BitcoinWorld DeFi United Initiative: Compound, Avalanche, and Renzo Unite to Rescue Aave After rsETH Hack The decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem is witnessing
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The post what happens beyond the yield appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. In today’s newsletter, Nassim Alexandre from RockawayX takes us through crypto vaults
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PANews reported on January 23 that, according to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a major swing trader/whale address, 0x8ec…F2626, redeemed 6,300 ETH from Renzo in
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The post Ethereum Fusaka & 4 Major Hard Forks Hit Crypto This Week appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The Headliner: Ethereum activates Fusaka on Dec 3, raising gas limits and launching PeerDAS. The Wave: Flare, MultiversX, VeChain, and Siacoin execute simultaneous hard forks, stressing node infrastructure. The Governance: Lido and Renzo initiate critical treasury votes and token burns to manage supply shocks. The first week of December marks a rare ‘Infrastructure super-cycle’ for the crypto ecosystem, with five major protocols executing critical mainnet upgrades in a 168-hour window. Leading the charge is Ethereum’s Fusaka hard fork, flanked by structural overhauls from Flare, MultiversX, and VeChain. CryptoRank detailed the seven-day program, listing the particular events for each day of the first week of the last month of 2025. Fusaka Takes the Spotlight Amid Multiple Events According to CryptoRank’s report, Lido Finance led the way with a Treasury Stablecoin Vote on December 1 to convert treasury stablecoins to yield-earning assets. On the same day, Axelar Network upgraded its testnet to reduce its block time to one second, while Manta Network engaged in an AMA over its product on Junkfun. Related: Ethereum Increases Gas Limit to 60M, Scaling Base Layer Ahead of Fusaka Upgrade December 2 is all about Flare Network’s upcoming upgrades to boost performance, lower costs, and scale dApps. MultiversX will also activate its Staking V5 Upgrade on the same day for dynamic issuance and diversified ecosystem rewards, while VeChain will launch the Hayabusa Mainnet to activate StarGate NFT staking and VTHO rewards. In what will become arguably the biggest event of the week, Ethereum will release the Fusaka Upgrade on December 3. It is a version of the protocol that aims to boost scalability and increase the network’s efficiency. Fusaka will be Ethereum’s second upgrade in 2025 and consists of two upgrades happening on Ethereum’s consensus and execution layers at the same time. Every Day Has Its Show…
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PANews reported on October 21st that Renzo Protocol has opened its Snapshot voting for Proposal RP-6 (A), which proposes using up to 100% of protocol revenue to buy back 10% of the $REZ supply over the next six months. Since October 8th, the team has already conducted a test buyback of 105,013,081 $REZ, representing 1.05% of the total supply. Earlier news, the Renzo community proposed to repurchase and destroy 10% of the total supply of REZ tokens in the next 6 months .
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PANews reported on October 11th that the Renzo community has officially released governance proposal RP6, which plans to use protocol revenue to repurchase and burn 10% of the total REZ token supply over the next six months. The plan has already launched and completed its first repurchase, using revenue from the third quarter of 2025 to burn 1% of the total supply/2.3% of the circulating supply. Upon approval by Renzo governance, the initial 1% of REZ will be included in the planned targets. Over the next six months, 75%-100% of the protocol's revenue will be used for repurchases, 9% of the target 10% will be burned, and 1% will be rewarded to ezREZ stakers. The proposal has been published on the governance forum for community discussion.
