December 19th, 2025
Binance has revealed plans to launch new spot trading pairs and trading bot services for a select few tokens. The seemingly routine move is an effort on Binance’s part to improve users’ trading experience on its platform.
The AAVE lending and borrowing protocol made an overnight revenue of around $6 million amid the heavy crypto liquidations led by Ethereum.
The Aave ecosystem has grown to a mature lending and borrowing platform with over $109M in community treasury and $21B in locked liquidity.
The recent approval of spot Ethereum ETFs in several countries has been the epitome of mainstream adoption of Ether’s ecosystem in the past nine years.
The new Aave V3 ETH Lido Pool is designed to improve ETH borrowing and lending dynamics by isolating the Lido tokens.
Michael Lewellen, security adviser at the Compound Finance DAO, stated that the Compound Finance URL has been compromised and “is currently hosting a phishing site.
Aave’s expansion has increased competition among other DeFi projects.
The native token of Aave (AAVE) has experienced an 8% decline in the past 24 hours, despite the fundraising efforts disclosed by the CEO of the parent company.
USDe aims to rival the likes of Tether’s USDT and Circle’s USDC, the top two stablecoins by market capitalization.
Despite the competition, Ethereum’s ecosystem benefits from a rich developer community and a vast array of dApps that drive its value and utility.
The depeg situation of Synthetix’s sUSD has once again highlighted the vulnerabilities within DeFi systems and the impacts of liquidity shifts.
With all the upgrades that the proposal suggests, a notable part focused on growing the protocol’s algorithmic stablecoin GHO.
The proposal was that PYUSD should be onboarded to Aave but without collateral properties and outside isolation mode.
Avara is hoping to create extensive access and usability for blockchain technology.
Despite strong opposition from crypto industry players, the European Parliament introduces the Data Act that can severely impact the smart contract platforms.