39 stories mentioning it. Newest first.
A burn-and-mint model extends Circle's CCTP playbook to any participating issuer, betting that pre-funded liquidity pools cannot keep up with 350+ tokens and 30+ chains.
Selig's Bankless remarks signal Washington may rewrite decades-old exchange rules to let 24/7 on-chain derivatives venues register in the US — if investor protections and disclosures are met.
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.
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.
A practical compliance map for US-to-Mexico USDC corridors, covering state licensing, MiCA CASP registration, the FATF Travel Rule, and the real audit hot spots.
On-chain options protocols let anyone buy or sell crypto options without a broker, but volumes are still tiny compared to Deribit because liquidity provision is brutally hard.
Cumulative Volume Delta tracks whether buyers or sellers are in control by adding up the difference between buy and sell volume over time. It signals momentum shifts and divergences, but raw exchange data is noisy.
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.
Virtuals Protocol is a Base-based launchpad where anyone can spin up an AI agent token. Most launchpad tokens go to zero — and the structure explains why.
setApprovalForAll lets a contract move every NFT you own. Permit signatures can authorize token spends in one click. Both are top phishing vectors in 2025.
A $15M Bitcoin security consortium forms the same week a cross-chain bridge is drained twice. The ledger tells a story of two very different on-chain maturities.
Arbitrum, Optimism, and LayerZero used wallet graphs, shared funding, and timing patterns to cut farmed airdrop claims, often with limited appeals.
Circle lands a federal charter, SWIFT turns on a blockchain ledger, and BTC holds a 307-day band while exchanges show real movement at the edges.
Uniswap V4 hooks let pool creators add custom logic. See dynamic fees, TWAPs and limit orders, plus the audit and MEV risks they add.
A crypto transaction is a signed instruction that moves value or runs a smart contract on a blockchain. Here is how one travels from your wallet to the chain.
Hyperliquid runs a fully on-chain central limit orderbook for perps. Here's how matching, funding, and liquidations actually work under the hood.
Most whale-wallet alerts are noise. Learn the labels that matter, the flows that actually move price, and why copy-trading tagged wallets is structurally a losing game.
Modular chains split the four jobs of a blockchain into separate layers; monolithic chains do all four at once. Neither design has clearly won, and the trend in 2024–2026 is blurring the line.
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.
CoinDesk
WuBlockchain
Marco De Santis