Uniswap v4 Becomes an Aggregator as Hooks Pull In Outside Liquidity
Uniswap Labs launched aggregator hooks on Ethereum, Base, and Robinhood Chain on 22 October 2026.
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Stories 1–24 of 155 · 14 Sep 2026 – 23 Oct 2026
Aerodrome and Velodrome Merge Into Aero Across Seven Networks
Aerodrome and Velodrome, two leading decentralised exchanges, merged on 21 October 2026 to form Aero, a single spot exchange spanning seven networks.
Crypto Lending Vaults Top $10 Billion, and Regulators Are Circling
Deposits in crypto lending vaults have climbed past $10 billion, up from $4 billion at the start of last year, according to the Financial Times.
XRP Ledger Patches Its Lending Code Before Anyone Can Use It
The XRP Ledger will activate a bug-fix package called fixCleanup3_4_0 around 09:34 UTC on 23 October 2026.
Chainlink Goes Live on Stellar to Power Its $4B Tokenized Asset Market
Chainlink's Data Feeds and Data Streams went live on the Stellar network on 14 October 2026.
Trader Nudges Hyperliquid ETH, Nets $1.28M on Papertrade
A single wallet made about $1.28 million on Papertrade within hours of the exchange's Saturday launch by moving Ether prices on Hyperliquid.
Tether Froze THORChain's USDT Without Warning, Then Reversed Three Hours Later
Tether blacklisted four THORChain vault addresses on the TRON network on 9 October 2026, freezing about 1.45 million USDT.
Chainlink's CCIP Vault Adapters Pull Deposits From 80 Chains, No Bridge Needed
Chainlink launched CCIP Vault Adapters on 8 October 2026, letting DeFi vaults on one network accept one-click deposits from more than 80 blockchains.
Arbitrum Bets on Paxos' USDG to Capture Stablecoin Reserve Income
Paxos launched its Global Dollar (USDG) stablecoin natively on Arbitrum on 6 October 2026, and the network joined the Paxos-led Global Dollar Network.
Arbitrum Halts New Stylus Contracts After AI-Assisted WASM Attacks
Arbitrum's Security Council paused all new Stylus contract activations on its One and Nova networks on 2 October 2026.
NEAR Intents Recovers Full $3.8M Stolen in Omni Contract Exploit
NEAR Intents recovered the full $3.8 million stolen from its platform on 3 October 2026, days after a bug let an attacker drain funds.
Ostium Rebuilds Its Trading Stack After a Faked Price Drained $23.75M
Ostium launched Gateway, a rebuilt trading system, on 1 October 2026, three months after an attacker drained $23.75 million in USDC from its liquidity vault.
Once Worth $2 Billion, Blast Winds Down Its Ethereum Layer-2 Network
Ethereum layer-2 network Blast is shutting down after concluding that operating costs exceed the revenue it generates.
Chainlink Rebuilds Its Bridge Security After a Rival's $292M Hack Shook DeFi
Chainlink released CCIP 2.0 on 28 September 2026, letting companies add their own security checks to cross-chain transfers.
THORChain Refuses to Block Bitget Hackers Moving $387.5M to Bitcoin
THORChain declined Bitget's request to block wallets tied to a $387.5 million hack on 24 September 2026.
Tokenized Stocks Can Now Borrow Dollars: Aave V4 Opens Equities Hub on Base
Aave V4 on Base launched an Equities Hub on 25 September 2026, letting eligible non-U.S. users borrow USDC against seven Coinbase tokenized U.S. stocks.
KelpDAO Sues LayerZero, Alleging It Endorsed the Setup Behind a $292M Hack
Evercrest Technologies, the developer behind KelpDAO, filed a civil claim in the Supreme Court of British Columbia against LayerZero Labs and co-founder Bryan Pellegrino.
Cosmos Hub Went Dark for 25 Hours to Claw Back $2M in Stolen ATOM
Cosmos Hub halted its blockchain for 25 hours after an attacker moved 1.2 million stolen ATOM into a Hub address.
ZetaChain Votes to Wind Down Its Layer 1 and Rebuild Around Solana AI
ZetaChain token holders voted 99.4% to shut down the project's Layer 1 blockchain and migrate the ZETA token to Solana.
HYPE Hits Record High as Hyperliquid Opens Borrowing to Token Holders
Hyperliquid launched manual borrowing on 18 September 2026, letting users pledge HYPE or Bitcoin as collateral for USDC or USDT stablecoins.
Fake Liquidity Pool Inflates NSTR 8,000x, Draining $3.5M From Nostra
Nostra Finance paused its Starknet money market after an attacker drained about $3.5 million on 17 September.
Kraken Parent Payward Aims to Bring Hyperliquid Perps to US Traders
Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, plans to offer U.S. clients onchain perpetual futures traded on the Hyperliquid blockchain.
After a $128M Hack, Balancer Proposes Shutting Down for Good
Balancer has proposed an orderly wind-down of its decentralised exchange and the distribution of at least $9 million in treasury assets to BAL holders.
A Hacker Minted 46 Billion Fake Bitcoin. Symbiosis Clawed Back 15 and Offered a 20% Bounty
An attacker exploited Symbiosis's Bitcoin Bridge on 11 September 2026, minting about 46.1 billion unbacked syBTC tokens.
