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Decentralized finance has lost roughly 39% of its total value locked in 2026, with deposits sliding from about $115 billion in January to near $70 billion. Key Points: DeFi total value locked has fallen about 39% in 2026, dropping from $115 billion to near $70 billion. Only Tron and Hyperliquid grew

Standard Chartered expects the value of tokenised assets active in decentralized finance to increase 37-fold by the end of 2030, as real-world assets, stablecoins and crypto-native assets move deeper into on-chain trading infrastructure. Geoffrey Kendrick, head of digital assets research at Standard

Onchain derivatives protocol Variational on Thursday announced it has raised $50 million in a funding round led by Dragonfly. Bain Capital Crypto and other unnamed investors participated in the round. What Variational Is Building Variational operates as a peer-to-peer trading protocol. It allows cou

The cryptocurrency industry’s long-running obsession with launching general-purpose Ethereum (ETH) layer-2 chains may be quietly breaking down as DeFi protocols increasingly abandon fragmented liquidity models in favor of vertically integrated financial ecosystems. Matthew Fisher, CEO of Katana, tol

Bankr, an AI-powered crypto trading assistant, disabled transactions on Tuesday after an attacker accessed 14 user wallets and drained roughly $150,000. Bankr Wallet Breach Details The team paused operations to investigate the breach and pledged to reimburse affected users. Bankr lets people instruc