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The brief depeg tracks a 4th STRC sub-par episode since August — each previous one mean-reverted, but the peg's sensitivity to preferred-equity volatility is now on the record for the wider market to…
The DAO vote was near-unanimous, but a May 1 federal order tied to North Korea-related judgments freezes the path to DeFi United, leaving Aave's $190M bad debt in legal limbo.
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.
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.
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.
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.
XRP is a fast, low-cost digital asset built for moving value across borders. Here is what it does, how the XRP Ledger works, and the risks worth knowing.
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.
RLUSD is a US dollar stablecoin issued by Ripple under a New York trust charter, live on XRP Ledger and Ethereum, and built for cross-border payments and tokenized assets.
USDC issuance, a $53B PayPal bid, and cross-border rules all arrived on the same day. The through-line isn’t CPI. It’s the rails.
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.
Aptos shipped its mainnet, but daily activity is still a fraction of Solana's. Here is what actually lives on the chain, who uses it, and where the risks sit.
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.
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