The Sandbox Pledges 1:1 SAND Repayment After Bridge Exploit
Treasury-funded compensation will use pre-incident balances on Base and BNB Chain without increasing SAND’s fixed 3 billion maximum supply.
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Stellar RWA Assets Outgrow Its DeFi Markets
RedStone puts tokenized real-world assets on Stellar above $3 billion in July, against DeFi value it measures at $213 million.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team28 Aug
Circle Adds Native USDC, EURC and CCTP Support to Plasma
The deployment gives developers Circle-issued dollar and euro tokens plus a burn-and-mint route for moving USDC across supported chains.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team28 Aug
Bitcoin Drops Below $78,000 After Warsh Speech
Bitcoin fell 3.2% over 24 hours to $77,802 by midday Friday, leaving it 0.5% higher on the week after trading as high as $81,479.50 overnight. Gold fell 2.4% and U.S. equities turned negative after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh told the Jackson Hole symposium the central bank has "work to do"
The Defiant•The Defiant Team28 Aug
Bitwise Solana ETF Is First to Cross $1 Billion
Glassnode reported $138 million of Solana ETF inflows over 10 days, while BSOL captured nearly four-fifths of cumulative flows among six products tracked by Farside.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team28 Aug
Solana Validators Approve Doubling Disinflation in First Governance Vote, With Kraken Reversing Late
SGP-0002 passed with 176.29 million SOL in favor against 66.19 million opposed, hours after Kraken's largest validator switched roughly 8.1 million SOL from against to for.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team28 Aug
Ethena Plans Equity-Perpetual Basis Trades for USDe Backing
The announced rollout is still forthcoming, with the first partner exchange announcements and deployments expected in the coming weeks.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team28 Aug
Bitcoin Clears $80,000 As Schwab Adds Solana
Charles Schwab said Thursday it will add Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink to its retail crypto platform, and SOL rose 12.9% to lead the ten largest tokens. Ethena gained 21.9% after its research team proposed routing 95% of net revenue into ENA buybacks.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team27 Aug
Aave V4 Deposits Reach $806 Million After 30% Weekly Gain
EtherFi Cash was V4’s second-largest market at $257 million, while Aave V3 retained a much larger $31 billion deposit base.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team27 Aug
Moonwell Loses $8.7 Million To MAMO Price Manipulation On Base
The lending protocol cut borrow caps on every Base core market to 1 wei after an attacker inflated the price of a thinly traded collateral token and borrowed against it.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team27 Aug
StarkWare Says it Confirmed a Quantum Safe Bitcoin Transaction on Mainnet
The onchain record confirms a 10,000-satoshi input and 5,179-satoshi fee; claims about quantum resistance come from StarkWare and the method’s author.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team27 Aug
FRIEND Soars After Machi Big Brother Bids $1 Million For Friend.tech
FRIEND rose 28-fold within an hour of the post, and friend.tech fees jumped. Machi would buy the X account and the domain as the trading contracts have belonged to the null address since 2024.
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Ethena Proposes Sending All Net Revenue to ENA Buybacks
A new framework assigns protocol IP and value accrual to the Ethena Foundation, while a live vote would use effectively 100% of net revenue for ENA purchases.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team27 Aug
Coinbase and Better Take Bitcoin-Backed Mortgages Beyond the Waitlist
The product pairs a conventional home loan with a separate downpayment loan secured by pledged bitcoin and a second lien on the property.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team27 Aug
Schwab Crypto to Add SOL, AVAX and LINK to Bitcoin-and-Ether Lineup
The retail platform began rolling out in May, while a separate advisor-channel crypto service is targeted for mid-2027.
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Aave Opens iOS Early Access, Keeps Android and Web Waitlisted
The savings app supports bank and stablecoin deposits; a July proposal described swaps and foreign exchange as additions planned for 2026.
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39 State Banking Groups Form BankChain Alliance for 2027 Blockchain Launch
The industry-owned network is still selecting a technology partner and would support tokenized deposits, stablecoins, smart payments and automated settlement.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team26 Aug
Core Lightning Tells Node Operators To Go Offline, With No Patch Published
The CLN team said operators who don’t upgrade should run their nodes --offline, but the fixed binaries aren’t out yet and the details of what they fix are under a two-week embargo.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team26 Aug
Unstoppable Skips ICANN Round, Refunds Web3 Domains
Founder Matthew Gould said the cost of taking web3 strings through ICANN was higher than what the company expected to recover in sales, six months after telling customers it would apply for all six of its original extensions.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team26 Aug
SEC Crypto Custody Rewrite Enters White House Review
The planned rule would cover advisers and investment companies and clarify digital-asset custody, following the withdrawal of a separate 2023 proposal.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team26 Aug