The program, which stands for Solana Trust, Resilience and Infrastructure for DeFi Enterprises, moves away from the traditional model of one-off audits and replaces it with continuous, foundation-funded protection scaled to each protocol's size and risk profile.
The integration allows developers to build goal-oriented workflows where agents plan and execute swaps across the 1inch network using the Swap Application Programming Interface (API). This update provides rapid access to a suite of 15 APIs, including Portfolio and Gas Price tools, reducing integration time from days to minutes.
Agentic payments is very early, and we still are figuring out the best way to structure these. So our team just came up with what we thought was the most elegant, minimal, efficient protocol that anyone can extend without our permission.
Ryan, who had worked for seven years at the Ethereum Foundation (EF), Ethereum's de facto governing body, suggested that Ethereum could be on the cusp of an era-defining shift. Since its founding in 2014, the foundation had prioritized technical upgrades and had avoided centralizing power while its user base was growing, but Ethereum had now grown up, and the cryptocurrency world around it had grown up, too.
"That's how people create flash USDT BEP-20 using Remix and MetaMask" is a tutorial video claiming to show how to create a USDT-like BEP-20 token on the BNB Smart Chain using Remix (a smart contract IDE) and MetaMask (a crypto wallet). It walks through writing and deploying a smart contract that purportedly generates a custom token called flash USDT, demonstrating the process of compiling, deploying, and interacting with the contract in MetaMaskhttps://youtu.be/HlptFM3zbTQ?si=iy9u8PYBGBPM2zZs https://youtu.be/HlptFM3zbTQ?si=Dw2pPzdGd3RUAIiX
In the latest sign of the rapid convergence of Wall Street and crypto, the world's biggest asset manager is moving into decentralized finance or DeFi. BlackRock on Wednesday revealed it will be bringing its Treasury-backed digital token BUIDL onto Uniswap, a leading DeFi platform, where it will be bought and sold by institutional traders. As part of the tie-up, BlackRock is also purchasing an undisclosed amount of Uniswap's own UNI token.
Remember back in 2021 when everyone thought a cartoon monkey was the peak of human financial evolution? Well, we have come a long way since then. If you are reading this in 2026, you already know that the "NFTs are dead" crowd was mostly wrong. They were just looking at the wrong things. While the hype around speculative art might have cooled, the actual tech behind digital ownership has grown into a massive, sturdy engine for the global economy.
When we set out, the plan was to replicate the Fortune 500-our flagship list that ranks the biggest U.S. companies by revenue. It quickly became clear that this would be impractical, since few big players in crypto are public companies, and, of those that are, few break out their crypto-specific revenue.
Sentiment among DeFi users remains positive heading into 2026, with 72% of respondents globally expressing optimism about the sector's future. U.S. users reported one of the highest confidence levels at 83%, while sentiment across Asian markets was comparatively more muted, with respondents in Singapore (64%), Taiwan (63%) and in Hong Kong (56%).
