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Pendle Incentivize All Limit Orders, Ondo Rewards Users With USDC, and more…

Apr 03, 2026
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DeFi📈

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  • Pendle launches Limit Order Incentives across all pools with up to 100% APR for in-range orders. The $5K weekly budget pilot achieved 5x orderbook depth growth, now rolling out network-wide.

  • OpenCover has launched Covered Vaults in partnership with Nexus Mutual, allowing DeFi vault depositors to insure positions against technical and economic losses with up to $50M in cover capacity per vault, no prepayment, and premiums streamed directly from yield.

  • Alchemix, a self-repaying loan protocol, is shutting down V2 in 24 hours with remaining positions automatically migrated to V3 over approximately one week. Users with open V2 positions should unwind manually before the deadline.

  • Circle is launching cirBTC, a Bitcoin-backed token backed 1:1 by BTC, designed to integrate with Circle’s infrastructure and the broader DeFi ecosystem.

  • Uniswap has launched on Linea, with full support across v2, v3, and v4, the web app, API, and Uniswap Wallet on iOS and Android.


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Issues⚠️

  • Drift Protocol, a Solana-based perpetual futures exchange, lost over $285M after an attacker compromised its admin key weeks in advance, created a fake token (CVT) with manipulated oracle pricing, and drained real assets, including USDC, JLP, SOL, and WETH, across 31 transactions in under 15 minutes.

    • Protocols impacted: Ranger Finance, Elemental DeFi, PiggyBank, and DeFi Carrot, confirmed losses or paused operations

    • Protocols not impacted: Kamino, Marinade, Jupiter, and Loopscale all confirmed zero exposure.

    • ⚠️ Correction: A previously included link related to Drift was incorrect and unsafe. Please do NOT interact with that link. We have removed it. We apologize for the error.

Stablecoins/RWA🪙

  • Midas has launched mROX, an onchain investment product managed by Rockaway X, a $2B AUM digital asset firm, targeting market-neutral USD-denominated DeFi strategies.

Prediction Markets

  • Predict.fun, a prediction market on BNB Chain, has raised a follow-on investment from YZi Labs and Susquehanna Crypto after surpassing $1.8B in cumulative volume and 130,000 users since its incubation.

Perps DEX📉📈

  • SushiSwap launched its perp trading platform powered by Hyperliquid, along with sushi-points distribution for early users.

  • Nado, a native perp on Ink, has launched perpetual trading for SPY and QQQ, allowing traders to take up to 20x leveraged positions using BTC, ETH, or USDT as collateral.

  • Paragon, a HIP-3 deployer, enables traders to take leveraged positions on indices like BTC Dominance, TOTAL2, and OTHERS for the first time.

  • Lighter has partnered with Wallet on Telegram to bring perp trading natively to the platform, offering 50+ markets across crypto, stocks, metals, and oil with up to 50x leverage starting at $1.

Airdrops🪂

  • Ondo Foundation took a snapshot for its Points Program, with wallets holding USDY, OUSG, or Flux users able to claim up to 500 USDC.

  • Concrete launched a 3x points boost for vault deposits via Binance Wallet, automatically receiving the multiplier with no additional steps.

Farms 🧑🏻‍🌾

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  • InfiniFi, a yield-bearing stablecoin protocol, has launched on Katana with Morpho markets curated by Yearn, offering 2.6% borrow APR and loop siUSD for 6% yield, with infiniFi points, KAT, and Morpho rewards on offer.

  • Origin Protocol has launched new incentives on its OUSD/USDe pool on Curve Finance, offering up to 24% APY with a 30x Ethena points multiplier still active.

  • Curvance offers up to 10% lending APY for AUSD on Monad on top of incentives.

  • Marinade Finance, a Solana liquid staking protocol, has launched a USDC Vault, expanding beyond SOL staking, offering 8% USDC APR.

  • Yuzu Money launched a syzUSD/USDC lending market on Morpho Monad, offering up to 30% net APR on looped positions with MON incentives live on Merkl.


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