The DeFi sector didn't stop in May 2026, but rather grew rapidly. Here are 10 major milestones from the past month:
Launched V4 with a dual-layer isolation market, surpassing $100M in combined deposits and loans in the first phase.
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Committed to a 12-month "revenue-led protocol strategy," moving from token speculation to sustainable yield generation.
Moonwell deployed cross-chain governance on Ethereum, executing decisions simultaneously across Base, Optimism, and Moonbeam.
Protocol activated Confidential Intents for private cross-chain transfers, moving $68M confidentially in a single month.
KalqiX launched a CLOB-based DEX with zero-knowledge proofs, processing 198M transactions with zero downtime.
$UNI passed Proposal 96, expanding UNI burn to 11 chains and recording a record 134K UNI burns in 24 hours.
$BABY's trustless Bitcoin staking protocol surpassed $4 billion TVL without connecting BTC to another chain.
Spark Protocol ended May with $12.6 billion TVL across Savings, SparkLend, and the Spark Liquidity Layer.
LIFI launched an intent-based cross-chain architecture and completed a $29M Series A to scale development.
DeFi Technologies partnered with OMFIF's Digital Monetary Institute, embedding DEFT as an institutional data signal.
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