DeFi risking turning into CeFi: The facts behind the token buyback trend
As DeFi platforms embrace token buybacks, protocols face questions of control and sustainability amid rising centralization concerns.
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Balancer's exploit met a rare win via StakeWise, while Stream's $93M loss and xUSD depeg expose the breaking points.
As Balancer’s TVL plummets, the DeFi community grapples with restoring trust amidst recurring breaches.
Battle lines redrawn with Ethereum as a modular settlement layer and Solana as a unified execution layer.
With ~70M daily tx and $143B Oct. DEX volume, Solana’s single-layer design keeps fees stable under load as Ethereum routes DeFi to rollups.
For all its talk of decentralization, Web3 still lives inside the same data centers as everyone else, and October’s cloud failure made that impossible to ignore.
The Fusaka upgrade cements Ethereum’s modular vision: L1 as settlement, L2 as the user layer.