Six Coinbase-issued tokenized equities now serve as collateral on Aave V4 Base for non-US users to borrow USDC, expanding institutional asset class access onchain.
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Ondo released three professionally managed investment tokens built on BlackRock models, bringing structured financial products to onchain investing.
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Arbitrum discontinued fixed sequencer fees and launched a real-time priority market where users bid for transaction ordering, with nearly all revenue returning to the DAO treasury.
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Optimism upgrades its fault proof system from single-chain output roots to a timestamp-based dispute game format enabling cross-chain proofs for Interop.
South Korea's KB Securities, Optimism, and Securitize partner to launch tokenized bonds and funds on OP Mainnet, with regulatory phase one beginning February 2027.
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A standing bounty splits recovered funds 70% to owners, 20% to builders, and 10% to the protocol, creating economic incentive to rescue accidentally transferred DAI.
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Coinbase's first enterprise integration of Morpho Midnight brings fixed-rate onchain borrowing to its users on Base, Coinbase's Ethereum layer 2, expanding credit options beyond variable rates.
Morpho outlines how standardized vault design can enable regulators and institutions to safely scale over-collateralized lending on open credit networks.
Ethena is now hedging $4.9 billion in stablecoins with short perpetual positions while holding tokenized equities as collateral, expanding the diversity of assets backing synthetic dollars beyond currency and bitcoin.
A flaw in Magic Eden's legacy token approvals let attackers drain NFT collections until security researchers intervened and recovered most assets.
An Ethereum-native agent framework lets users grant smart contract delegation to AI services that a jury of nodes can revoke onchain if the agent strays from its stated mandate.
Aave Institutional lends stablecoins to institutions against qualified custodian-held Bitcoin and Ether at above-market onchain rates, and the DAO must approve funding for the operation.
Galaxy's institutional lending desk now accepts tokenized Sky stablecoin as collateral, letting borrowers earn 3.6% yield while posting loans.
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Morpho's Paul Frambot proposed regulatory categories for vault managers, but Aave's Stani Kulechov and builders contested the framework as misrepresenting how timeLock vaults shield manager discretion.
Three Steakhouse-backed Morpho vaults on Ethereum are being updated to align with new curation standards, maintaining institutional liquidity through the Steakhouse partnership.