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Curve Assigns Risk Mandate to Two Resupply Developers
Curve has assigned its risk mandate to two developers associated with Resupply, handing the responsibility for protocol risk oversight to an external team rather than an in-house committee. The move formalizes who is accountable for monitoring risk parameters across Curve's lending and stablecoin stack.
Solana Fees Hit Record High as Validators Speed Inflation Cuts
Solana fees reached a record high as validators moved to double the pace of the network's disinflation, tying surging on-chain revenue directly to a governance-driven cut in SOL issuance.
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.
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.
Ethena Launches Pay App on Avalanche With Tiered Rates Up to 6%
Ethena has launched Ethena Pay, a consumer payments and savings app built exclusively on Avalanche, that advertises tiered yields of up to 6% on dollar balances paid daily alongside a Visa spend card.
Ethena Launches Ethena Pay on Avalanche
Ethena is positioning a payments product, Ethena Pay, on Avalanche, extending the protocol's stack beyond synthetic-dollar issuance and into consumer-facing settlement.
Hyperliquid-Kraken U.S. Perpetuals Talks: What Bloomberg Report Means
The reporting, attributed to Bloomberg and relayed by Decrypt , frames the discussions as advanced but not concluded. The counterparties named are the DeFi perpetuals venue Hyperliquid and Payward, the corporate parent of exchange Kraken.
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.
Solana Vote to Double Disinflation Passes: What Changes for SOL Emissions
Solana validators have passed a governance vote to double the network's disinflation rate, a tokenomics change that steepens the decline of SOL's issuance schedule and marks one of the chain's first binding on-chain economic decisions.
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.
Ethena Plans Equity-Perpetual Basis Trades for USDe Backing
Ethena is planning to extend its basis-trade model beyond crypto into equity perpetuals, adding a new sleeve to the collateral that backs its USDe synthetic dollar. The move would source yield from the funding spread on equity-linked perpetual futures rather than relying solely on crypto-native positions.
Ethena Buyback Vote, VC Unlock Overhaul Boost ENA Outlook
Ethena's governance process has moved two tokenomics levers into focus at once: a proposal to route protocol revenue into ENA buybacks and an overhaul of venture-investor unlock terms, a pairing that reporting has tied to a stronger near-term outlook for the ENA token.