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Trove is pivoting its perp DEX from Hyperliquid rails to rebuild natively on Solana, following liquidity partner unwinding a 500k $HYPE position, forcing Trove to abandon the Hyperliquid path, delaying its TGE to Jan 19, 4:00 PM UTC
dYdX is offering 50% trading fee rebates for all traders through January, cutting effective costs across its markets as a near-term incentive to boost activity.
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ZachXBT reported a $282M+ theft in BTC and LTC from a hardware-wallet social engineering scam on Jan 10, 2026 (11 pm UTC). The attacker began swapping the stolen funds into XMR via instant exchanges, triggering a sharp Monero price spike. Some BTC was also bridged to Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin via THORChain.
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Yield Basis proposed a “Hybrid Vault” to scale YB TVL while strengthening $crvUSD stability. Users deposit $crvUSD (staked into $scrvUSD) to unlock a personal YB deposit cap equal to 2.5× their $crvUSD amount.
Summer.fi opened two Governance modules: a Guardian Module for emergency pauses during incidents, and a plan to acquire DAO-owned veAERO to steer Aerodrome emissions toward SUMR pools.
Kaia is expanding their GameFi services to on-chain capital markets rails via native LINE integration, KRW onramps, stablecoin expansion, and a new stack spanning SuperEarn (stablecoin yield), Hann Finance (KAIA-backed CDP stablecoin), AlphaSec (perps trading), plus RWA initiatives like Galactica and Forest Jalan.
Optimism Foundation proposed buybacks, directing 50% of incoming sequencer revenue to monthly OP buybacks for the next year, with purchased OP flowing back into the treasury. The proposal goes to a vote on Jan 22, with buybacks starting in February if approved.
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Bucket Protocol launches a badge campaign with top Sui protocols for on-chain activity and unlocks rewards. The campaign runs Jan 16–30 with $4,500 in rewards.
Echelon, a money market protocol on Aptos, launched Frozen Yields Season 2, allocating $40,000 in rewards to net-new USDC suppliers, running Jan 14–Feb 13, with USDC-only rewards vesting after 30 days.
Neutrl Fi kicked off Season 1 around NUSD, a yield-bearing stablecoin that earns by delta-hedging acquired OTC discount altcoins, while TVL grew by $212M in the past 60 days from launch.
Top farming strategies include:
- Points focused: Pendle YT-NUSD (50x points) and YT-sNUSD (25x points)
- Yield focused: Loop the new PT sNUSD Morpho market for up to ~20% yield, depending on rates and leverage.
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Stake DAO highlighted a boosted cbETH/WETH yield farm on Base, offering ~9.1% LP APR on the pair.
Gauntlet’s launched USDC Prime Vaults on Morpho: a risk-managed, blue-chip collateral vault suite with $500M+ USDC supplied across 4 chains (collateral includes WBTC, cbBTC, WETH, wstETH, cbETH, and sUSDS)
Hylo featured its hyUSD–USDC liquidity vault on Kamino, offering approximately a 10% APY on the stable pair, along with a 5× XP boost for Hylo Season 1 participants.
USDD, an over-collateralized stablecoin, launched a Gauntlet-curated sUSDD/USDT market on Morpho, enabling users to borrow USDT at low rates and loop into sUSDD staking for higher yield.
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