The Aftermath of the DeFi Credit Crunch Confidence in DeFi’s so-called “vault curators” has collapsed. From retail investors’ perspective, these curators failed to offboard or cap exposure when projects like @StreamDefi Stream and @StablesLabs Stables Labs, which both lacked

What exactly caused the crisis? So basically, @StreamDefi Stream Finance’s xUSD and @elixir Elixir Network’s deUSD were interlinked, each using the other as collateral. Stream minted xUSD using deUSD; Elixir accepted xUSD in return, creating a recursive loop that inflated TVL

DeFi’s Synthetic Dollar Meltdown @StreamDefi Stream Finance’s xUSD, a “delta-neutral” stablecoin backed by lending, HFT, and MM strategies, lost $93M in asset value amid market volatility. @elixir Elixir, a key participant, ran a recursive xUSD minting loop and held ~$68M

The #DeFi market has declined by 18% over the past month, triggered by a cascading crisis centered around @StreamDefi Stream Finance’s $93M loss. The incident set off a chain reaction across interconnected protocols, notably @elixir Elixir, whose in-house stablecoin deUSD held

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Gate Ventures Weekly Highlights ・S&P announced the launch of its first on-chain Digital Markets 50 Index via @chainlink and @DinariGlobal, signaling deeper integration between traditional finance and blockchain infrastructure. ・BTC and ETH saw sharp ETF outflows ($1.22B and

Privacy projects continue to evolve steadily. Zcash’s ECC outlined its Q4 2025 roadmap, focusing on reducing tech debt, improving the Zashi wallet’s privacy and usability, and adding features like temporary transparent addresses and Keystone multisig support. @ElectricCoinCo

Let's take a closer look into ZCash @Zcash. Over 30% of all $ZEC is now shielded - a major milestone for Zcash’s privacy layer. Zcash offers two address types: ・t-addresses (transparent, like Bitcoin) ・z-addresses (shielded, using zk-SNARKs for full privacy) The Orchard pool

https://t.co/tKNSgQ2V65 Key catalysts behind the recent privacy coin rally include: ・@naval Naval’s endorsement: His quote “Bitcoin is insurance against fiat; Zcash is insurance against Bitcoin” reignited market interest. ・Institutional backing: @Grayscale Grayscale’s $100M+

The story of privacy coins is really the story of crypto’s ideals coming full circle. It began with @Bytecoin_BCN Bytecoin’s Ring Signatures for anonymous transactions and @Dashpay Dash’s push for on-chain privacy in 2014. Then came @Zcash Zcash (2016) with zk-SNARKs for

The privacy token narrative has been one of the few sectors consistently outperforming the broader market over the past month - with Zcash @Zcash (+627%), Dash @Dashpay (+194%), and Decred @decredproject (+144%) leading the gains. The theme has drawn renewed attention across

Lastly, BTC ETFs have now logged five consecutive days of outflows, signaling a notable cooling in institutional flows. The biggest withdrawals came from IBIT (BlackRock) with -64.9K BTC over five days, followed by FBTC (Fidelity) with -53.4K BTC. While short-term sentiment can

Moreover, BTC’s #MVRV ratio,which measures how far market cap is above the realized cap (average cost basis), is nearing yearly lows. It’s fallen from 2.28 in early Oct to 1.81 now, close to April’s low of 1.8. Still, it only signals real stress when it drops below 1, meaning

However, the broader #UTXO data tells a different story. UTXO (Unspent Transaction Output) represents the sum of all spendable coins in users’ wallets. Recently, the share of UTXOs in loss surged to a yearly high — nearly 15% of all UTXOs are now underwater, up sharply from

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$BTC has fallen 21% from its $126K peak, sliding to $96.8K before stabilizing near $102K lately. Many are asking — is this the end of the bull run? Let’s see what on-chain data told us. Wallets holding 1K–10K $BTC saw their balance drop from 3.57M in August to 3.43M in early

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