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DeFi rebuilds financial services — lending, trading, earning — without banks, using smart contracts on public blockchains. Here's how it works and what to watch.
Brazilian savers in Recife now earn Aave yield on USDC, and Mexican and Argentine holders borrow against BTC and ETH without selling — DeFi stops being a niche experiment when the on-ramp stops being…
The verdict challenges whether DeFi still delivers durable financial utility, liquidity and user demand, putting the sector’s builder-led growth narrative under pressure.
Ronghui Gu says the cost gap is structural: attackers lean on AI to scan operational and supply-chain gaps faster than white-hat budgets can keep up, while the Arbitrum freeze fallout threatens…
The bombshell isn't the quote — it's the source. OpenZeppelin audits Aave, Compound, MakerDAO, Uniswap and Coinbase, so its co-founder telling family to exit DeFi is a signal the audit industry…
OpenZeppelin's CEO says coding agents have flipped the asymmetry on smart contract security — and $1.1B in 12-month hack losses plus a $20B+ TVL drop make the warning impossible to wave off.
The bullish case at Consensus Miami hinged on $100B in lending markets and $15B AUM at Bitwise already using DeFi rails — but the unresolved security overhang from a fresh $600M in North Korean…
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.
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.
Solana, Base, and Arbitrum have different DeFi stacks, from Jupiter and Aerodrome to perps, LSTs, bridges, and very different outage risks.
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.
Most DeFi losses come from approving the wrong contract, not from a clever hack. Here is the boring 7-step routine that keeps your wallet safe.
DefiLlama is the cleanest free source of DeFi liquidity data, but TVL alone can be inflated by looping and wash deposits. Here's how to read it without fooling yourself.
Three chains now host the bulk of retail DeFi activity. They look similar on the surface, but their security models, DEX designs, and fee economics create very different risks for users.
DeFiLlama is the most cited DeFi dashboard, but raw TVL numbers hide wash deposits, recursive loops and dying protocols. Here's how to read the data the way analysts do.
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.
DeFiLlama's TVL is the most quoted number in DeFi and the most misunderstood. Here is what every line on a protocol page actually includes and excludes.
Real yield, real outages, real hacks. A side-by-side look at where DeFi capital actually earns in 2025, and where it bleeds.
Ethereum DeFi has the deepest liquidity and the most battle-tested contracts. Solana DeFi is faster and cheaper, but its TVL still leans on ETH bridges.
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.
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