DeFi
What’s happening to DeFi? $231M was just drained but $19M clawed back
Balancer's exploit met a rare win via StakeWise, while Stream's $93M loss and xUSD depeg expose the breaking points.
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How 11 audits couldn’t stop Balancer’s $128 million hack redefining DeFi risks
As Balancer’s TVL plummets, the DeFi community grapples with restoring trust amidst recurring breaches.
DeFi
How the Ethereum vs Solana war ended quietly not with a bang but a whimper
Battle lines redrawn with Ethereum as a modular settlement layer and Solana as a unified execution layer.
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70M daily transactions, $143B volume: How Solana won DeFi’s throughput race
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.
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If Web3 is decentralized, why do DeFi dApps still break when the cloud goes down?
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.
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Will Fusaka keep users on L2? Upcoming Ethereum upgrade eyes up to 60% fee cuts
The Fusaka upgrade cements Ethereum’s modular vision: L1 as settlement, L2 as the user layer.
DEX
Decentralized exchanges surpass $1 trillion monthly volume as volatility spikes
Hyperliquid, Aster and Lighter drove a ~50% MoM surge. Here’s who’s winning and why it matters for CEXs.
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$538M stolen by drainers: ETH & SOL wallets unite with real-time phishing blocks
Inside MetaMask/Phantom’s new intel network and how we’ll measure success.
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Why $8.2B prediction markets’ NHL backing is huge blow to legacy betting
Licensed betting markets to become DeFi's next big on-ramp.
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Did Vitalik just pick a side? Inside Ethereum’s layer-2 loyalty test
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TRON Protocol Revenue Hits All-Time High of $1.2 Billion in Q3 as Messari, Presto, and RWA.io Analyze Ecosystem Growth
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Bitcoin now pays interest: How to earn money on your BTC while pumping the price
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