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Polymarket has opened sandbox testing for Nex, a trading system rewritten in Rust that its engineering team says can handle 100,000 commands per second, ahead of a conditional mid-December launch. Polymarket’s vice president of engineering for DeFi, Josh Stevens, announced…

DeFi Development (DFDV) stock fell 8.95% from its $3.24 previous close to $2.95 on November 12. The drop came on the day the Solana (SOL) treasury firm reported a $66.6 million third-quarter profit. The company said its net asset value (NAV) per share more than quadrupled from August 12 to September 30. Shares traded above The post A Solana Treasury Firm Made $66.6M Without Making Much Revenue app...

Industry groups argued in court filings that Illinois’ crypto tax, which applies even when a transaction yields no profit, could raise compliance costs and violate federal law.

The DOJ, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, SIFMA and a crypto coalition led by a16z, Paradigm and Uniswap filed briefs backing a lawsuit to strike down the state’s 0.2% levy on digital asset transactions.

Hyperion DeFi has reported a record $39.6 million in net income for the third quarter of 2026, up 28% from the previous quarter, even as the Nasdaq-listed company reduced its HYPE token holdings to repay outstanding debt. According to its…

Coinbase’s EU policy chief says applying suitability tests beyond crypto lending and borrowing could limit access and fragment liquidity.

Crypto hack losses have reached $8.78 billion in 2026, according to DefiLlama. That already tops ARK Invest’s $5.6 billion estimate for on-chain revenue this year, a first since 2020. One attack drives most of that tally. Even so, decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols lost 58% more in 2026 than in all of 2025. Over the same The post Crypto Hack Losses Head Past On-Chain Revenue for First Time Sin...

The self-custodial wallet will keep its API services running through Nov. 14. Sui’s DeFi total value locked has fallen more than 22% over the past month.

Institutions weighing DeFi lending tend to ask which markets are safest. Mike Hathaway and Joseph Quintilian of Ajna argue the better question is who can change a loan’s terms after the money is lent, and why a fully backed stablecoin offers no protection against a token vote or a faulty price feed.

Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin backs ETH as a store of value, citing stablecoins, DeFi and quantum security plans as the cryptocurrency trades near $2,050.