A government just airdropped USDC to its citizens. Taught them to set up wallets, let them spend it at a pop-up market, and now accepting digital assets at the DMV.
Bermuda is building the world's first fully onchain economy - and the details are more interesting than the headline.

They partnered with Circle, Coinbase and Stellar. Circle runs digital treasury accounts. Coinbase handles onboarding. Stellar powers the sovereign Bermuda digital dollar, a state-issued stablecoin backed by fiat reserves in local banks.

Going fully onchain means rewriting contract law, property rights, share registers. The BMA already piloted smart-contract compliance with automatic transaction freezes and sanctions screening built directly into the protocol. It worked.
The advantage: 64,000 people. Small enough to move fast, large enough to prove the model.

"Smaller jurisdictions with the resources will be able to follow us. Larger jurisdictions would have to take a different train." - BMA CEO Craig Swan

$322 billion in stablecoins already circulating globally. Bermuda is building the infrastructure to run an economy on top of that.

$5B in RWA Volume. We are witnessing a generational shift.

The future is on-chain. Trillions next.

Stablecoin market cap just hit $322B.

That's more than the FX reserves of 95 countries - UK, Canada, UAE included.
The BIS reported that cross-border stablecoin flows have grown sharply since 2022, with the heaviest activity in markets fighting high inflation and capital controls. People move money where it works.

But $322B doesn't sit in one place. It's split across chains, DEXs, and pools that don't talk to each other. So the real question stops being "how big" and becomes "how do you actually move it" - at the best rate, without the liquidity falling apart on the way.

That's the layer 1inch works on.

Full piece: coindesk.com/markets/2026/05/26/at-usd318-billion-the-stablecoin-market-value-exceeds-the-fx-reserves-of-95-nations

RWA trading on 1inch got quieter in April. But the trades got bigger.

Average swap size nearly doubled — from ~$2,000 in March to ~$3,800 in April. Fewer transactions, larger tickets. The early adopters testing the waters gave way to users putting real capital behind tokenized assets.

We dug into the data: which assets drove volume, how concentration shifted and what the March spike actually looked like vs April's consolidation.

🔗 Full breakdown

Bridge hacks still follow surprisingly familiar patterns.

A compromised multisig here.
A centralized point of failure there.
Millions gone in minutes.

Our latest article looks at the biggest bridge exploits of 2026 and the security lessons the industry keeps relearning.

Token Categories are now live in 1inch Wallet Explore.

Browse by category, check price, 24h change, market cap then swap. No app switching.

Open 1inch Wallet ➡️ Explore

Every swap on a public DEX is visible before it executes.

Bots scan the mempool, spot your transaction and act before it confirms. Front-running, sandwich attacks – you get worse execution and they pocket the difference. It's a hidden tax on every DeFi swap.

1inch uses intent-based execution instead. You sign an intent, resolvers compete to fill it off-mempool, and your swap executes without ever being visible to bots.


The same model that protects from MEV also improves execution: resolvers source liquidity from DEXes, CEXes and internal inventory, competing to give you the best rate. Gas is covered by resolvers – you don't need native tokens.

How it works and why it matters:

We are aware of misleading reports relating to an exploit involving TrustedVolumes. We can confirm that neither 1inch nor any of the 1inch protocols are involved.

There is no impact on 1inch systems, infrastructure or user funds.

TrustedVolumes operate independently as a liquidity provider, used by multiple protocols across the industry, and are not exclusive to 1inch.

We continue to monitor the situation and are actively assisting where appropriate alongside relevant security parties.

Banks are spending millions rebuilding systems that already exist on-chain. Routing, liquidity, execution – mature infrastructure, already in production.

1inch co-founder Sergej Kunz on why institutions should build on DeFi rather than duplicate it:

It started with a swap.
Then the whales found it. Then the institutions. And, literally, everyone else.

$800,000,000,000 routed since 2019.

How long till $1T?

Calling all ETH lenders locked on Aave. We have built a way to exit to any token.

While Fluid provides redemption to wstETH/weETH, via our Pathfinder algorithm, you can swap aEthWETH directly into the asset of your choice.

aWETH → any token on https://1inch.com/swap in one click if you're still stuck.

1inch was not directly impacted by the KelpDAO hack or the resulting fallout. However, we take financial freedom seriously and, as members of the community, believe DeFi is stronger when we work together.

TVL measures capital that sits idle.

TVU measures capital that actually works.

1inch co-founder Sergej Kunz on fixing DeFI liquidity

Using a mobile Web3 browser used to be frust rating. Not any more.

The updated Web3 browser in 1inch Wallet makes it easier to browse, discover dApps and multitask - right in the palm of your hand.

Discover tabs, bookmarks, intelligent search and more.

DeFi gave you control over your money. But control comes with overhead - monitoring positions, finding routes, managing gas across chains.

Agentic DeFi changes that. You set the objective. The agent handles the execution.
Not bots with fixed logic. Systems that can process context, adjust strategies and coordinate across protocols.

We put together a full breakdown of what agentic DeFi is, why it's emerging now and what the risks actually look like.

Scammers are impersonating recruiters from well-known crypto and Web3 companies - 1inch included.

The profiles look credible. The conversations feel real. Then comes a "test task" - clone this repo, run this code locally. By that point, the attack is already in motion.

We wrote about how these scams work and what to watch for. If you're active in Web3, worth a read.

https://blog.1inch.com/fake-1inch-recruiters/

You did the analysis. Entry point was clear.

Then slippage shifted it. Or the order didn't fill at the right price. Or you were juggling positions across three browser tabs and missed the window entirely.

This is what managing open positions actually looks like - not the setup, but the management after.

In 1inch Trade mode, you can run up to 100 limit orders per chain simultaneously. Track every order's lifecycle, configure gas and slippage per trade, and preview price charts and routing before you confirm anything.

How many open positions do you usually manage at once?

Traditional finance doesn't need to be replaced - it needs new infrastructure.

The system is roughly 100 years old. Tokenized assets are here. But between them - layers of intermediaries that slow everything down and cut into liquidity.

DeFi removes those layers. Not as a replacement, but as the infrastructure the existing system was never built to have.

1inch CLO Orest Gavryliak making the case at Penn Blockchain Conference in Philadelphia.

You made the right call. The analysis was there, the timing was right.
Then an MEV bot jumped ahead. Or slippage took more than expected. Or routing went sideways.

1inch dApp has three modes:

Swap - intent-based, MEV-protected, no gas fees. Median completion: 14 seconds

Trade - market orders, limit orders, configurable gas and slippage per trade

Terminal - bid/ask layout, pair-based navigation, full order history

What breaks your trades more often - timing or settlement?

We've decided to pivot to Web3 gaming. Apparently it's the future

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The next billion DeFi users won't be human.

30% of Polymarket's trading volume is now generated by AI agents. Over 500 AI agent projects are already tracked on CoinGecko. $1B moves daily through agentic trading strategies.

These systems don't use frontends. They don't click buttons. They need non-custodial infrastructure they can call directly.

1inch Business is optimized to meet their needs.

Automate complete trading flows, from goal to execution, with direct access to 1inch routing and swap execution.

Or integrate a wider range of 1inch APIs - for data, RPC access and more - in minutes.

The 1inch Business MCP is a hosted MCP server that connects trading agents with intent-based or aggregator swaps.

And it searches docs, pulls runnable SDK examples and debugs errors in context, right inside your IDE.

It works with Cursor, Claude, Codex, Windsurf, JetBrains, Gemini and more. And it’s also available as a Claude Code skill.

The future of DeFi is agentic.
It’s time to catch up.

https://business.1inch.com/1inch-mcp