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Bitwise's Premium RWA Vault (PAPY) accumulated $8 million in deposits within one day of its launch.

Robinhood Chain has surpassed Polygon in DeFi total value locked (TVL), a development that highlights the volatility of DeFi rankings and challenges the concept of first-mover advantage in blockchain.

Coinbase reports that deposits into its Coinbase Lend product on the Base network have exceeded $500 million.

Pencil Finance completed a $1M onchain lending cycle for 6,600 underserved students in Southeast Asia, marking an expansion of decentralized finance (DeFi) lending into education financing.

Full Sail, a decentralized exchange (DEX) on the Sui blockchain, announced its closure following a security breach on August 29 where an attacker drained approximately $91,000 from three of its vaults.

Securitize has integrated USDG into its investor flows via the Global Dollar Network, a development that may enhance liquidity in institutional DeFi markets.

The article reports a 462% increase in AUSD supply on the Monad blockchain, reaching $184 million over 90 days, attributed to yield incentives driving liquidity in decentralized finance (DeFi).

LayerZero introduced Otter, a new Automated Market Maker (AMM) design aimed at reducing Miner Extractable Value (MEV) exploitation in decentralized finance (DeFi) by leveraging auction theory.

THORChain has launched a public dashboard to track its revenue and trading metrics, an initiative described as a transparency measure for the DeFi sector.

North Korean-linked wallets sold over $30 million of Bitcoin via Hyperliquid, a decentralized exchange, within three weeks.

Backpack US, a private company focused on integrating DeFi with regulated equity trading, appointed Kyle Samani, co-founder of Multicoin Capital, to its board.

Armitage has expanded its USDT vault offerings on the Morpho platform, which may increase access to stablecoin demand across global markets.