Why were derivatives difficult to build in DeFi? Learn how scalability, liquidity fragmentation, and oracle risks historically limited on-chain futures and options.

Data from DeFiLlama supports this view. Over the past 30 days, the top 17 fee-generating crypto entities were all applications or protocols, not base-layer blockchains. Stablecoin issuer Tether ranked ...

When fraud dissolves into wallets and aliases, accountability disappears with it. Assure DeFi adds a private layer of ...

Founders Fund and Galaxy Ventures-backed Bitcoin zero-knowledge rollup (ZK-rollup) Citrea launched its mainnet on Tuesday ...

Why are app-chains critical for DeFi? Learn how application-specific blockchains solve congestion, lower latency, and enable high-frequency trading for advanced protocols.

Block Street, a unified liquidity layer for tokenized assets, has announced a strategic integration with StableStock, the on-chain stock-liquidity infrastructure powering the StockFi era — connecting ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua D. Smeltzer is a Texas-based attorney who covers tax and digital assets. My previous article provided a summary of the DeFi ...

Kraken is introducing a new product designed to give centralized exchange users access to decentralized finance yield without leaving the platform. The ...

Analyses from blockchain security firm CertiK highlight a major security breach in a DeFi protocol and strategies for ...

Since 2016 it has been a tradition for me to deliver a blog on blockchain and crypto in which I present the main trends for the new year. Looking back, 2025 was an eventful year for the blockchain and ...

The Blockchain Association, representing 76 crypto firms, urges Congress to repeal the IRS DeFi broker rule, arguing it threatens US crypto innovation and unfairly burdens blockchain firms. The ...

The new IRS rules classifying DeFi protocols as brokers have triggered a swift backlash in the crypto industry, with calls for Congress to overturn the rules. The final regulations classifying several ...