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What is DeFi in Crypto?

Traditional financial (TradFi) systems have served us relatively well for ages. But growing misgivings about them, like the much-publicized Trump family debanking, have sent us looking for suitable ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) were meant to embody the promise of DeFi: open, borderless, peer-to-peer markets that couldn’t be ...
Andre Cronje says much of decentralized finance is “no longer DeFi” in the strict sense, as builders debate whether circuit ...
DeFi losses surpass $800M in April 2026 as attacks shift to key management, admin control failures, and bridge vulnerabilities despite stronger smart contracts.
A $292 million exploit and $13 billion TVL drop looks catastrophic on the surface, but the data tells a different story.
The DeFi plot thickens as a flood of new crypto regulations is expected in 2025 that would accelerate institutional adoption. The wild card in this game is whether or not the U.S. alongside other ...
Jerome Powell exits the Fed chair role May 15 but stays on the board. Here's what Warsh's chairmanship really means for DeFi ...
Tokenisation will skyrocket from $35 billion to $2 trillion by 2028, analysts say. DeFi, Stablecoins at the heart of the ...
Access to capital in trading and investing has never been evenly distributed. Traditional systems tend to favor people with ...
A coordinated relief effort to raise funds following Kelp DAO’s $290 million exploit this month crossed a critical threshold ...
DeFi is carrying nearly $200M in bad debt after this week's KelpDAO hack. Euler, Project 0 and Whop don't agree on what that ...
In today’s "Crypto for Advisors" newsletter, Jennifer Rosenthal from the DeFi Education Fund breaks down decentralized finance and surveys investors in the space. Then, in "Ask an Expert", Sam Boboev ...