A major security breach at Binance affected about $6.3 billion in assets. An attacker deposited stablecoins into Aave and borrowed wrapped Ether. Industry partners froze billions in affected funds.
A security breach involving Binance led to a drop in cryptocurrency prices. Standard Chartered analyst Geoffrey Kendrick stated that the incident could increase trading activity on decentralized exchanges like Uniswap.
Chainlink introduced its 24/7 service to deliver continuous pricing for tokenized equities, commodities and other real‑world assets. The platform will operate across weekends, holidays and more than 40 blockchains.
Aave has launched its first externally curated lending markets on Aave V4 with Sentora. Sentora manages three markets on Ethereum that let users borrow RLUSD, PYUSD and OUSD against selected crypto assets.
Babylon Labs is advancing a proposal to let users borrow against native Bitcoin on Aave V4. The BTC would stay on the Bitcoin network rather than being bridged or wrapped.
On October 4, 2026, a Base DeFi vault lost approximately $6 million, equal to 1,783 wstETH, after a malicious contract was added to its borrower whitelist.
Chainlink launched CCIP 2.0 on September 28, 2026, about five months after a $292 million exploit at KelpDAO that US officials attributed to North Korean-affiliated actors.