Institutional-level DeFi execution engine Makina has completed a $3 million strategic funding round, with participating investors including Bodhi Ventures and Cyber Fund. Makina Finance aims to support AI agents and asset management, offering on-chain risk-adjusted return strategies.

PANews reported on June 19 that, according to The Block, the total lock-up volume (TVL) of DeFi lending protocols exceeded $55.69 billion, a record high, surpassing the peaks in 2021, 2022 and 2024. Among them, the Aave v3 protocol TVL increased to $26.09 billion, an increase of 55% from the beginning of April, the average daily protocol revenue increased from $900,000 to $1.6 million, the AAVE token rose by 65% in the past three months, and Bitcoin rose by 26% in the same period. Morpho Blue's TVL was $3.9 billion, up 38% for the year. Maple

PANews June 19 news, according to the Sonic Labs announcement, the DeFi aggregator 1inch has officially integrated the Sonic chain. Users can now directly access the Sonic network through the 1inch Wallet, utilizing its Pathfinder smart routing Algorithm to obtain optimal transaction rates, while enjoying the built-in MEV protection mechanism. This integration supports bridge-less cross-chain transactions between Sonic and other EVM chains.

Gate News bot message, Dawn Wallet founder Tom Waite and Isaac Rodriguez have now joined Tools for Humanity to help bring advanced financial capabilities to the World Network.

Gate News bot message, according to CoinTelegraph, a new report shows that since the beginning of this year, crypto asset managers have significantly increased their holdings in Blockchain, while institutions are increasingly using Decentralized Finance as the backend for their services.

According to ChainCatcher news and SoSoValue data, influenced by factors such as the controlled risk of escalating tensions in the Middle East, the crypto market zone continues its pullback trend, but the decline has significantly narrowed. Among them, the AI and Decentralized Finance zones are relatively strong, rising by 1.15% and 0.37%, respectively. Within the AI zone, Bittensor (TAO), Worldcoin (WLD), and KAI have risen by 2.59%, 2.73%, and 3.25%, respectively. Within the Decentralized Finance zone, Uniswap (UNI), Jupiter (JUP), Ondo.

Against the backdrop of easing tensions in the Middle East, the crypto market continues to pull back but the decline has narrowed, with the AI and Decentralized Finance zones rising by 1.15% and 0.37%, respectively. BTC fell by 0.20% to $104,000, while ETH dropped by 0.34% to remain above $2,500, with most other zones declining.

Golden Finance reports that market data shows that the stock price of DeFi Development rose 16.3% to $30.6, possibly influenced by the news that DeFi Development Corp. has obtained a $5 billion equity quota to increase its holdings of SOL.

According to ChainCatcher news, the official announcement from the NASDAQ-listed company DeFi Development Corp. (NASDAQ: DFDV) states that it has secured a $5 billion equity financing limit. This will provide DFDV with the flexibility to raise funds at the most strategically significant moment, supporting the continuous increase of SOL and accelerating its "per share SOL" (SPS) growth.

PANews June 26th news, according to Bloomberg, Zak Folkman, co-founder of the DeFi platform World Liberty Financial associated with the Trump family, stated at the cryptocurrency industry conference "Permissionless" held in New York on Wednesday that the platform is receiving "strong interest" from several publicly listed companies, which hope to use its Token WLFI as corporate reserve assets. Folkman also announced the launch of the new World Liberty Financial application. Folkman stated: "We have a very close relationship with Michael Saylor - we greatly appreciate everything he has done strategically, as well as the way he promotes the idea of holding corporate reserves in the form of encryption. Several publicly traded companies have already considered using WLFI Token as their corporate reserves.

Gate News bot message, Sentora stated in a post on X that due to increased uncertainty and liquidations, the number of high-risk loans in Decentralized Finance has significantly decreased over the past two weeks, currently valued at $4.9 billion, a reduction of over $240 million.

