DeFi
Solana DEX volume spike hides circular trades, and automated bots are blamed
Bitquery's indexed-pool screen finds repeated round trips, but the depth available to independent traders has not been measured.
stablecoins
Latest stories
Stablecoins
Payy bridge exploit freezes crypto cards, and no balances remain safe
Payy halted transfers, withdrawals and card payments after a bridge exploit moved about $1.83 million in USDC from its Ethereum contract.
Stablecoins
Why TRON’s $30 trillion lifetime volume could become a trap
TRON’s USDT dominance has made it a global settlement rail, but the same liquidity has also drawn illicit flows and raised the cost of winning regulated finance.
Stablecoins
Crypto’s bear market wiped out over $2 trillion, yet on-chain activity held above $9 trillion
Stablecoin transfers, retail-sized flows and direct wallet activity kept growing even as market capitalization fell roughly 50%.
Lending
Coinbase’s fixed-rate Bitcoin loans can put healthy collateral at risk after maturity
An unpaid balance can make a position eligible for liquidation even without a Bitcoin price drop.
Exchanges
BitMEX opens fund recovery to customers it previously barred from the platform
The shuttered exchange is letting customers in the US, Canada, Hong Kong and three other jurisdictions recover remaining funds.
Stablecoins
Circle launches 24/7 stablecoin FX engine as it chases a slice of the $10 trillion currency market
StableFX allows vetted counterparties to quote, trade and settle supported pairs on Arc at any hour.
Tokenization
$1 billion in trading volume masks hidden liquidity risks for Coinbase stock token holders
Premarket routes priced $100,000 sales across ten tokens; displayed pool balances cannot show what a broad selloff would cost.
Featured
Stablecoins hold nearly $200 billion in US debt, but money funds bought the surge
Treasury says money-market mutual funds absorbed about 85% of more than $550 billion in new bill supply during July and August.
Stablecoins
Why Mastercard’s $25 billion crypto expansion isn’t what it seems
SoFi is migrating its card program into SoFiUSD, while the amount already settled in the token remains undisclosed.
Stablecoins
Europe’s central banks want to scrap this stablecoin reserve safeguard
The proposed MiCA change challenges mandatory bank deposits as Britain's systemic sterling stablecoin code reaches its consultation deadline.
Stablecoins
EU central banks attack MiCA rules and stablecoin runs are blamed
The reported plan swaps mandatory bank deposits for one-day and five-day liquidity tests, shifting where redemption risk lands.
