DeFi

This article dives into Solana’s MEV ecosystem, highlighting how Jito, the dominant player, controls 94% of validator nodes and generates $35 million in annual revenue. It explains how MEV profits flow toward the Jito protocol, high-stake validators, and blockspace brokers. In the client race, Jito-Solana currently leads, but the high-performance Firedancer client could shape the future. The article also uses Sol Strategies as a case study to show how large institutions are increasingly penetrating the Solana ecosystem.

This article exposes the truth about Bitcoin DeFi projects. Due to Bitcoin's lack of a Turing-complete virtual machine, projects like BitVM, Rootstock, Sovryn, and BitcoinOS are either heavily centralized or impractical to implement. These projects employ misleading marketing to hide their centralization risks—ultimately creating a collective delusion fueled by greed and ignorance. The article demonstrates that Bitcoin cannot fundamentally support true decentralized finance, a limitation that will likely persist for the foreseeable future.

MCP enables AI systems to discover and interact with available tools dynamically, supporting persistent two-way communication between models and external systems.

Glider has completed a $4 million funding round led by a16z CSX (Startup Accelerator). Its ability to secure a position in the seemingly simple but operationally complex field of on-chain investing benefits from the momentum of technologies like Intent and LLM. However, DeFi as a whole indeed needs to be restructured to lower the barriers to investment.

Helix Labs is a blockchain infrastructure protocol focused on enhancing liquidity and utility for non-ETH Layer 1 assets through restaking mechanisms.

This article explores how innovation compounds in the crypto space, examining how technology catalyzes ecosystem growth through the synergy between infrastructure and applications—from EigenLayer's restaking and Pendle's points system to Solana's memecoin surge and EVM experience improvements. The analysis reveals that lasting value typically flows not to the original innovators but to those who can effectively scale, refine, and foster new user behaviors. At the intersection of innovation, liquidity, and usability lies the key to identifying the next breakthrough.

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the structure, scale, and evolution of CeFi and DeFi crypto-lending markets. By integrating on-chain and off-chain data, it reveals key risk points and future trends, offering in-depth references for building a transparent and efficient crypto-financial ecosystem.

Converge is a blockchain platform jointly developed by Ethena Labs and Securitize, offering high performance and institutional-grade security through its high-performance EVM architecture, stablecoin gas fees, and integration with Arbitrum and Celestia. The platform features 100ms block times and high throughput, incorporates a Validator Network (CVN) for security, and plans to launch its testnet and mainnet in Q2 2025, providing innovative blockchain solutions for both institutional and retail users.

In the cryptocurrency market, the basic principle of arbitrage is the same as in traditional financial markets, but due to the unique nature of the cryptocurrency market, arbitrage opportunities are more abundant and also more challenging. The theoretical foundation of cryptocurrency arbitrage is rooted in the price disparity and market equilibrium theory in market economics. According to the Efficient Market Hypothesis, in a perfectly efficient market, the price of the same asset in different markets should be the same, and any price differences would be quickly exploited by arbitrageurs, bringing the prices back into alignment.

Originally launched within the SKY ecosystem, Chronicle has quickly emerged as a major player in the Oracle space. With its novel Scribe architecture and strong ecosystem synergies, it decouples validator count from gas costs. This enhances its decentralization, security, and scalability. Today, Chronicle ranks as the second-largest Oracle provider by Total Value Secured (TVS), holding 17% of the market share.

The CryptoEconomic Decentralized Verifier Network (DVN) Framework, co-developed by LayerZero Labs and Eigen Labs, is a cross-chain security mechanism that economically incentivizes decentralized verification.

Loss versus Rebalancing (LVR) describes the loss that liquidity providers (LPs) suffer for locking their tokens for market-making compared to an arbitrageur actively rebalancing their position.

This article provides a comprehensive exploration of on-chain reputation technology, covering its definition, core objectives, implementation mechanisms, application scenarios, representative projects, advantages, risks, and future outlook. Through a systematic analysis, we aim to help you understand how on-chain reputation reshapes trust, enhances transparency, and drives innovation and development across industries in the digital age.

Spectra is demonstrating strong growth momentum and innovation potential in the DeFi yield market. By closely monitoring regulatory developments, optimizing technical security, and enhancing market transparency, Spectra is poised to achieve sustainable growth in the competitive DeFi ecosystem, providing users with a more efficient and reliable yield solution.

Is the rapid increase in Unichain's TVL to $267 million a result of effective incentive strategies or a successful trial of Uniswap's "chain strategy"? This article provides an in-depth analysis of the underlying dynamics.