DeFi Correspondent — L2s, MEV, restaking, yield
Lido, Rocket Pool, and Frax control how most people stake Ethereum. We break down fees, yields, decentralization, and the 2026 upgrades that…
Restaking lets staked ether secure extra protocols for extra yield, and it now anchors billions of dollars in DeFi. Here is how…
Four exchanges dominate global crypto trading, yet they differ sharply on fees, regulation, and trust. Here is how Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, and…
EigenLayer let validators re-pledge their 32 ETH bond to secure additional services. TVL hit $20bn in 2024 before correcting. The promise, the…
L2 TVL crossed $50bn in 2025, and EIP-4844 cut rollup costs by roughly 90% overnight. The optimistic-vs-ZK debate is no longer hypothetical…
MEV is not a tax on blockchains; it is a transfer from one set of users to another. Since the Merge, roughly…
Staking is not a savings account. It is a bonded job with a 32 ETH deposit, a slashing budget, and a withdrawal…
Curve's vote-escrow market — veCRV, Convex, Votium — is paying bribe-yields that beat every blue-chip DeFi venue. Here is how the gauge…
Median L2 fees fell 38% over the last quarter. The user did not split evenly across rollups — Base captured the flow.…
EigenLayer's restaked deposits crossed $4bn this week. The AVS market is no longer a science project — it is an industry with…
