DeFi

Bitcoin's strong trend in February, coupled with DeFi innovations and macroeconomic uncertainty, sets the stage for 2025, where the crypto industry seeks long-term balanced development amid both opportunities and risks.

Polymarket, as a decentralized prediction platform, has gained significant attention in political event forecasting. In the prediction market space, Monad's native projects, such as RareBetSports (RBS), Kizzy, and LEVR Bet, are working to address some common challenges to enhance user experience and operational efficiency.

This article provides a detailed account of the Ethereum Foundation (EF) facing a community crisis. With ETH's underperformance, community dissatisfaction has erupted, prompting founders of several major ecosystem projects to voice their criticisms. The founder of Synthetix suggested pressuring Layer 2 (L2) networks, the Curve founder advocated abandoning the L2 strategy, and the Aave founder proposed a 12-point reform plan. Amid the collective backlash from the community, EF sold another 100 ETH, sparking even greater controversy. The article highlights the governance challenges and divisions currently facing the Ethereum ecosystem.

Zerebro is an innovative autonomous artificial intelligence system that integrates blockchain technology, generative AI, and decentralized finance. It is capable of autonomously generating and managing content, disseminating information on community platforms such as X and Warpcast, and has the ability to mint NFTs and manage cryptocurrency tokens. By utilizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and dynamic memory systems, Zerebro ensures the creativity and relevance of the output content. The system adopts a modular design, supports multi-chain interoperability, and plans to expand DeFi protocols to create a sustainable digital innovation ecosystem.

This article explores the development of Bitcoin Finance (BTCFi), with a focus on how Bitcoin is driving its financialization process through integration with traditional finance (TradFi), centralized finance (CeFi), and decentralized finance (DeFi). It also introduces how Solv protocol, through innovative services like wrapped Bitcoin, staking, and liquidity pools, is promoting the growth of BTCFi and helping it progress toward a trillion-dollar market.

DeFi was born to create an open, permissionless, and trustless financial system. But as DeFi has grown into what it is now, I’ve got to ask: is it still decentralized? More importantly, does it even matter? And what can you do to work your way around it?

PerpAI explores the untapped synergy between AI agents and perpetual futures DEXes, unlocking innovative use cases in automated and AI-driven trading. By integrating advanced AI tools, platforms like Hyperliquid demonstrate how DeFAI is revolutionizing on-chain trading experiences.

Money doesn't grow on trees, but DeFi protocols have a way of making it multiply - until reality does the math. French protocol Usual Money sold users a dream: transform your boring USD0 into magical USD0++, a yield-bearing token that was "usually worth one dollar." Not always. Usually.

PumpBTC is an innovative DeFi protocol tailored for Babylon's liquidity re-staking solution. Unlike conventional staking methods, PumpBTC lets users stake Bitcoin in just one step and instantly receive liquidity tokens without the need for long-term locking. This streamlined approach not only simplifies the staking process but also strengthens the stability of the DeFi ecosystem and promotes sustainable market growth.

Explore how ChainOpera combines blockchain and AI technologies, integrating resources such as data, computing power, and models to break through the monopoly of Web2 companies. It provides a fair incentive mechanism and data privacy protection, creating a diverse and open AI application ecosystem.

UniLend was exploited due to a vulnerability, leading to the theft of approximately $200K (4% of TVL). The attacker used a flash loan to deposit 60 million USDC, manipulated collateral calculations, and exploited a contract bug in the health check process to inflate collateral value, withdrawing 60 stETH. The flaw stemmed from the faulty implementation of the userBalanceOfToken function. UniLend has since fixed the issue, paused V2 deposits, and offered a bounty to recover the funds. This incident underscores the critical importance of security for DeFi platforms and the need for thorough smart contract audits.

Explore the latest developments and market potential of DeFAI (Decentralized Finance + AI). This overview covers DeFAI's core concepts, operational mechanisms, related projects, and future directions. DeFAI uses AI agents and platforms to help users manage investment portfolios and participate in crypto market trading independently. Beyond examining DeFAI's technical foundations, we look at key projects like Griffain, Anon, and Slate, while exploring how AI agents function within the DeFi landscape.

Discuss the five major trends and opportunities in the combination of AI and blockchain, focusing on the application of intelligent agents, covering DeFi x AI, DAO, consumer layer, etc., with relevant project introductions.

Explore Bitte Protocol, an AI-driven platform that simplifies blockchain interactions, enabling users to manage crypto assets, execute DeFi swaps, and create NFTs across multiple blockchains with ease.

Reya Network is a decentralized liquidity and derivatives platform designed for high-speed, secure, and efficient DeFi trading.