DeFi Correspondent — L2s, MEV, restaking, yield
On September 9, 2026, Consensys split and rebranded its consumer arm as MetaMask. We compare MetaMask, Phantom, and Rabby as businesses: fees,…
Staking is sold as passive income, but the yield that matters is what survives inflation, fees, and slashing. A cross-chain look at…
Most DeFi credit is overcollateralized, locking up more than it lends. Maple, 3Jane, Huma, and Wildcat are trying to lend against reputation,…
Smart accounts turn your wallet into programmable code. The roughly $50 million Radiant Capital heist shows where that power breaks: not in…
The August rally handed Bitcoin miners their fattest margins in months. Then, on September 6, the difficulty thermostat turned up and began…
A bridge is a vault, and its safety is one number: the cost to corrupt its guards versus the prize inside. Liquid…
EIP-7702 lets your Ethereum wallet hand scoped, revocable signing power to a game bot or an AI agent. The same primitive powers…
SSV's token has clawed back toward $3, but the real 2026 story is who is buying distributed validators: exchanges, custodians and the…
A weekend peg-out drained about $320 million in Bitcoin from Blockstream's Liquid Network. Here is how to move crypto across chains in…
A single EIP-7702 signature can hand your whole account to code you never see. In 2026 the fight over wallet safety has…