Arkade (@arkade_os) has integrated DIA’s signed BTC/USD price feed. Contracts on Arkade can now verify DIA’s price directly when they settle, with no smart contract, bridge or relay in between. A loan needs a price to know when to liquidate. An option needs one to know what it owes at expiry. Bitcoin Script has no native way to read a price, and builders worked around it with pre-signed outcomes, multisig escrows, or by moving BTC to other chains. On Arkade, the collateral stays on Bitcoin and the price check happens inside the contract. DIA sources feeds from 100+ exchanges and aggregates them onchain, on it's own rollup 'Lasernet'. Designs can combine several signers and settle on the median. Ark Labs is starting with options. Lending, protection and liquidity designs build on the same signed price.

Tokenized commodities such as gold, silver and copper are now a $5.5B market. Why did almost 90% of the growth come from gold? Silver, copper and others have the demand, but not yet what allocators check first: verifiable reserves and a reference price. Full analysis below.

Reading the full legal documentation gives you the full picture of what an asset really is. That is where Block Analitica starts its risk assessment. From there the approach to outcomes is conservative. Whenever something can't be fully verified, or there is a bit of uncertainty, they model the worst case scenario to see whether the structure can still cover even the worst losses. Nicolo Lavaroni of @BlockAnalitica on Beyond Yield.

Do you know how Sky has one of the best and most advanced risk frameworks in DeFi? Sky holds allocators to one of the toughest risk standards in DeFi. Before they deploy, they post their own capital against the risk. That capital is segregated and absorbs any loss first. Nicolo Lavaroni of @BlockAnalitica breaks down how it works on Beyond Yield

At one point this year we were seeing a new DeFi hack almost every week. AI gets a lot of the blame. Anthony DeMartino, CEO of @SentoraHQ, thinks that's a bit overplayed. The last 8 to 10 came down to keys, liquidity and misconfigured oracles. None of it needed AI to find

Everyone knows the institutions are coming to DeFi. Is JP Morgan going to curate a vault on Morpho, with the rest of the banks right behind? The answer starts with bank capital rules. Anthony DeMartino, CEO of @SentoraHQ, on Beyond Yield.

. @vetro_org treats the tech stack behind a stablecoin as the real risk decision. Get the infrastructure or the price feed wrong and the peg goes with it. Vetro was built with that in mind, even down to a mode that keeps user exits open if the price feed itself ever gets disrupted. That's what building maturely, with institutional standards in mind, looks like. DIA provides reliable price feeds for VUSD and sVUSD.