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Vitalik Buterin and Anatoly Yakovenko in sharp three-quarter profiles facing across a bright divide, with a warm gold ETH side of shielded validator webs and beacon motifs opposing a cool teal-purple SOL side of sleek node lattices and the glowing Ethereum and Solana logos.

DeFi

How the Ethereum vs Solana war ended quietly not with a bang but a whimper

Battle lines redrawn with Ethereum as a modular settlement layer and Solana as a unified execution layer.

3 months ago

a Solana monolith anchoring crystalline data highways flooded with teal-and-magenta transaction cubes racing across a river while thinner Bitcoin and Ethereum lanes trail below toward glass liquidity silos.

Crypto

70M daily transactions, $143B volume: How Solana won DeFi’s throughput race

With ~70M daily tx and $143B Oct. DEX volume, Solana’s single-layer design keeps fees stable under load as Ethereum routes DeFi to rollups.

3 months ago

DeFi

If Web3 is decentralized, why do DeFi dApps still break when the cloud goes down?

For all its talk of decentralization, Web3 still lives inside the same data centers as everyone else, and October’s cloud failure made that impossible to ignore.

3 months ago

DeFi

Will Fusaka keep users on L2? Upcoming Ethereum upgrade eyes up to 60% fee cuts

The Fusaka upgrade cements Ethereum’s modular vision: L1 as settlement, L2 as the user layer.

3 months ago

A hyperrealistic dusk city harbor with a towering ocean wave made of glowing green and red candlesticks surges toward shore, holographic Uniswap, dYdX, and SushiSwap logos hovering above the reflective water to evoke $1T DEX volume amid volatility.

DEX

Decentralized exchanges surpass $1 trillion monthly volume as volatility spikes

Hyperliquid, Aster and Lighter drove a ~50% MoM surge. Here’s who’s winning and why it matters for CEXs.

3 months ago

MetaMask, WalletConnect, Backpack, and Phantom shields locking into a glowing ring that repels chrome phishing hooks around a golden coin in a glass-walled security lab.

Crypto

$538M stolen by drainers: ETH & SOL wallets unite with real-time phishing blocks

Inside MetaMask/Phantom’s new intel network and how we’ll measure success.

3 months ago

Two large dice—one Kalshi green and one Polymarket blue—sit on NHL center ice beside a cracked puck as golden coins rise under bright arena lights.

Crypto

Why $8.2B prediction markets’ NHL backing is huge blow to legacy betting

Licensed betting markets to become DeFi's next big on-ramp.

3 months ago

Crypto

Did Vitalik just pick a side? Inside Ethereum’s layer-2 loyalty test

Base and Arbitrum earn most profits; where does Polygon fit?

3 months ago

DeFi

TRON Protocol Revenue Hits All-Time High of $1.2 Billion in Q3 as Messari, Presto, and RWA.io Analyze Ecosystem Growth

TRON solidifies global stablecoin dominance with robust ecosystem performance and security advancements.

3 months ago

coastal sunrise where a winding cliffside road forms a luminous “yield curve” of ascending Bitcoin coins, with a chained brass hourglass on a mossy rock in the foreground and vibrant teal sky, warm gold light, and lush green hills creating a cinematic outdoor tableau.

Staking

Bitcoin now pays interest: How to earn money on your BTC while pumping the price

Bitcoin’s invisible yield curve, how timelocks and staking are rewriting UTXO liquidity.

3 months ago

Analysis

Grayscale calls Solana ‘crypto’s financial bazaar’: Does the data back it up?

We test the thesis on users, fees, and UX—and the SVM moat using primary datasets.

3 months ago

A bright, cinematic 16:9 scene shows a glossy Visa card transforming into glowing blockchain rails that route programmable stablecoin payments to a phone wallet and point-of-sale terminal, with USDC-like coins flowing through vivid blue, cyan, gold, and magenta nodes.

Crypto

Can Visa’s $670B bet on programmable money rewrite global credit?

Visa’s new paper pitches stablecoin-powered lending to over 15,000 banks: here’s what the data says and what would have to change next.

3 months ago

#	Name	Price	24H %	Mcap
1	Wrapped Bitcoin WBTC	$66,036.62	+0.98%	$10.12B
2	Chainlink LINK	$12.28	-4.2%	$8.7B
3	Wrapped eETH weETH	$3,743.58	+1.5%	$5.7B
4	Dai DAI	$1.00	-0.01%	$5.36B
5	Avalanche AVAX	$12.27	-2.95%	$5.29B

DeFi News

How the Ethereum vs Solana war ended quietly not with a bang but a whimper

70M daily transactions, $143B volume: How Solana won DeFi’s throughput race

If Web3 is decentralized, why do DeFi dApps still break when the cloud goes down?

Will Fusaka keep users on L2? Upcoming Ethereum upgrade eyes up to 60% fee cuts

Decentralized exchanges surpass $1 trillion monthly volume as volatility spikes

$538M stolen by drainers: ETH & SOL wallets unite with real-time phishing blocks

Why $8.2B prediction markets’ NHL backing is huge blow to legacy betting

Did Vitalik just pick a side? Inside Ethereum’s layer-2 loyalty test

TRON Protocol Revenue Hits All-Time High of $1.2 Billion in Q3 as Messari, Presto, and RWA.io Analyze Ecosystem Growth

Bitcoin now pays interest: How to earn money on your BTC while pumping the price

Grayscale calls Solana ‘crypto’s financial bazaar’: Does the data back it up?

Can Visa’s $670B bet on programmable money rewrite global credit?

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How the Ethereum vs Solana war ended quietly not with a bang but a whimper

70M daily transactions, $143B volume: How Solana won DeFi’s throughput race

If Web3 is decentralized, why do DeFi dApps still break when the cloud goes down?

Will Fusaka keep users on L2? Upcoming Ethereum upgrade eyes up to 60% fee cuts

Decentralized exchanges surpass $1 trillion monthly volume as volatility spikes

$538M stolen by drainers: ETH & SOL wallets unite with real-time phishing blocks

Why $8.2B prediction markets’ NHL backing is huge blow to legacy betting

Did Vitalik just pick a side? Inside Ethereum’s layer-2 loyalty test

TRON Protocol Revenue Hits All-Time High of $1.2 Billion in Q3 as Messari, Presto, and RWA.io Analyze Ecosystem Growth

Bitcoin now pays interest: How to earn money on your BTC while pumping the price

Grayscale calls Solana ‘crypto’s financial bazaar’: Does the data back it up?

Can Visa’s $670B bet on programmable money rewrite global credit?

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