Beefy launches autocompounding vaults for Aave with up to 9% APY

Memes lit the fuse on Robinhood Chain, but DeFi's blue chips are also catching the upside as picks and shovels.

Sky Frontier's growth underscores DeFi's resilience, challenging competitors to innovate amid rising stablecoin dominance and investor interest. The post Sky Frontier Foundation reports record $419M revenue run-rate for June 2026 appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The post Aave Horizon’s Institutional Test: Can DeFi Lend Without Retail? appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Institutional DeFi has a simple question to answer this year: if you strip out retail leverage, can lending protocols still scale into real businesses? Aave’s Horizon market is the cleanest test bed we have right now. Horizon is designed for tokenized treasuries, credit, and other real world assets with whitelisted access. That means less degen reflex and more cash management logic. The upside is sturdier collateral and predictable yield. The catch is demand. Without retail chasing points and perps, who is borrowing on the other side, and at what rates? This piece gets practical. How Horizon works, what to monitor, the trade-offs you’ll face, and a step-by-step way to approach it if you are an allocator or a protocol treasury. Aspect What to Know Market size now Aave Horizon’s RWA market holds roughly $540M in total assets with about $163M borrowed, per ind

The post AAVE Price Prediction: $100 Is the Line in the Sand — Here’s What Comes Next appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Peter Zhang Jul 10, 2026 10:35 AAVE just exploded 9.53% in a single session to press against $97, but the real test starts at the $100–$101 resistance cluster where upper Bollinger resistance and overhead supply collide; crack t… AAVE’s Technical Reality Check The momentum picture here is sitting at a genuine inflection point, and traders need to read it carefully. AAVE’s single-day rip has pushed price above every meaningful short-term moving average — the 7, 20, and 50 SMAs are all cleanly stacked below — but the upper Bollinger Band at $100.69 is sitting directly overhead like a ceiling. At current levels, price is operating at the 87th percentile of the Bollinger range. The easy part of this leg is done. What the MACD is telling you right now is not bearish — it’s a market catching its breath. After a clean, sustained bullish expansion that dr

The post AAVE Rebounds 7%: Will Buyers Push Through Key Resistance or Lose Steam? appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. AAVE is hovering near the $96 mark. The overall price velocity is tilted upward. With the fear sentiment in the crypto market, all major assets are found in green waves across the chart. Among the altcoins, AAVE has gained by over 7.54% in the last 24 hours. AAVE is pressing against the upper boundary of a rising wedge.  Buyers are still in control, but rising wedges signal fading bullish momentum. The lower trendline is the level that matters most. As long as it holds, the uptrend stays intact. A breakdown below the wedge could trigger a pullback toward the next support zone.  A high-volume breakout above the upper boundary flips the script entirely. The short-term sentiment is cautiously bullish, but don’t chase the price without watching for a wedge breakdown first. It traded at a low of around $88.31, and the asset has climbed high toward $98.02. Currently, AAVE is

Ethena's strategic asset deployment and partnerships enhance DeFi liquidity, but yield sustainability hinges on favorable market conditions. The post Ethena’s USDe deposits surge to $324M on Morpho in four weeks appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The post Cardano Price Climbs, but Its DeFi Engine Is Quietly Collapsing appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Cardano’s biggest problem right now is not ADA’s price, which is rising, but the DeFi economy beneath it, which is falling apart. App-level fees, the revenue that DeFi protocols actually earn, dropped 67.1% over the past 30 days, even as the Cardano price gained about 3.6%. That combination is the story. A token can surge while the network built on it quietly empties out, and Cardano is doing exactly that. The Cardano Price Rises While the Apps Empty Out ADA trades near $0.167, up roughly 3.6% on the month and still holding 18th by market value at about $6.2 billion. On the chart, the month looks fine. Want more token insights like this? Sign up for Editor Harsh Notariya’s Daily Crypto Newsletter here. Underneath, the picture reverses. The chain’s own gas fees fell 35.7% over 30 days, but the fees earned by DeFi apps fell almost twice as fast, down 67.1%. When app revenue drops

The post What is Robinhood Chain? The broker’s L2 explained appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Robinhood launched its own blockchain in July 2026, an Ethereum layer 2 where tokenized stocks trade around the clock and plug into DeFi as collateral. This guide explains what Robinhood Chain actually is, how it works under the hood, what Stock Tokens are and who can use them, how the chain differs from Base and the other corporate networks, and what it means for users, builders, and the industry’s biggest open questions. On July 1, 2026, one of the largest retail brokers in the United States switched on its own blockchain. Robinhood Chain launched its public mainnet at a London keynote, carrying 95 tokenized stocks that trade 24 hours a day, a suite of DeFi protocols live from day one, and access wired directly into the Robinhood Wallet used across 120 countries. Within a week the chain had processed roughly 4 million transactions, gathered over $240 million in deposits, and produced a la