The Defiant

🚨 We're talking CLARITY ACT live in 10 minutes with Lewis Cohen (Cahill) @NYcryptolawyer Joseph Chalon (@Sharplink) @joechalom Join us! twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

"The Federal Reserve pays 3.6%. The people who can literally print the dollars to pay you back. Risk of loss? A goose egg. Zero. Aave pays 3.92% — after a hack that isn't fully resolved. You're taking 30 basis points of delta to take on smart contract risk." — @Mauricio_Ledn Is DeFi compensating for risk? No. Here's the math. 👇 X: x.com/DefiantNews/st… Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=HzOkuG…

And now @Lombard_Finance too 👀

"The vault curator in DeFi is not the A player that exists in TradFi. What's being underwritten to come on chain? Dog shit. And so you have dog shit and dog shit squared." — @Santiago_Inversion on why RWA quality on-chain is broken 🧵 Is DeFi worth the risk? Full debate 👇 X: x.com/DefiantNews/st… Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=HzOkuG…

REPORT: CME and NYSE want the CFTC to regulate @HyperliquidX — right as CME launches its own 24/7 crypto products. Coincidence? 👀 thedefiant.io/news/defi/cme-…

🚨 THORChain just lost $10.7M. The Asgard vault was compromised across BTC, ETH, BSC, and Base. Trading is halted. RUNE is down 12%. No post-mortem yet. Cross-chain liquidity protocols remain the most exploited category in DeFi. thedefiant.io/news/security/…

Kraken @krakenfx ditched LayerZero for Chainlink CCIP today, joining Kelp, Solv, and Re after the recent $292M exploit. @LidoFinance also picked @Chainlink CCIP for cross-chain expansion today. Read more here: ⛓️ thedefiant.io/news/cefi/krak… ⛓️ thedefiant.io/news/infrastru…

Mispriced yields. Hidden risk. A mainstream test for DeFi. @camirusso is joined by @santiagoroel, @DanDeFiEd, and @cryptonomista to debate the question DeFi can't avoid anymore: are today's yields actually worth the smart contract, liquidity, and counterparty risk? This one gets into hacks, trapped liquidity, guardrails, why risk is still being mispriced, and whether DeFi is ready for serious institutional scale.

The Senate Banking Committee just advanced the Clarity Act 15-9. Bitcoin jumped to $81,500. Coinbase stock surged 8%. Years of regulatory limbo may finally be ending if Democrats and Republicans can agree on ethics language for the floor vote. Read more: thedefiant.io/news/regulatio…

🚨 BREAKING: 0x @0xProject Co-Founder @willwarren Steps Down as Co-CEO Read more here: thedefiant.io/news/defi/will…

Hyperliquid @HyperliquidX ran a governance vote to pick its native stablecoin issuer. Validators chose the scrappy ecosystem-native team @nativemarkets over Paxos, Ethena, and Frax. Eight months later, Coinbase bought Native Markets' brand assets, USDC now has the stablecoin slot, and USDH is sunsetting. Read more here: thedefiant.io/news/defi/coin…

🚨 CLARITY ACT ADVANCED FROM SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE, NOW ONTO THE FULL SENATE Bipartisan final vote was 15-9 with two Democrats breaking ranks and voting in favor. But it's far from law Next up: 👉merge with the Ag Committee text 👉 resolve the ethics/conflict-of-interest fight 👉clear a 60-vote Senate floor threshold 👉 go back to the House 👉 survive Trump's desk. Timeline: best case, fall 2026

🚨 LIVE @ 12PM EST Crypto Research: Alpha or Marketing and Slop? Conflicts of interest, independent vs VC & PR-backed, effects of AI, and where to get alpha. W/ @AsadIshmael (Bitwise) @Solofunk (Serotonin / ex-Messari) @CamilaRusso (The Defiant) twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

⚡ New clip from @consensus2026: What’s CMT Digital’s Biggest Thesis Shift? @cmt digital head of research @Aryonchain says the VC has “moved away” from Ethereum L2s after they became cannibalistic to Ethereum. Watch the full quote here: X: x.com/i/broadcasts/1… Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=WjNv3N…

Your messages are encrypted. Your metadata is not. BChat fixes that. No phone number, no central servers, every message onion-routed across 2,500+ @BeldexCoin masternodes. Find out more: thedefiant.io/education/defi…

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🚨 New clip from @consensus2026: A $300M bridge hack exposed one of crypto's biggest hidden risks. @zksync co-founder @gluk64 explains why bridging assets can mean outsourcing your security to a third-party middleman — and why that changes everything about trust. Watch the full quote here: X: x.com/i/broadcasts/1… Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=WjNv3N…

Is DeFi worth the risk? That's the trillion-dollar question we're tackling LIVE today at 11am ET. Joining us to debate why yes/no are: 🔷 @cryptonomista, co-founder & CSO of @hodlwithLedn 🔷 @santiagoroel, founder & CEO of @inversion_cap 🔷 @DanDeFiEd, co-founder of @ryskfinance Set your reminders 👇🏻 X: x.com/i/broadcasts/1…