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Spinning out of GMX's Solana branch was the easy part — running nearly 90 perpetuals markets on pooled liquidity, with Chainlink oracles and an RWA pipeline, is the actual bet.
Monad pitches an EVM-compatible high-throughput L1 for AI agents. Here is what the token mechanics, allocation, and narrative actually imply for traders.
These three are often lumped together as 'interoperable L1s,' but they solve different problems. Here is what each actually does and where each one breaks.
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.
Ethena's USDe pays yield through ETH perp funding rates, not bank deposits. The mechanism is clever but the trade has real failure modes that can collapse headline APY.
Celestia sells data availability, not execution. Here is what it actually does, which rollups use it, and why TIA's 8% inflation has split the community.
Europe's MiCA and the US GENIUS Act approach stablecoins very differently. One targets e-money tokens, the other payment stablecoins, and both squeeze USDT hardest.
Most AI-themed tokens ship no AI. A clean three-bucket framework (utility, governance, meme) helps you tell working products from wrappers and wrappers from jokes.
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.
Ethena's USDe dollar posts double-digit yield by going long spot ETH and short ETH perps, but the trade depends on funding rates staying positive and counterparty solvency holding.
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.
Chain abstraction promises one signature across any blockchain. ERC-7683 is the emerging standard that makes it work. Here is how intents, fillers, and cross-chain settlement actually fit together.
ETHFI gives the protocol's governance token a fee claim, but most yield comes from active AVS selection, and slashing cuts through LRT holders first.
MEV is the hidden value extracted by reordering blockchain transactions. Learn who captures it, how sandwich attacks work, and why it's a tax on every DeFi user.
Compound v3, Morpho Blue, and Aave V3 make different liquidity trade-offs. Compare capital efficiency, bad debt, curators, isolation, and composability.
EigenLayer lets stakers re-use staked ETH to secure additional services on top of Ethereum. Here is how restaking works and what EIGEN does.
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