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DefiLlama is an independent analytics platform that tracks total value locked, fees, revenue, and other metrics across DeFi protocols and blockchains.
Spark Liquidity Layer has more than $3 billion deployed across SparkLend, Morpho, Uniswap and Anchorage loans, according to Crypto Briefing. The report calls it the largest on-chain allocator DefiLlama tracks, though the second-quarter average ran higher.
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Curve Finance's active loans rose 68% to $70.9 million in Q3, according to its quarterly update. Sector lending is still about 13% below its 2025 close, a $4.7 billion gap roughly 164 times Curve's $28.7 million quarterly gain.
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Standard Chartered moved its $2 trillion stablecoin forecast from 2028 to 2030 as supply stalled near $309 billion. Geoffrey Kendrick, its head of digital assets research, ties the stall to weak crypto markets, and Allium data show trading still outweighs payments.
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Firelight's Oct. 6 activation put existing FXRP stakers behind $38 million of cover, with exits now taking 30 to 60 days. Premiums charged came to about $56,914, or 0.15% of the cover, against a first-loss buffer near $1.0 million, CryptoSlate reported.
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CoinShares will offer stablecoin yield strategies inside Safe wallets through Railnet vaults, with US persons excluded, an Oct. 14 release says. Its no-custody claim rests on a vault design the release describes only in outline.
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Robinhood Chain's 30-day DEX volume of $38.62 billion passed Base's $30.46 billion, according to Defillama data. Its third-quarter results will take in a September when Robinhood covered gas on some swaps, and none of the slower October.
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Papertrade, a pooled-USDC BTC and ETH betting venue on HyperEVM, booked $37.03 million of revenue in four days, according to DefiLlama. Cryptopolitan describes most of it as trader losses at up to 1000x leverage, so the line holds only while new losses keep arriving.
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THORChain took in about $404,600 in swap fees from October 5 to 11, more than double the week before its September surge. Cryptopolitan's count has that 82% below the hack week, and its "no exploit money" label rests on an absence of reports.
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LayerZero's Oct. 20 unlock of 23.63 million ZRO equals 5.92% of circulating supply, about $54.1 million at $2.29, per DefiLlama. At September's roughly $1 the same tokens were worth about $23.6 million.
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Robinhood Chain's daily transactions have fallen more than 40% since mid-September, barely three months after the network went live. Robinhood paid customers' swap fees through the whole slide, so the money users still keep parked on the chain is the better test of it.
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Uniswap v4 and v3 handled 47.2% of $161.4 billion in 30-day stablecoin trading on decentralized exchanges, Crypto Briefing reported. The newer version's lead in swaps between two dollar tokens comes from pricing far below v3, so the volume it gathers pays its liquidity providers very little per dollar.
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Papertrade, a 1,000x exchange on Hyperliquid, held about $11 billion of open interest on $54 million of backing, news.bitcoin.com reported. Its rules give an unpaid winner the margin back and queue the profit, so any shortfall falls on traders who called the market right.
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Papertrade opens its HyperEVM perpetuals exchange on Oct. 10 with leverage of up to 1000x. According to crypto.news, its house pool starts empty and fills from traders' losses, so profits it cannot cover wait in a queue.
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XRP Ledger held $1.338 billion in tracked stablecoins on Oct. 7 while its chain fees for the day came to $528, DefiLlama data show. Because fees and reserves scale with transactions and accounts, how much XRP that base needs depends on the inventory that bridges and liquidity pools keep between trades.
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Solana exchange Orca and lender Loopscale merged into Formation to finance AI, energy and defense firms on Loopscale's $2 billion lending record. ORCA stakers carry the first cost: a related proposal would cut their share of protocol fees from 40% to 10%, Cryptopolitan reported.
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Pump.fun kept about $18.6 million of the $52.5 million traders paid in fees in the week to Oct. 7, DefiLlama data show. That income depends on traders rotating into new coins, so it holds up even though Talos found 81% of tracked memecoins down at least 90%.
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Citi raised its twelve-month Bitcoin target to $113,000, a call that needs a 36% gain from the Oct. 7 price. Citi's own 2025 flow ratio reaches only about $102,600 when applied to the bank's $5 billion inflow forecast, CryptoSlate calculated.
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Crypto lending value locked has risen more than 55% since early July to about $56 billion, according to DeFiLlama data. Aave and Spark have pruned collateral to cap bridge and oracle exposure, though Aave's founder says no protocol can control the wider ecosystem.
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Plume launched nBND, an onchain vault backed mainly by shares of FBND, Fidelity's $26.6 billion multi-sector bond ETF. It brings duration and credit risk to tokenized fixed income, though Plume has not said how many shares the vault holds.
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Igloo Inc., the Pudgy Penguins parent, will shut its Abstract layer-2 on Dec. 15 after 18 months of losses in the tens of millions of dollars. Funds not bridged off by then become inaccessible, and its chief executive says no Abstract token is coming.
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