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Aave V4 Launch Explained: Hub-and-Spoke Model, New Partners, and What Changes for Borrowers

Aave launched V4 on Ethereum mainnet on Monday, introducing a hub-and-spoke architecture that lets institutions borrow against real-world assets and fixed-rate credit products without fragmenting the protocol’s existing liquidity pool.…

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Lido Launches Vaults and Earn Products as Staking Yields Compress

Lido DAO has formally approved a $60 million operating budget for 2026 and outlined a strategy to move beyond its core liquid- staking product into yield vaults, institutional wrappers, and…

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ECB DeFi Governance Study: A16z Is Uniswap’s Top Voter, One-Third of Voters Unidentifiable

A new European Central Bank (ECB) working paper finds that governance over major decentralized finance protocols is controlled by a narrow group of token holders, delegates, and centralized exchanges, raising…

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Firelight Hits 50 Million XRP Milestone as DeFi Protection Demand Surges

Decentralized finance ( DeFi) protection protocol built, Firelight, has surpassed 50 million XRP staked following several whale-scale deposits. Rapid Adoption and Capacity Expansion Firelight, the onchain protection layer for DeFi,…

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Bitcoin Lending Layer Mezo Selects Aerodrome as Primary Liquidity Hub

Mezo has partnered with Aerodrome Finance in a collaboration that makes the latter the primary liquidity hub for the former’s native token and its Bitcoin-backed stablecoin. Bridging Base’s ‘ve’ Pioneers…

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Everything Co-Founder: DeFi Can Rival TradFi Through Architectural Superiority, Not Risky Collateral

Architectural innovations in decentralized finance, like multi-use liquidity pools, can improve capital efficiency without adopting risky collateral ratios, narrowing the gap with traditional finance, Jean Rausis has argued. The Sovereignty…

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Adapt or Fail: Why TradFi Must Treat Stablecoins as Infrastructure, Not Competition

Ramp Network CEO Przemek Kowalczyk argues that traditional “lock-and-mint” bridges are inherently flawed due to their large attack surfaces and reliance on centralized validator sets. He adds that the rise…

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