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The DAO would keep the contracts, but Sentora would set market risk controls and suppliers have no specified loss cushion in the plan. The post Sentora split 50% Aave revenue, but suppliers absorb all losses appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Ethereum’s historical contract-held share fell as issuance expanded, while Tron’s hovered near 1% in the study. The post USDT grew on Ethereum through 2024, but smart contract holdings stalled, BIS data show appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Crypto projects spent about $638 million with token buybacks through late August 2026, according to Allium Labs data. That is already a record, up from $545 million over the same stretch of 2025. Hyperliquid accounted for roughly $370 million and Pump.fun for about $200 million, together close to 90% of the total. On Sept. 25,…

Evercrest Technologies, the company behind KelpDAO, has sued LayerZero Labs, its Canadian affiliate, and CEO Bryan Pellegrino in British Columbia over April’s $292 million rsETH exploit. The claim alleges negligent misrepresentation, negligence and defamation, seeks aggravated and punitive damages, and says Kelp users have withdrawn more than $650 million since the attack. Pellegrino has called…

Rounded transfer gains total $268 billion, while category boundaries and a conflicting P2P sentence limit the payment inference. The post Crypto’s bear market wiped out over $2 trillion, yet on-chain activity held above $9 trillion appeared first on CryptoSlate.

An Aave governance proposal advanced by LlamaRisk seeks to increase Bitcoin loan leverage and raise liquidation thresholds on Ethereum Core, Arbitrum, and Base, narrowing the safety cushion for borrowers and putting positions at risk from tiny 4.7% dips.

Circle has launched a new service allowing eligible institutions to deposit Bitcoin and borrow USDC via the Morpho protocol without selling their holdings, streamlining digital asset liquidity workflows.

The September 18 assessment exposes a gap between oracle valuations and the liquidity lenders need to sell collateral. The post Pragma flags 6 price feeds as critical risk following $3.5M Starknet lending exploit appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Balancer proposes a recovery plan to distribute nearly 300 recovered ETH to liquidity providers affected by the V1 exploit, though exact claim amounts and dates remain pending a vote.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce stated that true decentralized finance does not require legal exemptions for peer-to-peer trading. Recent orders and staff guidance from the SEC and CFTC examine intermediary control in crypto markets.