DeFi Correspondent — L2s, MEV, restaking, yield
Miners just posted their best quarter since 2017, but an October difficulty jump is already clawing it back. And there is no…
The hottest new listings on crypto exchanges in 2026 are not memecoins but tokenized Apple, Tesla and the S&P 500. Here is…
Sandwich bots and front-runners feed on ordinary swaps, and even Vitalik Buterin has been caught. Here is the 2026 playbook for keeping…
Binance will pull EPIC and QUICK on October 28 and never said why. Here is how the silent delisting became crypto's default…
The ETF staking era arrived in 2026, yet BlackRock and even the Ethereum Foundation chose centralized operators over full distributed validators. Does…
Not all MEV is equal. Some bots keep markets honest, some tax every swap, and one strategy put two brothers in federal…
For years, hardware wallet reviews graded the secure element. After a year of wrench attacks topping $100 million, the real test is…
Crypto's energy fight is no longer green versus dirty but firm versus intermittent. As miners turn into AI data centers, the scramble…
Qualified custody has never looked safer, yet one firm now holds about 84% of US spot Bitcoin ETF assets. In 2026 issuers…
The crypto energy-mix debate fixates on what powers mining. In 2026 the sharper question is what the heat does on its way…