AAVE is leading with more than 1/4 of the DeFi space.
AAVE has a dominant position with up to 29% in the DeFi space, with deposits increasing to $55 billion and peaking at $75 billion, making AAVE one of the top 50 US banks. In terms of the lending sector, AAVE leads with more than 61% compared to other DeFi lending platforms. Additionally, AAVE's total value locked has increased to $59.2 billion. Since AAVE has become a multi-chain platform across 6 different networks (Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche, and Linea), it has crossed up to $1 billion in TVL. Another AAVE business line, GHO, has grown its supply 3X in 2025, resulting in a $500 million increase in supply from $150 million. All of this progress has made AAVE a powerful DeFi powerhouse.
Oobit Plug & Pay Is Live: Crypto Wallets, Meet the Real World
oday marks the launch of Oobit’s Plug & Pay—a single integration that lets wallets and exchanges switch on real‑world crypto payments in 100+ countries, going live in days instead of months.
The current situation is broken: spinning up payment programs is slow, messy, and compliance‑heavy, while users already hold crypto and just want to spend it everywhere.
Plug & Pay fixes that:
Wallets can add real‑world spending without building card/payment rails themselves.
Users can pay anywhere Visa is accepted around the world.
Apple Pay and Google Pay are supported wherever they’re available.
Issuing, settlement, KYC, and AML are fully handled under a regulated framework.
Time‑to‑market drops from months down to days.
If you’re building a wallet, exchange, or payments product, this kind of plug‑in rails can completely reshape your next 12 months.
CR1337 Drops Free XMR 1337 Guide for Privacy Mastery
Monero (XMR) stands as the ultimate privacy coin for escaping surveillance, and CR1337's new guide makes it accessible for newbies to advanced users. Download it free to master breaking KYC chains, sourcing XMR anonymously, securing wallets, OpSec drills, tax minimization, node operation, and safe spending.
Guide Highlights
KYC Evasion: Acquire XMR without identity trails or exchange risks.
Wallet Security: Hardware/mobile setups hardened against analysis and theft.
OpSec Essentials: Device hardening, border protocols, digital footprint erasure.
Advanced Tactics: Node running while traveling, freelance earning, troubleshooting.
Monero's ring signatures, stealth addresses, and RingCT deliver default privacy—untraceable by design. This guide equips freedom seekers to operate under the radar.
Blockchains Need Privacy and Chainlink Delivers it
Blockchains prioritize transparency for trust, but institutions balk at exposing proprietary strategies and client data publicly. Chainlink's privacy standard unlocks private smart contracts on any chain without sacrificing scale or verifiability.
The Solution
TEEs: Computations run in trusted execution environments for confidentiality and speed.
Oracles + Crypto: Decentralized networks plus advanced cryptography secure data flows.
Full Control: Sensitive logic stays hidden; outcomes verifiable as promised.
Privacy on, trust intact, adoption accelerates. Institutions get enterprise-grade protection on public chains. Just integrate Chainlink.
BitGo just debuted on the NYSE, and its tokenized twin BTGO on launches simultaneously on-chain via Ondo Global Markets. This means public market equity instantly becomes a programmable asset, tradable 24/7 alongside Ondo's lineup of tokenized stocks and ETFs.
Instant On-Chain Access
Day-one tokenization: NYSE listing → immediate BTGO on availability, no delays.
Ondo ecosystem: Joins hundreds of tokenized equities/ETFs for DeFi composability.
Real utility: 24/7 transfers, lending potential, global reach via compliant rails.
Tokenization collapses TradFi timelines, public debut and on-chain liquidity in one move. BitGo's crypto custody expertise now fractionalized for everyone.
Tokenization brings real financial markets on-chain by transforming traditional assets into efficient, always-on crypto instruments. Morpho hitting over $750M in RWA deposits highlights this shift, with syrupUSDC at $166M leading as the top asset on Arbitrum. Companies prioritize Arbitrum for its rock-solid reliability, high transaction speeds, and minimal fees.
Arbitrum's RWA Edge
Security: AnyTrust with fraud proofs keeps operations downtime-free.
Scalability: Handles 40k+ TPS versus Ethereum's 15, powering seamless DeFi.
Cost Efficiency: Fees under a cent beat L1 congestion for daily RWA volume.
