DeFi Correspondent — L2s, MEV, restaking, yield
Hashprice is the one number that prices a Bitcoin miner's day. In September 2026 it sits between a jobs-shock selloff and a…
On a centralized exchange a company takes the other side of your leveraged bet. On a perp DEX there is no company.…
Account abstraction is dissolving the wall between exchange accounts and self-custody wallets. Here is how Coinbase, Stripe and Privy remade the wallet,…
With Treasury bills near 3.86%, Ethereum staking's base yield no longer clears the dollar risk-free rate. Here is how Lido, Rocket Pool…
In 2026 tokenized Treasuries gave DeFi a risk-free rate, so every on-chain yield can be read as a base rate plus a…
In 2026 a smart-account wallet is not one frozen contract; it is a base account you install modules onto, like apps. Here…
Hashprice is what the market pays to secure Bitcoin; staking yield is what it pays to secure Ethereum. In 2026 both fell…
Real yield means protocol cash flow, not token emissions. This 2026 field guide shows how to trace it, measure it against a…
More than a year after Pectra, EIP-7702 lets any Ethereum EOA become a smart account with one signature. Here is how wallets…
Running your own Ethereum validator in 2026 means more than locking 32 ETH. Here is how MEV-Boost, relay censorship, client diversity, and…
