DeFi Correspondent — L2s, MEV, restaking, yield
Restaking promised to spread Ethereum's trust across many services and operators. After 2026's great unwinding, the shrunken base that is left sits…
Restaking lets staked ETH secure extra services for extra yield, and extra risk. In 2026 the market finally priced that trade, and…
A new academic census mapped 830 verification flaws across 36 cross-chain bridges. The data, plus two fresh October hacks, shows exactly where…
Solana now leads spot DEX volume, and its market makers look nothing like Ethereum's. The same x*y=k formula runs on two different…
Real yield is cash flow a protocol earns, not tokens it prints. Here are its three kinds, which one survived the 10/10…
In 2026 exchanges shipped self-custody wallets while wallets shipped cards, yield and perps. Here is what the blurred UX line means for…
Cross-chain bridges lost more than $2 billion in 2022 alone, which made them crypto's richest target. Here is how they work, why…
Account abstraction made wallets do more: batch, go gasless, recover, delegate. In 2026 the real question is simpler: what do you own,…
Cross-chain bridges are where crypto gets robbed most, with over $1.26 billion lost in Q3 2026 alone. Here is a practical playbook…
Ledger, Trezor and Tangem survived a year of laser labs, spy implants and data breaches. The harder test is the one nobody…