Morpho and syrupUSDC Momentum
syrupUSDC delivers 15-20% yields through smart money market strategies backed by tokenized T-bills. Morpho's open lending system reaches scale at $750M, drawing institutional trust. Arbitrum positions tokenization as core infrastructure for massive markets, not just hype.
Chainlink Acquires Atlas to Supercharge DeFi Revenue
Chainlink has snapped up Atlas, the order flow auction protocol from FastLane, integrating it exclusively with Chainlink SVR, the leading OEV recapture solution now live across Arbitrum, Base, BNB Chain, Ethereum, and HyperEVM. This powers DeFi protocols like Aave and Compound to reclaim millions in liquidation value through smart auctions, boosting protocol revenues while expanding Chainlink's dominance in cross-chain MEV protection. Atlas users get seamless migration as Chainlink accelerates SVR to conquer new ecosystems.
Japan's $7.6 trillion JGB market is in full liquidity meltdown index at record 9.5, doubled in a year as BOJ cuts purchases and insurers dump bonds. Foreign speculators now control 65% of trades with hair-trigger holding periods. Full alert: This forces yen printing → massive yen weakness → BOJ rate hikes → global yield spike. Bitcoin safe haven flows incoming.
Bears and Salmon announced a partnership with Avalanche to fund real Web3 builders through dual grant opportunities—apply simultaneously to both Bears Den and AVAX Build Games for maximum funding potential. This collaboration connects $BANDS ecosystem innovators with Avalanche's high-performance chain, offering developers rare double-dipping support to accelerate dApp launches and infrastructure projects. Special thanks go to Avery Bartlett and Vohvoh for brokering the deal that amplifies builder resources across chains.
According to Securitizes, the current value of tokenized assets is approximately $35 billion. This trend is likely to expand into other markets such as gold, agricultural land, real estate, listed derivatives, equities, fixed income, and residential real estate. Despite this growth, the current progress remains modest, indicating that many more markets can be integrated into the tokenization system.
Sky Protocol is eliminating SKY-to-SPK staking rewards, slashing SPK token emissions by ~30%, while proposed Spark buyback tweaks push total net reductions to 40% saving roughly $23 million over the next year based on current revenue. This deflationary shift prioritizes token scarcity over staking incentives, aiming to boost SPK value as Sky focuses on sustainable tokenomics amid DeFi's maturing economics.
Base mainnet now streams ultra-fast partial blocks through Substreams on The Graph Market, delivering transaction data in just 200ms—far ahead of standard 12-second confirmations. Trading bots, arbitrage systems, and real-time alerts gain massive speed advantages to spot opportunities like whale trades or liquidations before the broader market reacts. Developers can integrate via base-mainnet-flash.streamingfast.io for signal generation while using confirmed blocks for actual transactions.
When people ask, “What is Chainlink?” give them this picture. Chainlink is a blockchain oracle that bridges real world data to the on chain world. Those who provide accurate data are rewarded with Chainlink's native token, LINK. Many decentralized finance platforms, such as AAVE, LIDO, and Kamino have utilize Chainlink's smart contracts and services. Beyond decentralized finance, Chainlink has expanded to global banking systems, assisting in smart contract implementations for institutions like DTCC, JP Morgan, UBS, and Mastercard. If you're familiar with Polymarket, a betting platform, Chainlink also supports it through Linkwire. This technology ensures real-world data is accessible around the clock, every day.
J.P. Morgan Launches $MONY on Ethereum - Wall Street's Gated On-Chain Club
J.P. Morgan, the world's largest bank, is now live on Ethereum with My OnChain Net Yield Fund ($MONY) tokenized US Treasury yields with USDC redemptions, running on public mainnet. Years after CEO Jamie Dimon called Bitcoin a "pet rock," they're now tokenizing cash equivalents—ironic pivot complete. But it's isolated: $1M+ minimums, accredited investors only via KYC-gated Securitize Markets. Public blockchain, private club—retail sees tokens on-chain but can't buy. Tokenization ≠ democratization.
Prediction markets on BNB Chain have now surpassed a massive $19 billion in total (cumulative) traded volume, with around $622 million in notional volume changing hands just yesterday. This reflects exploding interest in on-chain betting and forecasting products on BNB Chain, as low fees and high throughput attract retail and pro users into election, sports, and crypto event markets. The trend reinforces BNB Chain’s growing role as a high-volume hub for real-money prediction markets and speculative DeFi activity.