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Morpho, DeFi’s second-largest lending protocol by value locked, has officially named its long-in-development fixed-rate product: Morpho Midnight. Co-founder and CEO Paul Frambot announced the name on X today, April 14, emphasizing that Midnight is not a sequel to Morpho Blue. “It is a completely new paradigm for onchain lending, and should not be considered a ‘V2’ of Blue,” Frambot wrote. The distinction is structural, according to Frambot’s X post. Morpho Blue offers pool-based, open-term variable-rate markets with externalized risk management. Midnight introduces intent-based, fixed-term, fixed-rate markets with externalized management of both risk as well as rate, a different mechanism for…

Binance has decided to delist certain crypto assets as part of its regular reviews of margin and lending products. According to the exchange’s official statement, all margin trading pairs for FC Barcelona Fan Token, PIVX, and Verge will be removed and margin trading will cease for these assets as of April 17, 2026, at 09:00. The decision will only affect margin trading of these tokens; no changes have been announced regarding their trading status in spot markets. However, it was emphasized that users must close their open margin positions or make the necessary adjustments before the specified date. Otherwise, automatic…

Visa (V) has made its first foray into running blockchain infrastructure, the company said on Tuesday, operating as an “anchor validator” node on the Stripe-backed Tempo blockchain. Visa, a long-time collaborator of the payments services provider, configured and managed the validator node entirely in-house, following six months of joint work with Tempo’s engineering team to integrate the card giant’s infrastructure directly into the blockchain, according to a press release. Visa plans to run nodes on some other blockchains following the Tempo integration. The card network had previously said it will join the Canton Network, where there are plans to serve…

Aave price has gone up to rising 3.68% to trade at $99.94 over the past 24 hours. Notably, Aave’s price action was mainly led by a major governance rule that would change how the protocol manages revenue and development funding. The key reason was the approval of a new framework by the Aave DAO. The proposal, known as “Aave Will Win,” was passed with strong backing from the community. It marks a shift in how the protocol distributes its income and backs future growth. Aave Price Surges With AWW Approval The approval will see Aave Labs receive $25 million in…

Bitmine Immersion Technologies Ethereum holdings reached 4,874,858 $ETH as of April 12, equal to 4.04% of the circulating supply of 120.7 million $ETH. The company valued those holdings at about $10.7 billion based on an $ETH price of $2,206, while total crypto, cash, and other investments stood at $11.8 billion. The update placed Bitmine close to its stated target of acquiring 5% of Ethereum’s total supply after nine months of accumulation. The company also said 3.33 million $ETH is already staked, creating annualized staking revenue of about $212 million. Bitmine Treasury Expands as Ethereum Holdings Cross 4.8M Bitmine led the…

Deutsche Börse (DB1), the owner of Frankfurt Stock Exchange and Xetra, took a $200 million stake in crypto exchange Kraken’s parent Payward Inc., equivalent to a 1.5% stake in the company. The transaction, which values the company at $13.3 billion, is expected to close in the second quarter, subject to regulatory approval, Deutsche Börse said in a Tuesday email. Deutsche Börse teamed up with Kraken last December to bridge traditional and digital markets and help expedite institutional cryptocurrency adoption in Europe. “Spanning trading, custody, settlement, collateral management, and tokenized assets, the partnership will unlock a new range of enhanced products…

Avalanche is moving beyond finance and into outer space, with a new network designed to verify telescope data in real time. SkyMapper has introduced a dedicated Avalanche-based network that cryptographically records observations from telescopes around the world, turning each data point into a secure, verifiable digital record. The new network, SkyMapper L1, collects data from a wide range of telescopes and sensors around the world and turns each observation into a secure digital record. The company calls this a “Proof of Space Observation” (POSO) — essentially a way to prove that a specific event in the sky was actually seen,…

Figure and Hastra are adding auto loans to their tokenized credit platform, expanding the types of real-world assets available to decentralized finance (DeFi) investors beyond home equity products. Democratized Prime, a decentralized lending marketplace on Figure Markets, is adding auto finance as its first new asset class as part of its plan to build a marketplace where different types of consumer credit can be issued, traded and funded onchain, according to a Tuesday announcement shared with Cointelegraph. “We’ve been purposefully building toward this,” Michael Tannenbaum, CEO of Figure, said, adding that the platform has originated over $22 billion in onchain…

Ethereum may be closer to a major turning point than it appears, as key technical signals begin to align. Despite recent weakness, the emergence of a death cross, often seen near the end of downtrends, suggests the market could be approaching its final phase of capitulation. With historical patterns pointing to a nearing bottom, attention is shifting from fear to opportunity. Worst-Case Scenario: Final Phase Of The Bottoming Process In outlining a worst-case scenario for Ethereum, crypto analyst Sykodelic explained that if the market has not yet fully bottomed, it is likely in the final 2%–3% of the overall bottoming…

German financial giant Deutsche Börse Group announced it has made a strategic investment of $200 million in Payward, the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken. The investment is noteworthy because it comes as Kraken is preparing for a possible initial public offering in the US. Company officials stated that the investment is an extension of a collaboration initiated months ago between the two institutions. Under the agreement, Deutsche Börse Group will hold approximately 1.5 percent of Payward’s shares, and this investment reportedly values the company at around $13.3 billion. This figure falls below the $20 billion valuation discussed in November.…