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Updated April 27, 2026 · 3:45 PM UTC

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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.

6 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.

6 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.

6 months ago

luminous Solana LST coins (mSOL, jitoSOL, bSOL) flowing as neon streams into a central SOL router ring, with a cityscape and data panels behind and a stylized Ethereum stack to the side hinting at liquidity shifting from L2s.

DeFi

Can Solana’s $11.6B staking reboot pull liquidity from Ethereum’s L2s?

Solana just got its missing staking layer, and it might finally make liquid staking as easy as swapping SOL.

7 months ago

a giant glass padlock of collateral at center with neon data arcs connecting isolated bubble-like perp markets guarded by validator shields over a sunlit skyline.

Derivatives

Anyone can now create Hyperliquid perp contracts with $20M: Is DeFi about to break?

Listing anything is easy; risk and liquidity are hard, and here’s the model.Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 removes gatekeepers by letting anyone launch perpetuals if they stake $20 million. It’s either DeFi’s boldest safety experiment, or its next stress test.

7 months ago

Exchanges

Crypto.com CEO urges regulators to probe exchanges with the most liquidations

Kris Marszalek believes regulators need to hold exchanges accountable and “conduct a thorough review of fairness of practices.”

7 months ago

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Slate Sunday

Build it and they will come may not be enough for Bitcoin DeFi

There's a thriving ecosystem called Bitcoin DeFi (BTCFi for those in the know). The only problem? As 65% of Bitcoin holders can't name a single protocol, not that many people are in the know.

7 months ago

CZ stands between matte Aster and Hyperliquid logos as warm privacy panels face a cool wireframe order-book grid in a bright, cinematic split-tone scen

DEX

CZ says Aster’s privacy beats Hyperliquid’s transparent order books

CZ attributed BNB's recent meme explosion to an unplanned Mid-Autumn Festival post, and outlined his investment thesis favoring privacy-focused perpetual DEXs over transparent alternatives.

7 months ago

A bright daytime scene shows the U.S. Capitol with glowing teal “crypto rails” and red regulatory ribbons converging on merging tracks toward a golden justice scale, flanked by a brass padlock with a fingerprint chip and Ethereum/DeFi logos to symbolize the fight over control of U.S. crypto infrastructure.

DeFi

Will the Senate’s leaked DeFi bill drain what’s left of US liquidity?

The proposed Senate bill seeks to impose KYC on DeFi, sparking fears of an exodus to offshore liquidity platforms.

7 months ago

Decentralized exchanges post record $1.43 trillion Q3 volume

DEX 7 months ago

Coinbase brings DEX trading to US users as CEXs go DeFi

Exchanges 7 months ago

Ethereum’s $11B staking withdrawal delays ignite concerns over systemic vulnerabilities

Staking 7 months ago

The ultimate battlefield: 1inch cofounder Sergej Kunz is coming for centralized exchanges

Slate Sunday 7 months ago

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DeFi News

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?

Can Solana’s $11.6B staking reboot pull liquidity from Ethereum’s L2s?

Anyone can now create Hyperliquid perp contracts with $20M: Is DeFi about to break?

Crypto.com CEO urges regulators to probe exchanges with the most liquidations

Build it and they will come may not be enough for Bitcoin DeFi

CZ says Aster’s privacy beats Hyperliquid’s transparent order books

Will the Senate’s leaked DeFi bill drain what’s left of US liquidity?

Decentralized exchanges post record $1.43 trillion Q3 volume

Coinbase brings DEX trading to US users as CEXs go DeFi

Ethereum’s $11B staking withdrawal delays ignite concerns over systemic vulnerabilities

The ultimate battlefield: 1inch cofounder Sergej Kunz is coming for centralized exchanges

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