Flash Loans: How Uncollateralised DeFi Borrowing Works Paid Members Public
What Are Flash Loans? Flash loans are one of the most novel financial primitives to emerge from DeFi, uncollateralised loans that must be borrowed and repaid within a single blockchain transaction. If the loan is not repaid (plus any applicable fee) by the end of the transaction, the entire transaction
DeFi TVL April 2026: Weekly Movers & Market Data Paid Members Public
DeFi TVL April 2026: Weekly Market Report Total DeFi TVL reached $95.07B this week, recovering from the sharp drawdown triggered by the Drift Protocol exploit on April 1. A 90-day tariff pause and a US-Iran ceasefire drove a broad risk-on rally across crypto markets, pushing Bitcoin above $72,000
What Are Layer 2s? A Complete Guide to Ethereum Scaling Solutions Paid Members Public
What Are Layer 2s? If you have spent any time in crypto over the past few years, you have almost certainly encountered the term “Layer 2” or seen network names like Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, and zkSync appearing alongside Ethereum in DeFi applications. Layer 2 networks (L2s) are a category of
How to Evaluate a DeFi Protocol Before Using It Paid Members Public
How to Evaluate a DeFi Protocol Before Using It With thousands of DeFi protocols in existence and new ones launching regularly, knowing how to evaluate a protocol before depositing funds is one of the most important skills a DeFi user can develop. The space has seen hundreds of exploits, rug
Understanding DeFi Governance: How DAOs and Token Voting Work Paid Members Public
Understanding DeFi Governance: How DAOs and Token Voting Work Governance is one of the defining features that separates decentralised finance from traditional financial systems. In conventional finance, decisions about how a bank sets interest rates, how an exchange lists new assets, or how a fund manages its portfolio are made
Stake DAO on The DeFi Drop: Liquid Lockers, Vote Markets, and the Infrastructure Behind DeFi Governance Paid Members Public
Guest: Hubert, Core Contributor at Stake DAO Host: Edward Ward, Portals.fi In this episode of The DeFi Drop, Edward Ward sits down with Hubert, core contributor at Stake DAO, to unpack how one of DeFi’s most important governance infrastructure layers actually works. Stake DAO has quietly become a
How to Bridge Tokens Across Chains: A Complete Guide Paid Members Public
If you've ever tried to move tokens from Ethereum to Arbitrum, or from Polygon to Optimism, you've encountered one of crypto's fundamental infrastructure challenges: blockchains don't natively talk to each other. Your ETH on Ethereum and your ETH on Arbitrum exist on
Ethena Labs: How USDe Works and What Makes It Different From Other Stablecoins Paid Members Public
DeFi has no shortage of stablecoins, but most fall into familiar categories: fiat-backed (USDC, USDT) with dollars in a bank, or crypto-collateralized (DAI) with overcollateralized on-chain loans. Ethena takes a different approach entirely, building a synthetic dollar backed not by bank deposits or traditional overcollateralization, but by a delta-hedged crypto