Golden Finance reported that Enso announced the launch of the first embeddable cross-chain interaction deposit feature, which, through collaboration with LayerZero and StarGate Finance, allows any Decentralized Finance protocol to accept deposits from multiple chains. This feature, as a new fundamental component of Chain Abstraction, is currently online and available for integration.

Gate News bot message, according to The Block, Solana financial company Decentralized Finance Development Corporation (stock code: DFDV) is launching Dogwifhat validator Node on Solana Blockchain, collaborating with the memecoin community to share rewards.

OdailyOdailyDaily News Solana The Decentralized Finance Development Corporation (DFDV) announced that it will launch WIF (Dogwifhat) validatorsNode on Solana, and the stake rewards, MEV, and other validators rewards will be shared proportionally with the WIF community after deducting operating costs. This measure is part of its strategy to expand the 'per-share SOL holding' by establishing Node Validators and continuously purchasing SOL and participating in stake operations.（The

According to ChainCatcher news and a report by CoinDesk, Bitcoin DeFi protocol BeL2 developer Elastos announced the launch of a BTC-backed stablecoin BTCD. Ahmed IJ, head of marketing at Elastos, said that BTCD is backed by Bitcoin, and the collateral amount is equivalent to 160%-200% of the value of BTCD. When the price of BTCD is higher than $1, holders will burn tokens to redeem BTC, resulting in a decrease in supply and a downward price decline; If it falls below $1, users deposit new BTC to mint BTCD and sell it, causing supply to increase and the price to recover.

BlockBeats news, on June 19, according to Coindesk, the Bitcoin DeFi protocol BeL2 developer Elastos announced the launch of the BTC-backed stablecoin BTCD. Elastos marketing director Ahmed IJ stated that BTCD is backed by Bitcoin, with a collateral amount equivalent to 160%-200% of the value of BTCD. When the price of BTCD exceeds 1 dollar, holders will burn tokens to redeem BTC, leading to a decrease in supply and a downward price trend; if it falls below 1 dollar, users will deposit new BTC to mint BTCD and sell, causing an increase in supply and a price rebound.

PANews reported on June 19 that, according to The Block, stablecoin issuer PaxosPaxos launched a new startup, Paxos Labs, which aims to help institutions integrate DeFi and on-chain products directly into their own applications and platforms. According to Bhau Kotecha, co-founder of Paxos Labs, the company has been incubated within Paxos for the past six months due to the company's growing demand for bridging the DeFi market and real-world asset opportunities. Paxos Labs is building easy-to-integrate APIs that allow customers to integrate products without having to dig deep into the complexities of DeFi. Its initial offerings include the issuance of custom-branded stablecoins, the deployment of tokenized yield strategies, and tools to manage structured digital assets, with the primary target customers being consumer fintech applications, exchanges, and blockchain networks. Paxos Labs will also collaborate with multi-asset issuers.

PANews, June 19, news from The Block reports that the stablecoin issuer Paxos has launched a new startup, Paxos Labs, aimed at helping institutions directly integrate DeFi and on-chain products into their own applications and platforms. Bhau Kotecha, co-founder of Paxos Labs, stated that due to the growing demand for connecting the DeFi market and real asset opportunities, the company was incubated internally at Paxos over the past six months. Paxos Labs is building easy-to-integrate APIs that allow clients to integrate related products without needing to deeply understand the complexities of DeFi. Its initial products include the issuance of custom-branded stablecoins, deployment of tokenization yield strategies, and tools for managing structured digital assets, with the primary target clients being consumer fintech applications, exchanges, and blockchain networks. Paxos Labs will also collaborate with multi-asset issuers.

Gate News bot message, TAC has completed $11.5 million in seed and strategic round financing, with $5 million of the strategic round led by Hack VC. TAC is a blockchain built specifically for EVM dApps, designed to connect to the TON and Telegram ecosystem. The TAC Mainnet is set to launch soon and is currently being rolled out in phases. In the current DevMainnet phase, major DeFi protocols such as Curve, Morpho, and Euler have begun deployment, with over 20 major applications preparing for Mainnet integration. TAC enables Ethereum dApps to be seamlessly deployed on TON. The functionality and liquidity of EVM bring the TON ecosystem, allowing developers to focus on consumer use cases.

