This is a report on the “sim-swapping” attack Skip suffered on December 17th, the immediate steps the team took to mitigate it, and the longer-term changes the team is making to improve its security posture structurally.

The primary missing piece in DeFi is what it’s sought to avoid: regulation. But over the past 12 months, the UK and EU have made several significant steps towards creating an innovative and enduring digital economy by building out the digital assets regulatory regime.

How token bonding mechanisms and Protocol Owned Liquidity (POL) can help any project bootstrap a diversified and healthy Treasury and grow it in a sustainable and predictable manner.

Currently, the benefit PBS might provide to on-chain execution is limited by the lack of a reliable link between a block builder and EVM execution. The most direct link - the block.coinbase address - is set by builders but can be arbitrarily assigned; its association with the builder is not verified. Requiring a signature verification (or similar) to prove ownership of the block.coinbase as part of the consensus layer’s block validation process will unlock novel DeFi primitives and turbocharge the benefits of PBS to the execution layer.

Stablecoins, tokenized treasuries, decentralized private credit, physical-backed NFTs, DeFi in climate and regenerative finance – these are just some of the trends set to remake capital markets in the coming year.

According to official sources, Solana ecological sustainable contract DEX Drift Protocol announced that its 30-day trading volume has exceeded 1 billion US dollars.

In the world of finance, a subtle but consequential transformation is underway. Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has emerged as a disruptive force, reshaping the way we think about financial services and transactions. Still, DeFi is only serving a small fraction of retail users mostly consisting of the degen and speculative traders. Institutions do show an increasing interest in DeFi, but the regulatory uncertainty in DeFi and the lack of compliant options remain a major obstacle for corporate adoption.

HashFlow officially announced that it has launched on the Solana network. Users can now conduct SOL native transactions on HashFlow without affecting usability, liquidity, pricing, or custody.

BitSmiley is the MakerDAO+Compound of the Bitcoin ecosystem, providing a comprehensive solution for Bitcoin DeFi by addressing the most significant gaps in the current Bitcoin ecosystem — stability coins and lending infrastructure.

According to the official website, DeFi asset management protocol Enzyme has now been integrated into the OKX Web3 wallet. Users can explore DeFi protocols, filter and invest in on-chain strategies, and create and manage assets on Enzyme through the OKX Web3 wallet plugin. Enzyme is a decentralized asset management infrastructure built on Ethereum and Polygon, and connects to dozens of DeFi protocols, providing users with a range of tools and features to build and run various on-chain asset management strategies.