Digital assets desk · Est. 2026
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Onchain lending, staking, stablecoins and the economics of yield.
DeFi & YieldDeposit yields on the largest onchain money markets have collapsed toward the risk-free rate, leaving lenders with little compensation for smart-contract risk.
By Elena Vasquez · · 5 min read
DeFi & YieldYield-bearing synthetic dollars have found a new distribution channel through regulated platforms' earn products, and the balances are no longer small.
By Dana Whitfield · · 5 min read
DeFi & YieldOnchain consumer apps are converging on a familiar product set: a yield account, a card, and now borrowing against tokenised equities and gold.
By Marcus Oyelaran · · 4 min read
DeFi & YieldGrayscale is paying staking rewards out as cash and Fidelity has filed to add staking to its ether fund, while both Ethereum and Solana debate cutting issuance at the protocol level.
By Priya Ramanathan · · 5 min read
DeFi & YieldLosses to smart-contract exploits are running well below the sector's worst years, and the spending that produced that result is shifting from audits to monitoring.
By Ruth Kaneko · · 4 min read