BlockBeats News: On June 18, according to official news, INFINIT, an AI-powered DeFi intelligence platform, announced that it has reached three important milestones: · 244,000+ user conversations· 233,000+ transactions· Issuing 346,000+ badges, INFINIT is making it easier than ever for both novice and experienced users to discover, execute, and participate in DeFi through natural language interaction and personalized AI Agents.

Gate News bot message, on May 29, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released new guidelines on crypto asset staking, aimed at clarifying regulatory requirements. Before the release of these guidelines, investors and service providers were uncertain whether the staking rewards would be considered securities, which posed legal risks.

PANews reported on June 25th that Decentralized Finance Development Corporation, a Nasdaq-listed company with strategic reserves in Solana, announced the launch of Dogwifhat (WIF) verification Node, reaching a profit-sharing protocol with the Memecoin community. Both parties will share stake income, MEV, and other validators' rewards after deducting operating expenses. Parker White, Chief Investment Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Decentralized Finance Dev Corp, said, "In the short term, we will support the Dogwifhat community by operating Solana validators; in the long run, we plan to further expand our cooperation on this basis. We have not yet publicly shared the profit-sharing ratio, but both parties will share a portion of the income after deducting costs."

Gate News bot message, Fox Business reporter Eleanor Terrett stated in a recent interview: Early feedback from my conversations with the Decentralized Finance community indicates that the encryption market structure principles of the US Senate have been widely praised. It is noteworthy that they are pleased to see the Senate acknowledging DePIN (Decentralization Physical Infrastructure) - a point they feel was not explicitly mentioned in the House's CLARITY Act.

Gate News bot news, according to The Block, Decentralized Finance Development Corp, also known as Janover, which is referred to as "SOL version of MicroStrategy", announced the launch of WIF verification Node. The company plans to share the WIF stake income and other verification rewards generated by operating the Node with the community.

According to Gate News bot, Bloomberg reported on Monday that the company manages $4 billion in assets and plans to invest up to $10 million in Re7 Capital strategies. However, the specific investment amount has not yet been finalized.

According to a report by Jinse Finance and data from DeFi Llama, last week the spot trading volume on DEX reached $97.86 billion, a week-on-week pump of 1.88%; the volume of Perptual Futures reached $103.37 billion, a week-on-week pump of 8.44%.

According to Gate News bot, CoinTelegraph reports that Anchorage Digital is adding Decentralized Finance (DeFi) features to its Porto Wallet, enabling institutions to conduct swap trades and gain liquidity through the product. This move provides institutional investors with another wallet option.

Gate News bot message, Spark announced the launch of the first phase of the Ignition Airdrop on Tuesday. Users who lend or borrow tokens on Spark, or deposit tokens issued by its parent protocol Sky on other DeFi protocols, are eligible to share a token pool containing 300 million SPK, which was valued at approximately 18 million dollars at the time of publication (calculated at current prices). SPK holders will be able to participate in future Spark governance and stake to earn more rewards in future airdrops. Spark stated in an X post that staked SPK may also be used to secure the protocol in the future. Based on deposit amounts, Spark is currently the fourth largest DeFi protocol. The total supply of SPK is 10 billion, which will be distributed over the next 10 years.

Staking mining contracts are leading a new trend in crypto assets investment, with an annualized return rate of up to 20%. Although high returns attract investors, they also come with high risks, so it's essential to carefully choose a reputable platform. Smart contracts enhance mining efficiency and security, and top platforms attract users with stable returns and flexibility. It is recommended to adopt a diversified Lock-up Position strategy to cope with market fluctuations.

