Seed Funding for Privacy-First L2s Hits Record Highs
Despite broader market cooling, zero-knowledge infrastructure remains the sector's most reliably funded category.
By Daniel Reis
DeFi
Protocol governance, decentralised exchanges, stablecoins and on-chain credit.
Protocol Governance Proposes Inflationary Cap Adjustment
Token holders will vote on a revised emissions schedule intended to stabilise staking yields.
By Daniel Reis
Major zkEVM Mainnet Upgrade Scheduled for November
The release targets lower proving costs and a simplified bridge exit path.
By Daniel Reis
A Slashing Insurance Market Is Forming Around Restaking
Underwriters are quoting cover for correlated validator penalties. Pricing the tail is the unresolved problem.
By Daniel Reis
On-Chain Credit Desks Are Quietly Underwriting With Off-Chain Data
The pitch was transparent, permissionless lending. The loan book increasingly depends on private borrower disclosures.
By Daniel Reis
Intent-Based Trading Concentrates Order Flow in a Handful of Solvers
Users get better prices. Researchers warn the winner-take-most dynamic recreates the intermediary that DEXs were meant to remove.
By Alistair Kwan
Custody Insurance Limits Have Not Kept Pace With Assets Under Custody
Headline policies cover a shrinking fraction of the balances they sit behind, and the exclusions are where the detail lives.
By Naomi Feldstein
Bridge Exploit Postmortem Points to a Key Rotation That Never Completed
Funds were moved with a signer set the team believed it had retired eleven months earlier.
By Naomi Feldstein