DeFi No Longer Exists, Andre Cronje Says
The verdict challenges whether DeFi still delivers durable financial utility, liquidity and user demand, putting the sector’s builder-led growth narrative under pressure.
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The verdict challenges whether DeFi still delivers durable financial utility, liquidity and user demand, putting the sector’s builder-led growth narrative under pressure.
Tron handles the bulk of USDT transfers while Solana is catching up with merchant rails and cheaper fees. Here is how the two economies compare in 2025.
Terra's UST stablecoin and LUNA token erased $60 billion in days. Here is how an algorithmic stablecoin death-spiralled, and what it taught crypto.
The network halt is the headline. The signal is the attack shape: a thin-liquidity governance token pumped 100x in 20 minutes, then used as collateral. Same mechanic as the 2022 Mango Markets exploit.
The conflict became an unplanned stress test for continuous price discovery — and Hyperliquid's synthetic oil and gold perps traded through weekends while NYSE slept.
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.
Capital is rerouting from a tightening EU and a bleeding US ETF complex toward Asia, stablecoins, and a maturing institutional plumbing layer.
Binance sheds a billion in USDC and USDT, ARB surges 19% on Robinhood Chain flow, and the protocol-health read of the day is a quiet rotation in.
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.
TRON handles the majority of USDT transfers today, but Solana is closing the gap with faster finality and richer developer tooling. Here's how they actually compare.
TerraUST's $40 billion wipeout was a category failure, not a one-off. Every algorithmic stablecoin since has run the same death-spiral math, just with better branding.
A rug pull is when a token's creators drain the liquidity or abandon the project, leaving holders with worthless tokens. They follow recognizable patterns — locked liquidity, renounced contracts, doxxed teams, and real audits are all checks. Here's how to read the signs.