§ DeFi

Kava Lend exploited for $3.8M via LayerZero bridge to BNB Chain; 49.2M KAVA tokens extracted and sold.

Pennysia protocol users instructed to revoke approvals after exploit drained four addresses; swaps were disabled before public warning.

1inch protocol closes new resolver delegations; delegators must claim rewards and undelegate by Nov. 27 deadline.

Ondo supports Spout protocol for Solana stock-token loans with no interest, funded by covered calls; borrowers bear opportunity cost and liquidation risk.

MANTRA temporarily halts new unstaking requests for seven days; existing unstaking withdrawals continue on eight-day schedule.

dYdX v9.9 proposes moving USDC backing from Noble to Injective chain; existing balances and collateral unaffected.

Maple reports $1.89B in Syrup loan collateral following CEO update on departures and withdrawals; disclosure not an audit.

AAVE token fell 30% in four weeks, underperforming bitcoin and ether; protocol's TVL declined more modestly.

DefiLlama now excludes idle pre-minted GHO from circulating supply; reported supply dropped 61% while contract shows 699M tokens issued.

Maple Finance CEO Sidney Powell addresses leadership departures and outlines plans to expand institutional credit and fintech distribution channels.

Hyperliquid captures 11.7% of derivatives open interest across major centralized exchanges with 80% Q3 growth.

Maple Finance co-founders Joe Flanagan and Ryan O'Shea exit over strategic disagreements as SYRUP token declines despite revenue growth.

Omni exits private beta with single-dealer broker model for derivatives trading.

Omni exits private beta with single-dealer broker model for derivatives trading.

DOJ, Chamber of Commerce, a16z, Paradigm and Uniswap file briefs challenging Illinois 0.2% crypto transaction tax.

Polymarket restructures leadership while Kalshi outpaces it 3x in trading volume over 30 days.

Research paper implements privacy-preserving electricity markets on Hyperledger Besu using AMM, Poseidon2 commitments, and UltraHonk zero-knowledge proofs for price settlement.

Research evaluates two Solidity smart contracts for federated learning reward distribution: public quality scores vs. privacy-preserving zero-knowledge proof variant using non-transferable tokens.

MegaETH redirects $30M investment toward inference markets and token differentiation strategy.

MegaETH positions inference markets and privacy as competitive advantages with verification as entry point.

Aave V3.8 activates pool-wide reentrancy guard across 15 networks without opposition from governance vote.

DeFSM replaces centralized federated learning server with smart contract and consensus-free agents for Byzantine-robust submodular maximization using Tukey-depth aggregation.

Robinhood Chain emerges as primary testbed for Uniswap v4 hooks, a mechanism for customizing AMM behavior.

Robinhood Chain emerges as primary testbed for Uniswap v4 hooks, a mechanism for customizing AMM behavior.

Robinhood Chain emerges as primary testbed for Uniswap v4 hooks, a mechanism for customizing AMM behavior.

Coinbase Borrow enables U.S. users to borrow USDC against Paxos tokenized gold (PAXG) on Base.

Nethermind tested BN254 Groth16 shielded pool on frame transactions: 679k gas per withdrawal, but proof verification exceeds EIP-8141 validation gas cap and pools cannot pay for user-initiated calls.

Walraswap: equilibrium-based DEX design integrating external AMM liquidity via batch settlement fairness criterion to mitigate MEV, advancing on CoW Swap and UniswapX approaches.

Spiko launches yield-bearing fund product and API on Base for businesses and platforms.

Taxonomy of economic-state manipulation attacks in DeFi: 276 real incidents and 91 Code4rena findings analyzed to distinguish root causes from observable price distortions.

FastPay certificate-based payment system proposal addresses shared-balance locks and unlock mechanisms for multi-account debits in stablecoin payments.

Derive, an onchain options exchange, publishes case study on why it chose to build on Celestia for scaling.

Aave enables USDC loans collateralized by Coinbase tokenized stocks on Base.