DeFi Correspondent — L2s, MEV, restaking, yield
MEV did not shrink in 2026; it moved. Here is where the strategies live now, from Arbitrum's express lane to solver auctions,…
Passkeys and embedded wallets killed the seed phrase at the door, and Samsung is putting USDC on 82 million phones. The drop-off…
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.…