Gate News bot news, FXStreet analyst Vishal Dixit stated that after Bitcoin (BTC) surged 1.14% the previous day, the price slightly broke through $107,000 as of Tuesday's press time. Decentralized Finance (DeFi) tokens such as Pendle (PENDLE), Aerodrome Finance (AERO), and Uniswap (UNI) led the market's slight rebound.

Gate News bot news, DeFi protocol Veda announced a financing of 18 million USD to accelerate the adoption of its vault platform. The platform enables asset issuers to build cross-chain yield products, including yield-generating stablecoins. The company disclosed on Monday that this round of financing was led by CoinFund, with participation from institutions such as Animoca Ventures, BitGo, Mantle EcoFund, GSR, Relayer Capital, PEER VC, Draper Dragon, Credit Neutral, Neartcore, and Maelstrom.

Gate News bot message, encryption financial company Anchorage Digital has integrated the Uniswap Labs trading API, allowing its institutional users to more easily access the liquidity of the decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap.

Gate News bot news, DeFi company Blueprint Finance announced the completion of a $9.5 million financing round, led by Polychain Capital, with participation from YZi Labs and VanEck. This financing brings Blueprint Finance's total funding to $17 million.

Gate News bot news, some major application developers and security experts of Ethereum have contributed to Web3SOC. Web3SOC is a new security and governance framework aimed at compliance, released last Friday. According to the announcement released on Friday, Uniswap Labs, Morpho, Maple Finance, Kiln, and Steakhouse Financial collaborated with security companies Cantina and Secureum to establish a set of standards, referencing additional insights provided by investors.

Gate News bot reports that Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and founder of ConsenSys, stated that the Bitcoin and ETH reserves of large Wall Street firms will play a key role in accelerating the transition from traditional finance (TradFi) to decentralized finance (DeFi). Stretagy and Metaplanet are leading the construction of Bitcoin treasuries, while Sharplink Gaming is creating ETH treasuries. Lubin noted that these strategies represent "the first large-scale entry of TradFi into DeFi," marking a significant shift in the global financial landscape.

Former TON Foundation executives Justin Hyun and trader Hyung Lee jointly launched the Affluent DeFi protocol based on the TON Blockchain, aiming to provide convenient encryption asset management services through Telegram, supporting multiple asset types, and planning to introduce a points system as an important reference for future Airdrops.

Gate News bot, Sky (formerly MakerDAO) founder Rune Christensen and Ethena founder Guy Young recently joined The Big Brain Podcast to explore topics such as how the DeFi ecosystem is maturing, why centralized trade-offs are no longer taboo, and how AI agents and protocol generalization are changing the future of finance. Rune argues that the era of DeFi's ideological frenzy is gone. DeFi, once driven by a lofty vision and decentralization supremacism, has now evolved into a solid, value-based industry, "In the past, you would raise a lot of money with high subscription rights and then cause the market to crash, now the key is: If you want to change the world of tomorrow, can you run a sustainable business today?" Real-world assets, once ridiculed, are now key to achieving this goal. Both founders agree that the future of DeFi will no longer be dominated by human users, but by AI agents. Rune envisions a shift to "hyper-rational, capital-focused" where intelligent agents will optimize across protocols at machine speed.

Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin pointed out that ETH and BTC are the starting points for traditional finance to enter Decentralized Finance. If Wall Street follows investable assets, it will promote the standardization of DeFi, thereby facilitating the widespread application for ordinary users.

Gate News bot message, Sonic Labs announced the integration of Bubblemaps V2 into its platform, marking a significant advancement in on-chain intelligence and transparency within the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem. Given the rising demand for convenient and reliable blockchain analysis, this move aims to help users better understand wallet trends, token movements, and trading patterns.

Aurora co-founder Alex Shevchenko proposed an intention-driven architecture that simplifies Crypto Assets operations, achieving user goals through automation, separating interaction logic from the execution layer, supporting various application scenarios, and promoting Blockchain towards mainstream applications.

