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The Solana Foundation has introduced a new framework and incident-response network to bolster security for decentralized finance projects on its blockchain.

  crypto.news  + 2 more06 July 2026 08:17, UTC

When millions of dollars in crypto are swiped from a decentralized finance protocol, tough questions often follow—and Drift Protocol’s $285 million exploit on Wednesday is no different.

Standard Chartered says Uniswap price can rise nearly 40 times by 2030, but the call depends on tokenized assets moving into DeFi at scale.

Fluid’s aWETH Redemption Protocol, launched with Lido, Ether.fi, 1inch, 0x and Kyber, has processed $136M out of Aave’s frozen WETH pool in 48 hours. By:Camila Russo• DeFi

Last week, artificial intelligence was blamed for writing buggy crypto software. This week, it was credited with finding a bug before it could be exploited.

The abandoned protocol has been hit twice in seven days. We break down what happened to the DeFi protocol and who was affected by the second exploit.

The roughly 3 percentage point move in Aave (AAVE) over the last ~37 hours is best explained by a combination of a broad crypto selloff and renewed focus on Aave’s recent rsETH exploit fallout and DeFi security risks, partially offset by positive regulatory and product news.

If you haven’t been paying attention to the explosive growth of decentralized finance, otherwise known as DeFi, now is a good time to start.

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