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DeFi rebuilds financial services — lending, trading, earning — without banks, using smart contracts on public blockchains. Here's how it works and what to watch.
Socket's TrapDoor disclosure named 34+ malicious packages across npm, PyPI and Crates.io targeting developer machines, CI/CD credentials and AI coding files — the control plane a smart-contract audit…
The bullish case at Consensus Miami hinged on $100B in lending markets and $15B AUM at Bitwise already using DeFi rails — but the unresolved security overhang from a fresh $600M in North Korean…
After $16.5B in cumulative DeFi exploits, the latest THORChain incident is forcing protocols toward the centralised-style controls they once resisted — Aave's rsETH bad debt is the canary.
Arbitrum runs the deepest L2 DeFi liquidity in crypto, but its L3 Orbit thesis is still mostly speculative. Here is what actually works, and what does not.
DeFiLlama is the most cited DeFi dashboard, but raw TVL numbers hide wash deposits, recursive loops and dying protocols. Here's how to read the data the way analysts do.
Compound is the lending protocol that helped invent DeFi yield. Deposit assets, earn interest set by an algorithm, or borrow against them. Here is how it works.
DefiLlama is the cleanest free source of DeFi liquidity data, but TVL alone can be inflated by looping and wash deposits. Here's how to read it without fooling yourself.
DeFiLlama tracks over $100B locked across thousands of protocols. Here are the 10 that consistently matter, what they do, and the risks most guides skip.
Most DeFi losses come from approving the wrong contract, not from a clever hack. Here is the boring 7-step routine that keeps your wallet safe.
Aave is one of DeFi's biggest lending protocols — a place where you can earn yield on assets or borrow against them with no bank involved. Here is how it works.
A crypto pump and dump is one of the oldest scams in finance, dressed up for Telegram and X. Here is how the pattern actually works, the red flags to spot it early, and what the law says.
NEAR pairs sharded execution with chain signatures and an intents-based DEX. Here is what actually works, what is still vapor, and why DeFi activity stays thin.
Roughly $2 billion was lost to DeFi exploits and scams in 2024 alone. This checklist walks through the 12 risks worth checking before you hit approve on any token.
Proto-danksharding, known as EIP-4844, introduced blob-carrying transactions to Ethereum. It cut rollup fees, but it is a stepping stone, not the final scaling fix.
In 2016, an attacker drained $50M from The DAO and split Ethereum in two. Here is what happened, who chose what, and why it still matters.
Most DeFi APYs are paid in tokens that print themselves. We rank 10 strategies by where the yield really comes from and what breaks first when markets turn.
ERC-4337 is an Ethereum standard that turns every wallet into a programmable smart contract, killing seed phrases and letting someone else pay your gas. Here's how it actually works.
Ethereum DeFi has the deepest liquidity and the most battle-tested contracts. Solana DeFi is faster and cheaper, but its TVL still leans on ETH bridges.
Sparkassen opening BTC and ETH to millions of deposants is the slow-burn story of the week, and the tape barely noticed.
CryptoSlate
CoinDesk
Ethan Brooks