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Ripple and Immunefi launched a $200,000 Attackathon to battle-test the proposed XRPL Lending Protocol, with training underway and a bug-bounty window from October 27 to November 29 2025.

Falcon Finance (FF) has staged an impressive rebound, soaring over 42% in the past 24 hours to trade at around $0.1578.

Polymarket, the blockchain-based prediction-market platform, secured a $2 billion strategic investment from the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), parent of the New York Stock Exchange. The transaction, announced October 7 2025, lifted Polymarket’s valuation to roughly $9 billion, making it one of the highest-valued decentralized-finance (DeFi) companies to date.

of approximately $2.16 million in October, which represents a notable jump compared to other months.

Crypto asset manager 21Shares has submitted an S-1 registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The filing seeks approval to launch the 21Shares 2x Long HYPE ETF. This leveraged fund is designed to deliver twice the daily returns of Hyperliquid (HYPE) before fees and expenses.

As of October 28, 2025, CryptoRank data showed Risk Curator Protocols nearing $10 billion in total value locked. Capital moved toward products that target predictable, rules-based yield instead of direct high-beta exposure. Such a shift marks a broader turn in crypto’s investment story from speculative bursts to institutional-style allocation.

The decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Scallop (SCA) has emerged as one of the leading projects on the Sui blockchain, to a recent report from crypto research firm Messari.

DeFi Protocol Stream Finance has halted all withdrawals and deposits on its platform following the disclosure of a $93 million loss.

StakeWise has pulled off a rare recovery in the DeFi world, retrieving the majority of assets lost in the recent that rocked the ecosystem.

Decentralized exchange and liquidity protocol Balancer has suffered a major security breach, with attackers stealing over $120 million in digital assets.

DappRadar, a leading Web3 analytics platform, has officially announced it is shutting down. The company cited “financial unsustainability” as the primary reason for ending its seven-year operation. The announcement immediately triggered a sell-off in its native RADAR token.

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams has submitted a landmark governance proposal. The plan, titled “UNInception,” aims to activate protocol fees and align incentives across the ecosystem. Adams stated this is the first step toward a full on-chain vote.

A new, bizarre form of market attack has been identified on the Hyperliquid derivatives platform. Lookonchain reports that an attacker intentionally lost $3 million in collateral to inflict a $4.9 million loss on the Hyperliquidity Provider (HLP) fund via a POPCAT manipulation.

Polygon’s growing bet on zero knowledge technology has started to show concrete results as co-founder Sandeep Nailwal drew fresh attention to Katana, a DeFi focused Layer 2 that is now one of the largest ZK rollups in the Polygon environment.

Hyperliquid has launched an aggressive new strategy to expand its derivatives market share. The protocol brought out “HIP-3 Growth Mode” on Wednesday. This structural upgrade enables permissionless market deployment and slashes taker fees by over 90%.

Decentralized finance is no longer a niche idea sitting on the edge of the crypto world. According to Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov, DeFi has already covered about 30% of its global adoption journey. He says the industry has moved far beyond the experimental “DeFi Summer” of 2020 and is now entering a phase where the real world is starting to pay attention.

Ondo Global Markets has received a regulatory move this week after securing approval to offer tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) across Europe.

The cryptocurrency sector suffered a catastrophic security regression in November, with total losses from exploits and hacks surging nearly 1,000% month-over-month.

An infinite-mint vulnerability in Yearn Finance’s yETH contract triggered a multi-million dollar liquidity drain Sunday, forcing the protocol to isolate the affected legacy pool. An attacker exploited the flaw to mint 235 trillion synthetic tokens, immediately swapping the worthless supply for real assets before routing funds to mixer Tornado Cash.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has concluded its investigation into DeFi protocol Aave, bringing an end to a regulatory process that lasted nearly four years, according to Aave founder Stani Kulechov.