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View More NewsIn brief Aave’s monthly active users hit an all-time high of ~155,000 in February, up roughly 100% in six months. The surge was driven by rising ETH supply rates and the collapse of the basis trade, analysts say. The Aave Chan Initiative, one of Aave’s most influential governance groups, announced its shutdown last week after a transparency dispute with Aave Labs. Monthly active users on DeFi lending protocol Aave reached roughly 155,000 in February, marking an all-time high and nearly doubling over the past six months.The rise in users comes as investors increasingly seek yield through decentralized lending protocols, according…
Six asset classes now exceed $1 billion onchain, but just 12% of RWA-backed stablecoin supply has entered DeFi protocols.Tokenized real-world assets, excluding stablecoins, have crossed $25 billion in onchain value, nearly quadrupling from roughly $6.4 billion a year earlier, according to data from RWA.xyz.(RWA.xyz)The milestone, and continued growth, as RWAs hit the $20 billion mark at the end of 2025, continues a shift from early experimentation toward institutional-scale deployment. Asset managers, including BlackRock, Fidelity, and WisdomTree, have launched tokenized fund products over the past year, while the number of tokenized U.S. Treasury offerings alone expanded from 35 to over 50,…
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On 8 February, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted: For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years.The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars …That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster. For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted…
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Bitcoin BTC$67,736.57 fell to $67,960 by Saturday morning, down 3.4% over the past 24 hours and retreating sharply from the past week’s high. The…