Smart contracts, MEV, restaking, liquid staking, and the on-chain economy.
Cross-chain bridges hold the real assets while issuing IOUs elsewhere, which made them the single richest target in crypto. Here is how…
MEV did not shrink in 2026; it moved. Here is where the strategies live now, from Arbitrum's express lane to solver auctions,…
MEV stopped being a bag of tricks and became an industry. A handful of vertically integrated firms now run the dominant strategies,…
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…
On a perp DEX, a hidden layer decides whose order, oracle update and liquidation bot land first, and that ordering has value.…
A liquid staking token is a tradeable claim on staked crypto, but who backs it ranges from a DAO to a global…
Perp DEXs minted this cycle's breakout tokens, led by Hyperliquid's HYPE. We explain the buyback flywheel they all adopted and whether it…
Restaking lets stakers rent out Ethereum's trust to other services for extra yield. By late 2026 the supply is enormous and the…
Some on-chain dollars are not borrowed from a pool; they are minted against locked collateral. Here is how CDP stablecoins like DAI,…
Restaking was sold as extra yield for re-pledging staked ETH to secure other networks. In a year when cash pays 4% with…