DeFi TVL May 2026 Week 4: AI Security Threats & Hyperliquid ETF Inflows Paid Members Public
The final week of May 2026 kicked off with a warning from OpenZeppelin regarding AI-driven smart contract exploits, alongside continued institutional momentum for Hyperliquid ETFs. Total DeFi TVL has contracted to $79.17B amid a broader market pullback, with Bitcoin slipping to $73,882 and Ethereum testing the $2,035
DeFi Exploit Post-Mortem: This Week's $100M Security Lessons Paid Members Public
The DeFi is sailing from a devastating mid-May hack wave. This security crisis cost the industry over $98 million in headline losses across five protocols (figures include minted-but-unextracted value; actual extracted losses were significantly lower), while a fresh $2.8 million stablecoin exploit and a structural shift toward AI-driven hacking
Royco Dawn on DeFi Drop: Exploring Risk Tranching Paid Members Public
Guest: Shiv Kapoor, Head of Engineering, Royco Host: Edward, Portals.fi From Incentive Marketplace to Risk Tranching Royco started life as a liquidity coordination marketplace, an order book for incentive contracts where protocols and liquidity providers could negotiate terms. The platform powered campaigns like the Boyko initiative that bootstrapped billions
What Is SushiSwap V3? A Guide to Concentrated Liquidity Paid Members Public
SushiSwap V3 is the concentrated-liquidity AMM tier of the SushiSwap ecosystem. Where SushiSwap's earlier V2 design spread liquidity uniformly across all prices, V3 lets liquidity providers concentrate their capital into specific price ranges, which makes the same dollar of liquidity far more capital-efficient for trades inside the chosen
DeFi TVL May 2026 Week 3: $98M in Exploits, Aave Recovery & MoonPay Trade Paid Members Public
Welcome to the Portals DeFi Weekly. This week, we examine the $98M DeFi hack crisis that struck across THORChain, Verus Bridge, and Echo Protocol within five days. Also, Aave's restoration of WETH borrowing as the KelpDAO recovery progresses, MoonPay's launch of its institutional DeFi platform, and
The Complete Portals Product Suite: Explorer, API & Foresight Paid Members Public
The DeFi ecosystem moves fast, creating a fragmented landscape of protocols, networks, and token standards. This fragmentation makes discovering yield opportunities difficult for traders and building reliable integrations painful for developers. Portals solves this problem by providing a unified infrastructure layer that covers the entire DeFi lifecycle. The Portals product
Lido Finance: How the Largest Liquid Staking Protocol Works Paid Members Public
The shift of Ethereum from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake in September 2022 created a new category of DeFi infrastructure: liquid staking. How it works is instead of locking up 32 ETH to run a validator (the minimum required to stake on Ethereum), liquid staking protocols let users stake any amount of
What Is 1inch? How the Leading DEX Aggregator Works Paid Members Public
What Is 1inch? 1inch is the leading DEX aggregator on Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains, routing token swaps across hundreds of decentralized exchanges and liquidity sources to find users the best available execution price. In 2019, Sergej Kunz and Anton Bukov, founded 1inch during an ETHGlobal hackathon. Since then 1inch has
