Solana DEX Volume Beats Ethereum L2s With One-Tenth the TVL
Solana processed $7.8B weekly DEX volume versus Ethereum L2s' $6.4B, despite holding just $6-10B TVL compared to their $48B. Transaction costs explain the gap.
Solana processed $7.8B weekly DEX volume versus Ethereum L2s' $6.4B, despite holding just $6-10B TVL compared to their $48B. Transaction costs explain the gap.
Slippage is the gap between quoted and execution price on DEXes. Learn how AMMs calculate it, set tolerance correctly, and avoid MEV sandwich attacks.
Flash loans let you borrow millions in DeFi with zero collateral, use the funds, and repay in seconds. One transaction executes it all or nothing.
A double-spend on the Nomic bridge left 36% of Osmosis Alloyed BTC with no bitcoin behind it. Validators froze 22.65 BTC, and a real gap remains.
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Injective lost $4.9M on August 31 to a market-ID collision in binary-options settlement, then framed the near four-hour block halt as a routine upgrade.
Robinhood Chain is nearing 1 billion in TVL two months after its launch, but Uniswap supplies almost all the liquidity while tokenized stocks stay small.
Unlock trackers list a 9.92 million HYPE unlock worth about $797 million on September 6, but the Hyper Foundation has claimed only a fraction each month.
Sei shipped Ares and Eidos in its 6.6 proposal on Friday. The chain they rebuild settled 11,299 transactions and earns $14,700 a day.
Headlines put the WEMIX breach at 6.25 million dollars. On-chain, 724,198 USDC.e left, capped by a stablecoin its own issuer had already retired.
ZachXBT flagged six attacker wallets funded through Tornado Cash. A minting flaw in KelpDAO's rsETH token left Aave V3 holding bad debt, sending the AAVE token down 10-13%.
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StablR's EURR and USDR lost their pegs on Sunday after an attacker compromised a single private key in a 1-of-3 multisig, minted 8.35 million unbacked USDR and 4.5 million EURR, and dumped them for 1,115 ETH. The stablecoin issuer holds a Malta EMI license and operates under MiCA. Regulation did not stop a key management failure.
Pi Network is down 94% from its all-time high with daily unlocks creating persistent sell pressure. A three-phase protocol upgrade targeting smart contracts by May could shift the narrative, but Binance listing remains absent.
Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) now handle a growing share of crypto trading, from spot AMMs like Uniswap to perp venues like Hyperliquid and Aster. This tag tracks DEX volume and market share against centralized exchanges, liquidity and fee dynamics, the perp-DEX competition reshaping on-chain derivatives, the regulatory questions facing protocol developers and front-end operators, and the exploits that test how decentralization holds up under stress. Coinliva covers the on-chain data, the protocol launches, and the shift of trading activity toward permissionless venues.