18 stories mentioning it. Newest first.
Brazilian savers in Recife now earn Aave yield on USDC, and Mexican and Argentine holders borrow against BTC and ETH without selling — DeFi stops being a niche experiment when the on-ramp stops being…
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…
DeFi rebuilds financial services — lending, trading, earning — without banks, using smart contracts on public blockchains. Here's how it works and what to watch.
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.
Ronghui Gu says the cost gap is structural: attackers lean on AI to scan operational and supply-chain gaps faster than white-hat budgets can keep up, while the Arbitrum freeze fallout threatens…
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.
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.
Solana DeFi runs on a fast, low-cost chain with notable reliability trade-offs. Here is how the major protocols fit together and where the real risks hide.
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.
Impermanent loss is the gap between what a liquidity provider's deposit is worth and what just holding the two tokens would have been worth. Here is how it actually arises, with a numeric example.
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.
DeFiLlama TVL can climb on emissions alone, then collapse the day incentives end. Here is the minimum metric set that keeps you honest.
Sparkassen opening BTC and ETH to millions of deposants is the slow-burn story of the week, and the tape barely noticed.
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.
A memecoin's 96% collapse meets a German banking rail and an ETF exodus. On-chain, the signal is the gap between utility and pure speculation.
Bitcoin holds the line after MicroStrategy\u2019s first major disposal since 2020, but the mood under the surface is brittle, stretched between regulatory tailwinds and quiet cracks in conviction.
CoinDesk
CryptoSlate
TheBlock
Ethan Brooks
Marco De Santis