The Case for Constructive Adversarialism at Mainstream Conferences
The contemporary blockchain conference circuit has increasingly adopted the structure of an industrial trade show. This evolution is neither accidental…
Category: Defi
2025: A Year of Execution, Adoption, and Direction
Where 2024 established that Carbon DeFi and the Arb Fast Lane functioned as designed, 2025 established their necessity. Core systems…
In the Concept of Intelligent DeFi
In this conversation, Ishaan Hiranandani, Protocol Researcher at EigenLayer, discusses the role of permissionless identity and off-chain compute in reshaping…
MEV resolution: Are we there yet?
This is part 1; check out part 2, Will MEV mitigation destroy onchain liquidity? Ahoy! Back after a restful summer…
Will MEV mitigation destroy on-chain liquidity?
This is part 2. Check out part 1, MEV resolutions: Are we there yet? As we discussed last month, the…
DeFi’s OPM era: The custody hurdle
Co-written with Lucas Gaylord, co-founder & CEO of Eulith, which builds on-chain trading infrastructure for professional traders DeFi has to…
Top DeFi Memes and Charts of 2023
Hello! Welcome to another year-end look at the world of DeFi. As in 2020, 2021, and 2022, we’ve collated below…
Should Token Projects Be Their Own Market Maker?
Rethinking CEX Listings, Onchain Liquidity, and What “Market Making” Really Means For years, the default path was simple: launch a token,…
DeFi lenders: Time to build
DeFi lenders came out of the market carnage of 2022 bruised but still functioning (which could not be said for…
Ethereum Needs A Perp DEX
Perps are Ethereum’s missing foundation. A critical gap in Ethereum’s DeFi stack is about to be filled, unlocking massive institutional…