Decentralized finance: lending, DEXs, stablecoins, yield, and liquidity. 435 stories curated by CryptoCatalyst.
Moscow Exchange plans to start trading Bitcoin, Ether and USDT on Dec. 1 under Russia's new crypto law. Non-qualified investors will face annual purchase limits, so the launch would open a regulated route to crypto without giving retail buyers unlimited access.
Hong Kong’s monetary authority plans to include regulated stablecoins in trials involving tokenized government debt, with settlement designed to run around the clock. Separately, HSBC says its Hong Kong dollar stablecoin, RedCoin, has reached 50,000 users.
The XRP Ledger is preparing a fix for a flaw that could have allowed stablecoin partners to create additional tokens. Activation is now on track for Wednesday after validator support briefly fell and restarted the network’s two-week countdown; XRP itself is unaffected.
Binance said it was investigating after billions of dollars moved from its hot wallets, and Tether and Circle froze $1.79 billion in USDT and USDC. Follow-up reporting attributed the $6.3 billion hack to North Korea’s TraderTraitor group and said Binance later reopened withdrawals, with $3.64 billion in net outflows in the first 9.5 hours.
Chainalysis says a hacker accessed some of its customers’ names and email addresses using what the firm described as “offensive agentic techniques.” The company is also tracking a separate multibillion-dollar Binance hack, where attackers are reportedly using a Tron protocol to evade stablecoin freezes.
An X post by @Hannibal9972485 alleges that Binance is restructuring its balance sheet and facing a liquidity crisis tied to possible bad debts or internal trading. The post offers no supporting evidence, so its claims should not be treated as confirmation of a bank run or financial distress.
Tether reported $1.5 billion in third-quarter profit, while its excess reserves nearly doubled to about $8 billion. At the end of September, the company’s Bitcoin reserves were valued at $8.37 billion, alongside US Treasury holdings comparable to those of major foreign holders.
Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Guy Wuollet discusses the shift from cypherpunk ideology to pragmatic adoption, highlighting how stablecoins, perpetual futures, and decentralized infrastructure are modernizing traditional financial markets.
Uniswap Labs has opened TJAR, its Token Jar fee-conversion system, to other apps, with Robinhood as the first named user. The tool lets apps convert fees collected in one token into another token they choose.
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Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, plans to partner with and invest in Trade[XYZ] to bring regulated perpetual futures based on Hyperliquid to the U.S. HYPE rose sharply after the news, with reports putting the jump at 13% to 15%.
More than $5 billion left Binance hot wallets on Ethereum, Bitcoin and Tron within an hour on October 29, 2026, in what on-chain trackers and Changpeng Zhao describe as a hack. Tether and Circle froze about $1.8 billion in stablecoins within 45 minutes. Binance says user funds are safe but has not called it a hack.
Anchorage Digital Bank has expanded its relationship with Bitso to provide custody on both sides of the US-Mexico remittance route. The deal puts Anchorage behind the infrastructure for a stablecoin-based corridor, though the available information does not specify transaction volumes, fees, or a launch date.
DBS says nearly 90% of large businesses surveyed are using or planning to use tokenized cash to speed up payments. Stablecoins are the leading option at 63%, followed by tokenized deposits at 53% and tokenized money market funds at 52%.
BlackRock, SBI Holdings and blockchain company Startale will explore connecting tokenized money market funds with SBI’s yen-pegged stablecoin, JPYSC. The agreement is exploratory: it does not announce a live product, launch date or confirmed technical design.
Canada has opened a 60-day public consultation on draft rules for stablecoins issued by non-financial institutions, as it considers implementing its Stablecoin Act. The proposal would require one-to-one reserves and prompt redemption, cap redemption fees at 1%, and bar issuers from paying holders interest.
Injective has launched an onchain futures market tied to rental prices for five Nvidia GPUs. The contracts offer leveraged exposure to AI computing costs and may let users hedge against price changes, though the announcement does not specify contract terms or how the index is calculated.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is encouraging community banks to develop stablecoin payment services as new federal licensing requirements near. The message gives smaller lenders a reason to assess their options now, though the available details do not specify a deadline or a particular service model.
Ripple has received final approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to launch Ripple National Trust Bank, according to CEO Brad Garlinghouse. The bank is expected to manage reserves for RLUSD, Ripple’s $2.6 billion stablecoin, and provide custody services under federal supervision.
The Bank of Korea told lawmakers it plans to draft a foreign-exchange law amendment this year covering stablecoins used as a means of payment. The proposal points to tighter oversight of cross-border transfers, not recognition of stablecoins as legal tender.
HSBC has activated its Hong Kong dollar stablecoin, RedCoin, inside PayMe, the bank’s payments app with more than 3 million users. The move tests whether a bank-issued digital token can work in familiar everyday payment settings, rather than remaining a product mainly for crypto or financial institutions.
Malaysia and Thailand are joining Singapore’s BLOOM initiative to explore cross-border settlement using stablecoins and tokenized bank deposits. The expansion brings three Southeast Asian central banks into the project, alongside industry participants including Ripple, Visa and Mastercard.
Token Buybacks, a free site from the team behind CryptoCatalyst, tracks daily spending on token buybacks across 34 active programs: $156 million in the last 30 days, led by Hyperliquid, Pump.fun and Uniswap, with data from DefiLlama.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, the top Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, has asked Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino for records about reported payments to Nxum. The firm was co-owned by Bo Hines, a former White House crypto adviser; the available reports do not specify the amount or Tether’s response.
Speaking on the Delphi Hivemind podcast, Ethena founder Guy Young detailed how tokenized real-world assets represent a $150 trillion market expansion for crypto derivatives.