The CLARITY Act Rewrite Now Splits DeFi Into Two Classes
The revised CLARITY Act splits DeFi into two legal classes and aims CFTC registration at protocols that only look decentralized, days before a Senate vote.
The revised CLARITY Act splits DeFi into two legal classes and aims CFTC registration at protocols that only look decentralized, days before a Senate vote.
Ethereum staking just passed 35% of supply with the exit queue near empty, but the yield is at a three-year low and one firm has staked 5 million ether.
Aptos hit an all-time low on August 30, then unlocked 11.31 million more APT, with close to 60% going to insiders and most of the supply still to come.
An Arbitrum committee moved to ban three teams over 457,553 ARB in misused grants, but the proposed penalty cannot freeze wallets or claw back the funds.
A double-spend on the Nomic bridge left 36% of Osmosis Alloyed BTC with no bitcoin behind it. Validators froze 22.65 BTC, and a real gap remains.
MEV, or maximal extractable value, is the profit bots make by reordering your Ethereum transactions. How sandwich attacks, searchers, and MEV-Boost work.
Linea unlocked 960.13 million tokens on September 10 for about 2.75 million dollars, and every coin routed to the consortium rather than public holders.
Smart contract exploits were 60% of 2026 crypto hacks but just 17% of the losses. Keys, custody and signing systems took 76% of the stolen value.
Ondo stopped minting USDY on Aptos and Noble on September 8. The tokens stay redeemable, but Noble is the chain that feeds USDY to the Cosmos networks.
Impermanent loss is the gap between adding two tokens to a pool and just holding them. What it is, the size at each price move, and why it rarely reverses.
Price-manipulation exploits hit a record 32 in DeFi lending in 2026. The Tectonic case shows why the attack is cheap, repeatable and tough to audit away.
Linea sold no tokens to VCs or its own team, yet nearly 90% of the supply sits with Consensys and its consortium, and a September 10 unlock now feeds it.
Liquid Network lost 3,996 BTC, near 320 million dollars, to an Elements rangeproof bug on September 6. No key was stolen, and 197 BTC now back the peg.
A crypto oracle is how a blockchain reads a price it cannot see itself. Learn what oracles do, why attackers target them, and who runs the feeds today.
Solana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade activates September 28. Only 0.39 percent of stake ran the required client on September 1, and the window is tight.
An unsafe integer downcast let an attacker drain about $1.7M from a dormant Notional Finance escrow contract, and the stolen funds moved to Tornado Cash.
DeFi runs the most experimental corner of crypto, where billions in value sit in smart contracts with no central operator and no customer service line if something breaks. The coverage here tracks what actually drives the category: TVL movements across Aave, Lido, EigenLayer, Maker, Uniswap, and the rest of the blue-chip protocols, yield dynamics as rates compress and expand across lending and staking markets, governance battles over treasury management and protocol parameters, exploits and recovery efforts that test how decentralization actually works under stress, regulatory pressure from the SEC, CFTC, and their international counterparts on protocol developers and front-end operators, and the Layer 2 fragmentation that keeps splitting liquidity across rollups. The category sits in a strange position. Protocols that once promised pure decentralization now negotiate with regulators, freeze stolen funds, partner with traditional finance, and run governance processes that look increasingly like corporate structures. Coinliva covers the on-chain data, the governance proposals that decide hundreds of millions in treasury allocation, the technical failures and the responses to them, and the regulatory cases that will determine whether DeFi keeps its current shape or gets pulled into the existing financial framework.