Development activity across DeFi is starting to thin out as 2025 approaches its final stretch, but a small group of projects continues to stand out.

Kazakhstan’s central bank is cautiously expanding its involvement in digital assets, approving a series of pilot programs that blend traditional reserves with blockchain-based experimentation.

The BNB Smart Chain is preparing for a significant performance upgrade as the Fermi hard fork moves from testing into full deployment.

The market for tokenized commodities is steadily gaining ground as investors look for more flexible ways to gain exposure to traditional assets.

Aave’s latest governance vote didn’t just reject a proposal - it exposed unresolved fault lines inside one of DeFi’s most influential protocols.

The debate over which blockchain will dominate tokenized finance may be built on the wrong assumption entirely.

A rare intervention has just reshaped recent events on Gnosis Chain. In response to last month’s Balancer exploit, network operators chose to alter the chain itself, using a hard fork to neutralize stolen assets and move them out of an attacker’s reach - a decision that places fund recovery above strict protocol immutability.

As quantum computing continues to loom over the future of digital security, not everyone in the blockchain space believes rushing into quantum-resistant upgrades is the right move.

Uniswap’s governance process is about to deliver one of its most consequential outcomes to date.

Underneath the noise around crypto prices and speculative trends, a quieter shift is taking place inside global finance - one that could reshape how assets move, settle, and trade far sooner than many institutions expect.

For much of the past cycle, Ethereum’s mainnet was treated as unsuitable for anything beyond settlement. High fees and persistent congestion pushed advanced DeFi activity into Layer 2 environments, where speed and cost mattered more than security guarantees. That assumption is now being challenged.