Drift Protocol has announced a collaboration with Tether (USDT) and other partners totaling nearly $150 million to fund user recovery and a protocol relaunch following its April 1 exploit on Solana (SOL). The package includes a $100 million revenue-linked credit facility, an ecosystem grant, and loans to designated market makers. USDT will serve as the…
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World Liberty Financial (WLFI) published a governance proposal that would lock 62.2 billion tokens under new vesting schedules and burn up to 4.5 billion WLFI permanently. The proposal targets every insider and early supporter allocation, replacing indefinite locks with structured cliff-and-vest timelines that stretch up to five years. How the WLFI Token Lock Would Work…
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World Liberty Financial (WLFI) has fired back at critics questioning its massive lending position on Dolomite, calling the concerns “wrong” and framing its role as the protocol’s anchor borrower. In its rebuttal, the Trump family-backed project insisted it faces no liquidation risk and can supply additional collateral at any time. WLFI’s Response vs. the On-Chain…
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World Liberty Financial’s strategic reserve wallet has sparked alarm across DeFi after borrowing over 50 million USD1 from Dolomite, the lending platform powering its own World Liberty Markets. On-chain data confirms the WLFI treasury deposited approximately 3 billion WLFI governance tokens as collateral over five days, borrowing 50.44 million USD1 and pushing pool utilization past…
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If autonomous agents become the dominant users of DeFi, blockchains start to do a different job. They operate as coordination and settlement systems for software rather than spaces driven by human timing, sentiment, and speculation. Federico Variola, CEO of Phemex, says this could improve how on-chain activity develops. He says: “Recently, blockchain ecosystems have struggled because…
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The Blockchain Where All Finance Happens. TxFlow Chain is an L1 blockchain built for on-chain financial infrastructure and a multi-application platform organized around TIP Liquidity Standards — an extensible set of trading protocol standards covering spot, perpetuals, RWA, prediction markets, and more. Each application on TxFlow L1, called a Channel, composes from one or more…
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Key Takeaways Midnight City makes privacy tech visible. Autonomous AI agents generate live activity that shows Midnight’s privacy model in action. Selective disclosure offers controlled visibility. Transaction details can be revealed only to the right parties while the rest stays private. Midnight City connects privacy, scale, and AI agents. The simulation shows how private systems…
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Building a swap DApp is relatively straightforward. Running it under real market conditions — with bots, arbitrageurs, and volatile liquidity — is not. BeInCrypto sat down with Andrey Fedorov, CMO & CBDO at STON.fi Dev at Consensus Hong Kong to hear what that process actually looked like. STON.fi launched as an AMM (automated market maker)…
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If you were to close your eyes and summon the ghost of 2020, you would likely smell the digital equivalent of ozone and gunpowder. It was the era of the “DeFi Summer,” a period that felt less like a financial revolution and more like a high-stakes arcade game played in a fever dream. We were…
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DeFi landscape has been marked by impressive growth, yet persistent volatility remains a defining feature as 2025 draws to a close. The ecosystem hit a record $237 billion in total value locked (TLV) in Q3 2025, but the exuberance was short-lived. By late November, the total TVL had contracted by $55 billion, falling to $123…
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