DeFi Correspondent — L2s, MEV, restaking, yield
Everyone measures staking by yield and TVL. This is the supply side of SSV Network: the 1,800-plus operators who run its distributed…
MEV stopped being a bag of tricks and became an industry. A handful of vertically integrated firms now run the dominant strategies,…
Wallet UX spent a decade making sign-in and signing legible. The 2026 frontier is the permission: session keys, scoped allowances and agent…
A year ago, MARA Holdings and Riot Platforms looked like twin Bitcoin miners near record highs. The 10/10 crash and the AI…
Perpetual futures are crypto's most-traded instrument, and more of that trading now settles on-chain. Here is how perp DEXs like Hyperliquid, GMX…
In 2026, account abstraction stopped being something you opt into. Millions of people now hold a smart account they never knowingly chose,…
Two Bitcoin miners can carry the same efficiency rating and still cost wildly different amounts to own. Here is how Bitmain's Antminer…
On a perp DEX, a hidden layer decides whose order, oracle update and liquidation bot land first, and that ordering has value.…
Account abstraction turns a wallet from a single private key into programmable software. Here is how ERC-4337 and EIP-7702 actually work, who…
On October 7 a selloff knocked Bitcoin under $84,000 and dragged SSV down with it. The validators its technology runs never noticed,…
