Tau Labs on The DeFi Drop: DeFi Risk, Stablecoin Failures, and How to Navigate Market Contagion Paid Members Public
Guest: Vlad, Tau Labs Host: Edward Ward, Portals.fi In this episode of The DeFi Drop, Edward Ward is joined by Vlad from Tau Labs for a current affairs special following a turbulent weekend in DeFi. A major stablecoin failure triggered sharp market reactions, with an exploit allowing tens of
What Are Liquid Staking Tokens? A Complete Guide to LSTs Paid Members Public
What Are Liquid Staking Tokens? Liquid staking tokens (LSTs) represent one of the most significant innovations in decentralised finance, solving a fundamental tension that existed since Ethereum's transition to proof-of-stake: the trade-off between securing the network through staking and maintaining liquidity to participate in DeFi. Before liquid staking
Portals DeFi Weekly - 20th March, 2026 Paid Members Public
Welcome to the Portals DeFi Weekly, your weekly dose of the latest insights and analysis in DeFi. Market Pulse * Total Market Cap: $2.46T (+0.91%) * DeFi TVL: $95.486(+2.78%) * 24h Volume: $91.79B * Fear & Greed: 11(Extreme Fear) * BTC Dominance: 58.2% Summary The third week
Gearbox on The DeFi Drop: Building Credit Accounts for a Tokenized Future Paid Members Public
Guest: Ilgiz (Co-founder, Gearbox) Host: Edward Ward (Host, The DeFi Drop) In this episode of The DeFi Drop, Ed sits down with Ilgiz, co-founder of Gearbox, to unpack a deceptively simple idea that unlocks a lot of complexity: a credit account that behaves like a smart wallet, but with borrowed
Hyperliquid: The On-Chain Perpetual Exchange Built on Its Own L1 Paid Members Public
What Is Hyperliquid? Hyperliquid is a decentralised perpetual futures exchange built on its own purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain. Unlike most DeFi trading platforms that deploy on existing networks like Ethereum or Arbitrum, Hyperliquid developed a custom chain optimised specifically for high-frequency order book trading, achieving sub-second block times and throughput
Jupiter: How Solana's Leading DEX Aggregator Works Paid Members Public
What Is Jupiter? Jupiter is the leading DEX aggregator on Solana, routing token swaps across the network's decentralised exchanges to find users the best available price for any given trade. What started as a simple swap aggregator has expanded into a comprehensive DeFi platform that includes limit orders,
Portals DeFi Weekly - 13th March, 2026 Paid Members Public
Welcome to the Portals DeFi Weekly, your weekly dose of the latest insights and analysis in DeFi. This week, the market was shaken by a series of high-profile exploits and oracle failures, while the launch of BlackRock's first staked ETH ETF signaled growing institutional interest. Here is everything
Lagoon Finance on The DeFi Drop: Building Infrastructure for On-Chain Asset Management Paid Members Public
Guest: Nadia, Co-founder, Lagoon Finance Host: Edward Ward, Portals.fi How Lagoon Finance Is Building Infrastructure for On-Chain Asset Management In this episode of The DeFi Drop, Edward Ward speaks with Nadia, co-founder of Lagoon Finance, about the infrastructure needed to support on-chain asset management at scale. Lagoon Finance has
