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Only $2.47 billion of nearly $30 billion in tokenized RWAs is active in DeFi, showing how compliance rails still limit open-market use.
Gino Matos 7 min read 
CME and ICE are building 24/7 markets, but Hyperliquid’s oil-linked perps are forcing Washington to decide who gets to run them.
A suspected multichain THORChain exploit and emergency halt have shifted attention from the immediate loss figure to DeFi’s cross-chain trust model.
Kraken is rebuilding how Bitcoin moves through DeFi after the KelpDAO shock.
Hunter Horsley says crypto has split into stablecoins, Bitcoin, tokenization and infrastructure. That fragmentation may explain the market’s mixed mood, and why it could be a sign of maturity.
HYPE rallied after Coinbase and Circle committed to Hyperliquid’s AQAv2 upgrade, bringing USDC’s liquidity together with the protocol-aligned yield model pioneered by USDH.
Starknet’s strkBTC launch highlights a broader Bitcoin privacy tradeoff, where the fastest way to shield BTC may be to move it into wrappers, sidechains or e-cash systems that add new trust assumptions.
Institutions need vaults, policy controls, audit records, and risk-managed workflows, and that is where Cardano’s next adoption test begins.
More than $3 billion in DeFi value is moving toward Chainlink’s CCIP after the KelpDAO exploit exposed weaknesses in bridge verification.
