Lombard Finance, one of the largest Bitcoin-native liquid staking platforms in DeFi, is moving more than $1B in Bitcoin-backed assets off LayerZero’s bridge infrastructure and onto Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol. The protocol plans to fully deprecate LayerZero from its cross-chain stack. The migration follows an April 2026 exploit that drained roughly $292M from KelpDAO’s rsETH…

Bitget’s AI trading ecosystem now spans 58 tools, over 1 million users and $1.2B in volume, as the exchange leans into “agent‑native” trading as a core Universal Exchange pillar. Summary Bitget says its AI trading ecosystem has attracted more than 1 million users and generated over $1.2 billion in cumulative trading volume across 58 AI‑powered…

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Israel sent Iron Dome air defense batteries, along with soldiers to operate them, to the United Arab Emirates during the ongoing conflict with Iran. US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee confirmed the deployment publicly on Tuesday, marking what appears to be the first time the Iron Dome system has been used operationally outside Israeli territory….

MXRPY allocates capital across three strategies: options trading, basis and funding rate arbitrage, and on-chain XRPFi deployment. The decentralized finance (DeFi) applications blockchain network Flare has unveiled a new XRP yield product in collaboration with digital asset manager Monarq and vault infrastructure provider Upshift. According to a press release sent to CryptoPotato, the new…

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Inflation just reminded everyone it’s not done yet. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the Consumer Price Index rose 0.6% in April, coming in hotter than economists expected and pushing year-over-year inflation to 3.8%, the highest reading since May 2023. The numbers behind the spike That annual rate climbed from 3.3% in March to…