Decentralized exchanges, AMMs, perpetual DEXs, and on-chain orderbooks — volume, TVL, and DEX activity.
Decentralized exchanges sit at the center of on-chain finance. Every swap, every perp position, every order-book match settles without a custodian, and the resulting flow tells you where the rest of DeFi is heading. This beat covers the protocols that move that flow: AMMs like Uniswap, perpetual DEXs, on-chain orderbooks, and the bridges and oracles they depend on for pricing and cross-chain liquidity.
What we track day to day is the activity underneath the prices. DEX volume by chain and venue, TVL shifts across liquidity pools, fee and revenue changes, governance calls that flip tokenomics switches, and exploits that drain or stress a protocol. When Robinhood Chain posts billions in DEX volume, when an AMM collapses to single-digit millions in TVL, or when a network routes billions through an oracle service, it lands here.
The bigger story is capital rotation. Aggregators reroute orders, L2s compete for swap flow, and centralized venues keep leaking stablecoins to on-chain rails. Readers use this page to see which DEX infrastructure is gaining or losing share, which token launches are pulling real liquidity, and where the structural risks in DeFi are showing up first.
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The combined platform brings two leading DEXs together, with token migrations and a new liquidity-allocation system tying the expansion to AERO stakers.
The wallet’s reappearance puts a long-inactive Bitcoin holding back on-chain, but activation alone does not establish that the coins were sold or transferred.
The trader sold part of the position for $111K and still holds Kimchi valued at $171K, leaving most of the reported return unrealized.
The address held 500 BTC worth $194,955 in 2016, highlighting the long-term value shift behind dormant-coin activity.
The move adds to a portfolio anchored by $8.97M in HYPE, with the trader's cumulative Hyperliquid profits now at $12.89M.
Institutional accumulation and firmer trading activity outweighed a $1.65B stablecoin supply contraction, keeping the weekly market read constructive.
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The activation brings a 167 BTC balance, worth $13.65M at the reported valuation, back into focus for on-chain observers.
The address held 248 BTC, valued at $88,146 in 2013 and $20.24M at the time of activation.
With switching costs near zero on-chain, the Alliance co-founder argues even 5x earnings is rich for a perp DEX, and valuations should price how long profits survive, not just their current level.
The option brings USDC into a subscription checkout flow, connecting a crypto-native payment method with Stripe’s payment infrastructure.
The move ends spot trading for two smaller ecosystem tokens, with copy trading set to stop a week earlier and unsold assets handled by Binance.
The feature targets a core privacy gap in public DeFi while keeping links to users’ main wallets confidential.
Quarterly fees reached $1B, matching Q4 2025 levels and marking a sharp rebound in decentralized trading activity from Q2.
The 4x leverage magnified a multi-month memecoin run on Aster DEX, where deep perps liquidity has turned small-cap listings into high-octane speculative vehicles.
The move leaves Blur's onchain protocol running, but ends new Blend loan matching and forces borrowers to resolve positions before the deadline.
The shutdown leaves Blur’s onchain protocol running, but the collapse in activity and BLUR’s 20% slide expose the strain on incentive-driven NFT marketplaces.
Hyperliquid led the venues, while the $13T cumulative total underscores the scale on-chain derivatives have reached.
A DEX runs trades directly on-chain via smart contracts, so users custody their own funds and trades settle against pool liquidity or on-chain orderbooks. Centralized exchanges match orders internally and hold user deposits.
TVL is the total value of assets deposited into a DEX's liquidity pools or contracts. Higher TVL usually means deeper liquidity and tighter spreads, while a fast TVL drop often signals withdrawals or an exploit.
DEX volume is the notional value of swaps, perps, or order-book trades routed through the protocol in a given window. On-chain analytics firms aggregate it by decoding contract events across each chain.
Perpetual DEXs let users open leveraged long or short positions on crypto assets without an expiry, using on-chain collateral and oracle pricing. They matter because they offer a non-custodial alternative to centralized derivatives venues.
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