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Smart-contract platforms such as Aave, Compound, and Morpho that let users lend and borrow crypto assets without a traditional bank.
Babylon's Oct. 14 Aave proposal would pay liquidators of native Bitcoin collateral in WBTC from the shared Hub pool. Suppliers of that asset would carry any shortfall on the draw unless protection had been allocated to absorb it, CryptoSlate reported.
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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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LlamaRisk's October 12 snapshot places 51.2% of Ethena's USDe backing in DeFi and institutional lending. The allocation figure does not measure actual borrower drawdowns, so a holder's exit near $1 turns on pool liquidity and whitelisted redemption rights.
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XRP Ledger's Batch amendment went live on mainnet with 30 of 35 validators in favour, letting one operation bundle two to eight transactions. In its all-or-nothing mode one failed leg stops the rest, so OTC and delivery-versus-payment trades can settle on the ledger itself.
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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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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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The oracle deal is the part that lets Apple and NVIDIA tokens be liquidated, which is the part that lets them be borrowed against. The wrapper sits in Abu Dhabi, and US residents are excluded.
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Ledger now offers USDC and USDT loans against cbBTC or wBTC through Morpho to a wallet base it says secures almost 30% of retail bitcoin. Borrowers keep their keys but pay a rate set by pool demand and carry the liquidation risk themselves.
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TokenLogic and LlamaRisk would cap Aave's December PT-AUSD market at 20 million or 30 million tokens, against 67.4 million October tokens maturing Oct. 8. Whether leveraged borrowers stay in the trade depends on how fast Aave raises that limit.
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Aave Labs says V4 passed $1 billion in deposits and $310 million in active loans in September, while V3's active loans reached $12.5 billion. For now V4 sits beside V3, and the token's monthly gain in market value is more than twice what V4 has lent.
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Compound's COMP holders are voting to stretch treasury delays from two days to ten and give governance a cancel over treasury transactions. That moves treasury control to the token vote, the subject of a September dispute over the Compound Foundation's use of DAO reserves.
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MetaMask is pulling its Ethereum validators out of Lido after an infrastructure compromise, putting the stake on a round trip Lido says can take up to 45 days. The stake earns no rewards on the way, and stETH holders share that cost, for an attack whose only documented theft so far is diverted block rewards.
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Dune's Q3 report puts tokenized credit at 76%, about $1.61 billion, of the real-world collateral in DeFi lending. Holders borrow against credit for its yield, and part of that yield comes from loans to crypto firms.
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Circle released three kits on September 30 that let Arc apps sell USDC, offer Morpho yield and lend against Bitcoin without writing smart contracts. Apps that adopt them skip the contract work and take on a dependence on Circle, Morpho and outside KYC firms.
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Token Terminal data shows tokenized stocks deposited in DeFi protocols reached $262.4 million, nearly 18 times January's $14.66 million. About half of that total built up in September alone, which is too recent to show whether the deposits will stay.
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Abracadabra has proposed winding down its MIM stablecoin at the market price of about four cents, after MIM fell more than 95% below its $1 peg. For a token minted against collateral, settling at that price leaves holders a loss of about 96 cents per dollar.
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Aave's new vault on Base has lent about $495,000 in USDC against $8.14 million of Coinbase's tokenized Magnificent 7 shares. With so little borrowed, the weekend pricing gap in its liquidation design has yet to meet a falling market.
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Compound delegate Ugurmersin alleges the Foundation turned 8.42M DAI of DAO reserves into 344,780 COMP and voted it to win treasury control. If the chain record agrees, the only people enforcing the reserve's written limits were the signers accused of breaking them.
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Morpho says a third-party AI marketing tool with access to its X account posted that its curators run on private, off-chain distribution deals. Depositors now have reason to ask which vendors can publish in a protocol's name.
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The DAO's largest-ever budget defunds liquidity-provider rewards in favour of institutional partnership work, and hands the protocol to Coinbase Custody's former chief executive.
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