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Lucille Rosario

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Lucille Rosario is a DeFi news writer and analyst at DefiLiban, where she covers decentralized finance protocols, yield strategies, staking ecosystems, and blockchain market trends. Her work focuses on translating complex DeFi mechanics, liquidity systems, and on-chain activity into accessible and research-driven content for crypto readers and market participants. She specializes in identifying meaningful protocol developments, yield opportunities, and behavioral patterns across decentralized finance ecosystems. Before joining DefiLiban, Lucille worked across DeFi research, crypto content strategy, and data-focused digital media roles involving protocol evaluation, token incentive analysis, and SEO-driven financial content development. She holds a B.S. in Information Systems from Ateneo de Manila University and has completed additional certifications related to blockchain technology, DeFi systems, and AI-assisted research workflows. Lucille’s writing combines analytical research with practical market interpretation, with a particular interest in yield models, staking infrastructure, and sustainable DeFi growth trends.

News

South Korea Targets February 2027 Rollout for Full Tokenized Securities Market

The February 2027 timeline reflects a shift from limited trials to a market-wide launch of tokenized securities, as reported by CoinDesk . The framing points to a national market structure rather than a single issuer or product pilot.

Sep 4·2 min read·By Lucille Rosario

News

Lawsuit Says Tether Froze $42.4M USDT Before Warrant

The complaint centers on a single question: whether Tether restricted access to the tokens before law enforcement had obtained the warrant that would formally authorize a seizure, as first reported by CoinDesk .

Sep 3·3 min read·By Lucille Rosario

News

XRP Falls 2.29% as Macro Risks Weigh on Crypto Sentiment

XRP fell roughly 2. 29% during a broad risk-off crypto session, tracking a wider slide across major digital assets driven by macro pressure rather than any XRP-specific catalyst, even as spot XRP ETF flows offered a partial counterweight.

Sep 3·2 min read·By Lucille Rosario

News

SEC ETF rule proposals split crypto industry

The comments landed in the SEC's public docket under file number S7-2026-24, the agency's public comment record for the proposed ETF rulemaking . Individual submissions are logged on the docket, including a letter published in HTML form and a separate PDF submission from other commenters.

Sep 2·2 min read·By Lucille Rosario

Protocols

Arbitrum DAO Reports $6.2M First-Half Income as Robinhood Chain Adds Revenue Stream

Arbitrum DAO reported $6. 2 million in first-half income, with the newly launched Robinhood Chain adding a fresh revenue stream to the treasury of one of Ethereum's largest rollup ecosystems.

Sep 2·2 min read·By Lucille Rosario

Protocols

Securitize's HINC Becomes Collateral on Solana's Loopscale

Securitize's HINC token is now accepted as collateral on Loopscale, a Solana-native lending protocol, extending the tokenized fund into onchain credit rails where holders can borrow against it. The integration makes Securitize HINC collateral on Loopscale a live borrowing use case rather than a buy-and-hold position.

Sep 1·2 min read·By Lucille Rosario

Liquidity

Robinhood Chain DEX volume hits $1.49B as Pons takes launchpad fees

Robinhood Chain DEX volume has reached $1. 49 billion, while the Pons launchpad is capturing roughly two-thirds of launchpad fees across the network, a concentration of trading throughput and fee flow that reshapes how capital is forming on the young chain.

Sep 1·2 min read·By Lucille Rosario

News

London Stock Exchange UK Stocks Onchain With Payward

The described relationship is a collaboration, not a completed launch. No token standard, chain, or go-live date has been confirmed in the available reporting, and details on the London Stock Exchange Group side have not been independently detailed beyond the initial report.

Sep 1·2 min read·By Lucille Rosario

News

SEC Reviews Exotic ETFs Across Crypto, Leverage and Private Assets

The SEC has opened a public-comment review of "novel" exchange-traded funds, putting crypto-linked, leveraged-stock, private-asset and event-contract wrappers under one policy lens and raising the core question of whether the ETF structure still fits these increasingly exotic strategies.

Aug 29·3 min read·By Lucille Rosario

Protocols

Solana Narrowly Passes Double-Disinflation Proposal

Solana validators have narrowly approved a "double-disinflation" proposal, a governance decision that would accelerate the reduction of SOL issuance beyond the network's existing emission schedule.

Aug 28·3 min read·By Lucille Rosario

Protocols

Solana Validators Approve Doubling Disinflation in First Governance Vote

Solana validators have approved a proposal to double the network's disinflation rate in what is being described as Solana's first formal governance vote, shifting a tokenomics decision from off-chain discussion into a validator-ratified outcome.

Aug 28·2 min read·By Lucille Rosario

Protocols

Ethena Proposes Sending All Net Revenue to ENA Buybacks

Ethena has floated a governance proposal to redirect all of the protocol's net revenue toward ENA buybacks, a change that would rewire how value flows back to the token rather than accumulating in the treasury. The plan is a proposal at this stage, not an enacted policy, and its exact terms still require confirmation.

Aug 27·3 min read·By Lucille Rosario