Daily Alpha and Summary. March 14, 2025

Aave Labs has launched Horizon to drive institutional DeFi adoption through RWA, starting with a product that lets institutions use tokenized money market funds as collateral to access GHO-backed stablecoin liquidity.

Proposed by management firm Gauntlet in January, Compound has now launched a new series of vaults on Morpho to acquire market share from Aave. Incentivized with 1.5M COMP and POL each ($3M)

Crypto payment Moonpay acquired Iron, an API-focused stablecoin infrastructure company in a 9figs deal

Blackrock’s BUIDL institutional onchain fund crossed $1B in assets under management, making it the first institutional-grade onchain fund to cross that milestone

Zksync Defi Steering Committee sunsets Ignite Program due to current market conditions to focus on Elastic Network

Solana SIMD-228 proposal to cut SOL inflation up to 80% failed in massive voter turnout