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The post Finland’s Hero Finds Home In Palermo’s Promotion Push appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. “It feels like home,” Joel Pohjanpalo explains as we’re setting up the cameras for our interview. “It’s the welcome that the fans gave me from the first day at the stadium. It’s been incredible.” Of course, home for the 31-year-old Palermo striker must feel a million miles away from the rumbling hills and warm climes of sunny Sicily. At the age of 18, back in Finland’s capital city, Helsinki, there was no way that teenage Pohjanpalo could have predicted what would transpire over the next 13 years: a rapid rise to stardom, agonising injury setbacks, and history-making achievements in Europe’s most prestigious international tournament. It all began with one of the quickest hat tricks in history. “Two minutes and 42 seconds,” Pohjanpalo confirms when asked about his legendary starting debut at HJK Helsinki in 2012. “Sometimes, all the stars align.” Thirteen years later, it appears as though another astrological miracle may be on its way – this time in Palermo, the Sicilian capital that is home to Serie A promotion favourites Palermo FC. The Rosanero are still unbeaten after the opening seven matches of Serie B in 2025-26, with Pohjanpalo leading the way from the front. Joel Pohjanpalo during Palermo vs Manchester City at the Stadio Renzo Barbera, Palermo, 09/08/2025 (Foto Tullio Puglia) Palermo FC Joel Pohjanpalo celebrates a goal, Sudtirol vs Palermo at the Stadio Druso in Bolzano, 14/09/2025 (Foto Tullio Puglia) Palermo FC “It’s been a very good start for the team,” the Finland international explains. “Actually, I think (it’s) the best start for me as well since I came to Italy.” A bold statement from U Vikingu (Sicilian for ‘The Viking’), whose foray into calcio was nothing short of outstanding. Following the ups and downs of his German Bundesliga stints at Bayer Leverkusen, Hamburg, and Union Berlin,…
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The post What Time Is ‘The Voice’ On Tonight? Season 28’s New Schedule And How To Watch appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. THE VOICE — “The Blind Auditions Season Premiere” Episode 2801 — Pictured: (l-r) Snoop Dogg, Niall Horan, Reba McEntire, Michael Buble — (Photo by: Trae Patton/NBC via Getty Images) Trae Patton/NBC via Getty Images NBC’s hit singing competition The Voice is gearing up for another exciting season, premiering tonight on NBC. Season 28 features an almost entirely new coaching lineup compared to last spring. Here’s everything you need to know about tuning in. Two-time winner Michael Bublé is the only coach from Season 27 returning for the next installment. Joining him are former The Voice coaches Reba McEntire, Niall Horan and Snoop Dogg. McEntire and Snoop Dogg last coached in Season 26, while Horan returns after a three-season hiatus. Bublé faces fierce competition this fall, as Horan was the first judge to win two consecutive seasons of The Voice (Seasons 23 and 24). McEntire also has one win under her belt (Season 25), while Snoop Dogg is still eyeing his first victory. ForbesWho Won ‘The Voice’ Season 27? The Winning Singer Rewards Coach’s FaithBy Monica Mercuri Back in May, Coach Bublé’s Adam David was crowned the winner of Season 27. The 34-year-old singer from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., made history as the first winner to advance from an instant save. Jaelen Johnston finished in second place, followed by Renzo in third. Lucia Flores-Wiseman took fourth place, while Jadyn Cree rounded out the top five. Keep scrolling to learn everything to know about The Voice Season 28, including what time it starts, which days it will air, how to watch and the big scheduling change from last season. What Time Is The Voice Season 28 Premiere? THE VOICE — “Blind Auditions” — Pictured: (l-r) Niall Horan, Carson Daly, Reba McEntire, Michael Bublé, Snoop Dogg — (Photo by: Trae Patton/NBC via Getty Images)…
