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Co-led by Paradigm, a16z crypto, and Ribbit Capital with participation from Apollo, Circle Ventures, and VanEck, the round ranks among the largest in DeFi history and signals TradFi's deeper push…
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.
Ondo Finance tokenizes US Treasuries into USDY and OUSG, gated to verified investors. Here's how each product differs and what ONDO the token actually does.
Strategy and MARA kept buying, but ETF outflows, a BOJ tightening shock, and thinning DEX volume suggest the structural bid is narrower than the price action implies.
What if money could manage itself? Autonomous finance imagines AI agents transacting on-chain without humans. Here's the vision, and the hard questions.
LEO is Bitfinex's exchange token, but it doubles as a credit claim on the firm. Here's what holders actually get and what they don't.
NEXO is the utility token of a centralized crypto lender, not a DeFi protocol. Yield comes from platform revenue and buybacks, so the token's value is tied to Nexo's solvency and regulators.
BoJ at a 31-year high, BTC at $67K with an 81.9% meme-coin wipeout lurking underneath, and a covered-call ETF that sells volatility for income — liquidity is splitting.
As Tokyo tightens and Brussels draws a hard line, the world's largest asset manager launches a Bitcoin income ETF that turns volatility into a sellable product.
FET runs agents, RENDER rents GPUs, TAO pays subnets. They share a thesis but not a business model. Here is how each token actually makes money.
A hawkish debut from Chair Warsh dragged BTC under $64K while stablecoin flows, treasury moves and a Moody's credit rating kept building underneath the noise.
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 large ETH withdrawal into staking offers a rare signal of commitment, but rising Treasury yields and fresh protocol risk make yield quality the real test.
A 1% allocation from Japan's pension giant collides with Hormuz shocks, ETF outflows, and a treasury-equity unwind — utility and speculation are pulling in opposite directions.
BTC claws back above $66K on ETF inflows while a rate-hike scare, oil shock, and a stalled CLARITY Act reveal which narratives still have fuel.
WLFI raised hundreds of millions in a presale promising governance over a treasury tied to USD1. Here is what the token actually does, and what it does not.
As BlackRock blesses a 1-2% portfolio slice of Bitcoin, US equities lose $1.1T and KOSPI crashes 10%. The institutional case hardens while the market tests it.
Sky backs its dollar with crypto collateral; Ethena earns it with perpetual futures; Frax tried a middle path and nearly collapsed. Here is how each model works and where each one breaks.
A Brent spike above $90, fresh Tokyo clarity, and a $105M ETH ETF day redraw the East-West rails just as Western risk-off sets in.
USDe pays double-digit yield by going long spot crypto and shorting the same coin's perpetual futures. It works — until funding flips negative.
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