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.
Bridges, flash-loans and key compromises have been engineered out. The remaining risk is bespoke protocol logic — and a single flaw now lands on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, OP Mainnet and…
The flaw sat in the wrapper and the oracle, not in the equity itself. Edel's exploit is the first visible sign that wrapped tokenized stocks add a second pricing problem on top of the underlying…
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…
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.
DeFi rebuilds financial services — lending, trading, earning — without banks, using smart contracts on public blockchains. Here's how it works and what to watch.