BlackRock The SEC is suing Ripple and the lawsuit is expected to come to fruition soon. Ripple’s lawyers have been […]...

There’s a brand new DEX in town, and it’s quietly sitting among Ethereum’s top 5 DEXs by volume. Maverick Protocol has been off to a great start since its recent launch on Ethereum and zkSync....

Gary’s Protection In spectacular fashion, the SEC has filed lawsuits against the two largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance and Coinbase, on […]...

Interest rate derivatives are perhaps the most underdeveloped and underexplored area in all of crypto. Interest rate projects have struggled mightily to attract liquidity, and seemed forgotten about t...

Liquid Staking Derivatives (LSDs) enable users to swap ETH in return for a derivative token that represents staked ETH. LSDs let users bypass the frictions of staking ETH: (i) the technical know-how o...

Level Finance is an oracle-based margin and spot trading decentralized exchange (DEX) that emerged following the success of GMX. Its growth has been remarkable since launching in 2023, achieving volum...

Leverage is a double-edged sword, and is frequently misunderstood in the realm of crypto trading. While it can act as a profit multiplier for disciplined traders, it simultaneously serves as the harbi...

As a critical component in the crypto ecosystem, stablecoins play a vital role in providing a safe haven for investors and serving as the asset of choice across exchanges, lending markets, and virtual...

Uniswap has a cumulative total of ~$1T volume, often competing with CEXs like Coinbase for volume on major pairs. Uniswap views CEXs as its primary competitor rather than other DEXs. The Uniswap commu...

Price action following the COVID crash saw DeFi outperform pretty much every asset. Since then, DeFi has generally not shown any meaningful strength against the rest of the crypto market. That is, unt...

🔍 USDC De-Pegs & Bitcoin Rallies If you haven’t been living under a rock, you’re probably inundated with headlines spelling […]...

Trader Joe’s LB introduced a novel innovation that created an alternative model of concentrated liquidity and provides more flexibility for LPs. Its unique implementation of a constant sum invariant w...

Airdrops are one of the most sought-after events for users of on-chain projects. It’s the distribution of a protocol’s token, often to historical users. The aim is to reward loyal users and encourage...

Investors are people, and they, too, underestimate the likelihood (and duration) of bad things happening. So far, 2023 is shaping up to be a case study in this kind of wishful thinking....

Implementing leverage in crypto is not easy. Many current platforms use middle-term solutions or large off-chain components. Crypto leverage trading therefore lacks the composability and permissionles...

All in all, 2022 was a year of survival for Maker. Their fundamentals took significant hits, but so did the rest of the market. Their dominance in the stablecoin sector is as of yet unchallenged, and...

Radiant Capital aims to be a one-stop money market where users can deposit and borrow across multiple chains seamlessly. While money markets like Aave exist on many different blockchains, they don’t h...

Yield farming, or some form of token-based bootstrapping, has become a core component of every project’s go-to-market strategy. Protocols actively think about how best to employ game theory to attract...

Arbitrum’s DeFi ecosystem is starting to look strong. Arbitrum-native projects such as GMX have outperformed during the bear cycle and rekindled the spirit of experimentation and composability. Arbitr...

🔍 SEC vs. BUSD by Paxos Stablecoins are one of crypto’s most impactful innovations. It’s one of the rare products […]...