Weekly DeFi recap covering 16 protocol launches, updates, and regulatory moves across Ethereum, Solana, and major infrastructure platforms.
DeFi & Yields ·
Across Ethereum, Solana, and adjacent infrastructure platforms, sixteen protocol and infrastructure updates advanced this week. Aave rolled out early access for its savings mobile application, while Pendle introduced tokenized stock dividends for on-chain yield trading. Solana shipped Payment Channels capable of handling 1 million payments per second, and LayerZero debuted Otter, an AMM design targeting MEV resistance. Additional launches included Jupiter Vaults—expert-managed yield strategies—and Polymarket's perpetuals offering, alongside expansions of Morpho Midnight to Ethereum and Etherscan's Flow tool for visualizing transaction flows.
Regulatory and governance milestones also marked the period. Ethereum outlined a path to allow stablecoin-denominated gas fee payments by 2027, and South Korea signaled intent to transition its stock market on-chain. Ethena's fee switch passed governance review, while Uniswap Labs acquired PONS tokens to cement long-term protocol alignment. Trade[XYZ] and Kraken advanced their respective offerings—the former launching outcome markets and the latter deploying a Hyperliquid validator on mainnet.
A security incident affected Trezor when a third-party email provider it uses experienced a breach; the severity and scope of exposure to user data remain unspecified.