Smart contracts, MEV, restaking, liquid staking, and the on-chain economy.
Liquid staking lets you earn staking rewards while holding a tradable token you can use across DeFi. In 2026 the idea runs…
In one November week, billions moved to a few hardened cross-chain rails while two more bridges were drained the same old way.…
Automated market makers swapped the order book for a formula that sets every price, fee, and LP return. Here is how AMM…
Solana's apps earn more real revenue than any chain in crypto, yet little of it reaches token holders as yield. Here is…
The biggest exchange hack in history crashed crypto this week, yet stETH held its peg to ETH. Here is what liquid staking's…
Uniswap permissioned pools and a new SEC exemption put tokenized stocks on an automated market maker. Here is how the curve learned…
Hyperliquid funnels almost all of its trading fees into buying back HYPE. We unpack whether DeFi's clearest earned-revenue story is really yield,…
Balancer's pools went withdrawals-only on October 30 as Uniswap V4 turned into a cross-protocol aggregator. The two events mark the moment AMM…
When a record $6.3 billion drained from Binance on October 29, the on-chain dark forest woke up. A field guide to MEV…
On-chain lending now spans Ethereum, Base and a dozen other chains, and the plumbing that moves credit between them has become DeFi's…