Trust Wallet's new "Stablecoin Earn" feature sounds fantastic on the surface: put your dormant stablecoins to work, earn passive income, and all within the familiar interface of your wallet. Democratizing DeFi, as they say. Or is this really just about putting power in the hands of the everyday user? Or...
The whispers are getting louder. Bitcoin, often referred to as digital gold, is now becoming flush with a DeFi revolution. And the heroes you least expected—zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs, pioneered by the likes of Starknet and BitcoinOS. Yet this is far more than developing new bells and whistles – it’s about...
Let's be real. That romantic fairytale of crypto was born out of the ashes of the 2008 financial collapse. It sold a vision of utopia where everything was governed by radical transparency, community governance, and open-source innovation. It was an alluring fantasy, vowing to tear down the opaque power structures...
Let's be blunt. The move to closed-source crypto development is a very high stakes gamble. This betrayal happens slowly before our eyes. It runs counter to the deeply rooted ideals that first drew so many of us to this space. This wasn’t the world we were sold — that we...
The excitement to bring DeFi to Bitcoin is at an all time high. BitcoinOS, Starknet, and others are competing to layer Bitcoin’s $2 trillion market cap with zero-knowledge proofs (ZK-proofs). The power? Scalability, smart contracts, and a whole new world of possibilities for that first cryptocurrency. Let’s pump the brakes...
Let’s face it, we’ve all heard headlines that promise the world with huge returns in DeFi. Attraction of Decentralized Finance, the Wild West of crypto, calls with its sirens of financial autonomy, transparency, and innovation. But behind the jargon and the hype lies a harsh reality: people are getting hurt....
$92 million gone. Just like that. Another DeFi hack, another sensational headline, another tide of dread rolling across the crypto market. Immunefi's report paints a stark picture: a 124% surge in DeFi exploits in April alone, with losses already eclipsing all of 2024. We’re not discussing monopoly money here, but...
With their leveraged RWA strategy Apollo’s entrance into DeFi has been the talk of the town. Are we asking the right questions about this positive trend? While headlines tout "institutional-grade DeFi" and "enhanced yield," I'm seeing a potentially dangerous game being played with retail investors' money. It's like watching a...
Apollo’s action with ACRED stands out for a few reasons. Above all, it has the potential to a tectonic movement in how we think about the future of finance. Forget incremental climate-smart improvements; this is about smashing down walls between TradFi and DeFi, enabled by the magic of tokenization. I’m...
The news cycle moves fast. One minute, DeFi is the future. The one after, headlines shout about yet another multi-million dollar breach. This time it's $92 million. And the question that keeps bubbling up, the one nobody wants to answer directly, is this: Is DeFi fundamentally broken?It would be tempting...
