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BTCS Inc. (BTCS) reports sharp deterioration for the quarter and six months ended June 30, 2026, driven by large losses on digital assets. Total revenues were $2.45 million for the quarter and $4.59 million for the first half of 2026, roughly flat versus the prior-year period, with DeFi revenues increasing but blockchain infrastructure revenues declining.

Mysten Labs, the core contributor to the Sui blockchain, announced a new Bitcoin (BTC) lending and yield protocol called Hashi on Wednesday, with early participation commitments from BitGo, Bullish, FalconX, Ledger, Fordefi, Cubist, and Erebor Bank.

Standard Chartered published a research note on April 29, 2026, titled “DeFi – Bent, not broken.” Geoffrey Kendrick, the bank’s global head of digital assets research, wrote the note in response to the $292 million KelpDAO exploit that occurred on April 18, 2026. The bank said the incident caused real damage to decentralized finance (DeFi)…

Hayden Adams reacts to the rapid rise of Decentralized Finance as the SEC formally acknowledges DeFi’s national importance.

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On Saturday, ethereum-based protocol KelpDAO, known for liquid restaking, was exploited for $290 million, the largest hack of 2026 in the decentralized finance ecosystem. 

Curve Finance, a leading decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, announced the completion of a security audit for its Llamalend V2 lending system in the first half of this year, marking a significant step in the protocol’s core development and cross-chain expansion. The audit, conducted by ChainSecurity, a well-known blockchain security firm, was completed before the system’s…

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Nemo Protocol loses $2.4M in attack, highlighting DeFi exploits, cross-chain laundering, and ongoing security in decentralized finance.

BitGo (NYSE: $BTGO) is opening a cleaner institutional route into DeFi, bringing Aave (CRYPTO: $AAVE), Spark and Tesseract into its custody environment through an integration with Narval’s institutional DeFi gateway.