Crypto exchanges now accept stocks, staked ETH and tokenized gold as margin for perpetual futures, and a Seoul pricing glitch already triggered $60 million in liquidations tied to a stock, not crypto.
Cronos validators erased nearly two hours of blockchain history to reverse a $111.2 million Tectonic exploit, recovering 92% of funds but raising fresh questions about transaction finality.
Decentralized finance — DeFi — is the attempt to rebuild banking’s core services as open software: trading, lending, borrowing, and earning interest, run by…
