Onchain tranching is positioning itself as the future of structured finance in DeFi

The divergence in USDT and USDC usage highlights evolving stablecoin roles, impacting global payment systems and decentralized finance growth. The post Tether’s USDT dominates payments while Circle’s USDC leads DeFi, Dune data shows appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The post Dune: USDT Leads Payments, USDC Dominates DeFi appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The world’s biggest stablecoins are increasingly becoming chain-specific financial products, with Tether’s USDt (USDT) and Circle’s USDC (USDC) serving distinct roles across the crypto ecosystem rather than competing head-on. Dune’s Digital Asset Brief found that USDT overwhelmingly dominates onchain payments. During the first half of 2026, the biggest stablecoin settled about $95 billion in identified commerce payments, compared with $14 billion for second-biggest USDC. It also accounted for roughly 92% of the $48 billion in business-to-business payment volume. On Tron, USDT’s largest network, around 93% of the token’s supply is held in ordinary wallets rather than on exchanges, underscoring its role as a payment and remittance asset. USDC, meanwhile, has established itself as the dominant stablecoin in decentralized finance. USDC on Base processed roughly $2.6 trillion in transfer volume in J

The post Summer.fi reveals months-long preparation behind $6M DeFi exploit appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Summer.fi has published a detailed post-mortem on the $6.04 million exploit that drained two of its Lazy Summer Protocol USDC vaults. It concludes that the attack was planned months in advance rather than being an opportunistic flash loan exploit. The report says the attacker spent roughly three months accumulating the assets needed to manipulate the protocol. The exploit was executed in a single atomic transaction on July 6.  It also argues that the root cause was an operational issue during the offboarding of an old strategy rather than a flaw in the protocol’s smart contracts. Attack exploited incomplete offboarding process According to the post-mortem, the attacker manipulated the net asset value [NAV] of two USDC vaults. Stale-valued Silo vault tokens were donated into an Ark that had been capped during an offboarding process. However, the Ark remained included in the va

Dune data shows Tether's USDT has become crypto’s dominant payments stablecoin while Circle's USDC powers DeFi, highlighting how blockchain choice shapes stablecoin use.

Atkinson's appointment could streamline DeFi liquidity, potentially enhancing capital efficiency and user experience across decentralized platforms. The post 1inch appoints Holly Atkinson as Chief Product and Technology Officer to drive Aqua launch appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Coinbase's full trading support for GROVE-USD could enhance liquidity and investor confidence, potentially boosting DeFi adoption and innovation. The post Coinbase enables full trading for GROVE-USD pair with all order types appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The post Why Institutional Capital Is Becoming More Selective in Crypto appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The latest KuCoin Ventures Weekly Report highlights an important shift in institutional behavior between June 22 and 28. On the surface, market conditions offered little reason for optimism. Tightening financial conditions, sticky inflation, a hawkish Fed, and a seventh straight week of Bitcoin ETF outflows should have sent institutional capital for the exits. However, institutional positioning suggested otherwise. Instead, the week’s developments pointed to a different trend. Investors became far more selective, moving toward sectors with real yield, real fundamentals, and real utility rather than fleeing altogether. Three areas absorbed most of that attention: real-world assets (RWAs), DeFi lending, and prediction markets. Aave deepened its footprint in institutional on-chain lending, Kraken emerged as a possible buyer into that same infrastructure, and prediction markets kept

The post Stablecoins clear $1.79T record settlement – Is market bottom in sight? appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The stablecoin narrative is shifting from a liquidity engine toward a utility framework.  The logic is simple: As adoption matures, stablecoins are increasingly being integrated into cross-border payments, institutional transfers, DeFi applications, and 24/7 global settlement networks. In essence, the focus is shifting from on-chain liquidity provision toward real-world financial utility.  June’s data provides a clear confirmation of this shift. As shown in the chart below, adjusted stablecoin transaction volume reached a record $1.79 trillion during the month, representing a 63% increase from May and a 125% year-over-year surge. This acceleration highlights the growing demand for stablecoins as a settlement layer rather than merely a liquidity mechanism within crypto markets.  Source: Allium This transition directly increases the strategic importance of Layer 1 network