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X Layer has reached a $2.1 billion stablecoin milestone, with $100 million in DeFi TVL, 4.2 million active addresses, and 400 million transactions. Multiple DeFi and AI Agent payment paths have emerged.

The new round of OKX Flash Earn Lite has started. From August 11 to 17, users can subscribe with four assets: BTC, RLUSD, OKB, and RE, to share 700,000 RE tokens. RLUSD can also stack annualized returns.

Ondo Perps surpassed $4 billion in volume in about two weeks since its general availability launch.

Umia introduces a new framework for onchain organizations that replaces traditional token voting with decision markets, aiming to improve incentives and real-time signaling in governance.

Introduces DeXposure-Claw, a forecast-grounded agentic system for DeFi risk supervision that uses a graph time-series foundation model to forecast exposure networks, with deterministic monitors and confidence gates to constrain LLM-generated supervisory tickets. Also presents DeXposure-Bench, a six-axis evaluation harness for regulator-aligned assessment.

This paper identifies a new class of attack called Ghost Fills in Polymarket's hybrid off-chain/on-chain architecture, where attackers exploit the time gap between matching and settlement to revert orders, leading to over $1.49M in illicit profits and putting $1.78B at risk.

Binance launches US stock trading for non-US users with zero commission, fractional shares, and stablecoin payments, and plans to introduce bStocks tokenized stocks on BNB Chain, representing a major step in bridging crypto and traditional finance.

This paper surveys over 1,900 AI-tagged crypto projects and conducts a deep-dive analysis of DeFi investment agents, finding that current deployments are early, with token holders losing $191.7M while treasuries retain paper gains, and token valuations weakly connected to fundamentals.

An analysis of how autonomous AI agents are beginning to trade, negotiate, and manage crypto assets 24/7, and why privacy technologies like zero-knowledge proofs are critical to prevent front-running and surveillance in this emerging agentic trading market.

Base launched Base MCP, a tool using the Model Context Protocol to let AI agents interact with crypto wallets and DeFi apps via natural language, with OAuth 2.1 authentication.

The Solstice protocol has completed the $SLX Token Generation Event (TGE), marking a shift from a stable yield protocol to a full DeFi ecosystem. The tokenomics align incentives with real protocol growth.

Introducing the Solana DeFi project Solstice, where users can deposit USX to get eUSX and form LP to earn points, with an upcoming TGE.

Prism Protocol is a product that turns credit into tradable risk assets.