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Category: DeFi & On-chain

20 stories on this beat

Smart contracts, MEV, restaking, liquid staking, and the on-chain economy.

DEFI & ON-CHAIN JUN 24

What is gas, and why do fees move the way they do

Gas is the unit Ethereum uses to price computation. Here is how the market works, why fees swing from 8 to 800…

DEFI & ON-CHAIN JUN 24

What is restaking? EigenLayer in plain English

EigenLayer let validators re-pledge their 32 ETH bond to secure additional services. TVL hit $20bn in 2024 before correcting. The promise, the…

DEFI & ON-CHAIN JUN 24

What is MEV, and who is actually paying for it

MEV is not a tax on blockchains; it is a transfer from one set of users to another. Since the Merge, roughly…

DEFI & ON-CHAIN JUN 24

What is staking? A plain-English guide that covers the parts most explainers skip

Staking is not a savings account. It is a bonded job with a 32 ETH deposit, a slashing budget, and a withdrawal…

DEFI & ON-CHAIN JUN 24

Custodial vs non-custodial wallets, and why the distinction matters

Coinbase holds your keys, MetaMask does not — and that one sentence decides whether your crypto survives a bankruptcy, a sanctions list,…

DEFI & ON-CHAIN JUN 24

USDT vs USDC vs DAI vs FDUSD — the four stablecoins compared on what matters

USDT, USDC, DAI and FDUSD together hold $228bn — but they differ on reserves, freeze risk, MiCA status and on-chain availability. A…

DEFI & ON-CHAIN JUN 24

How stablecoins actually work — the plumbing nobody explains

Stablecoins moved $27.6 trillion in 2025 — more than Visa. Here is the reserve, redemption and on-chain plumbing that makes a $1…

DEFI & ON-CHAIN JUN 23

L2 fees fell another 38% — but the user moved to Base, not Arbitrum

Median L2 fees fell 38% over the last quarter. The user did not split evenly across rollups — Base captured the flow.…

DEFI & ON-CHAIN JUN 23

Curve’s new bribe layer is quietly the most aggressive yield in DeFi

Curve's vote-escrow market — veCRV, Convex, Votium — is paying bribe-yields that beat every blue-chip DeFi venue. Here is how the gauge…

DEFI & ON-CHAIN JUN 23

EigenLayer restaking deposits cross 4bn. The MEV layer is becoming an industry.

EigenLayer's restaked deposits crossed $4bn this week. The AVS market is no longer a science project — it is an industry with…

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