DeFi hacks cost 8,500% more per dollar than TradFi in 2025
Raw dollar losses look similar — roughly $2.6B in TradFi and $2.8B in DeFi in 2025 — but volume-adjusted, DeFi loses at an 86x higher rate, and the marketing damage may outlast the math.
Decentralized exchanges, AMMs, perpetual DEXs, and on-chain orderbooks — volume, TVL, and DEX activity.
Raw dollar losses look similar — roughly $2.6B in TradFi and $2.8B in DeFi in 2025 — but volume-adjusted, DeFi loses at an 86x higher rate, and the marketing damage may outlast the math.
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The DeFi Education Fund, joined by other prominent crypto industry voices, is pressing the SEC to formally codify its…
The Hyperliquid HIP-3 sector has cleared $181B in cumulative perp volume, but the market is essentially a one-horse race: XYZ alone accounts for 86.9% of the flow, with Paragon still rounding to zero.
A single verifier-path failure let a fraudulent cross-chain message slip through, and the knock-on withdrawal cascade is now reading as a stress test of DeFi contagion plumbing.
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The 36% supply incineration is the headline, but a revenue-linked buyback running 50% of net income for 12 months is the mechanism that turns a one-off event into a sustained deflationary pressure on…
At an implied $520M annualized run-rate, the prediction market's fee base is now larger than most mid-tier CEXs — a useful benchmark for whether the category is consolidating around a single venue.
A single exploit drained $292 million from DeFi protocols, reigniting a debate that the industry has deferred too long…