According to the Gate News bot, as reported by Cointelegraph, Kash Dhanda, the COO of Jupiter, a leading DEX in the Solana ecosystem, announced that the protocol will suspend governance voting. Dhanda emphasized the necessity of "focusing on rise" and stated that Jupiter is suspending the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) framework, as he believes the framework "has not been functioning as expected."

Gate News bot message, institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure provider Blockdaemon announced the launch of its Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and stake service Earn Stack.

According to ChainCatcher news and Cointelegraph reports, leading crypto infrastructure provider Blockdaemon has launched a non-custodial yield service called Earn Stack for institutional clients, supporting DeFi yields and PoS staking for over 50 protocols. This service complies with SEC guidelines and has ISO 27001 and SOC 2 verification, supports no-code integration and multiple APIs, and provides slashing protection, liquidity aggregation, and cross-chain.

According to ChainCatcher news reported by Cointelegraph, Blockdaemon, a leading provider of encryption infrastructure, has launched a non-custodial yield service called Earn Stack for institutional clients, supporting DeFi yields and PoS stake across over 50 protocols. The service complies with SEC guidelines, has ISO 27001 and SOC 2 verification, supports no-code integration and multiple APIs, and offers slashing protection, liquidity aggregation, and cross-chain Staking features.  

Blockdaemon launches the Earn Stack service for Decentralized Finance and Staking, offering staking opportunities for over 50 protocols, emphasizing security and the needs of institutional clients, and has obtained ISO 27001 verification, simplifying the entry into DeFi, supporting multi-chain staking and Liquidity aggregation.

Blockdaemon launched the Decentralized Finance and Staking service Earn Stack, offering staking opportunities for over 50 protocols, emphasizing security and institutional client needs, has obtained ISO 27001 verification, simplifies the entry into Decentralized Finance, and supports multi-chain staking and Liquidity aggregation.

BlockBeats News, June 13, INFINIT is an AI-powered all-in-one DeFi application that allows users to discover, evaluate, and execute strategies such as lending, staking, and cross-chain on multiple mainstream L1 and L2 blockchains through natural language operations. The platform has integrated multiple EVM-compatible chains, including Solana, to achieve seamless cross-chain interaction without the need to switch multiple interfaces. In just six months after its launch, INFINIT has more than 160,000 users, performed more than 100,000 on-chain operations, and has deployed 21 DeFi Agents. Users can also collect badges by participating in the interaction to share a total of 4 billion INFINIT Stones reward pool, which can be exchanged for IN tokens in the future.

Gate News bot message, according to CoinDesk, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson proposed a reserve reorganization plan. He suggested converting $100 million in ADA reserves into Bitcoin and Cardano's native stablecoins USDM and USDA, aiming to strengthen the Decentralized Finance and stablecoin ecosystem. Hoskinson pointed out that this conversion operation will not cause drastic fluctuations in market prices. He also mentioned that currently only 10% of the TVL in stablecoin issuance "is strangling Cardano." Data shows that the total TVL on the Cardano chain is $356 million, with the stablecoin portion accounting for only $31 million. Source: CoinDesk

According to Gate News bot, a report by QCP Capital shows that due to Israel's airstrike on Iranian nuclear facilities, Bitcoin and Ethereum prices fell by approximately 3% and 9%, respectively, leading to an increase in short-term demand for put options. Meanwhile, Cloudflare and Google Cloud experienced a large-scale outage, and the US tech sector declined, resulting in over $1 billion in long positions liquidation in the crypto assets market. During the market fluctuation, DeFi Development Corp announced plans to set up a $5 billion allocation for purchasing SOL. Source: wublock123

Trump's financial report shows that he holds assets worth between $1 million and $5 million in an Ethereum Cold Wallet, and owns 15.75 billion WLFI Tokens and the sole member rights of the company. Additionally, his DT Marks Defi LLC company holds 75% ownership of WLFI. WLFI raised over $57 million through token sales.