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For some DeFi projects, when airdrop rewards dry up, it kickstarts a terminal liquidity decline from which they don’t recover.DeFi lending protocol Gearbox has defied that pattern.Last year, its total value locked fell 80% from its $410 million peak. Users caused the slump by abandoning Gearbox when opportunities to farm airdrops of restaking services like Renzo shrank. TVL is a metric that measures the amount of deposits to a DeFi protocol. Yet, Gearbox’s TVL has since bounced back to $340 million, DefiLlama data shows. The TVL includes funds borrowed on the protocol.“A significant aspect of Gearbox’s comeback strategy was integrating assets no one else can,” a Gearbox team member who goes by Mugglesect told DL News.For instance, Gearbox users can tap into illiquid assets available on protocols like Mellow Finance, a $430 million liquid restaking protocol. Mugglesect said Gearbox is betting that this growth is anchored in users actually leveraging the protocol rather than chasing the next speculative farming craze.Gearbox’s revival comes amid a resurgence in crypto’s lending sector that has pushed deposits to $130 billion, catapulting the sector to the summit of DeFi, even overtaking liquid staking, previously the biggest sector. Unique advantageGearbox is small compared to giants like Aave and Morpho, whose deposits are in the tens of billions of dollars. But it has a unique advantage: so-called credit accounts, Mugglesect said. These are smart contract wallets inside the Gearbox app that allow users to deploy leveraged capital across several DeFi markets for trading, staking, or providing liquidity.Users deposit approved collateral like Ether on Gearbox to open a credit account. Based on the account’s leverage limits, they can borrow multiples of their collateral to use as capital to stake on Lido to earn staking yield, provide liquidity on Curve to receive boosted rewards, or trade perpetual contracts.“You don’t just loop an asset, you borrow up to [40 times] your capital in a credit account and utilise it across DeFi, turning any integrated DeFi protocol leveraged,” Mugglesect said.“Credit accounts can also connect to assets that aren’t on [decentralised exchanges] or aren’t even tokenised, something traditional lending protocols can’t do.”Gearbox’s credit accounts offer composability, which means users can integrate across several DeFi markets via the platform. That’s not possible on other protocols, such as Aave, Morpho, or Compound. There, users must manually transfer borrowed funds to other DeFi apps if they want to farm or stake. Risk curatorsIn March, Gearbox launched a new lending market called Permissionless. It has been a major boon for the protocol, with credit accounts on Permissionless accounting for $250 million of Gearbox’s TVL.Permissionless features risk curators. These are DAO-approved managers who define the assets and DeFi strategies that can be used with a Gearbox credit account. They also set the allowable risk parameters, like leverage limits and liquidation thresholds, to keep credit accounts safe for users.Usually, the Gearbox DAO approves new assets that can be added to the protocol via a governance vote. “Permissionless enables risk curators to onboard new markets to Gearbox without the DAO intervention,” Mugglesect said.Under Permissionless, Gearbox has added five new blockchains and more than 25 markets to its lending stack while tripling the protocol’s market expansion, Mugglesect said.“The protocol is already on 27 [blockchains], the most of any lending protocol,” Mugglesect said. “We’ll be doubling down on more such integrations to create sticky growth.”Zero bad debtBut with crypto lending comes risks. As Gearbox swallows up more liquidity, the peril for lenders could increase.The team takes a proactive approach to unforeseen events by forking the networks eight times a day to test against black swan events, Mugglesect said.Gearbox has already proven its chops in navigating periods of market upheaval, Mugglesect said.Last year, ezETH, Renzo’s Ethereum liquid staking token, lost its peg to Ethereum due to confusion over the protocol’s airdrop. Users couldn’t redeem ezETH for Ethereum, and that caused a massive selloff on exchanges.The ezETH depeg caused $56 million worth of user positions to be liquidated, with $33 million of those losses happening on Gearbox due to the protocol’s popularity among restaking airdrop farmers. Yet Gearbox didn’t suffer any bad debt thanks to its design. That design separates lenders, risk curators, and active borrowers into different layers within the protocol. It even earned a profit from the ezETH depeg liquidation, whereas Morpho, the second-most affected protocol in the ezETH depeg incident, incurred about $34,000 in bad debt. The protocol boasts a bad-debt-free track record since its inception in 2021.Osato Avan-Nomayo is our Nigeria-based DeFi correspondent. He covers DeFi and tech. Got a tip? Please contact him at [email protected].
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