Lending protocol Morpho raised $175M led by Paradigm, a16z crypto, and Ribbit Capital. It already holds ~$11B in deposits and powers Coinbase and Kraken loans.

Ethena has partnered with $480B asset manager Janus Henderson to allocate and distribute tokenized CLO funds, pushing structured credit onchain.

MUFG, SMBC, and Mizuho are targeting a joint stablecoin launch in FY2026, Nikkei reports, with a yen token first and a dollar version due late 2026.

A CoinDesk post-mortem says the Humanity Protocol drain happened because its multisig signing keys all lived on a single compromised laptop. The lesson for self-custody.

Reuters puts the Trump family's crypto profit at a minimum of $2.3 billion across its main ventures, landing while the market sits in Extreme Fear.

SBI Shinsei Bank, a roughly 1 trillion yen Japanese lender, plans to reward depositors in Bitcoin, Ether, and XRP, pushing crypto rewards into regulated banking.

Base says MXNB, a Mexican peso stablecoin from Bitso, is launching on the network, adding a local-currency option to its growing stablecoin roster.

Circle launched cirBTC, a 1:1 bitcoin-backed token, on Ethereum for institutional DeFi collateral. Here is what the USDC issuer's move into tokenized BTC means.

Yuga Labs says it pulled 68 NFTs, among them 29 Bored Apes and 2 CryptoPunks, out of a Flooring Protocol exploit. The rescue underlines pooled-custody risk in DeFi.

Wallets linked to Humanity Protocol were drained for more than $19 million and the H token fell over 80%, per WuBlockchain. Here is what is known so far.