DeFi News

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Updated September 18, 2026 · 8:50 AM UTC

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Top DeFi Stories

coastal sunrise where a winding cliffside road forms a luminous “yield curve” of ascending Bitcoin coins, with a chained brass hourglass on a mossy rock in the foreground and vibrant teal sky, warm gold light, and lush green hills creating a cinematic outdoor tableau.

Staking

Bitcoin now pays interest: How to earn money on your BTC while pumping the price

Bitcoin’s invisible yield curve, how timelocks and staking are rewriting UTXO liquidity.

Liam 'Akiba' Wright 6 min read Oct 21, 2025

Analysis

Grayscale calls Solana ‘crypto’s financial bazaar’: Does the data back it up?

We test the thesis on users, fees, and UX—and the SVM moat using primary datasets.

8 min read Oct 19, 2025

A bright, cinematic 16:9 scene shows a glossy Visa card transforming into glowing blockchain rails that route programmable stablecoin payments to a phone wallet and point-of-sale terminal, with USDC-like coins flowing through vivid blue, cyan, gold, and magenta nodes.

Crypto

Can Visa’s $670B bet on programmable money rewrite global credit?

Visa’s new paper pitches stablecoin-powered lending to over 15,000 banks: here’s what the data says and what would have to change next.

5 min read Oct 17, 2025

Latest DeFi News & Analysis

luminous Solana LST coins (mSOL, jitoSOL, bSOL) flowing as neon streams into a central SOL router ring, with a cityscape and data panels behind and a stylized Ethereum stack to the side hinting at liquidity shifting from L2s.

DeFi

Can Solana’s $11.6B staking reboot pull liquidity from Ethereum’s L2s?

Solana just got its missing staking layer, and it might finally make liquid staking as easy as swapping SOL.

4 min read Oct 16, 2025

a giant glass padlock of collateral at center with neon data arcs connecting isolated bubble-like perp markets guarded by validator shields over a sunlit skyline.

Derivatives

Anyone can now create Hyperliquid perp contracts with $20M: Is DeFi about to break?

Listing anything is easy; risk and liquidity are hard, and here’s the model.Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 removes gatekeepers by letting anyone launch perpetuals if they stake $20 million. It’s either DeFi’s boldest safety experiment, or its next stress test.

5 min read Oct 15, 2025

Exchanges

Crypto.com CEO urges regulators to probe exchanges with the most liquidations

Kris Marszalek believes regulators need to hold exchanges accountable and “conduct a thorough review of fairness of practices.”

3 min read Oct 13, 2025

A cinematic 16:9 scene shows a bright stadium and an incomplete stone bridge in a sunlit desert as a large orange Bitcoin emblem erupts from cracked ground, kicking up dust and casting a long shadow under a clear turquoise sky.

Slate Sunday

Build it and they will come may not be enough for Bitcoin DeFi

There's a thriving ecosystem called Bitcoin DeFi (BTCFi for those in the know). The only problem? As 65% of Bitcoin holders can't name a single protocol, not that many people are in the know.

9 min read Oct 12, 2025

CZ stands between matte Aster and Hyperliquid logos as warm privacy panels face a cool wireframe order-book grid in a bright, cinematic split-tone scen

DEX

CZ says Aster’s privacy beats Hyperliquid’s transparent order books

CZ attributed BNB's recent meme explosion to an unplanned Mid-Autumn Festival post, and outlined his investment thesis favoring privacy-focused perpetual DEXs over transparent alternatives.

3 min read Oct 11, 2025