DeFi News

Updated April 24, 2026 · 4:00 PM UTC

Get the latest DeFi news on lending, DEXs, liquid staking, yield strategies, governance, and the protocols driving on-chain finance.

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DeFi

SX Network introduces Polygon’s first Layer-2 blockchain

The cryptocurrency community has numerous ideals that helped grow the market to over $3 trillion at its peak. These ideals include security, decentralization, and free markets…

4 years ago

DeFi

DeepDAO launches first-ever specialized search engine for the DAO ecosystem

A Google for decentralized autonomous organizations and the people in it.

4 years ago

DeFi

DeFi protocol Qubit Finance exploited for $80 million in a recent hack

The attacked DeFi protocol on Binance Smart Chain lost 206.809 BNB.

4 years ago

Adoption

Matter Labs and BitDAO launch a $200 million DAO to bootstrap zkSync development

The proposal, dubbed the zkDAO, is set to help Ethereum scale for mainstream adoption.

4 years ago

DeFi

Celsius is integrating Chainlink PoR to enable auditable wrapped tokens

Celsius integration counts as one of the first live use-cases of Chainlink PoR for auditing and securing the on-chain minting, redeeming, and burning of wrapped tokens.

4 years ago

Analysis

Money laundering 0.05% of all crypto transactions in 2021: Chainalysis report

Of all cryptocurrency transactions in 2021, a mere 0.05% can be associated with money laundering. Almost half of all illicit funds are funneled through just a few centralized services, but DeFi is on the rise.

4 years ago

DeFi

Fantom’s “Curve Wars”: How Andre Cronje and Daniele Sesta are changing liquidity provision

Inspired by Curve Finance and Olympus, Andre Cronje and Daniele Sestagalli is building a DEX that merges the mechanics of these two protocols on Fantom.

4 years ago