DeFi Correspondent — L2s, MEV, restaking, yield
A Colorado miner just moved its Bitcoin to BitGo, the first chartered crypto custodian on the NYSE. Here is what it holds,…
Riot opened Bitcoin miner earnings season with a Q3 profit, yet the number that matters is the cost to mine, not the…
The biggest exchange hack in history crashed crypto this week, yet stETH held its peg to ETH. Here is what liquid staking's…
Onboarding finally got easy, but the destination field never did. Inside crypto's address problem: poisoning attacks, human-readable names, stealth addresses, and the…
After a historic 2026 stall, Bitcoin's hashrate has climbed back near its all-time high and difficulty sits just below record. The strange…
Uniswap permissioned pools and a new SEC exemption put tokenized stocks on an automated market maker. Here is how the curve learned…
After a record $6.3 billion hack, Binance rushed out a zero-knowledge proof of reserves. We compare how exchanges prove they hold your…
Energy gets the headlines, but water is the externality almost nobody measures or discloses. Most of Bitcoin's water footprint is indirect, and…
Crypto spent 2026 deleting friction: seed phrases, gas, logins, signatures. Then the worst month in wallet history revealed which of that friction…
Bitcoin trades near $76,500 while many public miners spend six figures to produce a single coin. Here is how mining margins work,…