Aave, one of the largest decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocols, has reached a record $41.1 billion in total value locked (TVL), according to CryptoSlate. This milestone makes Aave comparable in size to the 54th-largest commercial bank in the United States.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and the DeFi Education Fund (DEF) jointly urged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to establish a “safe harbor” for certain blockchain applications, particularly DeFi and NFT apps, so their developers aren’t automatically treated as broker-dealers under the Exchange Act.

PancakeSwap, a leading decentralized exchange on the BNB Chain, has launched tokenized stock futures for major U.S. tech companies—Apple, Tesla, and Amazon—allowing users to trade synthetic versions of these stocks directly on the blockchain. This new feature, live since August 5, 2025, enables crypto users to open leveraged long or short positions with up to 25x leverage, all through a self-custodied wallet.

dYdX, a leading decentralized derivatives exchange, has acquired Pocket Protector, a fast-growing Telegram-native trading app, in a move aimed at expanding its social trading capabilities and accelerating product growth. Pocket Protector, founded in 2024, quickly gained traction with over 50,000 users and more than $1 billion in annualized trading volume by allowing users to trade directly within Telegram group chats.

Coinbase has announced a major transformation of its Coinbase Wallet, rebranding and expanding it into what is now called the Base App. This new app is being described as an “everything app,” aiming to go beyond just storing and managing cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin ETFs remain controversial due to regulatory uncertainties and volatility risks, challenging investor trust and adoption.

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According to DeFillama , the TVL in DeFi is currently around $124.5 billion. However, in early 2022, that figure reached $240 billion. One way or another, we’re talking a lot of money. There is, however, one thing that can throw a spanner in this DeFi machinery. These are bugs in smart contracts (Lemmens, 2022) [1] .

Traditionally, exchanges acted as the market makers, providing the liquidity needed for traders to buy and sell crypto assets. Since liquidity was held by a single entity, Binance, Coinbase, FTX, and others, which act in this way, are referred to as centralized exchanges (CEXs).

DeFi (decentralized finance) is the core of crypto’s fastest-growing projects right now. In essence, DeFi tokens allow investors to make extra income through their crypto holdings. In practice, the process is a lot more complex.

While Decentralized Finances (DeFi) promises a world where people can transfer their money without the hassle and transaction fees of banks, anybody who has tried to convert ETH to BNB recently knows it’s not so simple.

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Inflationary tokens have no limit to how many units are in circulation. The supply of inflationary tokens becomes greater than the demand over time. As a result, the tokens start to lose their value with supply and demand discrepancies (Staff, 2022) [1] .

Deflationary tokens are a type of crypto token whose value tends to decrease gradually after a certain point in time called deflationary tokens. Buyback and burn and Burn on a transaction are the two strategies, that keep on restricting the market from getting prevented from over-flooding (Staff, 2022) [1] .

A decentralized exchange (or DEX) is a peer-to-peer marketplace where transactions occur directly between crypto traders. DEXs fulfill one of crypto’s core possibilities: fostering financial transactions that aren’t officiated by banks, brokers, or any other intermediary. Many popular DEXs, like Uniswap and Sushiwap, run on the Ethereum blockchain (Staff, 2022).

According to CoinDesk, A flash loan is a relatively new type of uncollateralized lending that has become popular across a number of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols based on the Ethereum network (Hertig, 2022) [1] .

Decentralized cryptocurrency finance is based on the demand and premise of eliminating the need for banks (Centralized finance or CeFI) almost entirely. Centralized finance refers to any kind of financial service (especially in the crypto industry) that a centralized platform that manages and processes the transactions as well as accounts (Zare, 2021) [1] .

Before DeFi came into action, CeFi was the only solution for trading cryptocurrencies. Although it competes with DeFi to attract mainstream crypto traders, CeFi owns the bigger share of the trading market in the crypto industry (Zare, 2021).