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Hyperliquid's newly launched HIP-3 custom markets recorded over $500 million in trading volume within 24 hours, according to the platform's interface. The decentralized exchange introduced synthetic perpetual contracts tracking equity underlyings including xyz, flx, and vnti. The XYZ100 index led with $320 million in volume.

Latin America's largest crypto exchange, Bitso, will introduce a multi-platform perpetuals aggregator and its own token in 2026. The Mexico-based platform's retail user base expanded by over 12% in 2024 to reach 9 million customers, driven by surging stablecoin adoption across the region.

Ethena's USDe stablecoin saw total value locked decline from $14.8 billion in October to $7.6 billion, a contraction exceeding 50%. The drawdown occurred as annual percentage yields compressed to approximately 5.1%, falling below the 5.4% cost of borrowing USDC on Aave. The shift triggered unwinding of leveraged carry-trade positions that had previously driven growth.

Decentralized finance lending totaled $40.99 billion at the end of the third quarter, a 54.84% quarterly increase, according to Galaxy Digital's research team. Combined with centralized platforms, total crypto-collateralized loans climbed to $65.37 billion, surpassing the previous record of $53.44 billion from Q4 2021. DeFi's market dominance over centralized venues rose to 62.71% by quarter-end.

Wormhole Labs has launched Sunrise, a liquidity gateway designed to facilitate seamless transfers of external assets to the Solana network. The platform debuts with support for Monad's MON token, which begins trading tomorrow. Sunrise utilizes Wormhole's Native Token Transfers framework to provide unified liquidity across Solana-based decentralized exchanges.

Coinbase announced on November 21 the acquisition of Vector.fun's team and technology, while the Tensor Foundation retained the NFT marketplace and TNSR token. TNSR surged 11-fold from $0.0344 to $0.3650 between November 19 and November 20 before dropping 37.3% to $0.1566 within 24 hours. The price action raised questions about potential information asymmetry ahead of the announcement.

Aerodrome and Velodrome, leading decentralized exchanges on Base and Optimism, reported front-end compromises early Saturday morning. Both platforms warned users to avoid primary domains and use decentralized mirror links while investigations into the DNS hijack continue. Smart contracts remain secure and unaffected.

Aerodrome, the largest decentralized exchange on Base blockchain, has issued a security alert regarding a DNS hijacking incident affecting its main domains. Two decentralized mirrors remain accessible, while centralized domains (.finance and .box) are still compromised. The platform confirmed smart contracts remain secure.

Coinbase finalized the acquisition of Vector.fun, a Solana-native trading platform, on November 21, 2025. The deal integrates Vector's technology into Coinbase's decentralized exchange infrastructure while bringing the 13-member team onboard. Vector.fun specializes in low-cost perpetuals and spot trading on Solana, which recorded over $1 trillion in DEX volume in 2025.

Coinbase announced Friday its agreement to acquire Vector, a Solana-based trading platform. The deal will integrate Vector's onchain indexing technology into Coinbase's consumer trading systems and DEX routing capabilities. Solana decentralized exchanges processed over $1 trillion in volume in 2025, according to Messari.