DeFi Correspondent — L2s, MEV, restaking, yield
Hyperliquid funnels almost all of its trading fees into buying back HYPE. We unpack whether DeFi's clearest earned-revenue story is really yield,…
In late October 2026, Bitcoin's difficulty climbed back near its record while hashprice sank to a three-month low. Here is what the…
Balancer's pools went withdrawals-only on October 30 as Uniswap V4 turned into a cross-protocol aggregator. The two events mark the moment AMM…
In a year when stolen keys drained billions, distributed validators are built so that no single key can be taken. Here is…
When a record $6.3 billion drained from Binance on October 29, the on-chain dark forest woke up. A field guide to MEV…
A tampered reseller box put a seed-stealing implant inside both a Ledger and now a Trezor. We compare Ledger, Trezor, and Tangem…
Hashprice is the single number that tells a Bitcoin miner what a unit of hashrate earns per day. Here is how it…
On-chain lending now spans Ethereum, Base and a dozen other chains, and the plumbing that moves credit between them has become DeFi's…
In October 2026, a spy chip inside a hardware wallet, a hijacked push notification, and a $16 million exchange slip cost users…
The Fed held near 4% while staked ETH pays a cycle-low 2.45%, and the validator set keeps shrinking even as stake hits…
