Smart contracts, MEV, restaking, liquid staking, and the on-chain economy.
Borrowing against your crypto raises cash without selling, but one careless LTV can cost you the collateral. Here is how crypto-backed loans…
Providing liquidity on an AMM is a market-making business run by code, and the design decides whether it pays you or bleeds…
The x*y=k formula that launched Uniswap has branched into bins, hooks, batch auctions, and vote-bought liquidity. Here is how AMM design split…
Maximal extractable value has become a full industry in 2026, with its own supply chain and arms race. Here are the strategies…
Most DeFi credit is overcollateralized, locking up more than it lends. Maple, 3Jane, Huma, and Wildcat are trying to lend against reputation,…
A bridge is a vault, and its safety is one number: the cost to corrupt its guards versus the prize inside. Liquid…
A weekend peg-out drained about $320 million in Bitcoin from Blockstream's Liquid Network. Here is how to move crypto across chains in…
On a centralized exchange a company takes the other side of your leveraged bet. On a perp DEX there is no company.…
In 2026 tokenized Treasuries gave DeFi a risk-free rate, so every on-chain yield can be read as a base rate plus a…
Real yield means protocol cash flow, not token emissions. This 2026 field guide shows how to trace it, measure it against a…