Last year, DL News attempted to predict the top three DeFi trends for 2025. We forecast that traditional finance would enter DeFi at an unprecedented pace, more protocols would launch their own blockchains, and financial technology firms would incorporate DeFi into their offerings at scale. Well, we did quite well. In 2025, we saw banks launch stablecoins, asset managers allocate billions of dollars to DeFi lenders, and Wall Street firms pile into tokenised assets. In January, Coinbase kicked off the ...

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Core Offering - Ready (Formerly Argent) introduces Bitcoin loans, enabling users to borrow USDC against their Bitcoin holdings [1] - Users can instantly spend borrowed USDC using the Ready Card [1] Industry Focus - The report highlights the emerging trend of BTCfi (Bitcoin decentralized finance) on Starknet [1]