The investment links one of crypto’s largest Ethereum holders with the world’s most influential creator platform, signaling a growing convergence between digital finance and mainstream culture.

Several DeFi projects, including Morpho, have moved away from public Discord servers after rising scams and phishing made the platform hard to secure. Teams are shifting users to controlled support tools like help centres, live chat and ticket systems to improve safety and reliability.

Decentralized finance projects are increasingly distancing themselves from public Discord servers, arguing that the platform has become a security liability rather than a community hub as scams and phishing attacks continue to target users at scale.

With a $3.4B stablecoin, a new onchain lending platform, and a US banking charter bid, World Liberty Financial is pushing DeFi toward regulated finance.

Ethena’s synthetic stablecoin USDe has suffered a sharp contraction since the Oct. 10 market crash, with roughly $8.3 billion exiting the protocol as investors reassessed the risks tied to leveraged and synthetic-backed designs.

A crypto user "donated" $50 million worth of USDT to a group of hackers after copying a poisoned address from his transaction history, according to onchain security firm Web3 Antivirus.

A statue honoring Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, has been installed outside the New York Stock Exchange, marking one of the clearest symbolic signals yet that digital assets are no longer confined to the fringes of global finance.

ALT5 Sigma, a crypto treasury company tied to World Liberty Financial (WLFI) — a token project linked to the Trump family — has announced the firing of two of its top executives amid growing scrutiny surrounding both the firm and its political associations.

Monad’s highly anticipated token launch has quickly shifted from excitement to frustration as MON opened below its pre-sale price and immediately pushed early buyers into the red.

Pump.fun has secretly transferred more than $436 million worth of USDC to cryptocurrency exchange Kraken following a market meltdown that has resulted in a record $19 billion market crash, throttling retail speculation and sharply reducing activity across memecoin ecosystems.