7 that it canceled, suspended or refused to renew 45 remittance and virtual asset provider registrations over the past year, highlighting how failures under the registration regime can cost businesses permission to operate. The disclosure covers both sectors, with AUSTRAC saying the actions removed those businesses from its … Read more

Hyperliquid tests allowlists that let operators restrict access to their own markets

Hyperliquid tests allowlists that let operators restrict access to their own markets
In a Sept. 3 developer update, Hyperliquid API Announcements said the onchain derivatives exchange was adding optional wallet allowlists to builder-run perpetual markets. The testnet-only extension, called HIP-3*, would let a market deployer decide which wallets may trade on its venue without imposing the same access policy across Hyperliquid. HIP-3 is Hyperliquid’s framework for perpetual … Read more

CZ’s Kyrgyzstan visit highlights why state backing cannot guarantee a stablecoin exit

CZ’s Kyrgyzstan visit highlights why state backing cannot guarantee a stablecoin exit
Changpeng Zhao’s September 5 visit to Kyrgyzstan’s crypto council came as President Sadyr Japarov set a three-month deadline for new regulations and officials discussed the risks posed by international sanctions. The decisions put the limits of domestic crypto policy in focus: approval at home does not ensure access abroad. Zhao, known as CZ, said in … Read more

Three DeFi projects face possible exclusion from future Arbitrum DAO programs

Three DeFi projects face possible exclusion from future Arbitrum DAO programs
Arbitrum’s Watchdog Committee, a grant oversight body, has given three DeFi projects until a tentative Sept. 10 deadline to answer high-severity misuse findings and return funds it considers unresolved, or face separate votes on permanent exclusion from future DAO programs. The cases name Good Entry, Limitless and APX Finance, formerly ApolloX. Their cited figures add … Read more

Aave crypto lending proposal would let emergency tools freeze markets – but not unfreeze them

Aave crypto lending proposal would let emergency tools freeze markets – but not unfreeze them
Aave DAO voters are deciding whether to delegate limited V4 risk controls on Ethereum and Avalanche to Risk Stewards, tools that let approved operators make constrained changes without taking every update through a full governance vote. The proposal would also assign no-delay emergency roles that the current steward software cannot use. The Snapshot vote opened … Read more

Zcash breaks $1,000 as its spot ETF crosses $400 million in assets

Zcash breaks $1,000 as its spot ETF crosses $400 million in assets
Zcash broke above $1,000 on Sept. 4, pushing the asset value of Grayscale’s recently listed ZCSH ETF past $400 million less than two weeks after its debut. ZEC registered an intraday high of $1,050.70, up roughly 20% over 24 hours and nearly 100% over the past month. The move lifted ZCSH’s assets to $414.7 million … Read more

A major outage and corporate backlash hit Robinhood Chain at the peak of its growth

A major outage and corporate backlash hit Robinhood Chain at the peak of its growth
Robinhood Chain’s rapid growth ran into two problems at once on Sept. 4 as the network briefly stopped producing blocks while AMC challenged its fast-growing Stock Token business. On Sept. 4, the Ethereum layer-2 network halted block production for at least 14 minutes, stalling transactions before activity began recovering. Robinhood had not publicly disclosed the … Read more