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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...

In April 2025, a record breach of $92 million rocked the DeFi space. Investors and fintech platforms alike fought to understand the implications in the wake. This week’s event is a sobering reminder of the major risks that exist in the decentralized finance ecosystem. It highlights a glaring lack of...

The burgeoning world of decentralized finance (DeFi) is dynamic and innovative, looking for ever new and different ways to provide investors with enticing risk and return profiles. Apollo Global Management, a leading alternative investment manager, is venturing into this space with its Diversified Credit Securitize Fund (ACRED), a tokenized feeder...

The rapidly changing landscape of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) represents a thrilling new frontier in financial technology and innovation. This emerging and rapidly expansive technology landscape creates great security challenges. In fact, a record DeFi hack just took place last week, causing an eye-popping $92 million dollar loss. This incident underscores...

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...

Another week, another multi-million dollar DeFi hack. This time, $92 million disappeared without a trace, leaving investors stunned and the industry itself doubting the core tenets it was built upon. Those losses in 2025 already outstrip the entirety of 2024. Are we simply going to let crypto die on the...

Fantom’s Sonic update is something big happening in the crypto world. It boasts an eye-popping 10,000 tps and DeFi yields that could make even the most jaded of investors sit up and take notice. The pitch is seductive: a faster, cheaper, and more profitable DeFi experience. As someone who's seen...

Singapore. A small island country, but big in finance. We’ve established our status on responsiveness, creativity, and a big helping of common sense. So, when I see Fantom touting 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) with their new "Sonic" upgrade, my Singaporean instinct kicks in: can this actually deliver, and what's...

The Layer-1 wars are heating up, and Fantom's Sonic update is a shot fired directly across Ethereum's bow. Fuhgeddaboudit incremental greenness, this here smells more like a vicious tactical to not only keep pace, but maybe even flip the whole DeFi script on its head. Are we really seeing a...