Explore the top RWA and DeFi protocols to watch in 2026, including Ayni Gold, Centrifuge, and Ondo. Learn how real yield DeFi works, from gold-backed yield to credit-based returns and sustainable, non-inflationary strategies.
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Make CryptoSlate preferred on The rsETH crisis resulted in $200 million in bad debt on Aave’s books, despite not a single line of its contracts misbehaving. On Apr. 18, attackers that Chainalysis preliminarily linked to Lazarus compromised RPC infrastructure, forced a failover to poisoned nodes via DDoS, and injected false data into a 1-of-1 DVN configuration on KelpDAO’s rsETH bridge. The forged message released approximately 116,500 rsETH, and Aave’s incident report confirmed that Ethereum accepted nonce 308 while the Unichain source endpoint never advanced past 307. The attacker supplied the compromised rsETH to Aave and borrowed against it, resulting in bad debt and serving as a frame for the current state of DeFi’s security. Exploiters extracted over $635 million across 28 incidents in April, the worst monthly total in over a year. DefiLl
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ONDO sits at a critical Fibonacci zone as wave 4 resistance meets a surge of institutional RWA deals. Bull case or deeper pullback? Here is what the chart says. ONDO is trading around $0.42, wedged between two stories that do not quite agree with each other. The chart tells one version. The institutional partnership log tells another. The Chart Is Not Done Talking According to moretradingonl on X, ONDO has so far followed the preferred interpretation for a corrective rally in wave 4. The analyst noted that a decisive break above $0.598 would improve the outlook and open the door to more bullish interpretations. At the moment, the token is testing standard resistance for a wave 4 bounce. The 4-hour chart shows the current price action sitting inside a yellow resistance box between $0.37792 and $0.41519. That zone corresponds to the 38.2% and 23.6% Fibonacci retracement levels
ONDO sits at a critical Fibonacci zone as wave 4 resistance meets a surge of institutional RWA deals. Bull case or deeper pullback? Here is what the chart says. ONDO is trading around $0.42, wedged between two stories that do not quite agree with each other. The chart tells one version. The institutional partnership log […]
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The post Weekly Tokenization Roundup: Bullish Buys Equiniti for $4.2B, Ondo Settles With JPMorgan, RWA Crosses $20B appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
This was the kind of week that does not come along often. Three separate developments landed between May 5 and May 10 that, taken together, suggest tokenized securities are moving from proof-of-concept into something closer to functioning market infrastructure. The deals were real, the counterparties were institutional, and the numbers were large. Here is what happened. Another big week for tokenization. Ondo completes the first cross-border tokenized Treasury redemption on the XRP Ledger, the Fed addresses tokenization, BlackRock files for two new onchain funds, and more. Latest tokenization news ↓ 1️⃣ Ondo, JPMorgan, Mastercard & Ripple… pic.twitter.com/76vzXLP56Y — Ondo Finance (@OndoFinance) May 10, 2026 Bullish Acquires Equiniti for $4.2 Billion On May 5, Bullish (NYSE: BLSH) announced a definitive agreement to acquire Equiniti, o
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Tokenized gold trading volume reached $90.7 billion in Q1 2026 alone, exceeding the $84.6 billion recorded across all of 2025. The figure comes from CoinGecko’s Q1 2026 RWA Report, which documented tokenized commodities (overwhelmingly gold-backed) growing 289% from $1.43 billion to $5.55 billion in market capitalization over fifteen months. The numbers point to a category that crossed an inflection point sometime in late 2025. Tokenized gold is no longer a side experiment in DeFi; it’s a measurable segment of on-chain activity with volume comparable to mid-cap altcoins. This article looks at what drove the surge, how the category breaks down structurally, and what the volume signals for DeFi yield in the rest of 2026. What the $90B Number Represents The $90.7 billion figure covers Q1 2026 spot trading across PAXG, XAUT, KAU, KAG, Comtech Gold, and other token
The post How Hyperliquid Managed to Lead 3 DeFi Apps That Paid Holders $96 Million In 4 Weeks appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Three young DeFi applications, Hyperliquid, Pump.fun and edgeX, returned $96.3 million to token holders in 30 days. The figure marks one of the largest concentrated payouts from any DeFi cohort tracked in 2026. Each protocol used a different mechanism to deliver the cash. Only Hyperliquid funded its full payout from trading fees alone. Pump.fun split revenue with operations, and edgeX paid out roughly three times what it earned. The DeFi Shift From Emissions to Real Revenue During the past cycle, DeFi protocols rewarded users by minting tokens and distributing them through liquidity programs. The model inflated supply faster than demand, leaving holders to absorb relentless dilution. Hyperliquid (HYPE), Pump.fun (PUMP) and edgeX (EDGE) sit at the front of a different cohort. They generate fees from active products and route part of those fees back to holder
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