DeFi project news: DEX and perp DEX launches, lending protocols, buybacks, fee switches and governance votes.
Announced November 12, the effort centers on the Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol for financial systems, with Wells Fargo and OpenZeppelin among the named participants.
Kava calls the incident isolated and contained within its Kava Lend market and says it was not an infinite mint. Exchanges have suspended KAVA while a full report is pending.
A November 12, 2026 proposal adjusts 54 reserve factors across Aave V3 deployments and Aave V2 on Ethereum, modeled to add about $3.5 million a year for the treasury.
The on-chain vote ends November 16, 2026. A Canonical USDC module keeps balances unchanged while deposits shift to Injective after Circle retires USDC on Noble.
The regular burn of unused CAKE emissions still runs this week, and the postponed trading fee amount carries forward in full to the new date.
Trading opened at 13:00 KST with limit orders only at first, and deposits and withdrawals run over the Solana network.
The Flare DVN goes live on LayerZero in early December, starting with Flare and Ethereum, with every verification paid in FLR.
Proposal IIP-717 targets a November 24 activation for the upgrade, which adds real-world asset infrastructure, enterprise gateways and groundwork for native privacy.
The team says fragmented parachain capital and maintenance costs above returns led to the proposal, with a parallel vote open on Karura.
Jupiter announced token discovery, portfolio baskets, yield vaults and a new portfolio hub, with deployment rolling out over the following days.
Uniswap's new v4 hook standard brings compliance checks to its AMM, and Groma opened the first venue with tokenized real estate securities.
The cross-chain messaging protocol is shipping its own layer-1 blockchain and a trading engine on the same day.
REX Shares and Osprey Funds moved the effective date from October 23 in an October 22 SEC filing that covers 21 of their funds.
LlamaRisk asked to lift the USDC borrow cap to 2.75 billion as utilization hit 99%. The USDe supply cap increase would take that reserve to 750 million.
Upbit opened HYPE trading at 3 p.m. Korean time on November 10 in won, bitcoin and USDT markets. Bithumb listed the token in Korean won the same day.
Uniswap's custom liquidity pool plugins will go live on Elysium, a new Layer-2 in the Hyperliquid ecosystem, as its mainnet launch window opens.
Card numbers, home addresses and linked crypto wallet details were exposed, while customer funds were unaffected.
The trading platform will spend 40% of its net fees from its Elysium deployment buying KNTQ on the market and burning it, Kinetiq announced on November 7.
Every active node gets one vote regardless of its bond. Software upgrades and fee changes need support from two-thirds of the 111 active nodes.
The Kinetiq-built layer-2 went live on November 9, settles to HyperEVM and uses HYPE as its native gas token. It targets order books and market makers that outgrew HyperEVM's block space.
