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Updated August 2, 2026 · 10:50 PM UTC

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A hyperrealistic dusk city harbor with a towering ocean wave made of glowing green and red candlesticks surges toward shore, holographic Uniswap, dYdX, and SushiSwap logos hovering above the reflective water to evoke $1T DEX volume amid volatility.

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.

Gino Matos 4 min read Oct 26, 2025

Crypto

Why did MetaMask show $0 on Ethereum when AWS went offline?

DNS/load-balancer fault in us-east-1 exposed RPC single-points; expect multi-cloud pivots.

5 min read Oct 22, 2025

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

Latest DEX News & Analysis

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

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

A bright, cinematic 16:9 scene shows glowing AMM curves, Uniswap and Ethereum logos, and layered on-chain charts surging across a stylized cityscape to symbolize DEX-led price discovery.

DEX

Decentralized exchanges post record $1.43 trillion Q3 volume

The figure represents a 43.6% increase from the $1 trillion registered in the second quarter, and surpasses the previous record of nearly $1.2 trillion set between January and March.

3 min read Oct 10, 2025

Daylight, photorealistic plaza scene shows a Coinbase-branded phone bridging tokens across a glowing Base pillar into a web of DEX nodes with 1inch and 0x liquidity icons and a locked wallet, symbolizing non-custodial swaps and early access on a decentralized rail.

Exchanges

Coinbase brings DEX trading to US users as CEXs go DeFi

As liquidity migrates on-chain, major exchanges are racing to merge CEX speed with DeFi control.

2 min read Oct 9, 2025

Slate Sunday

The ultimate battlefield: 1inch cofounder Sergej Kunz is coming for centralized exchanges

1inch co-founder Sergej Kunz is transforming DeFi by uniting fragmented liquidity, pioneering seamless cross-chain swaps, and laying the groundwork for a UX to render centralized exchanges obsolete.

6 min read Oct 5, 2025