Wrapped Tokens: How Bitcoin and Ethereum Cross Blockchains
Wrapped tokens lock Bitcoin on one blockchain and mint equivalent tokens on another. wBTC brings $9.9 billion to Ethereum DeFi through custodians.
Wrapped tokens lock Bitcoin on one blockchain and mint equivalent tokens on another. wBTC brings $9.9 billion to Ethereum DeFi through custodians.
Restaking lets validators secure multiple protocols with one stake. The April 2026 Kelp DAO hack showed how layered yields create cascading failures.
Flash loans let you borrow millions in DeFi with zero collateral, use the funds, and repay in seconds. One transaction executes it all or nothing.
Token buybacks explained from zero: where the fee revenue comes from, what happens to the coins after, and why an announced buyback can still do little.
Ethereum staking hit a record near 34 percent of supply. EIP-8363 would cut the staking yield toward zero, and validators signal just 3 percent support.
Capricorn's buyback moved 5.3% of APR supply from early investors to its treasury and burned none of it, yet the token still doubled.
Bitwise says revenue-funded buybacks could double crypto valuations. Aave's buyback is paused and over $23M underwater with AAVE at $87.
ENS tokenholders voted to move a $65 million endowment to a five-seat foundation board. A Security Council member found the spending caps unenforced.
Curve turned on CRV rewards for three LlamaLend v2 gauges and CRV jumped 10 percent. LlamaLend earned $528 in fees last week and paid holders zero.
The Zcash NU7 vote opens August 25 and needs 1,000,000 ZEC to count. Only shielded funds inside Ironwood are eligible, and the pool just got there.
DeFi Saver says over $50M sits forgotten in smart wallets across 10 plus lending protocols. More than 200,000 DSProxies are now unused.
Kraken is force-selling seven delisted tokens this week. Its own notices show 56 more assets queued for automatic liquidation by November.
Sei shipped Ares and Eidos in its 6.6 proposal on Friday. The chain they rebuild settled 11,299 transactions and earns $14,700 a day.
Aave is winding down six chains. Its own November revenue table put four more under the $2 million floor, including BNB Chain and Celo.
North Korea's TraderTraitor subgroup hit Drift on April 1 and KelpDAO on April 18. One attack used a fake quant firm. The other poisoned bridge infrastructure. Different tactics, same wallet.
ZachXBT flagged six attacker wallets funded through Tornado Cash. A minting flaw in KelpDAO's rsETH token left Aave V3 holding bad debt, sending the AAVE token down 10-13%.
Aave is a leading decentralized lending protocol in the DeFi ecosystem, enabling users to borrow and lend cryptocurrencies without intermediaries — covering AAVE token dynamics, liquidity pools, interest rate mechanisms, flash loans, staking and governance, and the protocol’s role in shaping on-chain credit markets and decentralized finance infrastructure across multiple blockchain networks.